On Friday, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, stated that the search firm has taken steps to take care of the parasite search engine marketing downside. He additionally added that the particular change with the upcoming useful content material replace remains to be not dwell but however Google did take different steps to take care of the problem.
Sullivan wrote on X, “we have now taken steps to higher take care of third occasion content material of this nature, and we’ll completely be persevering with to do extra.” “We’ve got a wide range of methods to take care of issues like this, and sure, we have taken steps,” he added.
A couple of month in the past, Google informed us to anticipate modifications to third-party hosted content material sooner or later however that the final useful content material replace did not tackle that particularly, there was only a documentation change not an algorithmic change with that but.
On Friday, Danny Sullivan added, “I believe you are speaking in regards to the broader concept of how this would possibly apply to the useful content material system particularly. That individual step nonetheless is not but dwell.”
He did say that the “the recommendation we have given in relation to it and third-party content material remains to be typically good recommendation to maintain in mine for many who want to create (or be seen as creating) useful, people-first content material.” “It is very seemingly we’ll migrate or add that recommendation to our web page about that,” he added, so the query is when?
This particular dialog was round this content material hosted on Harvard’s web site:
Parasite websites & renting sub-domains are an enormous downside. So unfair. They’ll publish duplicate content material from the identical knowledge suppliers & then kw stuff the supplementary content material & simply get away with it as a result of their belief alerts and DA from dad or mum website 🙁
— Steve Barnes (@StevePBarnes) December 7, 2023
That individual state of affairs appears, sadly, extra seemingly a case that the positioning is unaware this content material has been positioned on it quite than a purposeful try and host the content material. Hopefully, they will attend to this. That stated, we have now taken steps to higher take care of third occasion…
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 8, 2023
We’ve got a wide range of methods to take care of issues like this, and sure, we have taken steps. I believe you are speaking in regards to the broader concept of how this would possibly apply to the useful content material system particularly. That individual step nonetheless is not but dwell. However the recommendation we have given in…
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 8, 2023
To be truthful to Google, Glenn Gabe shared some examples of Google addressing a few of these points (which we lined earlier than):
Yep, a few of these methods have handled issues over the previous few months. I documented that in a number of tweets. Wanting to see the HCU piece go dwell, however once more, some have already dropped closely. https://t.co/J0R1DHcfJd
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 8, 2023
And extra: https://t.co/vSTrp4jNBO
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 8, 2023
Extra to come back – buckle up…
Right here is extra from this morning:
The HCU piece is not dwell but, however I’ve documented some enormous drops for parasite search engine marketing websites because the updates started in late summer time. Listed below are three recent screenshots of directories containing sponsored content material. Large drops in visibility since then. However once more, the HCU half is not dwell… https://t.co/tB4G8oDNiL pic.twitter.com/pIiYp6D4XD
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 11, 2023
Discussion board dialogue at X.
