Just wanting to throw some ideas around.... What will google filter next? Multiple directory submissions Yahoo publisher sites placekeeper sites (expired domains used to push adsense) ??? What would you Like them to filter and how? MFA made for adsense site (sorry guys) ??? Just looking for what people are thinking about in this area.
Scraper sites. It would be nice if they cracked down on publishers who steal content. Wouldn't even need a filter, just tell people to remove adsense from the spam sites. And if they don't, kick them out of the program.
Filter the newer of the 2 so that the original doesn't get filtered! I sure hope someone at google reads this! == spot on ===
That would be an easy one to filter since people can have 2,000 of the same link from the same forum. That was the one thing that that other forum did that made sense - they made it so your sig only showed up once per page or thread or something. That wasn't a bad idea.
Are google's old filters working? Not really. Lots of sites that keyword stuff, hide text, etc still show in the SERPs. It'd make a lot more sense for them to improve the older algo's and filters than to stick a new one in the mix.
I would like to see them tweak the age factor in their algo right now. There are a lot of old stale sites out there right now that havent been updated in years but hold number 1 positions for primary key phrases. On a side note, if according to Googles response to the federal goverment is correct, I could see if the goverment gets to cross about Googles algo the court room being filled with competitors and Seo's from around the world waiting for something interesting to be exposed..LOL
That brings up a question — does Google count the forum's signature links only one time? Or do they count the signature links in every single post a member makes? If the latter, then wouldn't members be continually posting often useless stuff just to get more links?
Haven't you read things from gworld or yoyo? Many useless posts to build links and to get more adsense ads shown.
Dampen links from any site with "article" in the domain... Speaking of scraper sites, I get some good traffic from traffic equalizer sites where people have scraped in my listings to their own site
I hope nothing... i hope Google will be like MSN , so people who work hard for optimization will also get some benefit... Adwords it's just to expensive mr. google! to expensive! you can't earn as much as you must to pay to adwords!
I guess the fact of the matter is that search engines have to determine what your page is about to work out whether or not it is relevent to the searcher. To do that honestly, they surely have to discount ANYTHING that you the webmaster has done to effect it.
Sig links have very little or no effect in google. Free directory links appear to have been devalued as well. Still having good results in Yahoo and Msn with them so still worth doing. I think Google will continue to go after paid links and scraper sites.
The only thing I hope is that they are going to give it another cool name, just as the previous "Florida Update". That sounds so much like conspiracy that it makes feel the CIA is working on it.
I know of dozens of sites in a niche I’m interested in and I check every couple of months to see if anything is new and the only thing that seems to change is their links become more and more broken over time but there they are, still in the top twenty results. It really bothers me at times but what can I do? Kimmy
One of my pet peeves are university sites: homepages of university professors and grad students that have pretty high PR, but are absolutely useless. I guess because one or two other pages within the same university link to those pages, and Google assumes because they are university links they must be worth something, those professors' pages get the high PR passed on to them. However, besides their office hours, a little bit of their background, the classes they teach, etc, they provide no useful information to the rest of the world. If those professors were presenting SOMETHING USEFUL as a result of their research, or providing a page with some utility, I would accept that such pages should be listed in search results. However, I am pretty sure that most of those professors don't care about appearing in search results, and create their pages for their own students, prospective students, or visitors who specifically come to the university site to browse a particular department. If Google cannot discount such pages, the university webmasters should take it upon themselves to maintain a 0 PR for such pages, so that such useless pages doen't clutter up search results. Another thing: Google should ensure gmail mails are set to 0 too. I don't understand why, when I am reading an e-mail in my gmail account that arrived only ten minutes ago, the page shows PR. What's the point?