Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'content'

Aaron Wall wrote a very good piece on whether your website will pass a Google review and says that human reviews can potentially bring your site down. He mentions tactics you should use to avoid such reviews, including building quality...

Posted on May 1, 2008 9:45 AM

I would consider this Google Groups thread a "gem thread," since you don't always see a thread at this level - it is precious. A Googler, Wysz, discussed in detail four methods of hiding content and how Google may interpret...

Posted on April 25, 2008 7:53 AM

I am not sure why there isn't more discussion around this topic, but yesterday Google's YouTube announced new APIs to allow you to add YouTube's features, content and more to your own site. So let's say you wanted to create...

Posted on March 12, 2008 8:37 AM

Is changing content often good from a search perspective? This question is discussed at WebmasterWorld and a lot of good information is dispensed. First of all, "changing" content should be considered carefully. It could potentially hurt your rankings, according to...

Posted on February 20, 2008 9:39 AM

Bill Slawski's Google Omits Needless Words (On Your Pages?) at SEO By The Sea has Google texts, patents and patent applications that discuss how Google may handle boilerplate content. Boilerplate content on a web page might be content that is...

Posted on February 19, 2008 7:44 AM

There are many many ways to remove content from Google. We have discussed this topic over and over again. In fact, here are those articles: A New Way To Remove Content in Google.com via Google Webmaster Central Removing A Page...

Posted on January 4, 2008 7:18 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is speculating that Google has recently shown more interest in ranking domain names that have keywords that match the searcher's query. One member explained: This could just be a regional thing, but G.ie seems to be giving...

Posted on December 14, 2007 8:03 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has Labnol asking, "Can rankings vanish because a site is not updated?" If you do not update a site's content, can it set off a red flag at Google or another search engine and have the site...

Posted on December 12, 2007 7:27 AM

If Wikipedia content wasn't so full of holes and easy to steal then less might people might be doing this. One member on Webmasterworld explains how he steals Wikipedia content and uses it on his page. You'd think such behavior...

Posted on September 13, 2007 11:25 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has an interesting discussion where a publisher of content that supports his specialty product is noticing his content is being used on sites with Google AdSense ads. He explains: The thing is, lately there...

Posted on August 27, 2007 6:58 AM

Yesterday, I went off on the Daily SearchCast about how Google AdSense makes it incredibly hard to report stolen content. You and I see it every day. Some "evil" AdSense publishers scrape and steal your content, mix and match it...

Posted on August 3, 2007 7:31 AM

Let's say that when you first built your site, you relied heavily on directories to get your name out. You've also built good content and get linked to every so often. You're now complacent with your rankings primarily because you're...

Posted on July 19, 2007 9:43 AM

A featured WebmasterWorld thread asks a good question, does rotating the content on a page hurt your search rankings. You need to break this question down into how much content is being rotated in and out. If the whole page...

Posted on May 11, 2007 7:53 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread comments on a V7N Blog post named Excess pages polluting your website? In short, John Scott of V7N, explained how he decided about a month ago to remove a large number of pages from his site...

Posted on April 23, 2007 7:03 AM