Labor Day Issues

It is Labor Day in the U.S. and most businesses are shut down, but SEO testing continues …

There has been a lot of discussion about Scoble’s visit to GooglePlex to hang out with Cutts and friends. One of the comments that Matt made on his blog was regarding the subdomain on live.com (Microsoft’s new portal). According to what Cutts stated, a lot of URLs suddenly showed up and this caused a flag to be triggered. This has caused quite a stir on the forums with people offering opinions such as:

1) “See I told you that you must only grow a site slowly, adding too many URLs at once will trigger a filter.
2) “Adding sub domains will cause problems with Google.”
3) Doing any of the above can trigger a “manual” review which can lead to a ban if other things are seen.

As with any “Mindcrime”, this one is interesting as Matt Cutts did a follow-up comment and stated:

“Remember that spaces.msn.com or spaces.live.com is up to tens of millions of urls, depending on which search engine you ask. It would be akin to if geocities.com suddenly moved to geocities.somenewdomain.com. So this is not something that a typical site owner needs to think about or worry about if they’re not adding hundreds of thousands or millions of URLs very quickly.”

It is very easy to take one comment and run with it and apply it to things that it never was intended to be applied to. Luckily Matt popped on board and clarified his comments. This is one of the biggest things that is wrong with this industry … too many people take one comment and apply the gloom and doom “The Sky is Falling” routine.

Always check out the facts first before reacting.