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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Giving Google more information on your sites and how they are all interlinked is not a bad idea if you are squeaky clean. Why not use all the tools they provide? But 95% of the people reading this aren't squeaky clean.
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Are Google's webmaster guidelines that difficult to stay within that as many as 95% of this board's population can't follow them ? It's all good practice anyway and all aimed at ensuring that websites provide some value to end users (surfers).
I think many webmasters miss out on enormous opportunity with their sites. Having a site that people enjoy visiting and trust buying from referral links is far better than having sites which serve not much purpose other than being link or spam farms.
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The more you give Google the more they possibly can find to penalize you for. If all your sites are easily linked together and they decide to get you, you might be royally fucked if they decide to penalize ALL your sites. You can say it never happens but you can't say it will never happen. Things can always change and there is no sure way to take back giving them all that data, is there?
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If your site is highly desirable and of value to the surfer then it's in Google's interest to serve it up to the end user. Google can only maintain it's advertising revenue if it remains the most trusted search engine. That trust is upheld only by delivering the most relevant results to a users search query.
The data exchange is a trade off, the contract is basically along the lines of "we'll use your data in exchange for providing webmasters useful information about their website." As things stand there is more value in having that information than ignoring it.