Google's Panda update could bring down paywalls

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  • halfpint
    GFY's Halfpint
    • Jun 2007
    • 15223
    #1

    Google's Panda update could bring down paywalls

    ONLINE ADVERTISING BROKER Google has installed updates to its page rank algorithm that should highlight quality web content over search engine optimised (SEO) garble and promote quality journalism without paywalls.

    Google's Panda update was rolled out on the firm's English language search engine on 11 April, with the firm claiming that it will produce search results that favour high quality websites, not ones that rely heavily on SEO. Now results from web analytics firm Searchmetrics show that some of the UK's most popular websites have suffered significant declines in Google visibility.

    More here http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...bring-paywalls

    So is this the end of SEO ? It looks like they are ranking up the sites which people visit and stay on ...

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    • Agent 488
      Registered User
      • Feb 2006
      • 22511
      #2
      what a convoluted logical exercise that article is.

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        • blackmonsters
          Making PHP work
          • Nov 2002
          • 20984
          #3
          Too many SEO sites are nothing but spam; so this was inevitable.

          I doubt it will affect web sites that have good SEO but are not pure spam.

          If you are SEOed for "foot fetish" but all you have is blowjobs then expect to
          get pushed down the rankings.
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            • CaptainHowdy
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Dec 2004
              • 94744
              #4
              Quality writers REJOICE ...

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                • Agent 488
                  Registered User
                  • Feb 2006
                  • 22511
                  #5
                  quality writing meant nothing. look at the complaints at google webmaster board.

                  also what passes for "quality writing" in the porn world would be considered low quality spam outside it.

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                    • signupdamnit
                      Confirmed User
                      • Aug 2007
                      • 6697
                      #6
                      I have to admit that it actually makes a lot of sense to heavily weigh bounce rates and the time spent on the site as long as you are tracking it independently based on the search term rather than globally. It does heavily favor free though and will likely reduce overall revenues and put a lot of companies out of business.

                      You don't like my posts? Put me on ignore or fuck right off. I'll say what I want.

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                        • halfpint
                          GFY's Halfpint
                          • Jun 2007
                          • 15223
                          #7
                          Google 'Panda' update downgrades UK tech sites - and Microsoft's Ciao

                          Voucher sites, 'content farms', and some finance sites also hit by rejigging of search algorithms - while winners include Mirror, Independent, and YouTube

                          A number of prominent UK technology news sites have seen their Google rankings drop substantially after the search engine rolled out its "Panda" update, intended to demote sites which scrape content from others, to the UK and other English-language Google users.

                          The update also demotes one of the complainants to the European Commission, Microsoft-owned Ciao, which will almost vanish from many searches as a result of the downgrading.

                          But some sites - including Google's own YouTube and the video site Vimeo, as well as other technology sites including Techcrunch and Mashable, and newspaper sites for the Mirror and The Independent - get a boost.

                          mmm........ youtube of all sites

                          http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...winners-losers

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                            • iamtam
                              So Fucking Banned
                              • Feb 2010
                              • 1211
                              #8
                              it isnt "panda" its "pander", as google tries to pander to the freeloaders. this wont last long, as google will become less and less relevant.

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                                • halfpint
                                  GFY's Halfpint
                                  • Jun 2007
                                  • 15223
                                  #9
                                  I wondered what the hell was going on lol one of my sites which i have not updated for months apart from one post suddenly started geting twice the amount of google traffic. All of the posts have links to paysites and all movies are embeded but the one thing I did do on all of the posts was write a story about the movie instead of just a short description lol

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                                    • Tempest
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • May 2004
                                      • 10217
                                      #10
                                      Well that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of... Anyone with half a brain knows that if you rank things higher based on visits, clicks, bounce rates and the like it becomes a self fulfilling system.

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                                        • halfpint
                                          GFY's Halfpint
                                          • Jun 2007
                                          • 15223
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Tempest
                                          Well that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of... Anyone with half a brain knows that if you rank things higher based on visits, clicks, bounce rates and the like it becomes a self fulfilling system.
                                          I wish somebody would explain that to the good old mighty google

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                                            • Tempest
                                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                                              • May 2004
                                              • 10217
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by halfpint
                                              I wish somebody would explain that to the good old mighty google
                                              Seems that the new algo should mostly be about on page SEO things so that's not bad.. What's concerning is how google could possibly measure things like bounce rates etc unless every site out there has their analytics installed. So if they are using those factors, they're penalizing all sites that don't use their analytics.

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                                                • grumpy
                                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                  • Jan 2002
                                                  • 9870
                                                  #13
                                                  everybody thinks they can fuck google for better seo results. Wrong. At the end, google bites you in the ass.
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