Google, Yahoo and Generated Web Pages.
By: je Dunn
In the past 2 months I have had several sites get de-listed from Yahoo that relied pretty heavily on DG and TE.
My first reaction was to get every directory off all my other income producing sites. The problem was that those
directories were responsible for much of my AdSense income.
Now Google and Yahoo did not de-list my other sites that contained generated directories. But why?
Now at this point I didn’t know if big “G” and big “Y” just didn’t find them yet, or if the criteria for
delisting of a site was based on an algorithm of relevancy to consumer value of the generated pages, and not just
because the pages left a virtual footprint.
Since the de-listing of my generated sites had already cost me between $60 and $100 per day in income, not to
mention the absolute frustration I felt with this whole Internet business thing, I decided to let the sites that
were still listed and making money keep the generated directories and see what happened.
This way at lest I would know if all DG, TE, type pages are considered “Evil” by the search engine gods.
The conclusion to date: It appears that both Google and Yahoo will tolerate generated directory pages, as long
as the generated pages are determined not to be the sole purpose of the site.
In other words they must represent a sum of the whole value of the web site.
My unaffected sites consist of 5 to 20 pages of original content, an article directory, two blogs (one on-site
and one off-site) and the dreaded DG directory of resource links.
The generated portion of the site was not dominant, (a few hundred pages and not several thousand) and was a
logical part of the whole site concept.
These sites also took more time and effort to build and that was why I built less of them. This whole saga turned
out to be a Tortoise and the Hare type story, and just like that story, this one also has a moral.
… I did learn a painful yet valuable lesson.
If you expect to get value from your web sites, you must make sure that they first “GIVE” value to your
visitors.
So in my limited 60 or so day study it appears that the use of directory-generated pages is acceptable. It is the
‘Abuse” of directory-generated pages, that will get you in trouble.
This quote could have been made about SEO…
“Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal”.
Mike Ditka (1939 - )
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About The Author:
je Dunn has been working online since 2001. To learn more about getting your home business stared off the right way visit: http://workfomhome-4me.com
