Are they going to deindex everyone?

[photogaz]

Looking at the over-optimisation list it pretty much seems to me something that everyone is doing so are we suddenly going to find the best results actually de-indexed.

Maybe Google will slowly shut off indexing stage by stage so everyone changes.

What are your thoughts?

[AlanMosley]

What list is this?

From all i have heard, it is spam that is getting de-indexed, i would not say everyone is spamming, I certainly do not risk my clients sites with spam.

[Sean_Dawes]

At the end of the day google is trying to get poor websites who are listing because they either stuffed title tags, crammed keywords in filler content in a footer and other poor seo tactics. If you optimized your site properly with keyword research in a logical manner I do not suspect to see an impact. The only impact you could see is the devaluing of links from poor websites to yours and you see a trickle down effect.

[BlueprintMarketing]

I would be inclined to agree with the gentleman who have answered above me. I do not know what Google will do for sure as I believe almost no one including even some that work at Google do. However I would imagine Google would be more apt to tackle the people who are manipulating their ranking on Google by use of keyword stuffing, link farms and on and on. The fact that someone can be penalized for having a website that is to highly optimized I find disturbing however I really doubt and hope it is only the people that have practiced Google has told us our black/grey hat tactics. I consider myself a ethical business man like the gentleman above me said I would never practice any of the black/grey hat techniques to improve my own or my clients ranking it just doesn't make sense to do that. I would imagine if they were to delist everyone that has done something to make sure there on page seo is optimized they would devalue some of their results that everyday people count on Google. To put it plainly if they did that Google would hurt themselves because it ordinary people not get what they are looking for when they search Google. I hope this is of some help.

[Francisco_Meza]

Alan, I like most of your responses. A fat thumbs up for you! I don't risk getting my clients' websites. Imagine me losing all the income? I had a talk with my client that I can get him to the top by creating a little shady things (spam) OR I could take the long hard road. We took the long hard road which was based off his decision to retire in the next two years. We can't afford to get Google smacked.

@Gareth, not everyone spams or over-optimizes. I definitely don't over optimize. It lowers conversions because the content becomes unreadable. ACTUALLY, my sites are ranking higher now so I am glad this is happening.