Uh Oh.....

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/...-sites-in.html

I recommend everyone get a custom RSS feeder and plug it in before this hits Europe.

[TheCanadianGambler]

That's great news for quality sites that don't steal/copy/spin content.

The people that work the hardest will benefit the most, I don't see anything wrong with that at all.

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

I agree - I am an SEO - but this is an Affiliate forum.

[shortow]

That's great news for quality sites that don't steal/copy/spin content.

The people that work the hardest will benefit the most, I don't see anything wrong with that at all.

Couldn't agree more. Also happy to see rubbish/dup articles in Ezinesarticles, Articlesbase etc that used to rank so well buried in the serps.

Gary, why the need for a custom RSS feeder? Isn't the important thing here having quality, original content and not necessarily who you syndicate it to?

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

Depends on thr route you choose to take.

As an ex Affiliate the paychecks come from saturation - not syndication - and not original content.

I'll take 500 sites and a dozen hits each before I spend days populating one site with original content.

We can't all be Craigs List.

My advice is based on what the masses will do - not how the best way to do it is.

I've already given that advice countless times here.

[CoopersPick]

Google is out to help out the guys who produce new and original content and bring value to the internet. They have been all over the news lately between head butting Overstock.com and slapping JC penny for their black hate tactics. All in all if you dont bring value to the web you shouldnt be able to profit for too long from it in my opinion.

[craig96]

Thanks for the article. I have read it somewhere else but I am unsure.

You must be real lazy to get someone else's content and use it on your own site and then try to rank higher than the original site. Fair enough if you want to be black hat but there are right and wrong ways about going about it.

I am not saying I do this as I do actually enjoy taking part in this forum and reading other peoples posts but I reckon that forum posts should be a bigger factor in SEO personally.

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

All in all if you dont bring value to the web you shouldnt be able to profit for too long from it in my opinion.

I wish it were that easy. But we have road laws that are broken every day and they come with big fines - and the lawbreakers know the repercussions...but they still do it.

Unfortunately road ragers and black hatters will always be a fact of life. As soon as google changes something to filter BH and scraper sites, they figure out a new way to game them.....

Just like speeding between road cameras and rolling stops

[dhayman]

Depends on thr route you choose to take.

As an ex Affiliate the paychecks come from saturation - not syndication - and not original content.

I'll take 500 sites and a dozen hits each before I spend days populating one site with original content.

We can't all be Craigs List.

My advice is based on what the masses will do - not how the best way to do it is.

I've already given that advice countless times here.

From an affiliate perspective, I couldn't agree with you more..............

[best.hands]

The content farm update by Google is not robust enough to insure what's being aimed, "quality contents on serps". In fact, some notable observers noticed the update made the doorway pages rank high on serps. Jezz.. Moreover, since the update is not intelligent enough to handle the filter of copycat contents, some SEO experts speculate that google employ white-listing of sites to back it up, which is handled manually by their in-house team. This explains why some of those 'quality' sites affected by the farm update got back their rankings.