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I think you're misinterpreting what the OP means when he says that quote. The way I read it, the OP was not saying that his AdSense payments would increase bec

I think you're misinterpreting what the OP means when he says that quote. The way I read it, the OP was not saying that his AdSense payments would increase because he got higher bids for the ads due to higher quality content, but rather that as Google started to recognize that it was quality content, the PageRank of his site would go up, display it more prominently and generating more views and uniques. I could be mistaken, but that interpretation seems to make a fair amount of logical sense.

AlexMuir 14y ago
Yeah that was my meaning. Adsense income once you're in a certain vertical (car repairs in my case) is just a factor of traffic. Traffic comes from Google Pagerank for this sort of site. So to be clearer, I'm hoping that Google's algorithms decide this is quality content and give me a bit of a boost - at least that was my understanding of the Panda update (admittedly ages ago).
lukevdp 14y ago
PageRank is based on links, not on content. His PageRank will only go up if he gets more inbound links to the site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
- geon 14y ago
  I think the point was that Google spend a lot of effort to identify quality content vs. link farms, auto-generated content and low quality adsense-optimized content.
  - lukevdp 14y ago
    yes, but PageRank is a specific term with a specific meaning. It is a rank based on the number and quality of links to your site. To say that PageRank will increase because the content is good quality is wrong, and I was just pointing that out. What he meant to say was "... the search engine rankings of his site would go up..."
    - jessepollak 14y ago
      You're right, I misspoke when I said PageRank. The gist was the some though: higher quality content -> better search rankings (either through links due to higher quality content or google's non-PageRank algorithms).

AlexMuir 14y ago

Yeah that was my meaning. Adsense income once you're in a certain vertical (car repairs in my case) is just a factor of traffic. Traffic comes from Google Pagerank for this sort of site. So to be clearer, I'm hoping that Google's algorithms decide this is quality content and give me a bit of a boost - at least that was my understanding of the Panda update (admittedly ages ago).

lukevdp 14y ago

PageRank is based on links, not on content. His PageRank will only go up if he gets more inbound links to the site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

geon 14y ago
I think the point was that Google spend a lot of effort to identify quality content vs. link farms, auto-generated content and low quality adsense-optimized content.
- lukevdp 14y ago
  yes, but PageRank is a specific term with a specific meaning. It is a rank based on the number and quality of links to your site. To say that PageRank will increase because the content is good quality is wrong, and I was just pointing that out. What he meant to say was "... the search engine rankings of his site would go up..."
  - jessepollak 14y ago
    You're right, I misspoke when I said PageRank. The gist was the some though: higher quality content -> better search rankings (either through links due to higher quality content or google's non-PageRank algorithms).