Several days ago (1-21-11), Google announced that they are going to fight search engine spam with a renewed vigor in 2011:
As stated by Google:
“We’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content.
We’ll continue to explore ways to reduce spam, including new ways for users to give more explicit feedback about spammy and low-quality sites.”
What exactly is Google going to do? Could Google consider your website spam? Read the article released by Google to learn more about this change.
If you have a website with high value, original content you’ll have nothing to worry about. As long as your website has content that offers real value to the reader and has back-links from other quality sites, Google will rank your site appropriately. On the other hand, if you are producing sites that offer little value, coping other peoples content, or are trying to cheat Googles Search Engine rules then kiss your Google search results goodbye.
For those that work hard, provide honest content and follow the rules this is great news. If Google can successfully get rid of spammy sites then we will see those sites with quality information rise to the top of search engine results.