Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'content'

Would Your Website Pass a Google Review?

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...

How Google Views Four Ways Of Hiding Content

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...

YouTube Adds Crazy APIs for Developers: Great Opportunity for SEOs

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...

What is the SEO Impact of Changing a Site Often?

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...

How Google May Treat Boilerplate Content

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...

Got Beef With Google's Content Removal Solutions?

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...

Google Ranking Domains with Keywords in Them Higher?

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...

Can Stale Content Hurt a Site's Current Search Rankings?

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...

I Steal Wikipedia Content And Get Away With It!

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...

How Can Your Readers Help Protect You from Made For AdSense Sites

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...

Google Should Add a Report Stolen Content Form in AdSense Console

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...

Is There Any Benefit to Long Term Directory Links?

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...

Does Rotating Content Hurt Your Search Engine Rankings?

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...

Is Too Much Content A Bad Thing For SEO & Search Rankings?

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...


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