Search quality on Google

Google usually does a very good job at finding relevant search results for most queries of an average user. What follows is an example of a very wrong set of results that I just found.

Google ranks the post of this blog “Camidoc, a couple of good experiences” on the 11th position for a search of only “Camidoc”, an out of hours cooperative of GPs in North London. Just that shows how the search engines is biased to blogs for not competitive terms. This blog is not about health services or similar and the post is a few years old, so Query Deserves Freshness cannot be operating here.

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Good SEO habits of an Ideal Boy

Source: Indian Book Depot - Map House http://ibdmaphouse.com/Thumb/ITEM_3.jpg

I still cannot grasp why webmasters of sites would try to spam this blog. It just doesn’t work; I get rid of whatever Akismet fails to filter out. A recent one was from DesignsOnline (.) co (.) uk. Not only their homepage boasts an instantaneously off-putting design, it also starts playing a video with sound when loaded. Their bounce rate must be phenomenal, past the 70% threshold.

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