Can YOU Do A Better Job Than Google?

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This is what I ask myself when performing SEO on my sites and client sites.

"If I was Google... would I like this? Would I reward the site for this?"

Hopefully this can be a nice thread of what you would do if you were Google to catch spam and reward high quality content with high rankings.

If I were Google this is how I would program their ranking machine:

+ I would flag sites that built more than 100 directory or social bookmark or social profile or blog comment links within the first month of being alive, and delay high rankings until a human review is taken place. (bit like the sandbox eh)

+ I would completely discount links from forums, directories that have not been humanly reviewed by Google, social bookmarking sites, social profiles and blog comments. They will not cause any harm to rankings, they will just not count for anything.

+ I would flag sites with more than 50 sidebar and footer links and submit for human review for the ability to pass rankings.

+ I would weigh links from the footer or sidebar severely less than in content links.

+ I would reward in content links from authority hubs and give the link recieving site power to rank higher for its keywords.

Your turn...
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  • Profile picture of the author JasonP
    So you'd make it like a lottery? Like, your site has a one in 176,773,234 chance of getting ranked? It sounds like you're complaining because other people have worked hard to get their sites ranked, and because you don't want to do the boring tedious work that is required to rank these days, you want it to be "given"??
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    • Profile picture of the author Joseph Michael
      I really don't understand where you have got any of that from. Was it meant for this thread? Did you read it? Strange.

      I'm simply talking about an interesting way to look at Google when deciding what to do to your website.

      Followed by a list of things I definitely would put in place if I ran a search engine, or Google.

      Which bit did I complain... and which bit sounds like a lottery??? LOL.

      I've been an seo for 5 years my friend, and currently I do the seo for the Uk's most popular dating site, currently top 5 for "dating", aswell as raking in lots of cash from my personal affilaite projects.

      NO, I have nothing against the way Google ranks. you'll find my suggestions are very close to what Google actually "apparantly" puts in place.

      Please read more carefully before replying next time

      Originally Posted by JasonP View Post

      So you'd make it like a lottery? Like, your site has a one in 176,773,234 chance of getting ranked? It sounds like you're complaining because other people have worked hard to get their sites ranked, and because you don't want to do the boring tedious work that is required to rank these days, you want it to be "given"??
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  • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
    If I were Google, I would keep things like it is. End of story.
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    • Profile picture of the author butters
      A lot of human reviewing... You are placing a lot of power in employees...
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      • Profile picture of the author Joseph Michael
        Originally Posted by Biggy Fat View Post

        If I were Google, I would keep things like it is. End of story.
        I don't think there's a lot wrong with Google. I think they're doing a great job. We don't know exactly what they do though. So the method I use to keep myself from pressing silly buttons that submit my site to 2 million social profiles, is "If I were Google, would I like this?"


        Originally Posted by butters View Post

        A lot of human reviewing... You are placing a lot of power in employees...
        I think there's certain things only human can judge... and I believe this is going on a hell of a lot more at google right now. The machine flags, and then it gets queued in a presumably long list of sites that are reviewed by humans - is what i would do.
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        • Profile picture of the author butters
          Originally Posted by joewooweb View Post

          I think there's certain things only human can judge... and I believe this is going on a hell of a lot more at google right now. The machine flags, and then it gets queued in a presumably long list of sites that are reviewed by humans - is what i would do.
          The less you can make an employee think, the better... If they think less, they screw up less.
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          • Profile picture of the author Joseph Michael
            Depends on how you want to treat employees, and what company culture you have.

            For McDonalds, I agree with your statement.

            For Google.... are you mad?

            Originally Posted by butters View Post

            The less you can make an employee think, the better... If they think less, they screw up less.
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            • Profile picture of the author butters
              Originally Posted by joewooweb View Post

              Depends on how you want to treat employees, and what company culture you have.

              For McDonalds, I agree with your statement.

              For Google.... are you mad?
              Of course some jobs in google will require thinking and inelegance but not all of them. Do you think the people who check your sites are the top techies etc? They are like the people on the other side of the phone when you ring up your internet provider. Not everyone in Google is super smart nor needs to be, there is always mundane and boring jobs in big companies and them jobs, the thinking needs to be taken out of it.
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              • Profile picture of the author Joseph Michael
                I would argue that a human review of a website which determines its ranking abilities or overall power in Google would have to be by a trained professional... and I'm sure that professionals already do this job. Who knows could be wrong, jus my thoughts.
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                • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
                  If I ran Google I'd set up the algorithm to rank all websites and pages that have my name in it first for their keywords. But I wouldn't tell anyone this secret and I'd dominate every niche I wanted.

                  But in all seriousness. I don't think Google has a huge team of human reviewers. I would bet that its probably a small team of overworked employees doing anything requiring a review. They have to be very careful about manual reviews I think. With a manual reviewer there would be more of a skew in the results because there would be some opinion in every decision made.

                  Reviewers could boost sites they liked and drop sites they didn't like or agree with. Surely that would eliminate any idea of relevancy. My bet is on Google spending most of its man power and money on its algorithm....not on human reviewers. After all, machines don't take sides...they make decisions.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexander CPA
    I'm sure Google have a highly dedicated team, purely to prevent ****ty websites getting on the rankings, so if you think you can do better then them, you should consider applying for a job at Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Citigo Sales
    Hey, you know what? You do SEO task to promote a site to make it get a higher and higher rank in GG. Therefore, if GG wants, it can do that right away. Then your question has the quite obvious answer :|
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