Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

Other things that alert Google editors are:

• Images all hosted on another domain,
• External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
• Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
• Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so
  Business Coaching Tips - Customer Satisfaction Improvement Plan
  Pro-active StrategiesActively look at implementing some of these proactive strategies Supplying better quality goods or over-servicing Ensuring speedy delivery. If a customer orders today by direct mail, they are always impressed if the goods are there the next day. This sets the tone for the entire organization Offering after sales discounts Realigning product development to customer needs. This could take the form of a pro-active questionnaire that asks the customer what they liked and did not like. And then setting a product development plan from this feed
  Dramatic title. Well, it’s about time- a lot of sites should be knocked off their rankings pedestals.

  What? Google Rates Sites By Hand?

  If you hadn't heard, Google is indeed using human editors to increase the quality of its search results and catch more web spam. You must know what web spam is- those Google search results that contain only more (fake) search results, pages with no real content but lots of links and adds? These are black hat spammers trying to fake out Google and make money via affiliate programs and AdSense.

  At one point, it wasn’t clear Google could beat these spammers- they always had a new programmatic trick to stay a step ahead. Enter human editors. It may seem anathema to Google's style, but it's critical to achieving their stated goal: quality search results.

  For more details on these editors, or "raters", including a copy of a help wanted ad for European Google editors, check out these links:

  http://www.searchbistro.com/index.php?/archives/19-Google-Secret-Lab,-Prelude.html

  and

  http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7183.

  Which Sites Are Tagged as Offensive?

  If you don't want to get blacklisted, the most important thing for you to understand is what you should and shouldn't do when creating websites.

  Ideally, it would be just as simple as following Google's Webmaster Guidelines (http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html). You could make the case that it is that simple. But it's easy, when you aren't getting any traffic and want to promote your site, to violate a suggestion you hadn't read all that carefully. Especially since so many sites are violating them. So the first imperative for webmasters is don't just skim Google's Webmaster Guidelines - read them slowly. MEMORIZE them.

  Is that enough? Let's look at Google's site editing instructions (their 13 page “Spamguide.rtf”) and see.

  Affiliate Websites Under Human Scrutiny

  The first important distinction they make is that sites must have unique value to their visitors. This is discussed in terms of how to uncover "Thin Affiliates". A thin affiliate is a website that merely duplicates all or part of another site and directs traffic to it. The goal of the thin affiliate is to throw up many pages quickly (often with the aid of webpage-generating software), including their affiliate links.

  Often these sites, like the fake search results websites, have pulled a large number of keyword search phrases together from Overture or Wordtracker, and, using some form of SEO (perhaps black hat), have wormed their way to high rankings.

  Google doesn't mind an affiliate site that provides extra content or value for visitors. But a thin affiliate earning commissions and providing nothing? Offensive!

  Navigating the Gray Area

  Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

  • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
  • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
  • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

  Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

  Other things that alert Google editors are:

  • Images all hosted on another domain,
  • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
  • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
  • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so
    Why I Quit the Rat Race to Work Harder and Longer
    I didn't start out dreaming about my own home-based business. I had a good job that paid well, with excellent benefits. This is the kind of job that is becoming increasingly rare in today's job marketHere's a few reasons that were NOT part of my decision to start my own business.1. Your time is your own. This is true, but the fact is that when you work for yourself, there's never enough hours in the day to get everything done2. I can be with my family. Also true. But working for yourself involves discipline. No matter what you do in your business being productive = being paid. on these editors, or "raters", including a copy of a help wanted ad for European Google editors, check out these links:

    http://www.searchbistro.com/index.php?/archives/19-Google-Secret-Lab,-Prelude.html

    and

    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7183.

    Which Sites Are Tagged as Offensive?

    If you don't want to get blacklisted, the most important thing for you to understand is what you should and shouldn't do when creating websites.

    Ideally, it would be just as simple as following Google's Webmaster Guidelines (http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html). You could make the case that it is that simple. But it's easy, when you aren't getting any traffic and want to promote your site, to violate a suggestion you hadn't read all that carefully. Especially since so many sites are violating them. So the first imperative for webmasters is don't just skim Google's Webmaster Guidelines - read them slowly. MEMORIZE them.

    Is that enough? Let's look at Google's site editing instructions (their 13 page “Spamguide.rtf”) and see.

    Affiliate Websites Under Human Scrutiny

    The first important distinction they make is that sites must have unique value to their visitors. This is discussed in terms of how to uncover "Thin Affiliates". A thin affiliate is a website that merely duplicates all or part of another site and directs traffic to it. The goal of the thin affiliate is to throw up many pages quickly (often with the aid of webpage-generating software), including their affiliate links.

    Often these sites, like the fake search results websites, have pulled a large number of keyword search phrases together from Overture or Wordtracker, and, using some form of SEO (perhaps black hat), have wormed their way to high rankings.

    Google doesn't mind an affiliate site that provides extra content or value for visitors. But a thin affiliate earning commissions and providing nothing? Offensive!

    Navigating the Gray Area

    Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

    • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
    • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
    • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

    Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

    Other things that alert Google editors are:

    • Images all hosted on another domain,
    • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
    • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
    • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so
      The Art of Negotiation, Investing in ART, Investing in YOU, Its About the MONEY Honey! Part One
      As an artist it is hard to not feel flattered when approached by a gallery. If you are a professional or hope to be one having a gallery is at the top of your list.There are other ways of marketing art these days, over the internet, home studio tours but the mystic of having a gallery is always there.Who can resist the glamor of having an opening with Champagne and fine food? Maybe add a three piece band to add just that extra touch of class. New York galleries being first on the list with ideas of going international. Ahhh I LOVE it!There are things to consider when entering
      m. So the first imperative for webmasters is don't just skim Google's Webmaster Guidelines - read them slowly. MEMORIZE them.

      Is that enough? Let's look at Google's site editing instructions (their 13 page “Spamguide.rtf”) and see.

      Affiliate Websites Under Human Scrutiny

      The first important distinction they make is that sites must have unique value to their visitors. This is discussed in terms of how to uncover "Thin Affiliates". A thin affiliate is a website that merely duplicates all or part of another site and directs traffic to it. The goal of the thin affiliate is to throw up many pages quickly (often with the aid of webpage-generating software), including their affiliate links.

      Often these sites, like the fake search results websites, have pulled a large number of keyword search phrases together from Overture or Wordtracker, and, using some form of SEO (perhaps black hat), have wormed their way to high rankings.

      Google doesn't mind an affiliate site that provides extra content or value for visitors. But a thin affiliate earning commissions and providing nothing? Offensive!

      Navigating the Gray Area

      Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

      • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
      • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
      • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

      Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

      Other things that alert Google editors are:

      • Images all hosted on another domain,
      • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
      • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
      • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so
        Going Back to Work
        This is a tricky one, you are going back to work after being out of the employment market for a while. Maybe you have been travelling, raising a family, going back to college or running a business and now you want to be employed again, have an income and be in a working environment.Don't try to hide gaps in your CV, potential employers will always pick up on them and it makes it appear that you think the gap is a problem. It should not be.Be open and describe what you have been doing emphasising the benefits, the new experiences you have had earned whilst away from the work environment, what you h
        er from Overture or Wordtracker, and, using some form of SEO (perhaps black hat), have wormed their way to high rankings.

        Google doesn't mind an affiliate site that provides extra content or value for visitors. But a thin affiliate earning commissions and providing nothing? Offensive!

        Navigating the Gray Area

        Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

        • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
        • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
        • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

        Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

        Other things that alert Google editors are:

        • Images all hosted on another domain,
        • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
        • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
        • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so
          Targeted Internet and Online Business - Ways to Earn with Online Business
          The Internet is a very good place to earn money. It houses many online businesses that are established by people from all around the globe. But not all of these businesses profit. You still need to take some extra measures so your Internet business would prosper.It is very important to make a good marketing strategy for any online business. You should be familiar with a lot of tools that would help your market the products and services you’re offering. There are a lot of things that you can easily find online that can be incorporated in your website. These would be very useful for you to profit from your
          criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

        Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

        Other things that alert Google editors are:

        • Images all hosted on another domain,
        • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
        • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
        • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so black-hat-2002!).

        FYI: Google also asks editors to mark uniquely authoritative sites as either Vital or Useful.

        How to Make a Positive Impression on Google Editors

        1. Add valuable content, downloads (like a custom application, video, or audio), the option to receive something through real mail, or an ezine.
        2. Link to multiple affiliates/revenue streams.
        3. Make your website somewhat organic (not formulaic)- don't use keyword spam webpage generating software.
        4. Add unique descriptions to webpages and links.
        5. Host your own images.
        6. List your contact info, phone number, availability, etc.
        7. It's ok to have an affiliate program and spawn affiliates.

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