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Looking through this list of larger sites that dropped, I see one that is similar to the sites I'm talking about, so more people might be able to say what happe

by zone411 16y ago

Looking through this list of larger sites that dropped, I see one that is similar to the sites I'm talking about, so more people might be able to say what happened: findarticles.com. I have no relation to this site (it is actually a competitor), but I believe the vast majority of its content is licensed versions of articles published by real books, magazines, and newspapers (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/an_1/?browse=A&tag=content;col1 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/an_1/?browse=A&tag=co...). It seems to have dropped just as much as content mills with low quality articles, such as ezinearticles.com or articlesbase.com. It is possible that I don't know something about findarticles, but this makes it appear like this algorithm change is looking at some superficial common factors and is unable to really distinguish high quality sites from low quality sites.

jonknee 16y ago
> licensed versions of articles published by real books, magazines, and newspapers That makes it sound like Find Articles is quite likely to have a lot of duplicate content, one of the things that Google's update was meant to penalize: > This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.
- zone411 16y ago
  Maybe, but this quote talks about punishing sites copying content from other websites, which is not what they are doing. Most newspaper sites will have the same versions of AP or Reuters articles as well, but this new algorithm didn't affect them. I believe that many older newspaper articles on their site are not republished anywhere else on the Web.
  - bricestacey 16y ago
    > I believe that many older newspaper articles on their site are not republished anywhere else on the Web. I'd hope those particular articles should surface then. Their other content though is of low value.

by zone411 16y ago

jonknee 16y ago

> licensed versions of articles published by real books, magazines, and newspapers That makes it sound like Find Articles is quite likely to have a lot of duplicate content, one of the things that Google's update was meant to penalize: > This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.

zone411 16y ago
Maybe, but this quote talks about punishing sites copying content from other websites, which is not what they are doing. Most newspaper sites will have the same versions of AP or Reuters articles as well, but this new algorithm didn't affect them. I believe that many older newspaper articles on their site are not republished anywhere else on the Web.
- bricestacey 16y ago
  > I believe that many older newspaper articles on their site are not republished anywhere else on the Web. I'd hope those particular articles should surface then. Their other content though is of low value.