Original Content or Just Spamming

Any page that uses Adwords is just making bucks from keywords.

[colin_h]

Here's a contentious one for you all.

Is the modern trend of finding a keyword, targeting it and then, once the traffic starts rolling in, using Adwords to make money from it ... just another form of spam.

Of course I don't just mean those accidental listings that happen when you write down your thoughts and suddenly you've got the worlds banana market on your doorstep ... that's just luck. I mean the webmasters who say they are writing original content, when actually they are just copying / paraphrasing content from encyclopedia's and old books in a deliberate attempt to capture a keyphrase. You can tell them a mile off and it's really becoming tacky.

So, let me be the first to ask Google to attack these spammers.

More Creativity, Less Marketing and you [Google] will finally have earned my respect ...

All the Best

Col :-)

[colin_h]

I thought this one might have raised some eyebrows!

[Quadrille]

I think it's been rather 'done to death' - many would agree with you (personally, I believe nine tenths of the webs content is repetitous to the point of boredom (eg how many article outlets do we need with the same 50,000 plagiaristic tracts?).

But the key to your angle is the MFA - And only MFA publishers could conceivably argue against you.

And they won't ... though they just might paraphrase the argument on their next 4000 pages ... ;)

[colin_h]

lol ... You're probably right.

I wonder if this is the thinking behind some of Google's last update strategies. Are they setting out to thin out the web a bit, maybe at the expense of some of the 'Original Content' crowd. If so, I'm with them ... I'd rather get my info from a Wikipedia page, than have to trawl through thousands of 'samey' pages, just to find something a bit different.

IMHO the web is far too over-occupied, and maybe a cull is what is needed. It's maybe time to revisit the meaning of the 'Original' in 'Original Content'.

Cheers

Col :-)

[vincevincevince]

The hallmark of such sites may well be Adsense, and why would Google want to target Adsense monetised sites?

Perhaps if YPN started generating a MFY problem Google might start penalising them...

[cleanup]

web = Google = Adsense = web

There is no way around or out of that for the moment.

I suppose one day it may become so bad that users look for an alternative. Perhaps another engine that excludes sites with Adsense on them (or any other form of ads)

[mattg3]

Well ultimately some form of real world logic has to come in .. if you have a PHD in Computer Science or 18 years of experience without or are a medical doctor publishing about medicine that maybe should come into it. Google Degree sites or so. Human society has invented them as having any quack pulling your teeth wasn't that great an experience.

Something between scholar G and anarchy ...

Well and ads .. people got to live .. Depends on the amount of ads on a site really. If I see a popup I am away from a site instantly, normal ads are ok, imo.