Google is Planning to Penalize Overly Optimized Sites
 

Looks like SEO might be on its way out...

http://www.tekgoblin.com/2012/03/18/...timized-sites/

yeap, like it was the rule 3 years ago... people will loose jobs...

Google make people loose jobs... come on... ;)

I applaud this decision by our Google Overlords.

Sounds like a sensible move to me! There's nothing worse than landing on a website with terrible content but great SEO!

I have to agree that, from what I read, content will go back to being the main source for page ranking. Now these guys that come in here asking about SEO and their forum is still in the test folder, will have to concentrate more on getting good content.
As for me, it means that the playing field will be leveled finally. If my content is good I can compete fairly with the big boys. When that happens, look out. You're going to either see websites collapse or some really creative minds come out of the woodwork.
The sad thing is that it took Google so long to finally realize that SEO was being manipulated by some savvy people to make crappy little websites look like a juggernaut. I can't wait to see what Google does. This should be good.
Thanks Boofo. That's a good read.

My only concern is how are they deciding what is a site that is too much SEO and not enough content... it's not like someone is reviewing each site... any algorithm they have will have a weakness that can be exploited.

Well, if you're trying to exploit a "too much SEO" weakness in their algorithm, it makes sense that your site is going to get blacklisted for too much SEO. :D

I doubt they'll blacklist sites using appropriate SEO, whether from having an SEO expert as an admin or using something like vBSEO the best way possible.

What this aims to do, is get rid of those keyword stuffing sites that write articles repeating the same few keywords in strong tags, em tags, heading tags, title tags, etc.,.

I hate those sites with repeating keywords, because they just keep repeating keywords on the site with nothing but repeating keywords, No matter how much you read it's all just repeating keywords in a long list of repeating keywords that doesn't actually make any sense because it's just repeating keywords. Nothing like searching for hours to find a site with repeating keywords and no content at all. It's just big long lists of repeating keywords at the bottom of a useless page that is constantly repeating keywords.


:D

I believe it when I see it...

Speaking of "repeating keywords", think you used that enough in your post?