Re:How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
by ErrantX on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @05:24AM
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I disagree; Google should have strong rules to filter out crap and give me great search results.
In this case we have something of an edge case; the site is useful, but the auto-generated pages cause potential problems for search results.
If you were talking about how Google communicates these issues, or how it goes about resolving these edge cases, then I'd be agreeing. Much to be improved.
But getting rid of the potential issue.. thumbs up.
Re:How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
by mapgrep on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @04:44PM
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Of course it should. But a rule that says you're banned because you're too open with search engines is insane. robots.txt should have nothing to do with it.
In this case we have something of an edge case; the site is useful, but the auto-generated pages cause potential problems for search results.
If you were talking about how Google communicates these issues, or how it goes about resolving these edge cases, then I'd be agreeing. Much to be improved.
But getting rid of the potential issue.. thumbs up.