"Mauricio Macedo" <mauricio_at_abassis.com> wrote:
> 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.
I don't think that Google's latest clumsy changes are much to do with
hitting the spammers at all. This is a red herring if they use it to
justify the present situation, The REAL reason for the changes still
seems to me to be to force people to use Adwords. This is the only way
that people like you can get their sites back onto the first pages - by
paying for your placing.
No, I don't think that Google are at war with spammers, not to any
different degree than they were before. They are at war WITH YOU.
They see you as someone who has made a profit out of their service
and now it's time to make you pay.
If you do consider yourself at "war", you must consider what ammunition
you have to retaliate with. I'll leave that for you to ponder over.
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Robert Day rpday_at_btinternet.com
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Received on Tue Dec 16 2003 - 08:48:53 CST
