Google's new "blacklist" feature

guitarjosh · 03-11-2011, 10:08 AM

It will be interesting to see if they end up letting this play into the search engine algorithm... kind of sounds like that's what they're building up to. Another reason to build for quality.

Google Lets Users Blacklist Sites From Search Results | Epicenter*| Wired.com

dav1dr0well · 03-11-2011, 10:22 AM

Given that quality seems to be the new emphasis and the fact that "thin affiliate" sites *seem* like they will do less well in the future... thanks to user feedback/blacklisting.

I have a group of keywords that are strong, lack much competition and share a common theme (good enough for a more robust site, not a "thin site")... say 12 to 14 words.

Does it make sense to pick a few of the strongest keywords and set up 2 or 3 thinner sites using "exact match" domains (i.e topickw1.com, topickw2.com etc) or "put all of my eggs" in one basket and try to drive traffic on a more robust set of keywords to a single domain (i.e. topicseedkw.com).

Any opinions on this?

jabs83 · 03-11-2011, 11:56 AM

what constitutes a "thin affiliate" site?

yukon · 03-11-2011, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guitarjosh

It will be interesting to see if they end up letting this play into the search engine algorithm... kind of sounds like that's what they're building up to. Another reason to build for quality.

Google Lets Users Blacklist Sites From Search Results | Epicenter*| Wired.com

I bet my last penny Google hasn't done an algo change (that really matters), everything that has happend in the last month or so is manual SERP edits by Google.

They will never be able to have any algo decide (and be realistic about it) what is good or bad content.

That's the reason for all this band-aid crap they have been adding to Chrome & Google accounts, they can't control the worthless sites without a human being involved, to make a manual SERP edit (for the worthless sites).

paulgl · 03-11-2011, 01:00 PM

I've said the same thing. Nothing new, just more manual reviews of
lousy sites that have always been against google webmaster guidelines.

Of course, they have to stop sometime. The more manual reviews they
do, the more it becomes closer to being nothing more than a glorified
human edited directory.

Google took the world by storm when they came up PageRank. Well,
that's 10+ years old. They need to come up with PageRank II.

Paul

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dav1dr0well Warrior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Google's new "blacklist" feature Given that quality seems to be the new emphasis and the fact that "thin affiliate" sites seem like they will do less well in the future... thanks to user feedback/blacklisting. I have a group of keywords that are strong, lack much competition and share a common theme (good enough for a more robust site, not a "thin site")... say 12 to 14 words. Does it make sense to pick a few of the strongest keywords and set up 2 or 3 thinner sites using "exact match" domains (i.e topickw1.com, topickw2.com etc) or "put all of my eggs" in one basket and try to drive traffic on a more robust set of keywords to a single domain (i.e. topicseedkw.com). Any opinions on this?

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jabs83 Active Warrior Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 50 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Google's new "blacklist" feature what constitutes a "thin affiliate" site?

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paulgl Plundering the Web War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 4,849 Thanks: 804 Thanked 1,199 Times in 886 Posts	Re: Google's new "blacklist" feature I've said the same thing. Nothing new, just more manual reviews of lousy sites that have always been against google webmaster guidelines. Of course, they have to stop sometime. The more manual reviews they do, the more it becomes closer to being nothing more than a glorified human edited directory. Google took the world by storm when they came up PageRank. Well, that's 10+ years old. They need to come up with PageRank II. Paul
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