This is really good news for site owners with a good base of content that use “White Hat’ techniques to gain a bona fida search engine ranking.
Google has already penalised blogs that are purely set up for SEO and last year a great number of rankings were effected by this change.
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Barry Schwartz over at Search Engine Land has posted an audio clip from a panel discussion at the recent South by Southwest confab, in which Google engineer Matt Cutts discusses the plans.
In search results, Google wants to “level the playing field” regarding “all those people doing, for lack of a better word, over optimization or overly SEO–versus those making great content and great sites,” Schwartz quotes Cutts as saying, in a rough transcription.
“We are trying to make GoogleBot smarter, make our relevance better, and we are also looking for those who abuse it, like too many keywords on a page, or exchange way too many links or go well beyond what you normally expect,” the transcript continues.
