Here’s a new query I’ve by no means seen requested earlier than; does Google downgrade the search rankings of internet sites that obtain FTC warning letters about their medical and well being content material. The reply isn’t any, not that I do know of, however it’s attention-grabbing that somebody requested the query.
Daniel Dessinger a author on the pure well being web site Mommypotamus requested John Mueller of Google if Google has some kind of rating penalty for websites that get these letters from the Federal Commerce Fee. John actually had no clue what these FTC letters have been, neither did I till I Googled it. So I’d assume, Google has no penalty for this.
For those who look, the FTC published the list which appears to have been issued to ~400 companies and counting. The Federal Commerce Fee has despatched warning letters to corporations allegedly promoting unapproved merchandise that will violate federal legislation by making misleading or scientifically unsupported claims about their means to deal with or remedy coronavirus (COVID-19). The Fee additionally has despatched warning letters to multi-level entrepreneurs concerning well being and earnings claims they or their contributors are making associated to coronavirus. These efforts began last April however no, Google didn’t appear to wish to take any particular motion so far as I heard. I’m not positive they wanted to?
Listed here are the tweets:
I do not assume Google would know. It is likely to be that there is some coincidental overlap with what our algorithms look out for, and what the FTC seems to be out for, however I am fairly positive that would not be by design. (I do not know something concerning the FTC course of.)
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) March 23, 2021
What FTC warning letter are you referring to? I really feel like I am lacking one thing apparent :).
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) March 23, 2021
FTC publishes warning letters for all to see. Some well being area of interest web sites wrote articles associated to COVID therapies in 2020 and have been issued warning letters with a 48 hr timeline to revise content material.
— Daniel Dessinger (@danieldessinger) March 23, 2021
I doubt Google is utilizing these letters in its rating algorithm however perhaps it is sensible to. Or perhaps’s EAT stuff is sweet at sniffing out all these web sites anyway?
A bit extra from John after I posted this:
I checked out some examples afterwards to even perceive what it’s. Plenty of the examples I noticed whereas wanting round have been fairly unhealthy, and I might hope we catch among the related indicators for search.
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) March 25, 2021
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.
