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Google Doesn't Make Any Sense

by johnny_h
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Google has up and lost it's mind again.

This happens to me every time I do keyword research >>

I put the keyword in, no quotes - 26,000 competing pages >>

GREAT! This is going to be a great niche! >>

Check to see what the competition looks like in quotes - 300,000 competing pages. Say WHAT?!?

I know this has something to do with the fact that Google is hiding results that are duplicate or from the same domain, or however it's filtering... but why the hell isn't it filtering with quotes when it does without?

I'm not letting it go there either! HA!

Sometimes all is good and well with and without quotes... as I expect, more results without, less with... then I'll slap the intitle: on, using quotes, and BAM! 20,000 with quotes results turns into 300,000 exact occurances in page titles. RETARDED!

*sigh*

Does anyone know exactally what's causing this, and what it means?
#google #i hate google #keyword research
  • Profile picture of the author howinfo
    I wish I could help you. I have been trying to figure out some things about Google before but have not had much luck. I think nobody really knows why Google does what Google does.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Google does what they do to mess with us. They like to play with people who base their marketing on trends. It's just too much fun for them to resist.......gotta love those guys.
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    • Profile picture of the author johnny_h
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Google does what they do to mess with us. They like to play with people who base their marketing on trends. It's just too much fun for them to resist.......gotta love those guys.
      Yeah, I totally knew that going in.

      I think every day the people at Google get together at lunch, pick a random keyword phrase, project the SERPs on a wall, blindfold a worker, spin him/her around & allow them to pin the tail on the guy who's about to get bumped.

      They then de-index the site for a week. =P
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      • Profile picture of the author hariklia
        Originally Posted by johnny_h View Post

        Yeah, I totally knew that going in.

        I think every day the people at Google get together at lunch, pick a random keyword phrase, project the SERPs on a wall, blindfold a worker, spin him/her around & allow them to pin the tail on the guy who's about to get bumped.

        They then de-index the site for a week. =P
        This is just too funny! you made my day
        tnx
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  • Profile picture of the author kpmedia
    Google makes up the rules as it goes along. We all just follow, confused and lost.
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  • Profile picture of the author roosevelt
    I wouldn't sweat on it that much. There are plenty of other keywords for you to dance with
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  • Profile picture of the author johnny_h
    Thanks you guys,

    I've pretty much just accepted that this is going to happen every time I do keyword research. Sometimes I run with it, sometimes I don't. I'm postulating a theory, however as to what's happening:

    When you get more results when using quotes vs. no quotes - this must be filtering

    When getting more results when using intitle: vs. quotes - these people must just be putting the keyword in the title somewhere but not actually in the body (don't know why someone would do that...)

    My workaround - searching like this:

    intitle:"keyword" + "keyword"

    Asks Google to give me results with keyword in title & in body exact match.

    Has worked for me every time and as suspected, lower occurrences, filtering out any articles that are using my keyword in title & not in body (I mean, if they don't mention it in the content, they're not really competition).

    Just thought I'd share and thanks for the reassurance!
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    • Profile picture of the author chinanews
      What I'd like to know is how Google is at the top of all the SERPS???
      It's not like anyone is linking to Google, ha ha!
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  • Profile picture of the author johnny_h
    Google is a big money trap and they're not even trying to hide it anymore.

    Anyone using the "feeling lucky" button no longer gets random sites.

    put cars in the box and the lucky button takes you to cars.com, every time. football takes you to nfl.com. try cheese.... you guessed it, cheese.com.

    I'm calling it on Google.
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