How Efficient is Googlebot and the Algorithm?
Does anyone know how good the GoogleBot/Algorithm really is at doing its job?
I have been trying to find out how efficient the GoogleBot really is. My site (an information resource) was penalised because of a link I had to a site that was in a bad neighbourhood. So far the other site is still in the index. Naturally I am p***** off about this and I have been more attentive to sites that are blatantly spamming and appear to go unpunished.
One site I found that was "professionally" optimised uses hidden text but still ranks highly for its keywords. The company who do the optimisation for the offending site are obviously chuffed about the techniques that they use. They even provide a link to their own site. I would have thought that the Google bot would have been capable of detecting techniques as blatant as this?
I had a look at the source code and they have actually placed the hidden text before the <html> tag. Does this mean that the GoogleBot cannot recognise this? If so what would its value be as keyword text?
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