Comments on: The Google Litmus Test http://www.revenews.com/search-engine-marketing/the-google-litmus-test/ Discussion of Online Marketing, SEM, Social Media, Mobile and Video, Micro-Content, and Affiliate Marketing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jimmy Daniels http://www.revenews.com/search-engine-marketing/the-google-litmus-test/#comment-11842 Jimmy Daniels Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:19:45 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/jimmydaniels/the-google-litmus-test/#comment-11842 Well, at least others are checking out some of the Mahalo spam, er content, as well, <a href="http://www.seobook.com/official-mahalo-com-spam-according-googles-internal-spam-documents" rel="nofollow">http://www.seobook.com/official-mahalo-com-spam-a...</a> and <a href="http://blog.derekville.net/2008/03/21/jason-calacanis-and-his-human-powered-spam/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.derekville.net/2008/03/21/jason-calac...</a> Jason is trying his best to difuse it by asking them how to make those pages better, etc, but, no matter what he does it will still be a site just like the ones he said was cluttering up the search engines, he even says that over time it will grow to be 50% original content. IF he paid people who were experts in their fields to write stuff for them, that might be a different story, but that would cost them too much money. Well, at least others are checking out some of the Mahalo spam, er content, as well, http://www.seobook.com/official-mahalo-com-spam-a… and http://blog.derekville.net/2008/03/21/jason-calac… Jason is trying his best to difuse it by asking them how to make those pages better, etc, but, no matter what he does it will still be a site just like the ones he said was cluttering up the search engines, he even says that over time it will grow to be 50% original content. IF he paid people who were experts in their fields to write stuff for them, that might be a different story, but that would cost them too much money.

]]> By: Scott Jangro http://www.revenews.com/search-engine-marketing/the-google-litmus-test/#comment-11522 Scott Jangro Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:41:39 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/jimmydaniels/the-google-litmus-test/#comment-11522 Jimmy, great post. It's as if you read my mind. I was having this exact conversation with someone yesterday morning. I've been observing the same thing about Mahalo's stub pages, how they seem to front-load them from big keyword lists for SEO purposes. There are about 10,000 in Google right now, many rank very well, and they've got very little content on them. But they do seem to have *some* content which may be saving them. Or perhaps they're just big enough to be exempt from being considered pollution with these stub pages. If it were me, I'd be concerned and would definitely have noindex/nofollow on them. But I'm not JC. Jimmy, great post.

It’s as if you read my mind. I was having this exact conversation with someone yesterday morning.

I’ve been observing the same thing about Mahalo’s stub pages, how they seem to front-load them from big keyword lists for SEO purposes. There are about 10,000 in Google right now, many rank very well, and they’ve got very little content on them. But they do seem to have *some* content which may be saving them.

Or perhaps they’re just big enough to be exempt from being considered pollution with these stub pages.

If it were me, I’d be concerned and would definitely have noindex/nofollow on them. But I’m not JC.

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