Thread: Indexing Lyrics Sites

How are there so many indexed lyrics sites on Google with the same content?

There are tons - but they're not hosting unique content. How can a new lyrics site get indexed?

The Google Quality Raters Guidelines may provide some insight into that question:

4.5 Copied Content that is NOT Spam
Some copied content is not spam. Here are some examples: lyrics, poems, proverbs, quotes, etc. This type of content has no unique or central authority.
If the page you are evaluating appears to be from a legitimate lyrics, poetry, etc. website, do not assign a Spam flag.
If you think the page exists only to make money, you should assign a Spam flag.

That last line seems like a joke. "If you think the page exists only to make money, you should assign a Spam flag." I think that 78% of the pages on the Internet are AdSense spam.

Will, do you have a newer version of that document? I have the 2007 version that is linked to from the SEO Book site, but it doesn't have the section that you cite.

Originally Posted by TopDogger

Will, do you have a newer version of that document? I have the 2007 version that is linked to from the SEO Book site, but it doesn't have the section that you cite.

That quote is from the July 2009 revision.

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

That quote is from the July 2009 revision.

Where can I get a copy of that?

I know they referenced SEOBook up there, so perhaps it's from there.
SEOBook is a great website with a ton of content to help people learn about Search Engine Optimization and things of that nature.
Check it out. :P

Originally Posted by tmongy

Where can I get a copy of that?

I got it with a "do not share it outside the community" restriction.

More I cannot say, except that Kovich is right on target.