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Can someone try to track down those two sites he shows screenshots of and figure out what they are both doing to figure out what this new signal or change is?

• AznHisoka 15y ago
  1st site is doing keyword stuffing. The 2nd is producing spinned content. I imagine the new algorithm is improving the way they determine whether content is automatically generated, or written by a real human, or even written well.
  • davemel37 15y ago
    Both those examples are things google noticed and penalized a decade ago. I took this as examples of sites that are being penalized, but examples of other less subtle versions of webspam to illustrate his point... My guess is this new update is irrelevant to those examples other than the two sites those screenshots are from will both be hit. I think this is a puzzle to solve. Figuring which sites those two are and running them through an seo platform to see what they are both doing that is grey area.
    • AznHisoka 15y ago
      Why run thru a platform? Isn't it obvious just by seeing them?
      • davemel37 15y ago
        I would assume anything obvious to the eye would have been detected by previous algorithms and updates. Matt Cutts is implying there is a NEW update that both those sites will get hit from.
  • davemel37 15y ago
    LDA has been used for a while. How much better can that get? It definitely isn't new. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/lda-and-googles-rankings-well-correlated http://www.seomoz.org/blog/lda-and-googles-rankings-well-cor...