Does Google punish actual diet sites? Extra eye on diet backlinks?

Marakatapolis · 02-13-2010, 09:17 PM

I'm building a website for my cousin who sells products for a specific diet, and a lot of her competition all has zero PR websites... yet they are all selling real, physical products.

It's really baffling me, I'm kind of confused actually.

Also, if you create a bunch of backlinks for a diet related website, will Google spank you? I'm just starting to wonder if there is some sort of prejudice in Google against diet related niches?

Or did I just find a really weird niche where nobody is getting any PR? I found one site on the top 10, out of 3.3 million results, that has a PR over 1, and that was a PR of 2. The rest are PR0.

What in the world?

Fraggler · 02-13-2010, 09:57 PM

I think you just aren't looking hard enough. Even my crappy little diet site has a PR4.

InternetMarketingIQ · 02-13-2010, 09:58 PM

Google is just software.

Google rewards quality and the PageRank you see you might as well just ignore. It has little to do with how a page will actually rank for a given keyword phrase. Google factors in a lot of criteria besides just links.

02-13-2010, 09:17 PM	#1
Marakatapolis Emerald City Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Seattle, WA - USA Posts: 290 Blog Entries: 15 Thanks: 42 Thanked 49 Times in 14 Posts	Does Google punish actual diet sites? Extra eye on diet backlinks? I'm building a website for my cousin who sells products for a specific diet, and a lot of her competition all has zero PR websites... yet they are all selling real, physical products. It's really baffling me, I'm kind of confused actually. Also, if you create a bunch of backlinks for a diet related website, will Google spank you? I'm just starting to wonder if there is some sort of prejudice in Google against diet related niches? Or did I just find a really weird niche where nobody is getting any PR? I found one site on the top 10, out of 3.3 million results, that has a PR over 1, and that was a PR of 2. The rest are PR0. What in the world?

02-13-2010, 09:57 PM	#2
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02-13-2010, 09:58 PM	#3
InternetMarketingIQ Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: US of A Posts: 2,190 Thanks: 47 Thanked 258 Times in 212 Posts	Re: Does Google punish actual diet sites? Extra eye on diet backlinks? Google is just software. Google rewards quality and the PageRank you see you might as well just ignore. It has little to do with how a page will actually rank for a given keyword phrase. Google factors in a lot of criteria besides just links.
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