HubPages, Examiner, Mahalo nailed by the Google algo changes

[DateDoc]

During this week, Google announced a significant algorithm-update which aims to increase quality in Google?s search results. Domains containing low-quality content are supposed to be found less often, high-quality pages are to achieve better rankings. At the moment this update is active in the US-Index, more countries are about to follow.

Quickly named an ?Anti-Demand-Media?-Update, I couldn?t find any real data proving this claim. I?d like to change this with this posting: Based on a dataset of one million keywords, which were checked before the update and yesterday I can determine the biggest loser of this algorithm-change. The SISTRIX VisibilityIndex is an index value calculated from traffic on keywords, ranking and click-through rate on specific positions. Let?s start with a list of the 25 biggest losers:

Lots of others affected too.
hubpages -87%
examiner -79%
mahalo -94%

http://www.sistrix.com/blog/985-goog...r-quality.html

[Harmon]

Good, fuck the cheaters in the ass.

[seeandsee]

fucking hubpages and their spammy publisher articles got burned finally

[The Dawg]

Nice.

[brassmonkey]

just great!

[Spudman]

Has anyone seen if any of the big adult sites affected by the new algo update?
from the sites I have been watching none of them seem affected.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Strange to not see Yahoo Answers, Squidoo, EZA and some of the other popular parasite hosts in there...

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Has anyone seen if any of the big adult sites affected by the new algo update?
from the sites I have been watching none of them seem affected.

There's not really any big adult article directory and content farm type sites on the same scale. I'd be very surprised if the new algorithm changes have as much effect on adult webmasters as it will on mainstream. There's a lot of "bum marketers" in mainstream whose bread and butter was articles.

[Spudman]

There's not really any big adult article directory and content farm type sites on the same scale.

I don't think the new algo has to do with the size of sites, traffic wise. This is a roll out by google to try and eradicate content farms,scrapers etc of which there are many in adult. I think the effects will soon take place in adult, this is not an industry (mainstream) specific rollout but a whole web roll out, adult included.

for example i think using things like sponsor rss feeds in blogs is going to be detrimental to a blogs/sites position in SERPS, i.e. i think they'll drop like lead.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

I don't think the new algo has to do with the size of sites, traffic wise. This is a roll out by google to try and eradicate content farms,scrapers etc of which there are many in adult. I think the effects will soon take place in adult, this is not an industry (mainstream) specific rollout but a whole web roll out, adult included.

for example i think using things like sponsor rss feeds in blogs is going to be detrimental to a blogs/sites position in SERPS, i.e. i think they'll drop like lead.

Whatever they have modified in the algorithm they seem to be targeting large content farms with a high percentage of thin content. The larger the site, the more they seem to be feeling it. I suspect the negative effects are attributed to the authority of the domain itself. While it might affect adult splogs running solely sponsor feeds, I don't think the effect will be felt quite as hard, as most of these sites didn't pack a whole lot of authority in the spider's eyes already, whereas some of these gigantic mainstream content farms carried a lot of authority. Previously on low competition terms you could slap an article up, toss it a couple backlinks and rank first page easily just riding the domain's authority. Those days are clearly done. This is all just speculation on my part of course. I still don't think adult webmasters have quite as much to worry about here though.

[Spudman]

Whatever they have modified in the algorithm they seem to be targeting large content farms with a high percentage of thin content. The larger the site, the more they seem to be feeling it. I suspect the negative effects are attributed to the authority of the domain itself. While it might affect adult splogs running solely sponsor feeds, I don't think the effect will be felt quite as hard, as most of these sites didn't pack a whole lot of authority in the spider's eyes already, whereas some of these gigantic mainstream content farms carried a lot of authority. Previously on low competition terms you could slap an article up, toss it a couple backlinks and rank first page easily just riding the domain's authority. Those days are clearly done. This is all just speculation on my part of course. I still don't think adult webmasters have quite as much to worry about here though.

agreed, many of the mainstream webmasters are reporting site wide penalties / drops in SERPs due to people having scraped their content as well having scraped content on their sites.

Even big sites with very small amounts of duplicate content are getting hit so i guess if people have any adult blogs etc with any dupe content they might want to start thinking about removing it asap.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

I don't have the big adult splog network I once did, so it's hard for me to say myself, but I haven't heard any forum whining about adult sponsor fed networks yet. I guess time will tell. Anyone care to comment on the effects of the recent changes on their traffic stats for their splog networks?

[Tom_PM]

I've typed in many questions to google and the yahoo answers results are generally pretty dead on including an actual answer or two. Some of the nuked ones would often just be old school link farms, seeded to get their ranks but no good actual content.