Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Google For Good Writing?

A posting on Search Engine Journal today from a writer who took a little survey of some top ranking pages with Google and seemed to notice a common thread among them all:

good writing, above average, better than the usual stuff available online.

Hmmmm. One of my bugaboos is good written content. I am learning scads about Google AdWords for work and it's fascinating stuff, but I am consistently for the good written word, versus the typical webpage fare.

So, getting back to SEJ's article, Google's 'Good Writing' Content Filter, posted today, http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=1874
The article claims that the selected websites seemed to defy typical SEO givens: a few had frames, a couple of others were littered with images, a couple went way over the SEO limit on links, etc. So this particular writer was able to posit the theory of Google's possible attention to quality content....? Another day, another theory.