Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Also check, with an open mind, on relevance. I think spam is often IGNORED by the spider and other legit factors are putting the sites high up. Google wants spam reports to see what spammers are up to. They then tweak the algo to ignore these tricks. That way, innocent company owners can still have their site ranking well based on quality of actual content etc., rather than being stuffed by a rogue webmaster. It would be good for the user and fair all round if google accepted that many sites are still good quality, despite having spam techniques written in by over enthusiastic design companies. The policy is therefore, ignore the spam and rank on legitimate factors only.... which is a much fairer system. If you try and make penalties for certain techniques, the collateral damage is too great.
Think about it, a competitor's site may be taking £millions from you....if I was sneaky, I could get a tame or planted employee to put spam on their site and get them banned. If Google just ignores spam, this sabotage would not work.
The forum is not for outing sites though.
So yes say what you are seeing - but dont point to examples.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 12:56 pm (utc) on Nov. 3, 2005]
64.233.161.104
66.102.11.99 - These are. Newly indexed sites are appearing here. Content sites above the sites that link to them. And different results from pre-Jagger, Jagger 1 and Jagger 2.
No tarot cards, no crystal ball,
afaik external links are not within the TOS anyway.
