Allan Pollett wrote:
>I notice there are two opinions about the latest Google dance. I hear
>people for the most part complaining, but there are those who thinks
>Google is on the right track.
I understand that Google have to keep improving its ranking engine,
as the Web is a live thing and marketing people are always hungry
for the almost no cost promotion due to a first page position on
a good keyword.
Unfortunately, the tools that Google uses to filter junk from gold
are crude, and will always be until we have programs that can
"understand" a page, and rank it accordingly. It'll take 10 more years
at least, but someday it will be possible.
I take that Google is punishing spammers and link traders. My
site suffered as a side effect: I have a shareware personal finance
manager. There are thousands of directories listing shareware
programs. So you could find a link to my website in at least
300 other shareware directories. These links are mostly automated:
a link with a redirect to my page. The google toolbar shows a
0 pagerank for my website http://www.abassis.com whereas it
was 7/10 before the Florida update.
If Google's system for identifying SE spammers regards automated
links as a hint for a spammer site, I bet there are other thousands
of sites being unfairly affected, like mine. We are victims of war now..
*lol*
best regards,
Mauricio Macedo
Abassis Finance Manager http://www.abassis.com
Received on Mon Dec 15 2003 - 18:59:26 CST
