Penalty for fast or auto content?

[stevenjm]

I created a site which uses various api's for auto content and google has indexed about 9000 pages of it but they are all doing poorly in results despite building backlinks etc.

same script i used a few months back focused on different terms and was doing really well. the site has only been live about 6 weeks but last time this was sufficient time to be getting reasonable results.

any ideas? penalty or delayed action for fast generated content of new sites?

site is not deceiving and provides exactly what it says - pics, videos and questions and answers on the topic.

is use of some api's now downgraded in results?

any ideas of a fix?

[SEOPTI]

No, the volume of 9k URLs itself will definitely not create a penalty for a new site. The downgrade level is important to know more about the kind of penalty.

[edited by: SEOPTI at 4:19 pm (utc) on May 16, 2009]

[JS_Harris]

Pages with little content require more incoming links in order to rank well. A video, a few pictures and user generated comments would qualify as little content. Unique and meaningful text is important.

[skweb]

I think G has figured out a way to identify websites that use auto generated content and gives more credit to original sources and punishes those that simply use RSS feeds or API to create thousands of pages each month.

[stevenjm]

skweb
I think your right.
over 10k pages and virtually zero traffic from it despite onsite seo and backlinks.

i'll try rewriting the script to scrape the content instead of rss and hide the api's better and re-arange the text.
its a shame because the site offers what it says and was never a problem before.

[Whitey]

A new site without original content [ albeit scripted together ] is going to have difficulties accelerating into the rankings quickly.

Google appears hesitant to allocate trust to site's that fast link , and pump out pages with strings of common characters in the body content. API content will be seen easily .

Top marks in the algo will go to unique content , that is linked to from a very few trusted sources at the outset. Build on that with fresh , 100% unique content and the odd link from time to time.

Anything else can be very slow to get started in my experience as it forms a relatively low priority to G.