Website Optimization and Promotion

Google has released their Jagger2 update and it is slow to come out. It is being updated on possibly only one of their datacenters at 66.102.9.104 for now, but is starting to create a buzz about returning to their old results. Google is planning a third update this period which ‘may’ be available next week at some point.

This is certainly a unique way to do an update, but the amount of chatter from google ‘users’ who are complaining about the quality of their SERPs is unusual. I am used to hearing about SEo’s crying that their results drop… but the ‘users’ of Google usually don’t complain. The number of Google searchers that were unhappy led me to question the first update early on. Why would Google screw up and lower their quality of search results? It seemed interesting that Google was using the Jagger update which roughly translates to “narc on spammers”. Then it hit me…

What if Google had purposely orchestrated their algorithms to rank BAD pages higher? Their SERPs still return what would be thought of as ‘authority sites’, but the other results have had a mixed welcoming with more dissent from ‘users’ (not SEO-types) than I have heard before AND they are trying to get us to report the spammy sites that we find. Hmm…

Put that together with the fact that they expected two more updates from the start and it almost seems plausible to have manipulated the results to show bad sites mixed with known authority sites in an effort to weed out the growing problem of automatic webpage generating, copyright infringing spam sites that are designed to attract clicks to their adSense ads and in return offer useless content to you. I would like to point your attention to one that I found was ripping off my content… http://www.promocharger.com/articles/website-optimization-methods.html
This page has been reported and now links to…. http://www.bigmaud.com/ having nothing to do with website optimization, but attempting to get traffic from a page that stole my content.

It seems hard to believe that Google’s new algorithm actually finds a site like this one to be ‘better’ than any other site on the web, but their ‘fortunate’ ranking boost led me to report their site to Google. Seems like a mistake to list a 3,000 page website who doesn’t have 2 pages on the same topic… view http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apromocharger.com&btnG=Search to see all of the sites that gave their content to the promocharger spam-site (owned by *Edited*).

All I can say is that ‘P S’, the copyright infringing spam artist from Ontario had better make amends for all that he has stolen from the internet. If you have any questions about him, I can save you a trip to the whois for either of those domains and show you what iDotz.net is all about.

****EDIT****
I used to post all of the information for the owner of the two domains I mentioned as stealing the content from many websites, but to protect my butt, I decided to let you look up this guy at any whois service for yourself.
promocharger.com
bigmaud.com
****EDIT COMPLETE****

Anyone else can use the service provided by Copyscape to check if your material is being re-used by another without your permission.

Back to the Google update…. They seem to have some very unsavory sites listed at the top right now and I fully expect that to change with thir next updates. As my blog from a few days ago stated… hold tight on making radical changes to your site based on Google’s latest update and spend some time working on overall site health. It’ll only help you along, never hurts to be ‘correct’.

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