peter_andreas - 12:44 pm on Aug 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

There is a lot of fear out there about using site maps. You hear stories (whether they are urban myths or the truth) about people using site maps and a sites ranking being decimated.

I'm feeling at a loss as to why my traffic from Google has fallen so dramatically.

I have tried to do no evil. I have never accepted an offer of a recip link (although at times I reallly should have)so my site grows organically (probaly the only one in the entire internet!) and been as honest and as open as I possibly can about how I construct my site. I had my site up before Google was a house hold name and it feels like a kick in the teeth to be honest.I have supported Google, raved about Google to my familly and freinds but no more.

I really did have so much faith in Google, I really felt this company was differant and would change things. Instead they have bloated into this all consuming monster which forgets who helped them get there and wants to index the minutia of the lives of their innocent users and for what purpose I wonder, because it can be done?

I have to say never spent a penny on adwords or any other search engine listing-is that my problem?

I am fed up of being a politician , about wringing my hands in defferance to the powerful master Google.

[edited by: peter_andreas at 1:00 pm (utc) on Aug. 2, 2006]