Comments on: Matt Cutts Told Me To Post This (2 Things Google Should Improve + 1 Opinion)

By: marcus

marcus — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:55:57 +0000

I’m the new owner of an old Domain. It was a gift from a friend of me. It’s an opensource project and I did not change anything from the content. My plan was to continue this project, because my friend is to busy to develope on it anymore. I added some relevant articles with the result that all Backlinks are devalued after the whoisdata was changed. So the project will die.

Thanks for that!

By: Matt Butts

Matt Butts — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:39 +0000

I agree with you Todd. There needs to be a few Easter eggs in SEO and expired domains are one. If Google do close down the expired domain window, people will just find other ways to quickly obtain PR with little work, such as mass comment spamming, guestbook spamming and maybe even light hacking.

By: Todd Mintz

Todd Mintz — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:10:31 +0000

Matt, unfortunately, my Base feed is currently empty however I can show you the following:

http://www.toddmintz.com/MattExample2.jpg (2 old posted events that were on Base for 14 days each).

http://www.toddmintz.com/MattExample3.jpg (a screenshot from a calendar posting page that says that events will only display for 14 days).

Contrast this with Craigslist, Upcoming, Zvents, Kijiji & Meetup…all of which tie an event posting to a calendar and don’t expire the event until the event has occurred.

Thanks for your very helpful followup with my issue.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:24:24 +0000

Hey, can you post an example event or two from your Base feed? The Base folks are looking into it, but they said that they’d be surprised if dates expired after 14 days and wanted to see an example from the feed..

P.S. Thanks for posting the Reader snapshot.

By: Clint Dixon

Clint Dixon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:53:58 +0000

@SlightlyShady

Google rarely penalizes. Penalty is usually a ban for complete disregard and outright blackhat spam………….

They do however apply filters.

Learn how they work… and you may find success…

By: SlightlyShadySEO

SlightlyShadySEO — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:30:37 +0000

@Matt
I don’t think the analogy quite fits. Keep in mind, when buying domains, most with notable backlinks are promoted via web rings, link exchanges, and other things. The ones that appear “quality” are normally pre-penalized. For that reason alone, abuse will remain low. I think there’s much more damage to be done than good by modifying the handling of expireds.

By: Clint Dixon

Clint Dixon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:48:17 +0000

This is the funniest thing …duplicate content is alive and well and nothing Google can do about it…

read most online major newspapers and news magazines and they all use the same content of news articles on their sites……

As for Google outreach its called “propaganda” and most people with a bit of sense see through the smoke screen and realize Googles full of shit and anything coming from a corporate blogger is monitored….

Try thinking outside the googlebox…..

By: Todd Mintz

Todd Mintz — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:52:19 +0000

Jeff, I enjoyed meeting you as well.

Matt…thanks for responding to me. Here’s a screenshot of an example: http://www.toddmintz.com/MattExample.jpg

Note that Google News cleans up the dupes but the Feed keeps them.

Well, I see the “links” as the fixtures that the bank left behind (and not the reputation)…which means that the coffee shop should be able to make use of the vault as it sees fit. I also don’t see why you penalize an “expired” domain but not a “non-expired sold domain” when the end result is the same.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:52:36 +0000

By the way, I’d argue that some expired domains are closer to a bank at one location that goes out of business and becomes a coffee shop. That coffee shop can build up its reputation on its own, but shouldn’t automatically get the customers that were showing up hoping to do their banking.

And yes, I do know a Starbucks that used to be a bank. It still has the vault!

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:47:40 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Todd. Any example dupes you could show for Google Reader, either by snapshot or maybe by giving us a couple feeds that are rich in dupes?