Of interest to SEO gurus

[Tom Finley]

An article about Google's staff choosing search results

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/googlewashing_revisited/

[Karen Mac]

Re: Of interest to SEO gurus

yeah... Im not surprised because of the ability to report sites. Webmasters can report each other.. so it stands to reason that somebody looks at these sites and determines rather or not they are in breach of ethics codes or not..IE:spamming etc.

However, they cannot possibly look at ALL sites and rank them or not, what does happen is that a site ranked highly is pulled from the results if found to be guilty of black hat techniques. Now does dishonesty happen and they leave some? Im sure they do.

Karen

[Vasili]

Re: Of interest to SEO gurus

Stands to reason that since Page Rank, Key Words and other areas of myopic focus within reach of webbies worldwide has been definitively 'de-valued' as a result of the grand scheme of blending favoritism and preference toward their advertising 'Partners' that they finally admit their "suggested search" is nothing more than a scheme rather than the pure 'trend' is was purported to be.

Google has reverted to the very core metric values for auto-evaluation (especially overall site relevance in relation to Perfect Page builds) so to best report and cache the 'Noteworthy' from the 'Noise.'

Content is still King, and building a better website still makes a difference after all. Web on, World!