What would be an example of a site which would be allowed to use a squeeze page, given Google's September 19 announcement? Thanks, Johnny
I think it's amazing that you're summarily rejecting the easy solution - to improve your content - and instead want to go with something that's all but guaranteed to leave you in the same predicament you find yourself in today. I also think the more time you waste on operations like this, the less sales you'll be able to make, the less time you'll have for improving your content, for marketing, and so on. What I'm trying to say is your solution is very counter productive, and will cost you far more over the long term.
It's not the content that's at issue in this case, it's the offer. Google is saying that once they notice a site is doing data collection they will get their CPC spiked. And registering a bunch of domain names for $4/each and then transfering files from one to the other--how much of a waste is that?
We have created what we hope is a better quality landing page. We're using API video, RSS, outgoing links and other news feeds. So far so good, although the content is hardly unique, yet. Like the last poster said, it's all about whether or not google perceive what we are doing to be data collection. The question is though, what if a page was 50% data collection and 50% rich, unique content. Would that warrant a slap? Another matter of frustration for us is that our competitors in the data collection game have no yet suffered such a slap, even when their sites are qualitatively identical.
Hey guys, Sorry to bump an old thread, but I came across this through a search on this very similar problem I am having. I posted about it here: h**p://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/22623-being-unfairly-penalized-google-s-data-collection-site-policy-shit.html I can totally sympathize with joeblogger here. It's frustrating as all hell. The difference in my case though was that I wasn't actually doing data collection at all. I had a clean landing page with good unique content - and I did NO data collection whatsoever. I simply linked to a merchant that had an order-form for a product where the user had to pay for shipping and handling. And THAT is what Google penalized me for! I am right in the middle of trying again with 1,2 and 4 here. But what you said about # 3 is actually incorrect. Putting the data collection on a step away from the landing page doesn't help. Like I said above - the landing page can be clean as a whistle. But if you link to a merchant that has a form on their page - you will get punished. The Google reps I talked to confirmed this. And they DO - flag the entire domain permanently. Even changing the link to a filename on your server will not change the QS. The "Data collection" poor QS is permanent once they catch you. The Google rep also confirmed this.