3 ms·

> I've created my own guidelines for now: no rewrites, no link-spam, no tricking the user, no link-bait. Perhaps I need more. Don't know. That's all I have so f

by Maxious 16y ago

> I've created my own guidelines for now: no rewrites, no link-spam, no tricking the user, no link-bait. Perhaps I need more. Don't know. That's all I have so far. Google Webmaster Guidelines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en... "We strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the 'Quality Guidelines,' which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. " http://www.whattofix.com/ http://www.whattofix.com/ looks a little dodgy through the eyes of a SEO link farm hunter when it links to http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ and http://neuropathyinfeet.us/ http://neuropathyinfeet.us/ and http://paycheck-stub.com/ http://paycheck-stub.com/ and http://facebook-login-help.com/ http://facebook-login-help.com/ What sets it apart is obviously those sites really DO provide original information on those topics. But the layout of something like http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com looks like http://www.spamrecipes.net/ http://www.spamrecipes.net/ which just copies other people's recipes and sticks a juicy ad block under them. It's hard to be honest in a world of scammers.

DanielBMarkham 16y ago
Thank you. I'll give them a look. The http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ site gets a lot of traffic, and a lot of it is return traffic. But, since recipes are fairly standard, it was very difficult not to in some way re-fashion what was already out there. When I was doing the research on the recipes site, I found a lot of what I consider spam -- sites full of recipes with the intention of tricking users into downloading spyware, buying SMS subscription services, and other such stuff. I felt like a simple, easy-to-read, targeted site based on just a few recipes people want might have value. It's not a general purpose recipe site, and the content is presented as simply and openly as possible. (And it was all entered by my wife) It's interesting that it would stand out as being dubious, as it seems to me to be the most straightforward trade of content for eyeballs of the sites I have. As an aside, it doesn't make much money, perhaps because nobody advertises about casseroles or cookbooks? Beats me. But I plan to keep it because of the positive response it gets, including people writing to ask for new recipes. I didn't have a problem listing my other sites on my blog, since, well, they are my other sites. It's not like I'm trying to keep them secret or anything. I appreciate the help.

by Maxious 16y ago

DanielBMarkham 16y ago

Thank you. I'll give them a look. The http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ site gets a lot of traffic, and a lot of it is return traffic. But, since recipes are fairly standard, it was very difficult not to in some way re-fashion what was already out there. When I was doing the research on the recipes site, I found a lot of what I consider spam -- sites full of recipes with the intention of tricking users into downloading spyware, buying SMS subscription services, and other such stuff. I felt like a simple, easy-to-read, targeted site based on just a few recipes people want might have value. It's not a general purpose recipe site, and the content is presented as simply and openly as possible. (And it was all entered by my wife) It's interesting that it would stand out as being dubious, as it seems to me to be the most straightforward trade of content for eyeballs of the sites I have. As an aside, it doesn't make much money, perhaps because nobody advertises about casseroles or cookbooks? Beats me. But I plan to keep it because of the positive response it gets, including people writing to ask for new recipes. I didn't have a problem listing my other sites on my blog, since, well, they are my other sites. It's not like I'm trying to keep them secret or anything. I appreciate the help.