News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Published: Sep 09, 2007 - 09:20 am
Story Found By: teeceo 1720 Days ago
Category: SEM
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News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Published: Sep 09, 2007 - 09:20 am
Story Found By: teeceo 1720 Days ago
Category: SEM
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Aaron is on a roll.
yea mon, he is on fire.
Scary stuff. I really WANT to be able to play nice with Google and other SE’s, but it’s getting damnably hard to do. I’ve encountered virtually every single item on that list at some point in the past 10 years. But what can we do, other than cry about it? In an ideal world - webmasters and seo’s across the globe would drop Google like a hot potato - all at the same time. Guaranteed to get Googles attention. But in the real world - that’s not gonna happen, and Google knows it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Aaron’s been on a roll for 4 years!
An excellent article. The phrase "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" could just as easily be applied to Google.
On link data, I find it hard to fault them for saying you can have it if you log into webmaster central. I understand Aaron’s concern that some sites don’t want to register. But from a search engine perspective, link: command was used by practically no searchers and is a processor intensive activity. However, what is annoying is that unlike with Yahoo, you cannot run a link: command for ANY site but only your own. Google made much todo about having a link: command when it launched (and still talks about it in help files), so I’d like to see that open up so you can check any site. On supplementals, I wish we’d get these tools back without having to know the latest weird query that provides a list. But you know, I just did Meet The Crawlers at SES. I asked each of the major search engines who was running a tiered index system (IE, main index versus supplementals). They all are. Only Google let you know where your pages were. So they’re taking tons of hassle over dropping that label yet none of the others provided it at all. How about saying that Google and the others should all provide tools to help you measure your status in their indexes -- a health check that any site owner can do. Several of the things Aaron lists aren’t really "tools" that were taken -- I mean, "organic linking patterns" is a tool that was stolen? But I think his concerns that tools and control and insight has been removed. For me, this was the most powerful part: "The site of mine that they hand edited had about 95% of its links cleanly built by me, with the other 5% coming before I bought the site. Because it was my site they wiped away ALL of its link equity via a hand edit (simply because I bought a site that had some link equity)." Yes, the idea that a site gets put on the outs with Google without the site owner knowing the reason why or being able to appeal is a concern. That said, they’ve also done the opposite in providing for some sites those penalty checks and messages.