More tidbits:

If your website contains pages with 'thin' content, it's better to remove these pages from your website. Here are a few common examples of pages that often have thin content with little or no added value:

• Automatically generated content
• Thin affiliate pages
• Content from other sources. For example: Scraped content or low-quality guest blog posts
• Doorway pages

If the vast majority of your web pages have good quality, a few low quality pages won't hurt your rankings. That said, it's usually better to remove these low quality pages from your website.

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Google tests “What’s Hot” & “What’s Nearby” as Android search options

"Artem Russakovskii found an interesting Google search options test for Android. In addition to recent searches, Google inserted a 'What’s Hot' and 'Nearby' option in the pull-down menu. [...]

Given that Google does numerous tests, it’s not clear this will get a broad rollout. In testing this functionality, Google is likely responding to the growth of 'nearby' or 'near me' queries.

 More hacked content showing up in Google Search now?

"It was just a few months ago when Google updated their hacked content algorithm to remove hacked content from showing up in the search results. But it may not be working as well as they liked.

A WebmasterWorld thread has several webmasters saying that they are seeing more and more hacked content show up in the Google search results, especially when you filter the results to show content in the past 24 hours."

 

 

More info to come. Google continues to make changes. I am going to see what Bing is doing so as to get some comparisons.

 

Until next time

 

Joe