Article by: Carlo Raphael Diokno.
Google’s new algorithm favors larger websites, slowly killing smaller sites.
On Sunday, our site was the first to post the Robert Noyce Google Doodle, but we were not rewarded. Instead, Google displayed top websites with stellar page ranks and higher traffic. Is Google trying to kill smaller websites? Well, obviously.
Google rolled out the new, unannounced News algorithm last week which drops “duplicate” content from the original articles.
The goal of the new algorithm is to eliminate spammy news content and to promote articles posted by trusted websites. For example, if New York Times will post something about “Koala bears” and other websites will rewrite the article, Google’s new news algorithm will eliminate (or demote) the NEWER articles and will display the original NY Times article.
But this is not always the case.
Google’s new algorithm favors large websites only, and here’s one tiny proof.
We first reported Intel’s Robert Noyce Google Doodle on December 11, 2011, in fact, Google’s own news search (sorted by date) clearly shows that we broke the news, or, we were the first to report and post a news article about it. See the image below, or try to search for “Robert Noyce Google” and arrange it by date.
But Google’s so-called anti-SPAMMING algorithm is not into rewarding us, and demoted our article when bigger websites like The Guardian and IBNLive created their own version. Worse, Google’s algorithm buried our article when the US Google.com displayed the Google Doodle.
I cried, and prayed.
Confused and filled with questions, I asked the experts about this case.
One webmaster said our article was outranked by other sites because our page rank is only “4,” while The Guardian is flaunting the magical number 8, and other websites have 6 to 7.
Another webmaster also shared his own analysis, a self-proclaimed SEO expert who requested anonymity said larger sites avoided linking to our article to bury (or push) it with their own “original content” occupying the top spots.
The bottom line,
We’re not sure if what is the implication of this article.
One, Google can remove our site from its news database, and two, our page rank next update will turn from 4 to ZERO.
Either way, we’re ready, I am ready, because we’re just telling the truth.
