RSK3000

Does the Google Farmer/ Panda update mean the end of minisites?

The update appears to penalise 'low value' sites.

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cc976a

Is it in already and started wiping out minisites?

RSK3000

Yes lots have sites have been hit. Don't know about minisites specifically - thats why I'm asking the qustion, really.

Currently its only US traffic, but its only a matter of time before Google roll it out worldwide.

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peter_w

It's not really targeting mini sites. It's targeting those sites that have hundreds/thousands of auto generated or very weak content pages.

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mat

Basicly, if your sites crap, it will get dropped.

Quite fair really!

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Blossom

It's not as simple as that, check out all these sites that have been hit: http://www.google.com/support/forum/...df82fd8e&hl=en

Obviously there will be plenty of people there who wrongly assume they've been affected, but it's pretty clear that an automated algorithm change on such a big scale isn't perfect.

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DomainManagement

If you go down the posts and check out seo 101 he seems to cut through the
noise about the posts there

I think its very dangerous to start calling sites mini sites bad etc etc as a site is a site and if it has been created correctly with on page seo as it should be
it doers not matter how many pages it has , the quality of the content =
quality of the links , yes you can pick holes in this

but it is possible to have a site ranking page 1 pos 1 with not a lot of great content dependent on the competition i have a few

there are lots of so called mini sites making money you can take it to a extreme there is a guy who has i think 10,000 websites yes 10,000
and he makes his money on some of them or i even think he said most of them with adsense did you just hear that $10,000 a day ok has a staff of 85 mostly outsourced and the guy is British Great mark vurnum Google it

i wish instead of getting bogged down with mini site quality Google slaps etc etc open your eyes there is so much out there .

i know it sounds crazy but if i could have $27 per day then 27 x 3500 = 94,500 per day = 661,500 per week x 52 = 34,398,000

not bad hey ok so lets say you all think i am pi**ed hoW much is my judgement out , lets say i am 90% wrong 3,439,000 is still nice

Night Night

I Love Domains and the opportunities the present us,limited only be our imagination

by the ways its not the money that excites me , it making it happen
and seeing it work that's the pleasure

springer

Mini sites can at times offer much greater value to visitors than medium to large sites.

For example, if I am looking for a TV Bed, I would much rather visit a site just about TV beds than a site all about beds or bedroom furniture. I would expect such a site to serve my needs best as it is concentrated exactly on what I am looking for.

What exactly defines a mini-site anyway? How many pages?

orchardapple

exactly and what defines 'quality'

denchomsky

Apparently Googles algorithm