At least one SEO, Joel Walsh, believes they do and has written an article for http://www.sitepronews.com/ entitled "Google's "Good Writing" Content Filter."

Mr. Walsh looked at "...Google's top five pages for the five most searched-on keywords, as identified by WordTracker on June 27, 2005. Typically, the top five pages receive an overwhelming majority of the traffic delivered by Google." His observations point to several success factors: updating, spelling and grammar, paragraphs, lists, sentence length and contextual relevance; and SEO do's and don'ts, regarding: pagerank, frames, keyword optimization, sub-headings, links popularity, and originality. The conclusions are based on observations making them anecdotal. Yet, it is interesting that Mr. Walsh sees a content trend in Google. I don't quite see the trend yet but I believe google will sooner or later get on the content bandwagon.

The article is worth a read. If you can't find the article at SiteProNews, I have a copy at http://cssdesignmagic.com/google-content-filter.html.

Good article. It reinforces some of the things I've been saying for some time.

This is the kind of thing I like seeing posted on the REW site. Positive recommendations, not just link exchange offers and "don't" do this or that.

(I used the bottom link to reach the article, as the top link was already on a different article).

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That sort of sounds cynical.

You're right. I'm in a horribly foul mood today and can't take the time to bust out and loosen up because I'm on a deadline (as mentioned in the previous thread, I write for an income)...and I have to get this project done by tomorrow.

But I did like that article because it is about what I do.

In fairness, I've been dealing with content theft for many many years now and never aired my frustration publicly. Today (in the other thread) I had just had enough and it bubbled over to this one, I guess.

Normally, I blame bad moods on lack of caffeine or nicotine, but today I've had plenty of both.

No excuses (at least not any good ones).

Maybe ice cream would help.

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yummy, ice cream. I understand. I'm sorry that someone ripped you off. He has been banned from this forum.