This might be relevant to some of the linklist problems

Bill · 2007-07-16, 04:54 PM

Well, to start out, I want to say that I've decided that I may be wrong about my initial thinking about this case.

What I was interested in, when I was reading this, is the question of how they were detecting and deciding the domain in question was low-quality content, and thereby banning it.

Upon studying it more, I realized I had left out one critical consideration - it's a mainstream site running adsense. So, it's subject to manual review.

My initial thinking on this was based on the idea that they were combining a low linking "score" (that is, the algo had decided that it had low quality links, and had given it a low score for link quality), combined with some kind of manual review.

Because, while low quality links could be detected by an algo, low quality content can pretty much only be decided by a human.

But I didn't think about the human review part of adsense.

Occams razor says the most likely cause of the banning was the adsense review.

So, I was wrong, this case doesn't necessarily tell us anything about what's happening with some of the linklists.

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2007-07-16, 04:54 PM	#5
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Well, to start out, I want to say that I've decided that I may be wrong about my initial thinking about this case. What I was interested in, when I was reading this, is the question of how they were detecting and deciding the domain in question was low-quality content, and thereby banning it. Upon studying it more, I realized I had left out one critical consideration - it's a mainstream site running adsense. So, it's subject to manual review. My initial thinking on this was based on the idea that they were combining a low linking "score" (that is, the algo had decided that it had low quality links, and had given it a low score for link quality), combined with some kind of manual review. Because, while low quality links could be detected by an algo, low quality content can pretty much only be decided by a human. But I didn't think about the human review part of adsense. Occams razor says the most likely cause of the banning was the adsense review. So, I was wrong, this case doesn't necessarily tell us anything about what's happening with some of the linklists.