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Frustrated with Google's Vision Of The Internet (warning: rant)

by Brawnydt
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Ok, I need to rant. I posted some of this on another blog, and wanted to get your opinions.

Is it just me, or is Google getting more and more useless? I love SEO and Google as much as the next person, but it really feels like the big G is working against itself recently and is going to need to implement some major changes to stay useful and relevant.

They seem to be penalizing everybody for everything these days, and making it next to impossible for websites to rank for their given terms.

G is making it so hard to rank for anything unless you are Amazon or Ebay that there's nothing of value to find on their search engine most of the time.

I'm also very against the branding update. If I wanted to buy off ebay I'd go to ebay. I don't want to see 100 ebay listings show up in the serps every time I search for something.

If I wanted to watch a video, I'd got to youtube. I don't want to see 10 videos on the front page and not a single useful website until pages 2 or 3.

For a book it's amazon.com every time.

G is all about making the web a democracy and turning it into a social paradise. Yet they do not give value to social bookmarking links. G wants good content on the web, yet they appear to be penalizing people for paid postings of quality articles. As opposed to rewarding the sensationalist drivel and straight out lies that others are posting as "kosher" linkbait. They want to favor multimedia, yet the top rankings are nothing but spam camtasia videos.

AND I really think G should get on the ball with updating its system and stop penalizing people for trying to rank, claiming they are manipulating the search results, when they are doing a perfectly good job of ruining their own search engine themselves!

My wife had a fever the other day, and it took me 15 MINUTES!! to find some relevant information on how to get a high fever down. A listing for "putting potatoes in your socks" appeared higher than a listing for how much Tylenol to take... WebMD was on page 2 for the search term!

Google is loosing the spam war, and they are destroying themselves in the process.


Rant over.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Brian
    Feel you. I too, don't really fancy seeing Youtube links in the top pages, even Wikipedia. They are in their own right a search portal already.
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    • Profile picture of the author Brawnydt
      Originally Posted by Intrepreneur View Post

      They hate black hat that's all, I only venture as far as grey hat and that's only as far as submitting my articles to multiple directories.

      Personally I think they do a pretty good job, sometimes youtube should be in the top of the results espeically when they use LSI, to see are the words realted to something more easily learned by watching rather than reading..

      Stick at SEO, for a while go easy, it's a constant learning curve, you'll see it's not all that bad. You really will.
      Thanks, I understand the battle they are fighting against spam and blackhats and how they are doing the best they can I'm sure. I find it entirely frustrating when others get caught in the crossfire. I'm an SEO consultant myself and know how to work with it, but I still find it quite irritating when G seems to be working against itself.

      Specifically what I'm referring to is the latest debates over the supposed "ghost writer penalty" they (may or may not) have given to some websites. Essentially companies are offering unique hand written and quality content to clients in exchange for a single anchored backlink in that article.

      One company was outed recently for this technique and subsequently disappeared from the rankings. I find it entirely frustrating that G rewards and even encourages linkbait, which results in people writing up pure crap, lies, garbage, and unsubstantiated rumors to get links. This practice destroys any air of legitimacy the web has left and exposes the real stupidity and shallowness of its users.

      Whereas when a company offers something of actual value in exchange for a link they get penalized.

      It just doesn't work in my head. It's a hard battle to fight, and I'm glad I'm not the one doing it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mickm
    The short time (and yep it is short in SEO terms) that it takes Google to index your site is a blessing.. use that time wisely to make sure you have good, original content, that you have branched out with related keywords across your domain a little (like Intrepreneur suggest), you gain QUALITY backlinks and you're adding new pages fairly often.

    Use this time to really target your niche so you save yourself a lot of effort further down the line.
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  • Profile picture of the author mdunn123
    Would say using a link building service through a blog network like linkvana be considered blackhat??
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Molano
    Well, there's nothing we can do about it. They are the big guys, so we can either complain or adapt. Ranking high, even for the most competitive terms out there, is not that hard if you know what you're doing.

    Just keep it white-hat and you'll be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Resentful
    I've been waiting for people who share a similar view with me. As the person above me said, they are the big guys. They are only the big guys because we make them it. But, some things never change.
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