Sunday, February 17, 2008
Google likes junk food?
I know that this post may not appeal to the people who have no interest in SEO, but I'd like to share a revelation I had. Anyone who is more enlightened, maybe you could shed some light on this situation because I find it rather puzzling, to say the least.
Well here's the deal. I'm still expanding on my niche blogging empire. I have a few white hat blogs (there are links to them scattered on this blog, go find them if you will), and a few black hat blogs (which I will not link to to avoid incriminating evidence). I set up the blogs in batches of threes. Here are the major differences between those blogs.
White Hat Blogs
- Three of them in this batch
- Set up between 7th and 9th February
- Good, Meaningful niches
- Adsense implemented very early (around 2 days after creation)
- Full of quality original content that I took time to research and write myself
- Content added slowly in a post every few days.
- Well optimized for keywords in content, title and URL
- Obtained a few backlinks by answering Yahoo! Answers and friends blogs (related).
- Three of them in this batch
- All set up on 15th February
- Optimized for keywords in search terms that don't make sense but get traffic
- All content dumped in in 10 minutes
- Content is badly written and mostly scraped and rearraged (scrape and rearrage the words), keywords rich content.
- Obtained quite a lot of crappy backlinks through comment spam (on a do-follow site)
My Blackhat blogs, on the other hand, are faring much better. Two out of three are already indexed, and it took less than 2 days. I'm shocked and appalled by this, because it means that google actually likes to eat crap instead of the good food that I'm offering it.
If this goes on in this trend then I guess I'll favor the dark side, because they have money (and cookies too).
| HCH - 11:23 AM |