Another Google Panda Victim

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  1. Mutiny92 profile image65
    Mutiny92posted 12 years ago

    A nice piece from NPR:

    http://www.npr.org/2011/05/03/135809341 … ny-at-risk

    What do you think?

  2. Pearldiver profile image66
    Pearldiverposted 12 years ago

    Well OF COURSE it puts potential competitors at risk!
    THAT is the Pre-Emptive Strategy.. Why Do we sell ourselves to those that have such a Dominant Goal? hmm

  3. Qualitynoob profile image59
    Qualitynoobposted 12 years ago

    Oh

  4. sabrebIade profile image81
    sabrebIadeposted 12 years ago

    It's quality huh?
    Do a search for
    "Lots of websites churn out thousands of low-quality articles for the online ad revenue. Google's not too happy about these so-called content farms showing up in your search results, so recently it struck back."

    You'll get this exact same story scraped by about 19 sites.

    I'm sorry, I don't guess it's called "scraped content"  when news sites do it is it?

    Also, I didn't see the NPR article in the top twenty.
    So who did they scrape it from?

    1. Peter Hoggan profile image69
      Peter Hogganposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Here is an article that precedes the one linked to in the OP. I am not saying NPR scraped it but it did appear earlier and was written by my son. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of nepotism in my book.

      http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/04/seo-and-panda/

      1. sabrebIade profile image81
        sabrebIadeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        Your son wrote that?
        Very cool.
        I guess since I have filed over 300 DMCAs since Panda, I'm a bit overzealous about articles....LOL

  5. Qualitynoob profile image59
    Qualitynoobposted 12 years ago

    What

  6. Mutiny92 profile image65
    Mutiny92posted 12 years ago

    Wow. I did not even think of checking that sabre!  Nice detective work!

  7. Lisa HW profile image63
    Lisa HWposted 12 years ago

    I was looking local furniture stores recently, and it looks like pretty much all/most of them do that.  They generally sell the same stuff from the same manufacturers.  Lots of companies do the same kind of thing. When you're searching for something reasonably local you don't want to find "Fred's Furniture's" name and address, and then have to look up descriptions from somewhere else.  Personally, I don't particularly want the descriptions written by someone like "Fred's" sister-in-law as opposed to someone more experienced at a larger company. I don't mind if the same chair, with the same description, shows up on six different company's site because - for goodsake sake! - it's the same freaking chair (which means it's pretty standard that it's going have the same description).  roll)

    1. Qualitynoob profile image59
      Qualitynoobposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      HUH? your kidding

  8. Michael Willis profile image66
    Michael Willisposted 12 years ago

    Google now has the power to Sell Page Rank on the Web.
    Buy now to get Top Page Rank!!!

    Nothing is Free! Google is joining in the Corporate way of doing business.

    http://s2.hubimg.com/u/4999269_f248.jpg

    1. Qualitynoob profile image59
      Qualitynoobposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Ouch... Can you say Bing

      1. Michael Willis profile image66
        Michael Willisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        Bing!!! While Google says, Ka-Ching!

      2. Cheeky Girl profile image66
        Cheeky Girlposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        Google are to be taken to the European Courts over this practice as it is illegal in the EU. It discriminates against thousands of other businesses, and can potentially cost them millions of dollars. Many firms are also taking class actions against Google over their white lists, which have Rupert Murdoch and AOL on them, thus giving them a "get out of jail" card when it comes to search engine "infractions". And lumping all so-called content farms together is a mistake. Some are better than others.

        1. Pearldiver profile image66
          Pearldiverposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          That's correct.

          That is what I was referring to re Anti-Trust Statutes that BIND EVERY US Business.. It is effectively to remove any single entity's ability to create and operate a monopoly!  Google get kicked on this on a regular basis... that is their vulnerability!

  9. naturalpainrelief profile image60
    naturalpainreliefposted 12 years ago

    Kind of scary how much power Google has in that it can literally kill a business with one update to its algorithms.

    1. Michael Willis profile image66
      Michael Willisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Corporate America Business Model. Crush the Competition or Buy Your place in the Business.

    2. SandyMcCollum profile image61
      SandyMcCollumposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Not just kill a business with a simple change, but it killed a whole arm of it's own income. When a company is so rich it can kill millions of $$ of it's own income, that's when they make too much money and should be stopped. Just mho.

      1. Michael Willis profile image66
        Michael Willisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        That is the sad part. Rich enough to lose money to make more money later.  I look for the internet to change now to page rank being nothing more than buying an Advertisement placement. Buy it or lose it.

  10. Pearldiver profile image66
    Pearldiverposted 12 years ago

    Well ultimately Google are constrained in the Anti-Trust Laws and are NOT as big as they think they are in countries outside of the States! Their policies are ONLY relevant if they are able to drive them.. with the acceptance of people like us who they manipulate to achieve the very dollars that they sell OUR Work for!

    Support their competitors and tell the world who they really are... or be apathetic and stop complaining!

    Every writer has the ability to influence the masses, but Google PUNT on the fact that they WON'T because they rely on the Short Payment program that they feel they need... Why? hmm

    1. Michael Willis profile image66
      Michael Willisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I have and will continue to use Yahoo or Bing for my search results. I find them easier and more related results than Google.

      1. Pearldiver profile image66
        Pearldiverposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        Yep... I agree!

        However, I also suggest that you manually load your URLs with them, to gain a positive result!

        1. Michael Willis profile image66
          Michael Willisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Oh, I do! Bing may show them pretty quick, but Yahoo takes 6-8 weeks a lot of the time to show up in searches. And they do say that on their submission page. But, that is ok for most hubs.
          AOL just doesn't do it for me with results.

        2. Alhamora profile image54
          Alhamoraposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          How do you do that, manual submission of hubs to bing and yahoo?

          1. Pearldiver profile image66
            Pearldiverposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            PM me and I will send you a list of links smile

          2. manthy profile image61
            manthyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            you do them manually

  11. SunSeven profile image61
    SunSevenposted 12 years ago

    When in doubt, gahooyoogle it smile

  12. Stacie L profile image88
    Stacie Lposted 12 years ago

    Google has copied Ebay's way of doing business.
    let the small time user get them traffic, make the company rich and then zing them with new fees,rules and competition.

  13. Pearldiver profile image66
    Pearldiverposted 12 years ago

    I don't mind catering for the Small Time User market... over time I will convert them into LOYAL Big Time Users and tell companies like that to FuNuck Off! big_smile

  14. manthy profile image61
    manthyposted 12 years ago

    Well it ain't like google is God of the internet.
    If you keep writing quality hubs, you will rank well with any search engine.
    Also use our other tools for income.
    Ebay
    Amazon
    Hub-Pages
    Thanks for sharing the PANDA with us I was not aware of it at all

  15. profile image54
    whatbizoppposted 12 years ago

    very interesting but Google Panda has definitely had a knock on effect, far bigger companies have had a worse effect whose businesses are solely based on the internet........

 
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