Re:Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetW...
by adventured on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:16PM
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> It’s quite similar to other feedback I’ve gotten, from volunteers on Google’s webmaster forums.
Then why haven't you corrected the thin content problem? Your site is drowning in content farm structures and thin content.
> My site is the only site on the web with legitimate definitions of slang terms and citations of their use and other data.
What you're saying has nothing to do with the problem. Your pages do not have enough original content on them, they're suffering from an extreme shallow content penalty. If only 5-10% of the words on your pages are original, quality content and the rest is content farm structured words, you are going to get massively penalized for that.
> Almost every definition has been hand-edited by me. The citations are all blacked out. I don’t understand your saying that my site is a content farm.
I'm saying that Google has judged it to be a content farm based on how they rank content and how they look for mass repeating structures on a site's pages vs how much high quality original content is on each page. This isn't complex SEO, this is very, very simple to diagnose. I wasn't joking when I said it took all of 30 seconds to figure out the problem with your site.
If all you have on a given page is 30 to 50 words of original text (text you wrote by hand so to speak), you will not rank, you will not get much traffic. That's SEO 101. Most of your topic page layout consists of repeating structures, such as: the header, the footer, the map, share / tweet / email section, related words, how common is this slang, how vulgar is this slang, link to this slang. That's all of zero or negative value.
One more time: ~95% of your page structure is of zero value for SEO purposes, and the only value on the pages is a few dozen words of original text. It's not enough; it's not even remotely close to being enough. That needs to be hundreds of words ideally, at a minimum.
> But fundamentally it boils down to: a Google employee looked it up and told me that there’s a manual penalty against my site.
That's very clearly not the problem with your site. It's the extremely shallow/thin content stacked against the repeating content farm structures on every page.
Then why haven't you corrected the thin content problem? Your site is drowning in content farm structures and thin content.
> My site is the only site on the web with legitimate definitions of slang terms and citations of their use and other data.
What you're saying has nothing to do with the problem. Your pages do not have enough original content on them, they're suffering from an extreme shallow content penalty. If only 5-10% of the words on your pages are original, quality content and the rest is content farm structured words, you are going to get massively penalized for that.
> Almost every definition has been hand-edited by me. The citations are all blacked out. I don’t understand your saying that my site is a content farm.
I'm saying that Google has judged it to be a content farm based on how they rank content and how they look for mass repeating structures on a site's pages vs how much high quality original content is on each page. This isn't complex SEO, this is very, very simple to diagnose. I wasn't joking when I said it took all of 30 seconds to figure out the problem with your site.
If all you have on a given page is 30 to 50 words of original text (text you wrote by hand so to speak), you will not rank, you will not get much traffic. That's SEO 101. Most of your topic page layout consists of repeating structures, such as: the header, the footer, the map, share / tweet / email section, related words, how common is this slang, how vulgar is this slang, link to this slang. That's all of zero or negative value.
One more time: ~95% of your page structure is of zero value for SEO purposes, and the only value on the pages is a few dozen words of original text. It's not enough; it's not even remotely close to being enough. That needs to be hundreds of words ideally, at a minimum.
> But fundamentally it boils down to: a Google employee looked it up and told me that there’s a manual penalty against my site.
That's very clearly not the problem with your site. It's the extremely shallow/thin content stacked against the repeating content farm structures on every page.