A Google analysis paper named Generative Fashions are Unsupervised Predictors of Web page High quality paints a destructive connotation of web optimization practices. It has a bit named “makes an attempt at search engine marketing (web optimization)” which says, “paperwork that try and carry out web optimization are typically flagged as very low high quality.”
This paper was first highlighted by Roger Montti who requested if this analysis paper is what the useful content material replace is all about. I do suppose Roger is correct right here, it does seem to be, at the least partially, this paper does describe quite a lot of what the useful content material replace is about.
The part goes on to learn, “That is intuitive since these texts have a tendency to easily string a collection of key phrases collectively and are due to this fact incoherent. Moreover, we discovered a reasonable variety of product pages {and professional} profiles that additionally try and carry out some type of web optimization. We noticed that media-centric domains, akin to picture internet hosting domains, usually comprise incomprehensible embedded textual content, presumably for web optimization.”
Pedro Dias, former Google spam fighter, now web optimization, famous this on Mastodon and mentioned, “That is an unlucky wording from Google on their analysis “Generative Fashions are Unsupervised Predictors of Web page High quality” whitepaper. It clearly casts web optimization broadly as spam and a contributor to “low high quality”.”
Pedro is not incorrect, however John Mueller of Google tried to downplay it by saying, “I believe one of many challenges is that “good web optimization” is actually invisible: it is a well-structured web site, it has good content material, individuals prefer it — these will not be attributes related to web optimization by the larger internet.” “I really feel it is a dropping battle to border it as “not all web optimization is unhealthy”,” he later added. Consider, Googler’s like John Mueller and others have mentioned web optimization is necessary and one thing Google values however then you could have this analysis paper…
It’s unhappy to see this wording in a Google analysis paper however we do know the way a lot of a black eye the web optimization business has within the outdoors world. If you do not know, simply ask a layperson about web optimization and see what they are saying. You’ll hope somebody who works at Google on search wouldn’t shared these views however Google is a giant firm.
In any occasion, it would make sense to learn by the analysis paper figuring out that simply because there’s a patent doc or analysis paper it does not imply Google makes use of it. However this one, very properly is likely to be aligned to the useful content material replace.
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