Google declares war on content farms
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Google must think the content my autoblogs scrape is high quality or something. Unless it's all the rumer and rapebox links it considers so worthy.
As I expected, eHow has actually gained positions. I guess my definition of quality is a little closer to Google's than yours eh?
the net is 85% low quality content, just like any book store. actually far worse. but bullshit sells, and google knows that better than all of us.
google has to go semantic before the social movement just takes the fuck over.
a social driven serp (like a giant wikipedia) would interesting.
This is great news.
Most of you run half-ass sites with either bullshit content, or content derived from the original author, hoping that your stupid backlinks (mostly paid for or spammed out in a comment or profile) can float you to the first page.
And now your shitty articles are going bye-bye!
Those of us who are talented enough to actually produce useful and original content should be thankful.
Google, it's about damn time.
Have fun sinking to the bottom, fuckers.
Most of you run half-ass sites with either bullshit content, or content derived from the original author, hoping that your stupid backlinks (mostly paid for or spammed out in a comment or profile) can float you to the first page.
And now your shitty articles are going bye-bye!
Those of us who are talented enough to actually produce useful and original content should be thankful.
Google, it's about damn time.
Have fun sinking to the bottom, fuckers.
This ^. Rankings are up today for a lot of the keywords I've been struggling with. Gone up 15 spots for some high-comp keywords since the crackdown.
This is good news in spite of the fact that I have one site that I have promoted with article marketing, social blogging (hubpages, squidoo, livejournal, etc.), and bookmarking - bum marketing.
I have original content on the site. My article marketing and social blogging was mostly with original content that was "manually spun" i.e., article sentences manually rewritten multiple times then spun. Most of it good quality writing with a little personality.
The pages I have been promoting have moved up in between +5 to +10 positions and in one case a new page from my site has appeared, turning a single listing into a double listing. I have not promoted it in a couple of months so I am guessing this is the result of the update.
So my working hypothesis is that this update should not be interpreted as a blanket hit on content farms, but it does affects individual pages with duplicated content. Content farms drop in the ranks on average because of the vast amount of dup content on those sites. But good content on ezinearticles will not be severely affected if it is original content and not widely duplicated.
So bum marketing/article marketing is still viable if you don't use crap for content.
I have original content on the site. My article marketing and social blogging was mostly with original content that was "manually spun" i.e., article sentences manually rewritten multiple times then spun. Most of it good quality writing with a little personality.
The pages I have been promoting have moved up in between +5 to +10 positions and in one case a new page from my site has appeared, turning a single listing into a double listing. I have not promoted it in a couple of months so I am guessing this is the result of the update.
So my working hypothesis is that this update should not be interpreted as a blanket hit on content farms, but it does affects individual pages with duplicated content. Content farms drop in the ranks on average because of the vast amount of dup content on those sites. But good content on ezinearticles will not be severely affected if it is original content and not widely duplicated.
So bum marketing/article marketing is still viable if you don't use crap for content.
The question is how they're defining *quality*.
Ezine,AB,squidoo & hubpages have quality & crap content.......no different than ehow or others.
Ezine,AB,squidoo & hubpages have quality & crap content.......no different than ehow or others.
I doubt you will find the type of shit you can find on hub, ezine, and the others on eHow, definitely wouldn't say they are all the same. What surprised me is that examiner.com took a hit yet it's a semi-private publishing community in other words every random idiot can't go posting there but they still took a hit.
They're manually adjusting the serps because their algorithm can't keep up with the content farms.
As I expected, eHow has actually gained positions. I guess my definition of quality is a little closer to Google's than yours eh?
As you expected? We already knew eHow wasn't affected - that was the whole point of the discussion.
THIS.
They make an example out of a select large few and "hopefully" scare the others. (Dupe content will always get thrown into the supplemental index on keywords that have any serious volume.)
IMO (which may not be worth more than my iTrader) the key to success isn't that hard.
A little drippy drip and mininets to get the juices flowing.
Throw in some directory submissions in there, don't forget superpages and yellowpages...
Google places + Facebook + Twitter + Youtube going back to you...
Get some quality High PR links on low OBL pages (if you have to buy a few, so be it).
And just write a SHIT load of content or pay for it to be written. I deal in a VERY specific and heavily regulated niche so I can't just hire anyone to write, but I make sure that I'm adding at least 10-20 pages a day.
I think of it like a car.
Black hat is like nitrous spraying into the engine it'll either give you a boost or destroy your car--either way you don't try to run a whole race on the stuff.
Who cares if your low competition KW niches are finally getting to the front page, none of it means shit if you cant monetize or pick a proper niche to begin with.
Half of Wickedfire cant pick a proper niche or monetize correctly. Have fun finally being #5 for a KW that gets 3 people a day to your site and your still not making any money off your CPM banner from adbrite.
See YOU in the welfare line while Im flying to some exotic vacation fucker!
Why are sites like EzineArticles and even Hubpages loosing positions? They are a content farm, but all of their content is unique. Could someone please explain this to me?