Google’s Farmer Update: The Purpose Is To Rank High Quality Sites

Folks get most a-twitter each and every time Google makes a vital algorithm adjust. A lot of changes are usually pretty minor tweaks, though the new one during the last two or perhaps three days really should be an even more significant one particular. (See Google’s announcement here.)

If you have a good site with excellent content that provides value to the visitors, this really is good news. Any lousy sites that used to help beat you out in the rankings should be dropping outside of site.

Website Magazine Cautions:

Without question, the focus is now on producing original, quality content. So-called scraper sites are doomed. But even bloggers need to be careful about posting content that could be considered “low-quality” or that which could be viewed as being a simple re-publishing of existing content. In other words, if you don’t have anything original to say about an existing story … be careful. Now more than ever, the focus seems to be shifting toward quality, not necessarily quantity.