Google To Target Overly SEO'ed Websites

[xpl0iter]

Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced as a side note during his panel at SXSW that Google is releasing an algorithm update specifically to target sites over doing their SEO

Read the entire news here: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-over-seo-update-14887.html

In my opinion this is a good thing to do. People come to websites to read/experience content, not to see the SEO.

 

[flame]

i must admit with my forums i have never got into SEO - and yet managed to get some good results just from content including 10 seconds in the number one position when amy whinehouse died as one of my members was first as a thread title with what became a common search phrase (incidentally this is not the dream scenario you think it is - a host server that is used to your site having 40 people a minute does not respond well to a couple of hundred a second)

i think if you have good content and are active you will climb search engines naturally and dont have to worry about changes to the algorithms too much

 

[Martee]

A good move by Google, I know several people who are way too focused on SEO and go overboard tying to optimize, it is really annoying, lol. Does make sense though, more focused SEO sounds like a good idea.

 

[Sam1]

Read the entire news here: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-over-seo-update-14887.html

In my opinion this is a good thing to do. People come to websites to read/experience content, not to see the SEO.

Well considering this site really isn't "overly seo'd" it won't affect it, nor will it affect anything I do. I've never been huge on spending hours on SEO, as you have said- websites are for people not bots.

 

[Shole]

SEO is important but its not everything..though with this my site won't be so much affected

 

[Nomad]

If your content has more than 5 percetprimary and secondary keywords, that would be considered keyword stuffing and it is a bad practice. For a content to rank well, it should be readable for humans as well.

 

[Timgab]

Smart move, some site are using this seo of a thing to play some silly jokes. I noticed it when I search an item I wanted purchase and to my surprise a newly spam site ranked in the top result.

 

[Kane]

Google frequently releases updates that brings down a lot of low quality websites and websites with black hat SEO. It is not a new thing. Google search algorithm updates only targets websites that do not have valuable content.