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Google’s John Mueller in an Office-hours hangout answered a question about whether a big a site with thousands of indexed pages influences Google’s perception of site quality. John Mueller answered no, it’s not a sign of quality and then provided more information.
SEO Perception of a Big Site Advantage
There is an old idea in the SEO community that big sites have an advantage over smaller sites.
When a smaller site can’t get top rankings some will shrug and write it off that the big site has an advantage because of how big they are.
An article published on Moz in 2012 offers an example of the belief that big brands have an advantage:
“There’s been a lot of debate about how Google, both manually and algorithmically, may favor big brands…
Since the beginning of the internet, the eventual advantage of big brands was only a matter of time.
This post is about why I think that advantage was inevitable, why it’s not going away, and what you can do to compete.”
It was a bleak outlook in 2012 and it is still a defeatist approach to marketing today, peddling the idea that ranking algorithms are rigged against smaller sites.
Despite new algorithms like BERT and MUM, many continue to believe that big sites have an inherent advantage.
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