google update revisted -The future has entered into us...

About a month has gone by since the last Google update.

Sites like http://www.forbes.com which used to be a PR7 are now a
PR4. Many of the large content driven sites have dropped to even PR0.
News sites were a prime target. Blogs were a prime target. But not
all.

1)We all know that sites that sell ads or sell PR have dropped, or
link to a bad neighborhood have dropped.
2)We all have herd that PR does not matter anymore (this is only
partially true).
3)However, many sites with no obvious violations have also fallen from
grace regarding google. (my blog from PR4 to PR0. www.claritaslux.com/blog
)
4)Blogs by their nature create duplicate content so unless Google
wants to penalize the whole wordpress community then I do not think
this is the case, unless I am doing something wrong that others are
not.
In concrete terms what is a blogging strategy going forward 1. Remove
excessive outgoing links? 2. Forget about blogging as a source or PR,
links or traffic? 3. None of the above.
5) Does anyone have any other ideas related to this last update or the
future of same site linking or external links in the eyes of google?

Mark
"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long
before it happens." -Rilke
www.claritaslux.com

<Markukasia (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote ...

2)We all have herd that PR does not matter anymore (this is only
partially true).

About 99%. A fairly big part.

3)However, many sites with no obvious violations have also fallen from
grace regarding google.

That's always been so; but there's a reason there somewhere, and it's a
'link' reason, if you are looking ar page rank, rather than more important
measures.

4)Blogs by their nature create duplicate content so unless Google
wants to penalize the whole wordpress community then I do not think
this is the case, unless I am doing something wrong that others are
not.

Not so. And if you are worried about page rank, then it's a 'link' issue.
NOT content.

1. Remove excessive outgoing links?

Don't link for the sake of linking; if you want links to count, don't
undermine them by linking to every cr*p site you can think of. It dilutes.

Ensure that visitor-contributed links are nofollow (OR check them all, OR be
prepared to take the obvious consequences)

2. Forget about blogging as a source or PR, links or traffic?

A quality blog can have link value (some, nothing get excited about), and
can have traffic value.
But that's a quality blog.
99.9999999% of blogs are pure, unadulterated cr*p, and, unsurprisingly,
Google has noticed. So most of them count for little (and a cr*p blog won't
send traffic, why would it?)

5) Does anyone have any other ideas related to this last update or the
future of same site linking or external links in the eyes of google?

Plenty of ideas. but the main one is this:

Google is getting more and more sophisticated; penalties are getting subtle,
so a cr*p site can be penalised without the cr*pper ever realising what's
occurring.

The key to success in Google, now more than ever before, is

A. Quality content
B. Quality links.

Quality trumps quantity, EVERY time.

Good Luck
--

Andrew
http://www.seo2seo.com/
http://www.sick-site-syndrome.com/
First things first - but not necessarily in that order.

The video that makes YouTube worthwhile:
Charlie The Unicorn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus

On Dec 1, 5:16 am, "Andrew Heenan" <andr... (AT) heenan (DOT) net> wrote:

The key to success in Google, now more than ever before, is

A. Quality content
B. Quality links.

Quality trumps quantity, EVERY time.

.... and the natural evolution of both ...

Charlie The Unicorn

.... cute, but I don't quite get it, unless Candy Mountain is a
metaphor for the back streets of New Delhi ...

--

Fred Joly

The nuts and bolts of the SEO machine and the various Internet
marketing characters considering themselves experts. Mostly a courtesy
of a beatened down turned-around search engine optimizer from way
back.

http://www.canadawilds.com/Canadian-...t-Service.html