potentialgeek - 4:33 pm on Oct 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

the total content on many pages being too similar in vocabulary

I tried to avoid old-fashioned spam which has the same keywords being used all the time, using similar words, like what some people used to do in their meta tags for Keywords, i.e., what you'd see in a Thesaurus if you looked up words.

I was trying to help search engine users find what they wanted if they keyed in similar words but wanted the same info. For example, "new home" instead of "new house."

And then all of a sudden Google considers it spam? Phrase Spam?

Is there any way to legitimately "catch" traffic using similar words without Google thinking it's spam? Or do you need additional separate "focused" websites that only use one keyword or one phrase?

On a side note, I'm finding the PR Update useful for helping me see which sites have been 950'd. (PR cut to zero.) At least I see that today on the TB. I can see that if Google hates a site enough to 950 it, that's enough hate to kill the PR, too.

p/g