Comments on: Fear The Bots For Your Quality Score Sanity http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/ Search Engine Marketing Blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:46:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Estate internet marketing http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-84788 Estate internet marketing Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:12:14 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-84788 Nice test! A month ago I noticed that on a site (pharmaceutical) was no privacy policy included. We started advertising, and the scores rapidly decreased. After a privacy policy was included the scores improved over night. Nice test! A month ago I noticed that on a site (pharmaceutical) was no privacy policy included. We started advertising, and the scores rapidly decreased. After a privacy policy was included the scores improved over night.

]]> By: Web Design Glagow http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-43197 Web Design Glagow Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:17:15 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-43197 Hi Dave, I'm enjoying your articles on PPC. Do you have any ideas as to how Google determines whether you have a privacy policy or not? I ask because it's not guaranteed the site will link to the page with the text 'Privacy Policy', or use any standard format for the page - I wouldn't want to miss out on the benefit because I didn't include a meta tag or some such! Cheers Hi Dave, I’m enjoying your articles on PPC. Do you have any ideas as to how Google determines whether you have a privacy policy or not? I ask because it’s not guaranteed the site will link to the page with the text ‘Privacy Policy’, or use any standard format for the page – I wouldn’t want to miss out on the benefit because I didn’t include a meta tag or some such!

Cheers

]]> By: Dave Davis http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-10621 Dave Davis Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:29:02 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-10621 Hi Amit, that is a very good and common question. In fact, I have a blog post written about it that I will publish shortly. In short, you can create a new ad or landing page URL and the quality score bot HAS to come by and visit again. Hi Amit, that is a very good and common question. In fact, I have a blog post written about it that I will publish shortly. In short, you can create a new ad or landing page URL and the quality score bot HAS to come by and visit again.

]]> By: Amit http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-10496 Amit Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:59:46 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-10496 Hey Dave another great article! But I have a question. You said that you blocked the privacy policy page from the Google ad bot and it resulted in poor to OK quality scores, right? But then you again removed the exclusion and allowed the ad bot to visit your privacy policy page. Now I want to know how does Google ad bot know that you've made changes to your website? Does it visit everyday to your pages? I think there was a thread going at both DigitalPoint and WebmasterWorld about how often the ad bot visit the landing pages and websites advertised! Thanks in advance! Hey Dave another great article! But I have a question. You said that you blocked the privacy policy page from the Google ad bot and it resulted in poor to OK quality scores, right?
But then you again removed the exclusion and allowed the ad bot to visit your privacy policy page.
Now I want to know how does Google ad bot know that you’ve made changes to your website? Does it visit everyday to your pages? I think there was a thread going at both DigitalPoint and WebmasterWorld about how often the ad bot visit the landing pages and websites advertised!
Thanks in advance!

]]> By: john blankey - domain name information http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-7437 john blankey - domain name information Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:02:26 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-7437 This is an interesting take on adwords. nice that you guys tested out this little trick. So what your saying is to include a privacy policy but have it blocked by a robots.txt command. the adwords bot will ignore the command saving link popularity while still getting a great quality score from adwords. User of the adsense program should not exclude any pages for that bot. Other wise you will get a bad quality score. This is an interesting take on adwords. nice that you guys tested out this little trick. So what your saying is to include a privacy policy but have it blocked by a robots.txt command. the adwords bot will ignore the command saving link popularity while still getting a great quality score from adwords. User of the adsense program should not exclude any pages for that bot. Other wise you will get a bad quality score.

]]> By: Dave Davis http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-7355 Dave Davis Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:33:53 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-7355 Hi Lar, thanks for stopping bye. I had a read over the article (More and more people are confusing us. Of all the obscure names in all the obscure specialized markets!) and to be honest, I have not noticed anything major with our clients. I will however note that a client of ours who was suffering the "-950 penalty" has suddenly been green flagged. I do not think this is a coincidence that it happened days before webmaster central released the webmaster message center. As far as predictions go, I do not think Dave is in a position to accurately predict what he thinks will happen with any algorithm. I do agree however that domain age is being given a lot more weight lately. Also, thanks for your comments on the plugin. It is far from perfect, but I think it adds some value. We are already testing the new version with some pretty nifty city targeting and ZIP code targeting. Hi Lar, thanks for stopping bye. I had a read over the article (More and more people are confusing us. Of all the obscure names in all the obscure specialized markets!) and to be honest, I have not noticed anything major with our clients. I will however note that a client of ours who was suffering the “-950 penalty” has suddenly been green flagged.

I do not think this is a coincidence that it happened days before webmaster central released the webmaster message center. As far as predictions go, I do not think Dave is in a position to accurately predict what he thinks will happen with any algorithm.

I do agree however that domain age is being given a lot more weight lately.

Also, thanks for your comments on the plugin. It is far from perfect, but I think it adds some value. We are already testing the new version with some pretty nifty city targeting and ZIP code targeting.

]]> By: Lar http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-7354 Lar Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:24:06 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-7354 Hi Dave, on an algorithm-related subject, your namesake (almost) has published a post on EVOLT. Not sure if you've noticed anything PS Love the Google Global Add-on. Was doing some non-SEO related work today which it really came in handy for. Lar Hi Dave,
on an algorithm-related subject, your namesake (almost) has published a post on EVOLT. Not sure if you’ve noticed anything
PS Love the Google Global Add-on. Was doing some non-SEO related work today which it really came in handy for.
Lar

]]> By: Dave Davis http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-7187 Dave Davis Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:08:28 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-7187 THanks Markus and thanks for the Sphinn :) Nice not to have to worry if your content appeals or not to the SEO lynch mob! THanks Markus and thanks for the Sphinn :)

Nice not to have to worry if your content appeals or not to the SEO lynch mob!

]]> By: markus941 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/comment-page-1/#comment-7118 markus941 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:35:41 +0000 http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/fear-the-bots-for-your-quality-score-sanity/#comment-7118 Nice insight. Thanks for writing this up. Sphunn. Nice insight. Thanks for writing this up. Sphunn.

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