Google Said “Pretty Big” Update – That Was An Understatement | Small business news; tips; networking

Posted by tomshark under Online Marketing
From http://www.capturecommerce.com 5013 days ago
Made Hot by: BusinessBloggerPro on March 5, 2011 8:22 pm

The shock and awe of this update came from sites that have dominated the search results for years, but now Google says they are low quality content farms. There are a number of questions that the Farmer update begs.

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Written by swssem
4994 days ago

I'd sure like to know how an algorithm determines what is high quality vs low quality content.

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Written by wdywft
5007 days ago

Glad I read this and glad that google made a change. A few weeks ago, I googled 'ringworm in dogs' (treatment, etc.) and the first few pages that showed up were full of advertisements and contained the same (non-specific) content. The 4th result or so came from an article directory containing lots of useless information... I googled the term again today and those 'shallow' sites that I remember did not show up on page one anymore. Good.

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Written by tomshark
5007 days ago

Exactly, most sites that are producing useful content got a rank boost because the "content farm" pages were knocked down - across the board.

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