Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Matt Cutts "In the next few days, we’re launching an important algorithm change targeted at webspam. The change will decrease rankings for sites that we believe are violating Google’s existing quality guidelines. We’ve always targeted webspam in our rankings, and this algorithm represents another improvement in our efforts to reduce webspam and promote high quality content. While we can't divulge specific signals because we don't want to give people a way to game our search results and worsen the experience for users, our advice for webmasters is to focus on creating high quality sites that create a good user experience and employ white hat SEO methods instead of engaging in aggressive webspam tactics."
Sites affected by this change might not be easily recognizable as spamming without deep analysis or expertise, but the common thread is that these sites are doing much more than white hat SEO; we believe they are engaging in webspam tactics to manipulate search engine rankings.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 4:31 pm (utc) on Apr 25, 2012]
[edit reason] added quotes - updated link [/edit]
[edited by: tedster at 12:58 am (utc) on May 10, 2012]
[edited by: tedster at 12:58 am (utc) on May 10, 2012]
[edited by: tedster at 12:59 am (utc) on May 10, 2012]
"13 resources for widget info" with quality editorial discussion of the content at the other links and some nice photos.
[edited by: tedster at 12:59 am (utc) on May 10, 2012]
- A higher value proposition
- Well written content
- Social and community stickiness
- Signals which support a logical company
- Naturally built inbound links
“If I were a search engine, other than inbound links I would be looking at signals like domain and whois, business ownership, memberships, associations, brand mentions, stickiness / bounce rate, community, social media, site security, transparency, authorship and likely a wide range of factors.”
[edited by: tedster at 1:00 am (utc) on May 10, 2012]
"20,000 permanent backlinks for $40" or whatever...
They basically have your Link appear on hundreds or thousands of different forums...all they do is create a forum profile with a link on that member's member profile. (that links to your site) [webmasterworld.com...]
These types of things are easily detectable. Folks who engage in this have to shift their thinking and be more creative. This type of thing will give you 5 minutes of wonder, if you're lucky.
Build sites that grow your brand around your business proposition, not site's that exploit Google's weakness'. That's a challenge versus temporary temptation. Take control and avoid wasted effort and emotions complaining about Google by channeling your attention into the myriad of other long term opportunities out there on the web. I'm sure you and others have the ability.
they're not going to roll back. They never have, and they never will.
Google's not going to listen, and they're not going to roll back. They never have, and they never will.
If Google decides your business model doesn't fit in with theirs...What IS their business model?
That's the thread you were talking about buying SEONuke (which I never heard of before I read your posts...) Maybe that's part of the problem?
[edited by: tedster at 1:00 am (utc) on May 10, 2012]
