How to avoid being flagged as spam by google.

[HKSEO Rotzee]

Google's algorithm is an amazing thing but the idea that you are here trying to trick a machine exclusively is untrue. There is a huge human workforce out there as well.

You can either play a numbers game and try to get sites to slip through the cracks and avoid human computer screens, or you can make sure your money making sites slip by google AND human eyes. Here are some questions you need to ask your self.



1. Is the page designed for users? Is there a human element to the page? Good grammar, easy on the eyes, etc? Or is it flashing click me banners everywhere?

2. Does your page contain content that can be viewed as original content that would be helpful to a person, or is it clearly copied and spun content with terrible grammar on some old domain?
(Google's algorithm isn't set up to catch copied content well because of song lyrics, poems, quotes, books etc...but the human workforce is and it's a dice game if you land on their computers or slip through the cracks)

3. If you removed everything that made you money on the website, would there be anything left that would still be helpful?

4. Did you copy content directly from a well known source like Wikipedia? Some use directory pathways that are easy to recognize and a lot of the section headings and formats are well known and easily recognized.

[dvduval]

Good questions and I agree. You have to make a worthwhile site, and people will come as will search engines.

[loxwood7]

is it okay to take content from private forums (providing I had permission) that aren't being index by google. is this considered unique content?

[Brennan Mack]

I agree that it is important to get your site looking good to both machines and people (which many SEOs don't seem do get quite yet), but I'm not sure I agree that Google has a bunch of humans scanning the internet manually. I haven't seen any proof or evidence of this. If you have any proof or evidence, I'd really like to see it. Of course, just because there's no proof doesn't mean something's untrue. I just don't see it as being cost effective on Google's part.

[HKSEO Rotzee]

Originally Posted by Brennan Mack

I agree that it is important to get your site looking good to both machines and people (which many SEOs don't seem do get quite yet), but I'm not sure I agree that Google has a bunch of humans scanning the internet manually. I haven't seen any proof or evidence of this. If you have any proof or evidence, I'd really like to see it. Of course, just because there's no proof doesn't mean something's untrue. I just don't see it as being cost effective on Google's part.

You want proof go to leapforceathome.com I know plenty of people who work for google through them and there job is just that.

They have work at home evaluators who have to pass a 24 written exam after being given a study guide and then they have to take 150 evaluation test where they basically DO 150 test ones. They then can start working and will then have their evaluations cross checked with 1000's of others for accuracy.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by HKSEO Rotzee

3. If you removed everything that made you money on the website, would there be anything left that would still be helpful?

Ha, ha!

That's the best one, & it's easy to find out from the text only version of Google cache.

Thing is, it can also be 100% wrong.

The reason I say it's possible to be wrong is, I run sites that only deal with downloadable zip files. All of my content is inside of the zip files, it has to be this way since the contents are not an html friendly format.

I still rank my pages just fine, considering I don't use articles or very much text (10 words or less per page).

My content is what people in my niche want, plus it's free (easy traffic).

I've had repeat traffic for years, so I know I'm giving them the content they want.

My point is Google wouldn't have a clue If I had any content or not. Really I could care less what G thinks, since I can rank a page with an image + zip file. Besides I always have solid traffic/trust from niche forums.

[HKSEO Rotzee]

Originally Posted by yukon

My point is Google wouldn't have a clue If I had any content or not. Really I could care less what G thinks, since I can rank a page with an image + zip file. Besides I always have solid traffic/trust from niche forums.

If your CONTENT is what people want and it is user friendly then you you are ok. Your obviously playing the game right and beating the algorithm AND any human eyes, which was the point of the post. They are guidelines and you just need to stop thinking "Beat the machine" because you never know when your going to be placed on a human computer screen as well.