June 2011
relevant search results, and also sites that publish useful, Google’s for businesses and organizations high-quality content; especially already provide original content. Farmer Update: that high-quality, useful content on URL Blocking Why Great Web their sites. Google is getting serious about Knocking Out Content Content rewarding websites that publish Farms top-quality content, and the Matters Farmer update was just one of
Source: www.fivesparrows.com
Content farms are typically defined as websites with very little original content, or sites
By now you’ve probably heard of Google’s latest update to its search algorithm (referred to as the “Farmer” update or the “Panda” update) that was intended to knock low-quality “content farms” out that contain mostly “shallow, of the top search rankings. low-quality” content. This includes certain types of content Apparently, the update was writing services, article successful in removing a directories, and the websites number of annoying, and e-newsletters that low-quality content farm re-publish this type of websites from popping up at the pre-canned content. This top of the Google search results content is now being flagged in pages. This is great news for Google, so it can be dropped in users who want better, more the search results in favor of
the recent initiatives Google has implemented toward that goal. Last week, Google also added a new feature that lets users actually block websites that they do not want included in their search results, called URL Blocking. To use URL Blocking, a user must be logged into his or her Google account, and then perform a search.
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