Comments on: Google’s January 2007 Search Engine Update http://www.e-gain.co.uk/blog/googles-january-2007-search-engine-update/2007/01/13/ Not just another UK SEO blog but one with more about SEO, PPC and Affiliate Marketing Thu, 17 May 2012 15:57:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Alexfozdd http://www.e-gain.co.uk/blog/googles-january-2007-search-engine-update/2007/01/13/#comment-1583 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:40:25 +0000 http://www.e-gain.co.uk/blog/googles-january-2007-search-engine-update/2007/01/13/#comment-1583 Hello, my name is Alex, i'm a newbie here. I really do like your resource and really interested in things you discuss here, also would like to enter your community, hope it is possible:-) Cya around, best regards, Alex! Hello, my name is Alex, i’m a newbie here. I really do like your resource and really interested in things you discuss here, also would like to enter your community, hope it is possible:-) Cya around, best regards, Alex!

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Cya around, best regards, Alfred!

]]> by: Jim Clouse http://www.e-gain.co.uk/blog/googles-january-2007-search-engine-update/2007/01/13/#comment-1028 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:30:26 +0000 http://www.e-gain.co.uk/blog/googles-january-2007-search-engine-update/2007/01/13/#comment-1028 Your first paragraph states that Matt Cutts discussed the minus 30 penalty in his recent posts. That statement is untrue. Neither Matt nor Adam nor Tom, Dick or Harry at Google will discuss this issue. As a 56+ week sufferer of this sitewide penalty, I tried to get him to discuss this penalty in his post at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/infrastructure-status-january-2007 He did reply to my comments in that post, but what he said was totally incorrect as it pertains to my site. For example, he said..."Jim Clouse, I’d take your site over to the Google webmaster help group and ask for advice from other users. Expect some tough love though. They may say, “Hey, your entry for Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas Resort appears verbatim on 40+ other sites! In fact, you’re not even handling the quoted bullet points correctly on that page. What value are you adding? Why would someone go to your page instead of the other 40 copies of this hotel page?” But that tough love will also give you guidance on what your site could do better. It made me wonder if he had confused my site with someone else because my hotel pages are not at all like other hotel sites. We use XML to make all 78,000 of them different. He also mentions the use of bullet points. The hotel page he refers to http://hotelmotelnow.com/hotels.aspx/10204612/ doesn't even contain bullet points! This morning I responded to his post asking for clarification and mentioning the above true statements. My post was made at 8:54 am CST and appeared in the thread. Within 30 minutes, my comment had been taken down. Long story short. Matt is still ducking this minus 30 penalty. It appears he is totally biased against any hotel affiliates, lumping all hotel websites in the same trash dumpster. He asks what value my site is adding. Well, just try http://hotelmotelnow.com/ and you will see. We are the only website that uses visual search technology. We display the hotel locations on area maps as part of the search routine and allow sorting by price, chain name and hot rates. That is a lot better than providing a generic list like all other websites do and then allow mapping. We have been doing this visual mapping since 2001. If that isn't value added to the searcher and unique content, then there are no cows in Texas. Jim Clouse http://hotelmotelNOW.com/ Your first paragraph states that Matt Cutts discussed the minus 30 penalty in his recent posts. That statement is untrue. Neither Matt nor Adam nor Tom, Dick or Harry at Google will discuss this issue.

As a 56+ week sufferer of this sitewide penalty, I tried to get him to discuss this penalty in his post at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/infrastructure-status-january-2007

He did reply to my comments in that post, but what he said was totally incorrect as it pertains to my site. For example, he said…”Jim Clouse, I’d take your site over to the Google webmaster help group and ask for advice from other users. Expect some tough love though. They may say, “Hey, your entry for Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas Resort appears verbatim on 40+ other sites! In fact, you’re not even handling the quoted bullet points correctly on that page. What value are you adding? Why would someone go to your page instead of the other 40 copies of this hotel page?” But that tough love will also give you guidance on what your site could do better.

It made me wonder if he had confused my site with someone else because my hotel pages are not at all like other hotel sites. We use XML to make all 78,000 of them different.

He also mentions the use of bullet points. The hotel page he refers to http://hotelmotelnow.com/hotels.aspx/10204612/ doesn’t even contain bullet points!

This morning I responded to his post asking for clarification and mentioning the above true statements. My post was made at 8:54 am CST and appeared in the thread. Within 30 minutes, my comment had been taken down.

Long story short. Matt is still ducking this minus 30 penalty. It appears he is totally biased against any hotel affiliates, lumping all hotel websites in the same trash dumpster.

He asks what value my site is adding. Well, just try http://hotelmotelnow.com/ and you will see. We are the only website that uses visual search technology. We display the hotel locations on area maps as part of the search routine and allow sorting by price, chain name and hot rates. That is a lot better than providing a generic list like all other websites do and then allow mapping. We have been doing this visual mapping since 2001.

If that isn’t value added to the searcher and unique content, then there are no cows in Texas.

Jim Clouse
http://hotelmotelNOW.com/

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