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2 years ago
in Is he milking the cow too hard ? on John Cow dot COM
Good for JC, everyone does the same thing ranging from Paris Hilton to Donald Trump to keep perpetuating whatever sells their image or whatever works to make them even more money.
Great parody site, with actual insightful commentary.
Great parody site, with actual insightful commentary.
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Susan
Thanks Billy and I agree people do what it takes. Glad you like the site keep coming back :)
2 years ago
in Google Selective Page Filtering & Web Spam – Payola $180 Gift on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Long post, but managed to finish reading it. On the terms of categorizing Volusion into different categories, I think it is correct for search engines to accept one copy and place the other categories into supplemental since it is exactly the same page with only one article.
What's more fascinating in regards to your study is if you think Google did a manual removal of your reviews after you had reported them as paid for reviews. If Google does not have a true algorithm in place to handle these paid link reports, they will take forever and spend too much unnecessary resources to fight paid links.
What's more fascinating in regards to your study is if you think Google did a manual removal of your reviews after you had reported them as paid for reviews. If Google does not have a true algorithm in place to handle these paid link reports, they will take forever and spend too much unnecessary resources to fight paid links.
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Andy Beard
I agree it was a long post, and it was also lacking in images to break up the flow. It is quite technical as well and it took a lot of words to explain my reasoning.
Sometimes it can't be helped if you want to portray the full arguments, and I also find that providing detailed posts makes the comments much more interesting as well.
I would be quite happy if Google decided that a lot of my duplicate content pages should hit the supplemental results.
If someone searched for "Volusion Shopping Cart Review" they might show the supplemental page rather than a "Volusion Review" page.
Supplemental results are meant to be because of lack of pagerank, duplicate content typically has lower pagerank, because it doesn't have links.
I think it might have been a manual or semi-automated removal "sight unseen" - they didn't really look at the value of the page.
A real algorithm would have also picked up my volusion tag page which is still indexed.
I can't see a reason that the original page was kicked out, but the volusion tag remains other than a mistake in a manual review.
Also of note, Google have said that they woouldn't be penalising the content that has the links, but devaluing the links on the page. They are not meant to be kicking my content out of the serps.
This is easpecially true because less than 1% of my original content is paid reviews. Hell I don't even use text-link-ads, and my affiliate links are mainly nofollowed, though on some I have been a little careless.
Sometimes it can't be helped if you want to portray the full arguments, and I also find that providing detailed posts makes the comments much more interesting as well.
I would be quite happy if Google decided that a lot of my duplicate content pages should hit the supplemental results.
If someone searched for "Volusion Shopping Cart Review" they might show the supplemental page rather than a "Volusion Review" page.
Supplemental results are meant to be because of lack of pagerank, duplicate content typically has lower pagerank, because it doesn't have links.
I think it might have been a manual or semi-automated removal "sight unseen" - they didn't really look at the value of the page.
A real algorithm would have also picked up my volusion tag page which is still indexed.
I can't see a reason that the original page was kicked out, but the volusion tag remains other than a mistake in a manual review.
Also of note, Google have said that they woouldn't be penalising the content that has the links, but devaluing the links on the page. They are not meant to be kicking my content out of the serps.
This is easpecially true because less than 1% of my original content is paid reviews. Hell I don't even use text-link-ads, and my affiliate links are mainly nofollowed, though on some I have been a little careless.
2 years ago
in 2007/06/19/social-networking-firefox/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Nice comprehensive list. Some are well known and don't need much introduction, but I am not too familiar with Kaboodle, Fleck, and Ratepoint. Going to give them a try to see if they are really good enough to be on the same page as Digg and Wikipedia.
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James Mowery
Rock on :)
