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Originally Posted by d-null
so you guys are pretty certain that if a site consistently starts to see negative ratings, that google will resist the urge to use that information in its anonymous serp rankings??
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Google's trying to stop SE spamming. Doing this will encourage SE spamming by getting people to create thousands of accounts to vote down competition and vote up their own sites. I'm pretty sure Google thought this through already. Unless Google comes up with a way to validate Google accounts as legitimate accounts attached to one person/entity (by providing verified account information like drivers license, cc #'s, etc...) then this won't affect anonymous SERP's. if you think through the logic of it, you still do want legitimate user accounts who are logged in to bookmark your sites or give you good comments because in the future it will rank your site higher in their personal SERP results, because maybe in the forseeable future the anonymous SERP's will become less important than the personal SERP results. you want your site to be get good votes and comments in the user's account, which will equate to you providing unique and good content. creating illegitimate accounts though and voting/commenting is useless, unless people are actually going to be using those accounts to surf.
i know the phrase "Content is King" is so played out, but it will be the way of the future to get those valuable individualized SERP results which you won't be able to manipulate.
SEO is slowly dying or being buffered out. and anyone who argues this point just can't see the bigger picture (for lack of brain power or short-sightedness).