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Over optimization penalty on the way

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AlanMosley last edited by

Matt Cutts has just anouced that they are bringing in a penalty for over optimized sites, to try and reward good content.

http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%e2%80%99s-working-on-an-%e2%80%9cover-optimization%e2%80%9d-penalty-for-that-115627?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main
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Vahe.Arabian last edited by

It's there larger effort towards updating their algorithm based on sematic search - http://searchengineland.com/wsj-says-big-google-search-changes-coming-reality-check-time-115227

Next gen of search will arrive within a year.
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Kotkov last edited by

I'm happy to hear news like that. Hope it will clean up serps a little bit.
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AlanMosley @EGOL last edited by

I see it as good news, i am not one for overdoing it.

i believe in not making any mistakes rather then trying to game the SE.

Good content, clean easy to crawl fast loading pages.
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EGOL last edited by

Thanks. I was reading about that.

If I was the boss at Google I would put my engineers on....

- ranking small specialty sites with superior content above the huge authority sites with skimpy content

- killing scraper and spinner sites that are using the content of others to make money
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