OCCUPY GOOGLE!!!!

[hyderkhan]

Originally Posted by aygabtu

Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for long-tail keyword bloggers trying to be tops for 'My kids has autism, what do I do'. That is wrong and pathetic. But there are real businesses that got burned with this.

There are many "real" businesses out there that are earning a decent living with long-tail keyword blogs like "my kids have autism, what do I do". From what I've read on the blogosphere and here on WF in the past few days since Penguin hit, they are still in business and haven't been affected. They have survived. Maybe because they had the foresight to know that you don't just "follow the crowd" and boost your site's rankings based on blackhat techniques like building 500 forum profile signatures, 5000 social bookmarks, stuffing your website with keywords, plastering your site with Adsense ads, using one-page squeeze page sites that are a mile long, submitting a spun article to 10,000 article directories, etc.

This is kind of like the real estate bust of 2008. Many people lost their fortunes in real estate and are looking for someone else to blame. They fell for the "everybody else is doing it" trap and tried to get in, only to get burned when they realized, too late, that the bubble would eventually bust. How many people blamed the real estate market on the banks when they should have been looking at their own budgets and not invested in a speculative manner?

They say that the best time to buy stocks is when the market is down. In my opinion, NOW is the best time to start building new websites and getting them ranked the RIGHT WAY.

Google has cleared away a lot of the crap and "leveled the playing field", so now we can get a fresh start.

[hyderkhan]

Originally Posted by faceblogger

To be honest, I love all google updates because it throws off most of the bottom line SEOs off the game (It eliminates a lot of competition)

Agreed. And one more point to add:

In case anyone hasn't figured it out yet, the Internet is constantly evolving. And it evolves rapidly. What worked 5 years ago doesn't work today anymore. In fact, what worked 6 months ago doesn't work quite the same way anymore.

And whatever we are doing today may even become obsolete 6 months from now.

Heck, as far as I'm concerned, when I am searching for anything on the WarriorForum, anything that was published before April 24th, ought to be relegated to "archived" status, as a lot of the advice that people were giving about SEO on April 23rd no longer applies today, April 29th. (And I'm sure it was the same way before and after the Panda update.)


So my point is that we need to realize that this is a rapidly evolving business... and it is, unfortunately, Darwinistic in many respects... only those with the ability to adapt will survive.

[sackboy127]

Viva la resistance!

[Krushang Shah]

Thanks for the post, and thanks to all the users for their replies,
A nice informative post

[dodadder]

Good job... but I can beat it...
BTW nice bounce rate!

Originally Posted by aygabtu

My GA summary stats. Please show me a site that beats these numbers on a per user basis.

[inazuman]

Good and bad sites is has nothing to do with Google Analytics but Google WMT.