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Incorrect Algorithmic First Impressions
Matt Cutts makes a good point in his blog about how people tend to blame Google by default which is true but I really am not interested in hacked sites because I do not believe I have any. I am more interested in incorrect algorithmic first impressions that can send a new blog into a downward spiral in Google and other engines.
I wish I had kept the screenshot of my google stats for this blog from a month or so back. I was literally ranking for all kinds of phrases related to a p-o-r-nstar named (brandi-belle) who I will refer to as “BB” to not screw this place up any further. The screenie was even worse than the one I took today where 100% of what I was being found for was phrases related to this nekkid person. What I believe happened was Google made an incorrect first impression of my content or did it? For those of you with new blogs, who you say you are is very important in the first year of blogging, stay clear of spammy phrases and DO NOT link out to people who are not like yourself because you will be associated with them.
Below is a current screenshot of my pitiful stats with traces of the BB disease still in it, kind sad eh?
In conclusion, I am being found for BB, a girl who I interviewed who has trouble keeping her clothes on and a cool spammer dude name Dax who had a moustache contest. I have removed the original joke post I made about Matt Cutts and BB and the funny moustache eBay sale but many months later the association still exists.
Lucky this blog is about fun, games and learning or I would be really pissed!
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December 4th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Dud you got an interview from BB and I missed it man where did it go …
December 4th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
That wasn’t BB it was raspberrysundae.blogspot.com and boy did it turn this place into a bad neighborhood. This is how ranking works, by “association” and it is very hard to turn around currently.
December 5th, 2006 at 10:38 am
I wonder if I’m partly responsible for that B.B. thing. ;)
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
On one of my sites I offered the users the ability to have their own “user page” where they could list their sites and about them blurbs. Well my site was only ranking for names of the users and nothing related to what the site was really about.
Deleted those and submitted to some related directories and now it’s getting real rankings instead of names.