Google confirmed today that they are penalizing websites with original content and rewarding websites using spamming techniques.
It makes me wonder why I’ve been spending years designing quality websites. It’s much more effective to throw a few pages together with the latest keyword spamming.
I am sick of wasting my time, when Google has clearly proven to me that what they are looking for is crap websites with crap content.
Today, I am going to start playing Googles game. I”m still going to design original websites, but for other search engines like Inktomi that look for them, and for advertising. Obviously google allows webmasters no other choice but to play this silly game.
Also, Yahoo announced that they will be dropping google within the first quarter of 2004. What that means is that in the worst case scenario Yahoo users have to put up with these crap results for another 50 days. Dogpile is all ready displaying the Inktomi results in its Yahoo section, so I doubt there’s 50 days left.
I have also seen an increase in nongoogle traffic, so obviously this little game they have of playing God is backfiring and they are losing a steady stream of users.
Antoine