So, basically, Google finally decided to explain what common sense should have told anyone with a minute's thought on the subject?


Paul

Nothing new here, just the same thing being repeated over and over.

Just writing good content isn't going to do it, not always. In very rare cases it could work out due to word-of-mouth, but not often.

There is nothing to notice there, it's the same old thing about good content, must read for noobs.

It's their internet apparently so we better do what they say or we're not allowed to be on it with our sites.

It is common sense but still a good article for anyone that's wondering why they are struggling to rank. Although it's common sense, there are a lot of people out there that just don't use common sense and need to read this!

Yeah, something like that.

But now we have a link to point to whenever anybody asks What makes a good website?

The only problem with the list, they forget to mention always including kitten pictures. Everybody loves kittens.

Out of all of the points, I think this summarizes everything nicely: "Is this the sort of page you’d want to bookmark, share with a friend, or recommend?"

If it fits the above criteria, chances are it's high quality content.

Feel "safe" giving credit card info to?

How is that going to be applied? Some scam sites out there would fool anybody not an experienced webmaster ... including a thread here about the FTC crackdown on "fake" (though very realistic) news sites.

Factual info is one thing - but how does one determine -"enthusiasm" ... mathematically (algorithmically)?

"outsourced to creators ..."

Ever read some of the major "news" outlets?

Does this mean paid "creators", kind of like "journalists" are now a bad thing, regardless of their knowledge on a topic?

Just seems to me like a good "wish list" at this point.

Interesting thread, the one thing I believe that Google has sort of forgotten along with a great deal of other online service providers, Is that Google does not actually define good web content, (People Do) Google makes money by charging advertising fees for its search engine, and other web ventures.

However no matter how much money Google makes if people do not buy products that are advertised, then Advertisers will stop buying advertising space on google it is as simple as that, when people go to bing.com to get better more relevant search results, what happened?

Big changes resulted, which proves that people are the driving force behind the search engines, while executives may at times have some difficulty in determining, how the "real world operates" regular people do not have that problem.

When I see companies such as EZA and other user generated content providers ASSume that google has defined what is good and what is not good, I have to laugh because again real people are the only consumers that matter, now perhaps some over paid executives with little or no practical experience in managing a large corporation may "think" they know more than the consumers that really drive their business, but eventually consumer trends will define what is good content and what is not good content and the sooner companies like EZA and ehow, understand and act on that knowledge the sooner benefits can be realized.

Google is also as guilty as these other websites.

Having good content I think has been the best SEO you can do, but I do think that even with spun content you can still rank high in the SERPs

Thanks for the link. I should follow Google's blog more closely, but then a fellow Warrior usually keeps us updated.

Sounds like Google will be manually reviewing more sites if they expect to rank according to that list. That's not a bad idea in my view since I try to write decent content.

If you were pitching in person you would use your best pitch so why would you slack online?

Fantastic post - exactly what the quality trainers have been saying all along.

The "thread" that I see in the google post is one of "comfort" - would I be comfortable "doing this?"

If the answer is not - black hat, trick, spin, or some other knock-off - I answer No and actually feel better about my work. Doing it right always took longer with my Dad but - you know what - I was always proud of the results.

Take your time, build the list, do it right, earn respect and confidence of the reader - that following will be the true reward for all that work - and delivering quality products and services to them will enrich them and you.

Best of luck - great idea to post here - very helpful!

Cheers!

In reading through that list, I find every item to be so arbitrary that two people looking at the same article could determine two exactly different conclusions based on that list.

I wouldn't say that good content alone will get good search engine rankings for you, but I can assure you that it is a large part of it.

The latest "craze" of products that everyone is trying to push these days is any kind of software that will automate your work for you, especially content writing.

The sad truth is that marketers are really just playing on your desires to sell products that will never do any good.

A long time ago, I decided to stop trying to come up with a trick or a way to automate success and just dig in to do the work. Believe it or not, but that simple decision changed my life and I've been working online ever since.

You do need to know some SEO basics to get good rankings, but you don't need to know any special tricks. Build a site about a specific subject and load it with targeted pages of 100% unique content - then you will see the results that you've been after.

I regularly make new niche websites that are able to get into the top ten of Google within a couple of weeks of being created, which obviously leads to a lot of sales. My secret is that I do all of my work myself and will only put original content that I write on my sites.