Google's New Algorithm Change Live - Bye Bye Autoblogs?

by WealthWithin

Posted: 13 years ago 20 replies

From Matt Cutts' blog

My post mentioned that "we're evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others' content and sites with low levels of original content." That change was approved at our weekly quality launch meeting last Thursday and launched earlier this week.

This was a pretty targeted launch: slightly over 2% of queries change in some way, but less than half a percent of search results change enough that someone might really notice. The net effect is that searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copied the original site's content.

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If you have autoblogs/scraped sites maybe it's time to check your analytics....

#algorithm #autoblogs #bye #change #google #live

Dele 13 years ago

That is good news to me because i have always been an apostle of using original content.

I however don't know how Google is going to implement that without affecting article directories, some of which (like Ezine Articles) are favorites of Google.
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WillBeRich

13 years ago

I got thousands of blackhat-sites and I been making more money in the last few days than I usually do. All sites use scrapped content...

Maybe their new algo isn't live yet.

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trytolearnmore

13 years ago

Originally Posted by WillBeRich

I got thousands of BlueFart-sites and I been making more money in the last few days than I usually do. All sites use scrapped content...

Maybe their new algo isn't live yet.

According to Matt Cutts, the algorithm is already up

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WillBeRich 13 years ago

Originally Posted by trytolearnmore

According to Matt Cutts, the algorithm is already up

Well.. Great. I guess only crap blackhat-sites got removed!
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Mike Anthony

13 years ago

Originally Posted by WillBeRich

I got thousands of BlueFart-sites and I been making more money in the last few days than I usually do. All sites use scrapped content...

Maybe their new algo isn't live yet.

Its a change thats only going to take effect for pages as its crawled so I wouldn't expect to see ranking changes immediately. The original has to be crawled and then the copies and then the duiplicate algo works its way in.

Last thing google wants to do is overdo it though and then legitimate high profile pages disappear. So I don't think we will see all the effect and how this thing plays out for a few weeks and then as announced only to a relative few sites.

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cashcow

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

So even though it already knows about the pages that it would be returning, they are not subjected to this new change until after they have been crawled?

I guess I pictured that when someone made a search engine query, google then goes an applies the new algorithm and then returns the best results of it's existing known pages so the new change would be applied right away. But I really have no idea how it actually works, that's just what I assumed.

Could you be kind enough to explain that a bit more (sorry, can't get why it would have to recrawl the pages for it to kick in)

Lee

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faceblogger 13 years ago

I have started staying off from autoblogs from last week after reading the adsense blog
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Fernando Veloso 13 years ago

Never had a autoblog, but frankly, I might start one next months just to test all this nonsense.
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ejb2059 13 years ago

Seems like everytime we turn around, something's happening / being done to restrict free enterprise on the web .... I hear Obama's pushing for a federal ID number being issued to everyone ..
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johnalex157 13 years ago

Its a great news.. this would reduce all the black hats out there..
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cashcow

13 years ago

slightly over 2% of queries change in some way, but less than half a percent of search results change enough that someone might really notice.

Very small percentage of search results which, from what I see on all the other discussions, has not affected any autoblogs at all.

None of mine have been affected but what people should really be worrying about is the article directories losing traffic (if you are into article marketing that is).

Lee

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wanna-succeed

13 years ago

Originally Posted by cashcow

None of mine have been affected but what people should really be worrying about is the article directories losing traffic (if you are into article marketing that is).

Lee

I think this is a good thing, at least for those of us who submit fresh & original content to the directories. It might help eliminate all the spammy articles, the ones processed to death.

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wanna-succeed

13 years ago

Originally Posted by cashcow

None of mine have been affected but what people should really be worrying about is the article directories losing traffic (if you are into article marketing that is).

Lee

I would think this is a good thing, at least for the people who submit clean & original articles. It might help decrease the amount of BS articles out there; I sure hope so.

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cashcow

13 years ago

Originally Posted by wanna-succeed

I would think this is a good thing, at least for the people who submit clean & original articles. It might help decrease the amount of BS articles out there; I sure hope so.

Yes, maybe you are right, if the article directories didn't rank then maybe less crappy articles would get written and submitted to them.

Maybe if the articles were better on them then more webmasters would frequent them for good articles they could publish on their sites.

Lee

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BloggingPro 13 years ago

This is great IMO. Unique content will reign supreme once more. At least thats my hope!
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luuda 13 years ago

How about news.google.com, i think this is kind of autoblog ...
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markowe 13 years ago

Noone REALLY knows exactly how G works, but there is such a gargantuan amount of data on the net and G cannot possibly process all that data on the fly. The algo is probably applied across G's databases and new relationships between the data must be formed (not necessarily the sites recrawled, though maybe that too) - that all takes time.
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automaton 13 years ago

It seems that this algorithm will affect only the really really bad autoblogs with zero unique content on them.
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Orator 13 years ago

If there is ever an argument about the need to diversify your traffic strategy then this is it. There is simply no good business reason to place all your eggs in one basket, and pray that Google doesn't tweak their algorithm and make your website fall like a rock.
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TZ 13 years ago

Sorry. That has to be re-phrased.....

GOODBYE LOUSY AUTOBLOGS!

A properly configured autoblog will always succeed.

Now whether or not using Adsense on an auto-blog is going to viable in the future I don't know. I changed 5 of our auto-blogs to run Chitika as a test, and was pleasantly surprised to see decent profit anyway. Not as much as Adsense, but Chitika doesn't care if you use syndication and aggregation.

And that's what it so ridiculous about the "AUTOBLOGS ARE BAD" claims out there. An autoblog is just an aggregator/syndicator, and nothing more, and if anymore people claim the syndicating content is "nasty", I'm going to........ah whatever.

When you can rewrite phrases and words with impunity, your content is going to cut mustard, and reach higher in results than ALL the other syndicators pushing the same feeds.

So where is this big bad Google update? Our autoblogs are still growing every day, and getting more traffic every day.

Fear is bunk.
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