reseller - 6:56 am on Aug 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

Friends!

Thanks for your contributions. Much appreciated.

The problems which several decent publishers (including AdSense publishers) have been facing arenīt only all these updating by themselves that have been going in an attempt to clean the index of spam and scrapers. Rather its they way Google conducting those updates in automatic manner.

Iīm not going to question the motives of Google for removing innocent sites from index or dropping in innocent sites rankings on the serps.

Fact is that publishers who spent much time and efforts to build up sites covering useful resources of different kinds canīt avoid creating pages with lots of outbound links.
You select your outbound links from directories, articles on ezine your are on, sites you visits etc.. and those pages might look like part of scrapers.

However, it seems that the algos and filters Google engineers are writing arenīt that good or arenīt as sharp as they should be. And in general speaking programs and programing sometimes generate undesired results.

Furthermore we should keep in mind that:

The updating and filtering automatic processes sometimes cause dramatic shifts in the ranking or indexing of sites.

We as publishers should do our best to enable Google to spider and index our sites correctlt, and the majority of us are just doing that, especially after Allegra update 2-3 February 2005.

We can remove duplicates, write correct robots.txt files, create sitemap.xml files, try to remove as many as possible 302 redirects, make 301 non-www vs. www.mysite.com etc.. etc.. . But we have no influence on what Google engineers are doing.

Its therefore we need to find ways and methodes to make it easy for Google to differentiate between our whitehat content sites, directories and resource pages and those scrapers and spam sites which we all wish to see them removed from the index.

Most important also is to communicate with the folks at Google and AdSense and explain to them that they are killing innocent sites and distroying friendships with 1000īs of decent publishers.

The majority here wish Google and Google folks well, but we need them to help us with clear guidelines to avoid the distructions of innocent people sites and revenues.