What if top sites Facebook,Twitter,Google etc wiped clean?

Surminga · 08-06-2012, 08:45 AM

Was just wondering to myself what if all these big search engines and social media sites were wiped clean, and everybody had to start from scratch.

Some people may argue about all the work they have done to rank so high, but starting from scratch leaves it a level playing field.

What would your thoughts be about is, it's a what if scenario? What would happen, who would benefit

dadadada · 08-06-2012, 09:23 AM

Google is the best search engine there is (so far).

We might not like that it does not index our website on the first page, but the fact is the searches provide relevant results. And only continue improving. I forcee the time when there will be no more tricks to rank fast and easy. So, better get to build a solid business now and stick with it for a long term.

onSubie · 08-06-2012, 10:19 AM

The benefit would be to sites that do not rely on organic traffic.

With no index, Google has no way of doing searches or providing results so they would have to start reindexing everything again. Until then nobody could find anything unless they bookmarked it. So popular sites that are heavily bookmarked would still get traffic. But there would be no index for Google to be able to produce search engine results.

Reindexing would take a long time due to massive amount of accessible data now online.

This would put 'good sites' and 'bad sites' on equal footing since Google can't use many of it's advanced grading algorithms until there is a sustained amount of activity.

If you are allowing for manual intervention by Google after the hypothetical 'reset' they could through thousands of engineers at rescuing sites like Wikipedia. And they could make a lot of money restoring corporate sites for millions like abc.com or apple.com.

Without manual intervention it would take years for bots to refigure things out.

Mahlon

Tony Dean · 08-06-2012, 10:28 AM

It would not affecr savvy marketers who use media buys for driving insane traffic, they no longer use the over expensive Google Adwords, so it would not matter if Google just died.

Rose Anderson · 08-06-2012, 10:31 AM

If you've built your own list it shouldn't affect your business at all.

Rose

Surminga · 08-06-2012, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rose Anderson

If you've built your own list it shouldn't affect your business at all.

Rose

Very true.

Surminga · 08-06-2012, 10:44 AM

So I don't suppose people market with a fear of this happening to the search engines and social sites i suppose.....

sbucciarel · 08-06-2012, 10:55 AM

I don't use any of them for traffic or sales, so I'd be fine. I'd miss reading my favorite people on Twitter though, and no, they are not marketers...

joseph7384 · 08-06-2012, 07:23 PM

What if scenarios are pointless, why not focus on the "what is" instead of the "what if".

I'll prove how useless a what if scenario really is.

What if I found a brief case full of money
What if I found Aladins lamp
What if the IRS made a $1.5 million dollar mistake in my favor
What if chicken little really did not believe that the sky was falling
What if a car can float and a boat would really sink
What if a pillow was hard as a rock and a rock was soft as feathers
what if we were all aliens

adkrobertson · 08-07-2012, 06:47 AM

Hi everyone, just joined the Warrior Forum. Found it through this particular thread that appeared in my Google Alerts for 'Wiped Facebook', and it looks like I've stumbled upon a very good resource of genuine advice and information for someone like me who is slogging away as an online marketer for a couple of tech start-ups.

Anyway, to the OP who asked what would happen if social media sites were suddenly wiped - SocialSafe is a partial solution.

Forgive me if I'm promoting the company I work for in my first post, but it does seem relevant to the thread.... Here goes.

SocialSafe is an offline social journal that allows you to download and unify Facebook, Facebook Pages, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+ & Viadeo. Your data is backed up on your own PC/Mac so you can search across all of this data and view it in either a diary or file layout, as well as exporting to CSV. So if the sites hosting this content are wiped for whatever reason, you still have all your data in a usable format. If you want to know more or try SocialSafe out, just visit our site. (I can't post links as I've only just joined but Google 'SocialSafe' and we should be at the top).

If this contravenes house rules then mods please by all means edit this post to take out the bits that aren't allowed.

Looking forward to learning a lot from these forums!

Andy

08-06-2012, 08:45 AM	#1
Surminga HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 279 Thanks: 6 Thanked 22 Times in 21 Posts Social Networking	What if top sites Facebook,Twitter,Google etc wiped clean? Was just wondering to myself what if all these big search engines and social media sites were wiped clean, and everybody had to start from scratch. Some people may argue about all the work they have done to rank so high, but starting from scratch leaves it a level playing field. What would your thoughts be about is, it's a what if scenario? What would happen, who would benefit
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08-06-2012, 09:23 AM	#2
dadadada Active Warrior Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 29 Thanks: 8 Thanked 5 Times in 4 Posts	Re: What if top sites Facebook,Twitter,Google etc wiped clean? Google is the best search engine there is (so far). We might not like that it does not index our website on the first page, but the fact is the searches provide relevant results. And only continue improving. I forcee the time when there will be no more tricks to rank fast and easy. So, better get to build a solid business now and stick with it for a long term.

08-06-2012, 10:19 AM	#3
onSubie Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 1,217 Thanks: 97 Thanked 430 Times in 327 Posts	Re: What if top sites Facebook,Twitter,Google etc wiped clean? The benefit would be to sites that do not rely on organic traffic. With no index, Google has no way of doing searches or providing results so they would have to start reindexing everything again. Until then nobody could find anything unless they bookmarked it. So popular sites that are heavily bookmarked would still get traffic. But there would be no index for Google to be able to produce search engine results. Reindexing would take a long time due to massive amount of accessible data now online. This would put 'good sites' and 'bad sites' on equal footing since Google can't use many of it's advanced grading algorithms until there is a sustained amount of activity. If you are allowing for manual intervention by Google after the hypothetical 'reset' they could through thousands of engineers at rescuing sites like Wikipedia. And they could make a lot of money restoring corporate sites for millions like abc.com or apple.com. Without manual intervention it would take years for bots to refigure things out. Mahlon

08-06-2012, 10:28 AM	#4
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Surminga HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 279 Thanks: 6 Thanked 22 Times in 21 Posts Social Networking	Re: What if top sites Facebook,Twitter,Google etc wiped clean? So I don't suppose people market with a fear of this happening to the search engines and social sites i suppose.....
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08-06-2012, 10:55 AM	#8
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08-07-2012, 06:47 AM	#10
adkrobertson Warrior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: UK Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: What if top sites Facebook,Twitter,Google etc wiped clean? Hi everyone, just joined the Warrior Forum. Found it through this particular thread that appeared in my Google Alerts for 'Wiped Facebook', and it looks like I've stumbled upon a very good resource of genuine advice and information for someone like me who is slogging away as an online marketer for a couple of tech start-ups. Anyway, to the OP who asked what would happen if social media sites were suddenly wiped - SocialSafe is a partial solution. Forgive me if I'm promoting the company I work for in my first post, but it does seem relevant to the thread.... Here goes. SocialSafe is an offline social journal that allows you to download and unify Facebook, Facebook Pages, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+ & Viadeo. Your data is backed up on your own PC/Mac so you can search across all of this data and view it in either a diary or file layout, as well as exporting to CSV. So if the sites hosting this content are wiped for whatever reason, you still have all your data in a usable format. If you want to know more or try SocialSafe out, just visit our site. (I can't post links as I've only just joined but Google 'SocialSafe' and we should be at the top). If this contravenes house rules then mods please by all means edit this post to take out the bits that aren't allowed. Looking forward to learning a lot from these forums! Andy