Google Scammers Shutdown

CptSternn

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/thousands-of-websites-hamstrung-by-google-initiative-3103829.html

DIGITAL experts believe that thousands of Irish websites have had their effectiveness drastically reduced by Google's "Penguin" initiative -- an exercise in search engine house-keeping rolled out a week ago to hamstring websites in breach of the internet giant's strict quality guidelines.

Google released the "Penguin" update on April 27 -- but it is only now that affected companies are realising that their sites have been knocked all the way down the Google search ladder and are seeing levels of hits and responses flatline.

I love it when this happens, as I usually end up with a nice chunk of work.

There are many ways to increase your Google ranks (where your site comes back in search results), but only TWO are accepted by Google - good coding and incoming traffic from valid sites.

There are dozens of other ways to skirt the system and dozens of companies that for a small fee will do it for you. Every few years though they come in and find people who are abusing the system and knock their website search results down to like the 10,000th page search results, as well they should.

Anyone who has recently paid someone to increase their Google rank should do a search today as many website owners across Ireland have just gotten a wake up call.

Cianos

What was Penguin targeting specifically?

Eoin

Who was scamming who again?

CptSternn

http://www.geekrevealed.com/2012/05/google-penguin-update-and-recovery-tips.html

Some of the reasons that Penguin has affected your site can be:

Excessive Keyword Density.
Duplicate Content (Internal)
Duplicate Content (External)
Using malware or harmful codes in the WebPages.
Sending automated queries to Google.
Affiliate Links along with low value content.
Thin Content
Using Hidden text or links on WebPages.
Bad Out Bound Links

It automatically pushes webpages who use these techniques down in the ranks. It was designed to keep people from putting their thumb on the scale of Google ranks.

jmcc

Clueless pseudo-technology journalism. Google has f*cked up its algorithm by its pea-brained "wikipedia with a shopping cart" definition of "quality" websites. Bing is now gaining as a result.

"There are around 176,000 websites on the "ie" domain and an estimated half a million more using the "dot com" domain."
There are about 179K .ie domains and not all of them have active websites. As for .com - it hasn't been around a half million domains for well over a decade. In fact on 01 May 2012, it was over 102 Million domains.


Regards...jmcc

cormee

jmcc wrote: »

"There are around 176,000 websites on the "ie" domain and an estimated half a million more using the "dot com" domain."
There are about 179K .ie domains and not all of them have active websites. As for .com - it hasn't been around a half million domains for well over a decade. In fact on 01 May 2012, it was over 102 Million domains.

Does that 'half a million' not refer to Irish sites using a .com? That's what I took from it.

jmcc

cormee wrote: »

Does that 'half a million' not refer to Irish sites using a .com? That's what I took from it.

If it is then it is wrong. Most technology journalists and many web developers/SEO/SEM people have no real idea of how domain names are used. That figure for Irish gTLD sites (if it is half a million) is wide of the mark. Over the last few years, many Irish domains have moved to Irish webhosting but the non-Irish hosted percentage could be between 10 and 17% (typical mature market percentages).

The webscape of any country is going to cluster on the .com/.ccTLD axis and this will account for over 80% of the registrations. There will be a significant level of duplication with people registering their .ie and the equivalent .com (and net/org/biz/info/eu).

The active webscape of any country is going to be smaller than the number of registered domains because not all domains are developed into websites and many drop without ever being used.

The 01 May 2012 counts for Irish hosted domains were:
.com 155157
.net 15131
.org 9100
.biz 2864
.info 3195
.mobi 1125
.asia 85
.us 347
.eu 8946 (tracked)
.co.uk 17118 (tracked)
.de 173 (tracked)
.es 412 (tracked)
.fr 102 (tracked)
.co 729 (tracked)

Regards...jmcc