> I used to focus on building a great site and if there was one or two
> bugs it didn't mean the end of the world. But now it does and all us
> webmasters spend more time worrying about every little minor glitch in
> our sites that might offend google rather than building great
> websites. Your system has created a whole new series of problems and
> attacks that webmasters such as myself have to contend with to keep
> their sites alive.

> We have become so dependant on one search engine and with one small
> glitch of googlebot adding an imaginary //index.html to each link it
> finds my websitewww.acidfanatic.comhas been marginalized and killed
> off just like that after eight years. Even though there are thousands
> of pages that reference my site and talk about it which should be very
> relevant yet your algorithm does not have the intelligence to take
> that into consideration and in that sense your algorithm is very dumb.
> If humans hear thousands of people talking about something they know
> it's relevant but your googlebot does not.

> No one wants to link to anyone anymore for fear of losing pageranking
> by having too many outbound links. No one wants to change or update
> their site for fear of having new pages with no ranking while the old
> ones with ranking that are no longer there get deleted from google.

> I see less and less quality content on the web these days. Your heavy
> handed approach at stomping out bad content in the hopes of finding
> more relevant content has pretty much backfired. Much like a parent
> that imposes too strict a set of rules on it's kids the kids have
> focused all their energies on working around the rules rather than
> having fun and doing what kids do.

> Which makes me ask the question... Do you really want quality content?
> Or is your strategy to alienate the web community from linking to one
> another so that everybody has to go through google to find anything
> which then forces webmasters to advertise through google as the only
> means of being found online?

>>> with one small glitch of googlebot adding an imaginary
>>> //index.html to each link it finds my website ...
>>> has been marginalized and killed off ...

acidfanatic wrote:

> No one wants to link to anyone anymore for fear of losing pageranking
> by having too many outbound links. No one wants to change or update
> their site for fear of having new pages with no ranking while the old
> ones with ranking that are no longer there get deleted from google.

> I see less and less quality content on the web these days.

> I used to focus on building a great site and if there was one or two
> bugs it didn't mean the end of the world. But now it does and all us
> webmasters spend more time worrying about every little minor glitch in
> our sites that might offend google rather than building great
> websites. Your system has created a whole new series of problems and
> attacks that webmasters such as myself have to contend with to keep
> their sites alive.

> We have become so dependant on one search engine and with one small
> glitch of googlebot adding an imaginary //index.html to each link it
> finds my websitewww.acidfanatic.comhas been marginalized and killed
> off just like that after eight years. Even though there are thousands
> of pages that reference my site and talk about it which should be very
> relevant yet your algorithm does not have the intelligence to take
> that into consideration and in that sense your algorithm is very dumb.
> If humans hear thousands of people talking about something they know
> it's relevant but your googlebot does not.

> No one wants to link to anyone anymore for fear of losing pageranking
> by having too many outbound links. No one wants to change or update
> their site for fear of having new pages with no ranking while the old
> ones with ranking that are no longer there get deleted from google.

> I see less and less quality content on the web these days. Your heavy
> handed approach at stomping out bad content in the hopes of finding
> more relevant content has pretty much backfired. Much like a parent
> that imposes too strict a set of rules on it's kids the kids have
> focused all their energies on working around the rules rather than
> having fun and doing what kids do.

> Which makes me ask the question... Do you really want quality content?
> Or is your strategy to alienate the web community from linking to one
> another so that everybody has to go through google to find anything
> which then forces webmasters to advertise through google as the only
> means of being found online?

> > No one wants to link to anyone anymore for fear of losing pageranking
> > by having too many outbound links. No one wants to change or update
> > their site for fear of having new pages with no ranking while the old
> > ones with ranking that are no longer there get deleted from google.

> There is a grain of truth here, but it's nevertheless an extremist
> view you're holding there. Google-noia is not quite as pronounced as
> you make it out to be.

> > I see less and less quality content on the web these days.

> Yup.... especially on your site. It's jam-packed full of duplicate
> content

> http://www.copyscape.com

> and the spam-detector

> http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/

> throws a fit about your 'Lists of Terms' which represents unnatural
> content.

> So don't come whining in here about how Google is killing your site
> when the only one doing any killing is you...

> On Nov 24, 6:47 am, acidfanatic wrote:

> > I used to focus on building a great site and if there was one or two
> > bugs it didn't mean the end of the world. But now it does and all us
> > webmasters spend more time worrying about every little minor glitch in
> > our sites that might offend google rather than building great
> > websites. Your system has created a whole new series of problems and
> > attacks that webmasters such as myself have to contend with to keep
> > their sites alive.

> > We have become so dependant on one search engine and with one small
> > glitch of googlebot adding an imaginary //index.html to each link it
> > finds my websitewww.acidfanatic.comhasbeen marginalized and killed
> > off just like that after eight years. Even though there are thousands
> > of pages that reference my site and talk about it which should be very
> > relevant yet your algorithm does not have the intelligence to take
> > that into consideration and in that sense your algorithm is very dumb.
> > If humans hear thousands of people talking about something they know
> > it's relevant but your googlebot does not.

> > No one wants to link to anyone anymore for fear of losing pageranking
> > by having too many outbound links. No one wants to change or update
> > their site for fear of having new pages with no ranking while the old
> > ones with ranking that are no longer there get deleted from google.

> > I see less and less quality content on the web these days. Your heavy
> > handed approach at stomping out bad content in the hopes of finding
> > more relevant content has pretty much backfired. Much like a parent
> > that imposes too strict a set of rules on it's kids the kids have
> > focused all their energies on working around the rules rather than
> > having fun and doing what kids do.

> > Which makes me ask the question... Do you really want quality content?
> > Or is your strategy to alienate the web community from linking to one
> > another so that everybody has to go through google to find anything
> > which then forces webmasters to advertise through google as the only
> > means of being found online?

> Was it something I said? ;-)

> On Nov 24, 11:13 am, Sasch wrote:

> > > No one wants to link to anyone anymore for fear of losing pageranking
> > > by having too many outbound links. No one wants to change or update
> > > their site for fear of having new pages with no ranking while the old
> > > ones with ranking that are no longer there get deleted from google.

> > There is a grain of truth here, but it's nevertheless an extremist
> > view you're holding there. Google-noia is not quite as pronounced as
> > you make it out to be.

> > > I see less and less quality content on the web these days.

> > Yup.... especially on your site. It's jam-packed full of duplicate
> > content

> >http://www.copyscape.com

> > and the spam-detector

> >http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/

> > throws a fit about your 'Lists of Terms' which represents unnatural
> > content.

> > So don't come whining in here about how Google is killing your site
> > when the only one doing any killing is you...

> > On Nov 24, 6:47 am, acidfanatic wrote:

> > > I used to focus on building a great site and if there was one or two
> > > bugs it didn't mean the end of the world. But now it does and all us
> > > webmasters spend more time worrying about every little minor glitch in
> > > our sites that might offend google rather than building great
> > > websites. Your system has created a whole new series of problems and
> > > attacks that webmasters such as myself have to contend with to keep
> > > their sites alive.

> > > We have become so dependant on one search engine and with one small
> > > glitch of googlebot adding an imaginary //index.html to each link it
> > > finds my websitewww.acidfanatic.comhasbeenmarginalized and killed
> > > off just like that after eight years. Even though there are thousands
> > > of pages that reference my site and talk about it which should be very
> > > relevant yet your algorithm does not have the intelligence to take
> > > that into consideration and in that sense your algorithm is very dumb.
> > > If humans hear thousands of people talking about something they know
> > > it's relevant but your googlebot does not.

> > > No one wants to link to anyone anymore for fear of losing pageranking
> > > by having too many outbound links. No one wants to change or update
> > > their site for fear of having new pages with no ranking while the old
> > > ones with ranking that are no longer there get deleted from google.

> > > I see less and less quality content on the web these days. Your heavy
> > > handed approach at stomping out bad content in the hopes of finding
> > > more relevant content has pretty much backfired. Much like a parent
> > > that imposes too strict a set of rules on it's kids the kids have
> > > focused all their energies on working around the rules rather than
> > > having fun and doing what kids do.

> > > Which makes me ask the question... Do you really want quality content?
> > > Or is your strategy to alienate the web community from linking to one
> > > another so that everybody has to go through google to find anything
> > > which then forces webmasters to advertise through google as the only
> > > means of being found online?