Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

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[webmasterworld.com...]

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My whole site has a new cache date of May 25th. Maybe once these other sites around me get recached, I won't hold such an honorable top position. But at least Google has found my pages worthy to sit in the Search again.:) It seems strange to look at the stats and see Google in there, after 6 months of just seeing Yahoo and MSN referrals.

My website has plenty of outbound links, but they are on relevant pages. The problem my site has always had, was a lack of "inbound links." I got tired of searching for people to link to me (with all the spammy sites around) and gave up. So my pages have acquired some links naturally I guess(and I'll bet I still don't have more than 30 inbound links for the whole site) Still have a PR4, which I've had since it disappeared in Nov.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:54 pm (utc) on May 27, 2005]

[walkman]

anyone noticing heavy crawling? I can't access my logs right now..

[reseller]

Folks

Iīm talking in general, and this post isnīt directed to any specific fellow member.

If you spam Google with thousands of spam useless pages:

- You are going to hurt me and thousands of other content publishers.

- Your spam pages are going to push my content pages down on the serps to places where they neither belong or deserve.

- You are going to encourage others to spam Google and hurt me more.

- You are going to kill Google which still bring me referrals though allegra took away 75% of them.

- As a publisher I have my differences with Google, but I still wish them well.

So please..

You want to talk about spam and unethical methods.. find some other places to post...

[Dayo_UK]

reseller

I am sure that your traffic will return now a 301 is in place. (Well 95% sure)

But it takes a while.

Unless Google is about to change the way it handles things.........

[max_mm]

Folks
Iīm talking in general, and this post isnīt directed to any specific fellow member.

If you spam Google with thousands of spam useless pages:

- You are going to hurt me and thousands of other content publishers.

- Your spam pages are going to push my content pages down on the serps to places where they neither belong or deserve.

- You are going to encourage others to spam Google and hurt me more.

- You are going to kill Google which still bring me referrals though allegra took away 75% of them.

- As a publisher I have my differences with Google, but I still wish them well.

So please..

You want to talk about spam and unethical methods.. find some other places to post...

Spam will stop growing only when Google starts to tighten their Adsense policy on scraper sites.
Giving the option to adwords advertisers to block their ad from displaying on scrapers is NOT GOOD ENOUGH and will NOT stop the growth fast enough.

Unfortunately, spam will just double in $ize with every update and Google shareholders are the ones to rip the rewords.

[edited by: max_mm at 1:57 pm (utc) on June 1, 2005]

[reseller]

Dayo_UK

>reseller
I am sure that your traffic will return now a 301 is in place. (Well 95% sure)<

Thanks for the kind encouraging words. And thanks for suggesting me to do the 301. Much appreciated!

[Clint]

Nope URL cant be allowed - best to edit out. - thanks.

Also the tool is not much use really - as you have found out yourself.

Although some urls are displayed they are normally connected to this site. EG - A google search of this site or a link to a tool at Search Engine World - in essence a sister of this site

<snip>

Ok, it's the first hit, the UK site. So now, can others check this? It has to mean something because my sites that were NOT affected don't show they've been banned.

[edited by: lawman at 4:26 pm (utc) on June 1, 2005]
[edit reason] Neither Tools Nor Links To Tools Allowed [/edit]

[Dayo_UK]

Clint.

The site just seems to check if your url is listed. A ban from google would mean even your url would not exist in the system.

EG - search for www.yourdomain.com and nothing comes up.

You may have a penalty - but a ban would mean no listing at all.

Not what I meant regarding urls being posted - sigh

[reseller]

max_mm

>Spam will stop growing only when Google starts to tighten their Adsense policy on scraper sites.<

But until then, we all can do something about it by reporting spam to Google

[google.com...]

Can you imagine the power of thousands of content publishers reporting spam directly to the folks at Google?

Call it operation "Help...Self-Help" ;-)

[oddsod]

Clint, I sent you a sticky to explain why we're picking on ya :)
(It should clear up the questions you have about the linking policy here)

reseller, do you have any reason to believe G actually does anything with those reports?

[max_mm]

Can you imagine the power of thousands of content publishers reporting spam directly to the folks at Google?

I don't think they even look at those reports anymore. LOL, they are probably working on an algo that automatically index those reports and places them in a junk folder according to relevance. The algo has a problem with redirects and the reports end up being deleted.

It is all about the money now my friend. Nothing more nothing less. Stuff content as long as viewers click ads and dollar targets are met. That’s G's new mantra unfortunately. Spam makes thier shareholders lots of $$. Why fight it?