fourchette - 11:17 pm on Aug 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

akmac:

I'm not sure about that. I think that "acceptable serps" is the objective of google, since quality is really subjective anyway. That said, really good and relevant serps would be in direct opposition to the adwords on the side of the serps.

I think that in the future the near majority if not all the links in the search engines will be paying links one way or another anyway.

They would make some secondary search engine for really non commercial and non revenues web sites. But the main google could be adwords only in a couple of years.

Of course I'm juste throwing the idea like that, but it is interesting to see how gogle will handle the competition between good serps and adwords clicking.

As for the topic of this thread, I've been hit fullblown in google since bourbon and I have trouble coming back. The thing is we had an ODP clone in a niche sector. We are completely rewriting the whole site with human content, so we hope to be back in december, for the long run this time...

We are not banned, but pushed very far in the serps. We made 301 redirect and lost the PR for the moment, so meanwhile were just creating a whole new human mande site!

fourchette