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Google Blocks 'Optimized' Pages

Posted by timothy on from the they-own-their-servers dept.

Rhett Creighton writes "For the past few years, webmasters have found tricks that bring their page higher for a given keyphrase search. Google recently implemented a filter to block sites that appeared to be tricking it into gaining a higher ranking. This NYTimes article reports of angry retailers who are losing their businesses, while this article gives more technical conspiracy theories of what google is actually doing."

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  1. Funny.. by DroopyStonx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I love how people whine and cry whenever they don't get their way.

    Guess they should've have been trying to screw with the system! They're lucky Google doesn't block them completely.

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  2. Re:PageRank was never that simple by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    PageRank isnt a secret, its basically a weight of how much money you pay google.

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