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I had no idea you were at the million mark a day!
Not me, but collectively between all of us effected plus the regular brick and mortar retailers.
I have little doubt that tens of millions of dollars in sales are being lost each day due to these google shuffles….
I know i was only teasing:)
Originally posted by Dominique
Check this out!Aaron is a good guy, and simply put, knows his SEO shit. Cool to see others reading his ideas on the current Florida Google update.
Just to add to the new Google filter speculation…
A very good friend of mine, leaked a story to me that wasn’t supposed to be told. This was 3-5 days before the first sign of change happened in the Google SERPS. When I was told of it, I shrugged it off as propaganda, or just plain bullshit. During the changes, it stayed in the back of my thoughts, but never left. Now that theres a 90% chance that these are the final results, more and more people are coming out with similar ideas behind WHY Google has made these changes now.
The story was simple. A mid-sized, profitable company, in the consumer electronics business worked out a deal with Google for over $1.5 Million cash to get the top 3 spots, one for each of their 3 sites, for all of the keywords they wanted.
Personally, my thoughts when the Google SERPS changed so quickly, and so conviniently before the largest consumer holiday shopping day, something just seemed to be “not right”. Furthermore, I hate to say this, but I think this DEFINIATELY has something to do with inflating profits in time for the IPO. If I am correct, then Google’s plan was to deliver informational sites first, so that commercial sites would be forced to purchase AdWords, and at even higher rates, because everyone would want to get as much traffic as possible. I’m sure they also cut deals with large companies who profit the most from online shopper sales such as Amazon.com and BestBuy.com.
Again, if this is true, which it could just be my own conspiracy theory (I hope so), then I will be strongly disappointed in Google, and they will lose me as a veteran surfer.
I read it and now I don’t feel well at all. :nervous:
A couple of our sites have been affected badly but the majority are still ok. I won’t be doing any fiddling at all until I know for sure it has settled.
This is a speculated 10-25 BILLION dollar IPO
in the short run you can continue to believe in Santa Claus
… but corporations are not set up to be charitable.
:rolleyes:
I will make sure I dont say “Told You So” But only because I too am feeling the pain
On a positive note this looks like being our best month ever and will tide us over if things go sour.
I have been retrialling some traffic to our new poker venture that had not performed at all in the past (the traffic). They upped the price to reflect the “quality”.
Now, wait for it…
160 downloads from about 4000 popunders in the last 48 hours. normally I would expect 1/1000 on a good day.
I have a little download analyser that will show completed downloads, now the sad part is I have to download a 200mb or so log file to my HD on 56k cos the stupid satellite won’t work, to see the amount of completed downloads and be sure it is not some bot clicking the link repeatedly.
While typing this there has been another 5 downloads.
Gotta be too good to be true.
Google result are definitely out of whack!
Some people saw this coming months ago when the IPO announcement was made and they started optimizing for Inktomi. Remember, Inktomi was bought by Yahoo and will be implemented by mid January from what I understand. This will definitely close the gap on Googles dominance.
Also, no conspiracy theories here, but it seems odd that Google would mess up the free search algorithms during the busiest time of year. Aswords boost perhaps?
The bottom line is, better to trust someone that you have paid to do business with, Google is free therefore we are at its mercy.
Inktomi and paid Inclusions may be the ones to watch in the new year.
Kevin 11
That damn filter is going to cost Google a ton of visitors. The returns that come back for popular searchs now suck! This was a bone headed thing to do before an IPO.
I will NOT buy Google adwords for the search terms of mine they removed. Hell will freeze over before that happens.
What I would rather do is target google with Gator and Whenu and Kazaa and any other Scumware provider that will display my ads OVER Google for the search terms they destroyed. Lets see how they fattens their bottom line!
:angry:Instead of meekly accepting whatever crumbs these assholes decide they will throw us, I think we should hit them as hard in the pocket book as they are hitting us.
:shooter:Good link Dom!
I just tried the nonsense word trick and it does stop google’s filter tripping for searching “video poker”:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=video+poker+%2Dmt%2Dtb%2EcgiAs opposed to the results without the nonsense word:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=video+pokerI won’t be rushing out to add nonsense to all my keyword phrases in the immediate future bit this does prove that the filter is in place for all the highly competetive phrases…
Hang on a sec… I went down that list and a lot of placings seem VERY familiar for about 2 years ago can anyone else have a look for a term they are familiar with and has long term memory?
Hey Dean,
I have noticed the same. Just the other day, I mention this while speaking with the Professor. The search results are very close to what they were 2 years ago with a few new sites added exception.Cheers Cappy, that is what I thought, yep just a couple of new ones splashed about but other than that….
Maybe this is just a fashion decision by google to go with the current retro look popular on the euro fashion circuit at the moment. Like fashion let’s hope this doesn’t last long.
I wonder if the micro mini will come back in?
Yes – I said after just 2 days of scrambling that it was beginning to look like a cached engine e.g. the serps reminded me of something long ago.
Either they want to boost their profits by getting more adwords, or they want to appear “clean” for the IPO – what ever the reason, Im sure a lot of us are losing traffic
