fearlessrick - 12:49 pm on Aug 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I'll be honest here. I am so sick and tired of having to comply with every new Google idea, not to mention browser and OS upgrades, that it would be nice to just simplify the entire process. I have tried time and again to verify my site in sitemaps, and I always get the message that the system is busy, so i can't even access the tools.

How about jsut letting the bots do their work, like they were supposed to, without bothering webmasters every couple of days or weeks with new widgets?

Last April (2005), I got hit by one of your updates (I think it was bourbon) and my site fell off the SERPs. I did a reinclusion request and magically, my site was once again found by Googlers in July, though to date, the traffic levels have never recovered.

I made more money with Adsense in April 2005 (pre-bourbon) than I have in any month since, despite contiuing improvements and additions to my site. In general business parlance, that is back-asswards. I should be making more money, not less.

I'll tell you this: I'm old enough to remember the phrase, "get the government off our backs" and am at the point at which it should also apply to fat, stupid public corporations (yes, even ones who attest to "not be evil").

Without the webmasters creating content, Google would be NooooGle. Nada, nothing. How about giving us a break and just including our pages in your results honestly without having to jump through hoops?

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