I’ve often been surprised as to how much difference Google rankings make. One part of my site went from an average of 150 visits per day to an average of 50 after it was demoted in Google’s results. :)

So much for doing the right thing.

With that disclaimer, my theory: Sex spam sites use adult keywords hundreds of times to rank well in search engines. (It’s much more complicated, but every strategy involves the necessary keywords.) On the other hand, an adult blog uses those same keywords tens of thousands of time over multiple years. So when Google devises a spiffy new algorithm to attack the spam blogs, they penalize sites with the adult keywords — but they tuned it wrong, and it hit hardest the sites with the most volume of those keywords.

So that killed a few of the stupid obvious spam sites with tens of thousands of stacked keywords, then it killed us, but it petered out before hurting the vast majority of spam blogs, which are quick “throw against wall and see what sticks” efforts using the keywords mere hundreds of times.

That’s my guess, and it’s just a guess.

Problem is, Google may not care — it’s unclear if they consider *any* adult site a desireable element in their search listings.

And since Blogger is now a google product, does that mean they’re montioring and could potentially take the blogger writers down?

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/28/update_on_google_dis.html

But they’re saying it’s mostly fixed, which it sure ain’t (see chelsea girl’s blog for some details).

With google’s deaf ear, it’s unclear if it’s any use to complain; it isn’t the first time I’ve seen ‘em do this, either.

kissykiss,
chelsea girl

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