Hello all!
sorry if this sounds a little obvious but I am a little confused.
I have read that you will get a better rating if you site has quality data.
What exactly does this mean? My web site is a collection of things I love (vintage fashion) I have added vintage beauty tips and articles from beauty magazines in the 70's as well as photo's and fabrics.
I also have an online store where I am selling clothes etc.
Is this considered to be less quality because I have not created the information? My website is not about originality because I am focusing on vintage things. Is this a problem?
Does anyone have any advice? Or ways I could incorporate original things into the site?
Thank you!! Quote: Originally Posted by Dianna Wallace Hello all!
sorry if this sounds a little obvious but I am a little confused.
I have read that you will get a better rating if you site has quality data.
What exactly does this mean? My web site is a collection of things I love (vintage fashion) I have added vintage beauty tips and articles from beauty magazines in the 70's as well as photo's and fabrics.
I also have an online store where I am selling clothes etc.
Is this considered to be less quality because I have not created the information? My website is not about originality because I am focusing on vintage things. Is this a problem?
Does anyone have any advice? Or ways I could incorporate original things into the site?
Thank you!! Words.
Words.
Words.
You need to use your own words in describing the items.
The arrangement of words should not duplicate someone else's web content. I guess it boils down to unique content that people find interesting and engaging.
If the content on your site is copied verbatim from another website, then it'll get flagged as duplicate content. If however, you're regurgitating (can't think of a better word) content from magazines in the 70s (whose content is not likely to be online anywhere else anyway?) and you put your own spin on it, provided its engaging for the visitor, I reckon that would be classed as quality content. LOL! your information is Quality if it's really yours...you're the who made it originally Quote: Originally Posted by core8284 LOL! your information is Quality if it's really yours...you're the who made it originally Not necessarily. If youre the one who made it originally, that doesnt assure quality, only originality.
If I was going to define quality (which I probably oughta do since not doing so would indicate I'm in the wrong thread)... I'd say it has three primary components:
-1- Originality - The words and the thoughts are yours
If you cut and paste your material, or mechanically scrape it, it isn't quality. Period, end of discussion, read no further. Scraped sites are all over the net, but add nothing but mass.
The ugly step-child of cut-and-paste is "spun" content. Machine spun content reads like crap. The only reason the people that put it out there dont know that is because it's probably not in a language they can read and they dont care about quality anyway.
Hand spun content, even spun by someone that is good at it, still fails on originality. It isn't just the words that need to be fresh... it's the ideas, and the way they're delivered. It needs to be DIFFERENT in some way to stand out. See also "scarcity".
-2- Scarcity - It isn't "just another darned site about {whatever_topic}"
Even if you write the topic entirely as a result of your own research, and in your own words, if the site is not materially different than a thousand other sites offering similar fare it's just a minnow in a school of minnows.
Look at a school of minnows. Sure each one is a separate entity, but can you really say the one 15th from the top and 30th from the right is really a FAR superior minnow to those other minnow-wannabes? No.
The same is true of websites that are scarcely distinguishable in content and delivery from others.
-3- Relevance - ie - someone WANTS what is provided
The world has long been told "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door". Personally I suspect that was bs from the start cause there have probably been a ton of people that did so but sucked at marketing and/or distribution chains and died poor and unknown.
Either way, even if it were true, conside the following. Let's assume you have all the assets you need to get the product in front of people... but Mice have gone extinct. You have a perfect mousetrap but there isnt a mouse on the planet. Will ANYONE buy it? No. It is not relevant.
Websites have the same issue. You could build a great, original, one-of-a-kind website on some topic nobody cares about... and it will not be a quality site. It doesn't deliver anything anyone wants.NOTE: Threshold criteria before looking at the three above
--- a--- FUNCTION
It is understood the site MUST be functional in order to be "quality". That isnt in the criteria above, but face it if the site doesn't resolve, the links go to the wrong place, the pictures and diagrams dont show, or the functions dont work... it aint "quality.
--- b--- DESIGN
Some will argue otherwise, and sure, you *could* have an ugly-as-homemade-sin scientific site created by Stephen Hawkings and most would consider it quality... but as a general rule a site really *should* be visually appealing to some degree to be considered quality, or at least not so ugly that it turns you away with its garishness. That's a subjective criteria, but it does have an effect on evaluation if two sites are otherwise about equal. Bottom line, no cut and paste. Let it come from your brain and have it be unique and not something that has been repeated before. Quality, if its true, original, relevant I think it must come from your own hands applying your brain behind it.. Then it would be a complete quality insight. Bouce Rate as indicators as well.
It seems that Google would use this as one of the Indicators. All of this information is really really helpful.
I was worried because some of the information is quoted because it needs to be, however, 90% is all me.
I have no idea what a mechanical scrape is, can someone please explain? I only know about cut and pasting and that does not apply to me.
In regards to the function being quality, does this mean things like creating links inside the pages?
Design is very hard. I think my design is awesome, and to me it is but I guess how do I know what my potential customers think of it? Quality when discussing SEO I think means helpful and/or important to an audience. What is helpful and/or important to me is different for someone else. If I am a tires salesmen, I would not find your site of any interest (whether you have original, well-written content or not). You need to seek out the audience who is going to consider your website a must-read and beneficial to them in some way. After you have found this niche audience, your content is deemed as quality content and you can better tailor your content to them. Search engines use a whole range of signals to rate quality. Time on website is an important one...if someone only stays a short time and leaves it may be a negative signal. Second, what did they do on the website? Did they bookmark it? Did they copy and paste something from it? Did they scroll up and down a few times? Did they download something? Did they stay and watch a video? Did they click on a few more pages or hit the back button? Did they share your page on a social network?
Ask yourself all those questions and a lot more...if the answer to most is no, you got a lot of work to do. If you're site has quality data, you barely need off-site SEO at all, you need not manually build links to your site since if you're site is "QUALITY" indeed, with all the contents and features, people would link to you voluntarily and what you can offer their audience.
sorry if this sounds a little obvious but I am a little confused.
I have read that you will get a better rating if you site has quality data.
What exactly does this mean? My web site is a collection of things I love (vintage fashion) I have added vintage beauty tips and articles from beauty magazines in the 70's as well as photo's and fabrics.
I also have an online store where I am selling clothes etc.
Is this considered to be less quality because I have not created the information? My website is not about originality because I am focusing on vintage things. Is this a problem?
Does anyone have any advice? Or ways I could incorporate original things into the site?
Thank you!! Quote: Originally Posted by Dianna Wallace Hello all!
sorry if this sounds a little obvious but I am a little confused.
I have read that you will get a better rating if you site has quality data.
What exactly does this mean? My web site is a collection of things I love (vintage fashion) I have added vintage beauty tips and articles from beauty magazines in the 70's as well as photo's and fabrics.
I also have an online store where I am selling clothes etc.
Is this considered to be less quality because I have not created the information? My website is not about originality because I am focusing on vintage things. Is this a problem?
Does anyone have any advice? Or ways I could incorporate original things into the site?
Thank you!! Words.
Words.
Words.
You need to use your own words in describing the items.
The arrangement of words should not duplicate someone else's web content. I guess it boils down to unique content that people find interesting and engaging.
If the content on your site is copied verbatim from another website, then it'll get flagged as duplicate content. If however, you're regurgitating (can't think of a better word) content from magazines in the 70s (whose content is not likely to be online anywhere else anyway?) and you put your own spin on it, provided its engaging for the visitor, I reckon that would be classed as quality content. LOL! your information is Quality if it's really yours...you're the who made it originally Quote: Originally Posted by core8284 LOL! your information is Quality if it's really yours...you're the who made it originally Not necessarily. If youre the one who made it originally, that doesnt assure quality, only originality.
If I was going to define quality (which I probably oughta do since not doing so would indicate I'm in the wrong thread)... I'd say it has three primary components:
-1- Originality - The words and the thoughts are yours
If you cut and paste your material, or mechanically scrape it, it isn't quality. Period, end of discussion, read no further. Scraped sites are all over the net, but add nothing but mass.
The ugly step-child of cut-and-paste is "spun" content. Machine spun content reads like crap. The only reason the people that put it out there dont know that is because it's probably not in a language they can read and they dont care about quality anyway.
Hand spun content, even spun by someone that is good at it, still fails on originality. It isn't just the words that need to be fresh... it's the ideas, and the way they're delivered. It needs to be DIFFERENT in some way to stand out. See also "scarcity".
-2- Scarcity - It isn't "just another darned site about {whatever_topic}"
Even if you write the topic entirely as a result of your own research, and in your own words, if the site is not materially different than a thousand other sites offering similar fare it's just a minnow in a school of minnows.
Look at a school of minnows. Sure each one is a separate entity, but can you really say the one 15th from the top and 30th from the right is really a FAR superior minnow to those other minnow-wannabes? No.
The same is true of websites that are scarcely distinguishable in content and delivery from others.
-3- Relevance - ie - someone WANTS what is provided
The world has long been told "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door". Personally I suspect that was bs from the start cause there have probably been a ton of people that did so but sucked at marketing and/or distribution chains and died poor and unknown.
Either way, even if it were true, conside the following. Let's assume you have all the assets you need to get the product in front of people... but Mice have gone extinct. You have a perfect mousetrap but there isnt a mouse on the planet. Will ANYONE buy it? No. It is not relevant.
Websites have the same issue. You could build a great, original, one-of-a-kind website on some topic nobody cares about... and it will not be a quality site. It doesn't deliver anything anyone wants.NOTE: Threshold criteria before looking at the three above
--- a--- FUNCTION
It is understood the site MUST be functional in order to be "quality". That isnt in the criteria above, but face it if the site doesn't resolve, the links go to the wrong place, the pictures and diagrams dont show, or the functions dont work... it aint "quality.
--- b--- DESIGN
Some will argue otherwise, and sure, you *could* have an ugly-as-homemade-sin scientific site created by Stephen Hawkings and most would consider it quality... but as a general rule a site really *should* be visually appealing to some degree to be considered quality, or at least not so ugly that it turns you away with its garishness. That's a subjective criteria, but it does have an effect on evaluation if two sites are otherwise about equal. Bottom line, no cut and paste. Let it come from your brain and have it be unique and not something that has been repeated before. Quality, if its true, original, relevant I think it must come from your own hands applying your brain behind it.. Then it would be a complete quality insight. Bouce Rate as indicators as well.
It seems that Google would use this as one of the Indicators. All of this information is really really helpful.
I was worried because some of the information is quoted because it needs to be, however, 90% is all me.
I have no idea what a mechanical scrape is, can someone please explain? I only know about cut and pasting and that does not apply to me.
In regards to the function being quality, does this mean things like creating links inside the pages?
Design is very hard. I think my design is awesome, and to me it is but I guess how do I know what my potential customers think of it? Quality when discussing SEO I think means helpful and/or important to an audience. What is helpful and/or important to me is different for someone else. If I am a tires salesmen, I would not find your site of any interest (whether you have original, well-written content or not). You need to seek out the audience who is going to consider your website a must-read and beneficial to them in some way. After you have found this niche audience, your content is deemed as quality content and you can better tailor your content to them. Search engines use a whole range of signals to rate quality. Time on website is an important one...if someone only stays a short time and leaves it may be a negative signal. Second, what did they do on the website? Did they bookmark it? Did they copy and paste something from it? Did they scroll up and down a few times? Did they download something? Did they stay and watch a video? Did they click on a few more pages or hit the back button? Did they share your page on a social network?
Ask yourself all those questions and a lot more...if the answer to most is no, you got a lot of work to do. If you're site has quality data, you barely need off-site SEO at all, you need not manually build links to your site since if you're site is "QUALITY" indeed, with all the contents and features, people would link to you voluntarily and what you can offer their audience.