LostOne - 12:15 pm on Jan 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

"if not better - than ever."

WOW! I wonder if that statement has been influenced by his success and relations with Google as well? I've followed the 12 steps for almost two years now. Did very well in Google until April of this year. Looking at some sectors within my industry I always paid attention to the crap and wondered why they ranked.

Only recently did it ocurr to me websites with excellant content are being pushed deper into the SERPS while many sites with ridicolous fluff and all sorts of black hat reign in the better positions. Even those better sites had decent rankings before--ahead of me as well--with good reason.

I wonder how I would have reacted if I had no clue what was going on? I suppose the site about "monkey widgets" on page 1 knew more than the sub domain authority sitting on page 11.

Google seems to be more of a confused library of website collections than anything else thesedays.