Can you ask Google to change a site listing?

JMac · 11-09-2009, 10:38 AM

I was looking through some of the sites that are beating me in the search engine results and I have a hard time seeing how Google decides to place them so high. I found one site, on page one, with a keyword that had over 13 million competing sites and it is an old forum post from 2003 that someone necro'ed (an old thread that someone posts in after its been dead for a year). The sad thing is the post that brought it back up was just to say something stupid and added nothing to it. The whole thread is old and badly out of date information.

Can you report old, out of date information to Google or is this not really allowed since bad IM'ers would try and take down the competition?

Fernando Veloso · 11-09-2009, 10:42 AM

If there's a Adsense ad nearby try to click on Ads By Google and report the site has nothing to offer there.

Other than that, I am not sure.

Harvey Affcash · 11-09-2009, 08:40 PM

Just because information is old does not mean it's out of date or irrelevant.

Google's algorithm takes hundreds of things into account. Some of those things include relevancy to search term, age, number of backlinks, and so on.
There's a good chance that a 6 year old post actually has a hell of a lot more backlinks than anything made this year.

RebeccaL · 11-09-2009, 08:51 PM

No you can't tell Google to remove competitors from the results... imagine that.
haha

kkchoon · 11-09-2009, 11:04 PM

I don't think so Google will remove it based on what you said, Google seems to follow links more than content...

11-09-2009, 10:38 AM	#1
JMac HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Ohio, USA Posts: 166 Thanks: 18 Thanked 49 Times in 25 Posts Social Networking	Can you ask Google to change a site listing? I was looking through some of the sites that are beating me in the search engine results and I have a hard time seeing how Google decides to place them so high. I found one site, on page one, with a keyword that had over 13 million competing sites and it is an old forum post from 2003 that someone necro'ed (an old thread that someone posts in after its been dead for a year). The sad thing is the post that brought it back up was just to say something stupid and added nothing to it. The whole thread is old and badly out of date information. Can you report old, out of date information to Google or is this not really allowed since bad IM'ers would try and take down the competition?
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Fernando Veloso Portuguese Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Good Old Europe Posts: 3,488 Blog Entries: 6 Thanks: 1,311 Thanked 810 Times in 556 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Can you ask Google to change a site listing? If there's a Adsense ad nearby try to click on Ads By Google and report the site has nothing to offer there. Other than that, I am not sure.
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11-09-2009, 08:40 PM	#3
Harvey Affcash Active Warrior Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 67 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Can you ask Google to change a site listing? Just because information is old does not mean it's out of date or irrelevant. Google's algorithm takes hundreds of things into account. Some of those things include relevancy to search term, age, number of backlinks, and so on. There's a good chance that a 6 year old post actually has a hell of a lot more backlinks than anything made this year.
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RebeccaL Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NSW, Australia Posts: 2,981 Thanks: 166 Thanked 156 Times in 58 Posts Social Networking	Re: Can you ask Google to change a site listing? No you can't tell Google to remove competitors from the results... imagine that. haha
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kkchoon Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Online World... Posts: 2,920 Thanks: 96 Thanked 521 Times in 266 Posts	Re: Can you ask Google to change a site listing? I don't think so Google will remove it based on what you said, Google seems to follow links more than content...
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