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 continues to be not reside but however Google did take different steps to take care of the difficulty.
Sullivan wrote on X, “we’ve 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 now have quite a lot of techniques to take care of issues like this, and sure, we have taken steps,” he added.
A few month in the past, Google informed us to count on 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 feel you are speaking in regards to the broader thought of how this may apply to the useful content material system particularly. That exact step nonetheless is not but reside.”
He did say that the “the recommendation we have given in relation to it and third-party content material continues to be usually 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 probably 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 will publish duplicate content material from the identical information suppliers & then kw stuff the supplementary content material & simply get away with it as a consequence of their belief indicators and DA from dad or mum website 🙁
— Steve Barnes (@StevePBarnes) December 7, 2023
That exact state of affairs appears, sadly, extra probably a case that the positioning is unaware this content material has been positioned on it moderately than a purposeful try to host the content material. Hopefully, they will attend to this. That stated, we’ve taken steps to higher take care of third occasion…
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 8, 2023
We now have quite a lot of techniques to take care of issues like this, and sure, we have taken steps. I feel you are speaking in regards to the broader thought of how this may apply to the useful content material system particularly. That exact step nonetheless is not but reside. However the recommendation we have given in…
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 8, 2023
To be honest to Google, Glenn Gabe shared some examples of Google addressing a few of these points (which we coated earlier than):
Yep, a few of these techniques have handled issues over the previous few months. I documented that in a number of tweets. Desirous to see the HCU piece go reside, 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 return – buckle up…
Right here is extra from this morning:
The HCU piece is not reside but, however I’ve documented some enormous drops for parasite search engine marketing websites for the reason that updates started in late summer season. Listed here are three contemporary screenshots of directories containing sponsored content material. Enormous drops in visibility since then. However once more, the HCU half is not reside… https://t.co/tB4G8oDNiL pic.twitter.com/pIiYp6D4XD
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 11, 2023
Discussion board dialogue at X.