Google’s over-emphasis on LSI & Authority Domains – Does Relevancy Even Exist?
Every once in a while, marketers may become critics, and this post would be just that. Most of the time, this blog has been informative, but after being involved in search since the late 90s, and seeing so many algorithm changes and so many different Search Engines, I think it’s nice to make a few comments that are meant to be 100% constructive criticism. That being said, here you go…
I would not call the US government spammers the way I would with some of today’s price comparison tools that buy millions of paid text links, but I do believe that both of these types of sites are over-emphasized in Google’s results. Also any Authority domain in any industry, and those that are considered general industries, are given too much power. Its almost like Search Engines do not trust their own results that they fill them with popular news sites, wikis, government sites and price comparison sites. That’s all fine and dandy, but I think we’re getting to a point where people are tired of finding the same sites dominating every industry and a lack of original and relevant results.
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