Forum:Shouldn't Google favor Wikia sites since they have all those "ads by google?"

Hey, since Wikia is full of those "ads by Google", (something I noticed when logged out there were ads on every page-when I'm logged in there's only an ad on the mainpage) shouldn't google actually favor Wikias? That is, once they've been shown not to be stub or "test" wikias. I also noticed that all the advertisements were all good and relevent ads to the Finger Lakes Region (My Wikia is http://fingerlakes.wikia.com/wiki/The_Finger_Lakes_Wiki). So shouldn't google want to favor the site? Will it recognize it if those ads start getting hits and start to rank the site higher?

I say all this cause I have kind of given up on my Wiki as it hasn't gotten much traffic. I created it two months ago and just added it manually to Google. But, if it will ever be recognized by Google, it would have been already after two months I would assume. My wiki never shows up "easily" in a google search. It has to be really specific; usually using quotations. Daniel Christensen 23:51, April 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Google's formula ("PageRank") for their search is a secret (to avoid manipulation), so SEO tricks are just tips that are known to have a positive effect on the PageRank. My guess is that ads by Google have very little effect to no effect on a site's search ranking, in the name of corporate responsibility.
 * The fact is, many wikis start off low in a Google search. That shouldn't be surprising, considering the site is new and has very little content. However, hard work and usage of SEO principles can improve your wiki's ranking over time. Two months is a very short time for things like this, so I hope you continue your work. :) The 888th Avatar   (talk)  00:46, May 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * It would be really bad if Google favor sites using their ads. That would mean that a site maintained by donations of their users would be below another that uses ads. Search results should be sorted by relevancy, not by how much money the company earns from that site. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 08:36, May 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Like most good newspapers, Google keeps a barrier between the ad-serving and the search results. As for your ranking, bad sites pop up all the time. Google uses age of content and number of inbound links as two of many signals to determine site quality. If you have a new site that doesn't have anything pointing at it, it's not going to rank very highly, if at all. My advice: Don't worry about Google, spend your time making great original content that isn't available anywhere on your site and getting people to link to and visit your site through other (ethical) means. --GreenReaper(talk) 18:44, May 4, 2010 (UTC)