As you probably know Google had launch their "Anti content farm" algo few weeks back and some of the major article directories got hit. I read that some people are claiming that the fact that ezinearticle (for example) got a major hit to their SERP doesnt mean backlinks from there were devalued, I second that. I know for a fact that the backlinks value from "content farms" after Googles algo change decreased significantly, how do I know that? Most of my sites that were SEOed mainly with backlinks from ezinearticles and a like went down in few positions to few pages! Now, this is not a penalty, its just if in the past Google overvalued links from some of the content farms now its undervalue them, which means the backlinks we built worth less. The immediate solution for us is to do one of the following: 1. Build even more links from the same sources we used before (like ezinearticles) to compenstate the value loss of our old backlinks 2. Build new backlinks from sites google didn't devalue. I believe that with time Google will give at least some of the content farms some of their "respect" back, but its just an assumption. I saw many are asking if there is an alternative to the injured content farms, I think that smaller but yet powerful (high PR, good content, etc.) sites are the answer. I'd love to hear what others think about it...?
it only means now to get traffic switch to adwords, not on SEO...this so called algo change will keep going on
So should we still post articles on those types of websites as a general SEO practice if Google's newly adjusted algo is devalueing it?
Just be careful on overly duped content , original stuff is doing just fine , however heavily spun + dupe content has a even higher penalty.
Google's just dictating the phase into improvements, they have been affecting us towards betterment of our sites, those who can't abide will be left behind..
I think there are no alternative of content farm rule changed by Google. There are only one way - create unique content and never duplicate. It may hurt your site/blog.
Google only dropped the sites which contain dofollow external backlinks within the main content. Inline links and links on blog posts are now worth less. There is no problem with content.
since most of that kind of site have the same content from other article sites or around their site.. and its too much redundant to if they all rank.. actually its good for google to do that..
Yeah sure, cause every time Google changes their Algo we should switch to Adwords, you are so right! When I think about it SEO died so long ago when Google did their first algo change, after all how can SEO exist when Google keep changing their algo??? Bahhh... If you don't have anything smart to say, hmm... say it to yourself and don't misguide others! Well, backlinks from these article directories still give you value, but much less then before, so you have better alternative use it, if not you'll just need to create more backlinks to get the same effect as before. Althogh I favor original and high quality content, I saw no proof to the above statement, many sites that were hit had original content and many sites that went up the SERPS had dup content. Generally I agree, but lots of very good sites were also effected cause Google can't really see the difference between good and bad content automatically (you can read the full explanation in my sig). I disagree with that, I wrote above why original content won't always save you, again, about alternatives there are alternatives (clue: my sig ). Where did you get that? Why people are writing things they know nothing about??? Ha?? It be good for google if they did it well, the way they did it hurting so many "innocents" will hurt them back (theri trust is falling among us all)
I think the best way to compensate is Change content of Home Page, and submit them to different articles. Some of Article directories rank dropped, but if you see most of have gained reputation in recent changes Its been years m doing seo... from beginning i am saying.. CONTENT IS KING