Google Destroys Good Content Sites?

If google ever plan the demize of one of my websites then I will be pretty damn happy and ballin on the profits!

Google is first and foremost a business, and they are going to do whatever it takes to protect their bottom line.

Google has a funny way at looking things, all their decisions and direction is totally based on the end user of their service. The end user is their product and anything that gets in the way that might hurt the quality of their search results is going to feel the wrath of the mighty Google. They have even gone so far as to dump advertisers that spent millions in advertising in an effort to protect their search results.

They will, and have cut off their head in an effort protect their product at all cost. And I think they have made a very serious mistake. Instead of trying to find an equitable compromise and solution to deal with spam and poor quality pages, but instead they just trash everything that threatens their bottom line of good search results for their end users.

All the time and money they spend fighting spam and poor quality would have been better spent trying to develop an environment that would naturally encourage webmasters and content sites to only display quality content. They chose a simple solution, that I feel in the long run will be their demise

Ultimately what google does comes down to people, such as us on this forum. If we target the news sites, yelp and etc. in a un-natural way to capitalize on serp's - google slaps. Content is the priority to google. If they allow weak, spammy content they will dissolve. (not easily but over time that is) I hate it on one hand because it makes things difficult for us to succeed and we always seem to be at the demise of googles decisions. Contrarily, I know it's necessary otherwise we would seek out every avenue to profit and saturate the web with a mass of irrelevant crap.

Well Google is a buisnes and happens to own the major search engine so i think they kind of do what they want. The funny thing is most of these web enterprises would have dominated the Chinese web market by now if it was not for the Chinese government and censorship. Facebook tried to take over the market until it got blocked and now would never compete with weibo. Google tried to take over Baidu until the bad press related to Google and well Amazon is the only strong surviver left in the market. The problem its all just buisness wipe out your competition to earn more money. The only problem is just like everywhere else in the world of buisness, it is very hard to compete with the leading companies and if you do, they are either going to destroy your company, take your idea, move into your field or focus on improving their own company.

yes, everything google says is just for the show and a bunch of crap,
they hate affiliate sites no matter how good they are
because we do not use stupid Adwords on them,
this is the future,
they want all the money
thank you google
you are a true friend

You have raised some very good points which I have never think of. Google is the Big Boss of internet in recent days and liekly to hold this position for a longer time for sure.

I, for one, agree with Google. G is a business and it has a goal, to provide the best user experience. This means that G must provide the best search results and whatever it (G) does, is geared towards a better quality of search results.

The problem with so called affiliate websites is that the majority are absolute rubbish and Google knows this. Unfortunately, G uses a robot to tell whether your site is rubbish or not, so it uses generalizations. If G sees that your site is an affiliate, you could be a professor in neuroscience who just happens to make money selling CBT products on the side and who knows what he is talking about, G will see those skanky redirects (hope G doesn't notice your cloaking) and treat you like the 99% of aff. sites.

Affiliate sites are known for the low quality of their content and for also having one single goal: to provide sale-type content to make a sale within a click (or few). And G doesn't like this. In G's happy and beautiful colourful world, websites should be altruist in nature and give out great content for the sake of helping others (well, include some Google Adsense there, will ya?). Your content should be liked, tweeted, shared on G+ and linked like a champ. No redirects. Oh, god help you if you redirect to an affiliated vendor site, son.

Of course, with the above, good luck making money (unless you use, yes, you guessed it, Google Adsense!). 99% of aff.sites are rubbish that should be best destroyed (including some I've seen in people's sig here). They are middlemen of middlemen, sites that are not experts in their fields and just want to sell that ONE product for that ONE extra buck. In G's eyes, traffic should be sent to the guy whose product you are pimping because he is the expert (i.e. authority), not you. You just have PLR content in your site and are an amateur (at best) in the niche of the product you are trying to sell.

Couple that with people's dislike for site's that are based in trying to sell them anything (i.e. typical aff. site) and you have huge bounce rates and not relevant nor high PR backlinks for aff. sites, unless your site is one of the big daddys of the affiliate world, but then you are not a middleman. As you know, relevant high PR backlinks is the only way to go for backlinks these days. And you won't get that with PLR spun content (the stuff I have seen in weight loss sites, makes me cry, I swear).

In essence, yes, the majority of aff. sites are doomed with G nowadays but that's because they should have been doomed long time ago.

My 3 cents, people!

Hmmm, some interesting points here. Never really thought about it that way. It's interesting how Google can get 'sites spammed' by promoting them and BOOM, Google bans you. :confused: