Why review sites with get stuffed in 2009

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The #1 complaint (20+ comments) was “empty review” sites. Tons of people said something along the lines of “I hate when I search for [productname review] and then click on a result, only to land on a page that says ‘There are no reviews for this product.’ Grrr.”
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The affiliate review sites I see and make do not fall within that description. My review sites have actual reviews, not auto-generated, keyword-stuffed-yet-lacking-any-content bullshit like Cutts is talking about.

As far as I'm concerned, getting empty pages out of Google's index is just going to make more room for mine.

EDIT: Good time to plug bb_wolfe's new review site wordpress plugin WFreview. You can seed the reviews so you won't have the dreaded empty pages you're afraid of.
 
all that post really means is google's algo sucks so hard they can't even filter out empty review sites... ahahaha
 
I don't think this is referring to affiliate based review sites that you see in the ads on google... this is referring to the keyword stuffed sites that auto-generate pages based on new products long before they are released. And while these are technically affiliates, they are normally only in the organic results with the exception of monster sites like Shopping.com.

I had a game site and we did it all the time. A game would be coming out in 5 years but we knew it would be hot. Start its own section of the site, add some screenshots and some filler text. Put links on the pages like "<New game name> Reviews". When that game finally came out we were at the top of the serps. Even if we haven't reviewed or even seen the game yet.

Most of the pricegrabber/pricewatcher type sites do this shit with new products that they know are gonna be hot. Its easysauce to rank #1 on a really obscure model number of a product long before it actually hits the shelves.
 
yea, this really has nothing to do with affiliate review sites since they actually have reviews on them...

The #1 complaint (20+ comments) was “empty review” sites. Tons of people said something along the lines of “I hate when I search for [productname review] and then click on a result, only to land on a page that says ‘There are no reviews for this product.’
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Here's an example. I was shopping around for a new monitor/TV hybrid for my office:

32lg60 reviews - Google Search

1st page serps is:

LG 32LG60 - Compare prices, reviews, user opinions - Shopper.com
Compare prices, read editor reviews and get user opinions on LG 32LG60 Flat- panel TVs from trusted, CNET certified online merchants at Shopper.com.

Click the link:
LG 32LG60 - Compare prices, reviews, user opinions - Shopper.com

text on the page:
No reviews, write one!

Double whammy - reports as shopper.com and goes to cbsnews.com.com, and no reviews of my tv. Pure google fail (from a "user's" standpoint)
 
Adwords Approval Code... ;)

Yep, this ^^^is what they're talking about. This has annoyed me too many times when I've searched for a new camera, music gear or whatever. Empty review pages that Google decides to index and rank.

This also goes to show that Google will let huge advertisers (huge as in "big fat corporate spending accounts") slip through the QS cracks and let them advertise empty shit pages just fine.

Funny how all the sudden the user experience becomes less important when there's big money on the table.

I came across the pseudocode for ad approvals recently;

Code: 
 IF ad_spend > $1000000000 && advertiser_type=ecommerce
      THEN QS=10 AND slap_flagged=false
ELSE IF ad_spend < $100000000 && advertiser_type=affiliate
     THEN QS=RAND(1,7) AND slap_flagged=true
 
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