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complain about a real problem
Can't see the sandbox being a "real" problem, or a problem at all. It's there to stop the SPAM. If I start a new company called Mesothelioma Lawyers Ltd you reckon I should show up in the top 500 purely because that's my company name?
Sure, the "sandbox", whatever it is, hurts some. It hurts people who are creating sites for free traffic. Many of them are spammers/freeloaders. It also hurts others. They - particularly anyone starting a new business with a business plan that relies on free SE traffic - are probably better off staying unemployed (or employed if they can find a job). Any new site starting off on the premise that free traffic will sustain it deserves to fail.
So, if you remove the sandbox as a reasonable cause for complaint, and remove most of the other whining, we'd reduce this thread to one page and those that can't even be bothered to read it will get a personal reply from Googleguy because he owes them.
ROI does not and should not have anything to do with your free traffic. A good PPC campaign can stand on it's own (isn;t that the whole reason for it?)
Irritating reply coming from someone who has probably never tried PPC.
WebFusion, no one can entirely relay on PPC traffic to sustain his online business.
Even eBay are having problems with it. PPC is good for support. Add to that the fact that competition is furious for many keywords (prices per click are sky high) and there you have it. The average webmaster will not be able to run or relay on PPC traffic alone to sustain his business without having free traffic to compliment sales.
Having to pay $1-1.5 per click for my keywords per visitor is just unsustainable and I’m sure that many other webmasters are in such position. It will get way to expensive for my business to relay on paid ads alone. My budget would not allow more then 15-20 clicks per day and then only 0.02% of visitors (if your lucky) buy or do something.
The end results, you’ll be buried/outbid by the big fish in no time resulting in your business being shut down.
Your statement is like saying (assuming we are talking about a brick and mortar business) "what do you need free word of mouth advertising. Simply use paid ads on papers and TV and that should do". Now YOU tell me what’s wrong with that statement.
If you’re a small developing business you will not be able to accommodate such expenses for too long. Not mentioning that it is 10 times harder to sell something online then it is in real world.
all DCs updated now. Nowhere to be found
The Google brand was not built on advertising. It was built on PR. Yahoo was built on PR, Amazon was built on PR, Ebay was built on PR...
"If you’re a small developing business you will not be able to accommodate such expenses for too long. Not mentioning that it is 10 times harder to sell something online then it is in real world."
A so much agree with this statement. On the internet the visitor has much more control over their experience when visiting a web site. They don't have sales people helping them look for product. They can't hold, feel, and experienct the product first hand. They don't have this "real world" experience of being in a store: the smell, the look, the feel, and so on. They don't have a nice "themed" store to browse through just a 2 dimentional computer screen in which mall other sites share the same basic features, layouts, and such in which they can click away at anytime they feel like it. To leave a store you still got to walk through products and sales people. You still have the experience in leaving. This is why a building good solid well known brand should be a #1 priority.
max_mm - I dont know what industry you are in - but PPC at levels of $2.60 per click makes me a 200% return every month and has since AdWords first opened - so dont make asumptions based on just your inability to use the PPC model to it's fullest extent
Yes I’ve heard of such returns in the spyware, dating and sex industries.
Unfortunately my business is finance related.
And BTW Marval, why are you wasting your time on this thread (if you really get 200% return from PPC). What would YOU care about the recent Alegra update?
WOW 200% is a big number.....question asked? at the end of the month how many actual sales do you generate from ppc. Anyone Investing $100 and makes $300 sales at the end of the month can claim a 200% return. BUT are the number of sales enough to sustain your business long term. Do you get enough clicks/sales from PPC at the end of the day to realy make a difference. That’s my question. I suspect that the vast majority of webmasters would answer NO to that.
I still find statemnts like this puzzling. What does one have to do with the other?
From what I've read on these threads, this is not the only thing you find puzzling.
Steveb, LOL, I have to agree, every week I say to myself, OK, OK, I'll add msn to my search bar option list, I'll do some sample msn searches. I mean, I really try, I want to use it, but average time before giving up: 1 search. My site stats show the same patterns, msn referrals are down from when they were yahoo based. Other people seem to see different. But my sites were doing pretty well in msn for target keywords.
Scarecrow, interesting observations. I don't think the -asdf filter was giving just results from the second index, I think it was giving results from both, if that's what it was doing at all.
I still don't have a feel for this update, my sites are doing fine, traffic is rising, but I still can't really get what the change is, my first guess was they moved to a bigger index, merged the two indexes, imperfectly it looks like from what people are writing here and elsewhere. They have to go to something like a 40 bit index sometime, is it now?
Unless that is a typing mistake, you definitely have a problem with a) the quality of the links by which your visitors came, b) the usability of your website, c) the products/services you offer or d) your products/services' prices.
It may be different for highly expensive objects like life-insurances or real estates, but in ordinary shops the rate for sales per visitor should range from 0,5% to 3% if the four factors given above are within normal corridors.
the keyword is down and up all the time from 3 page to 9 page in the last 4 month.
anyone could tell me, which filter hitted my site.
The average webmaster will not be able to run or relay on PPC traffic alone to sustain his business without having free traffic to compliment sales.
Max_mm, wheather you can sustain yor business on only one segment or not is not relevant.
If your PPC or any other campaign alone is not profitable you simply cut it off, regardless of overal business performance.
Bzzzt, wrong answer.
Five datacenters back with the "other results", just a few hours later.
Max_mm, wheather you can sustain yor business on only one segment or not is not relevant.
If your PPC or any other campaign alone is not profitable you simply cut it off, regardless of overal business performance.
Hasn't this gone on long enough? Can you please stop bickering and get back on topic? What has this thread got to do with the merits of PPC?
(Mods: Isn't it time this was wound up?)
Yet there are still sites ranking well that are almost identical to others. For some reason they are getting past the filter. They may, in time, also be be snagged. I'm surprised mine ranked well for as long as it did.
Yes it does. I wrote my post before I read yours. Wow!
And thinking about my incoming links ... the pages they are coming from have nothing to do with the subject of my pages.
Then maybe the Allegra update has nothing to do with dup content.
My site has gone down, the spam site is doing better.
It seems like whatever is going on is taking a very long time to fix, and people are asking me what's going on with Google, since they know I have a website. Seems a lot of people are taking notice new that Google has a problem...
Not to mention some explanation from Googleguy...
One of my sites which is on a very "niche" topic ranks at #1 in Google's SERP for the most logical key phrase ("key word" which matches the domain name, keyword.com). There are only a handful of other sites linking to the site's home page and all the links to the site are good ones - i.e. from pages discussion related topics.
It seems correct that my site would rank first in the results for that phrase, but Google displays the site's "site map" page at the top of the SERP instead of the site's home page. As far as I know there are no links from other sites to the site map. The only links to it are in the footer of each of the site's pages.
That just doesn't seem right. :-)
Goo goo ga joob.
-- Roger
and that directory has more relevant inbound links? sorry but I don't buy it
Search for "michael jackson trial" (without quotes).
Heres what you get in first position (a redirect page):
"-Untitled Document-
Your browser should redirect you automatically. If not, please ..."
And when you click the link it takes you to a redirect page which then redirects you to a google error page (404).
CNN comes at position number 2.
[edited by: max_mm at 2:16 pm (utc) on Feb. 15, 2005]
Posibilties:
1) Google.com just spits out raw spider data (the page in question displays a fresh cache date) before the data actually went via the algo check, filtering, PR and what have you process.
OR/AND
2) Major hiccup at googleplex. They are probably currently working on the problem and hopefully everything should return to normal soon.
I also noticed very little spider activity recently on the sites i lost rank on. Not sure it is related though. I think that what we are seeing is not a major algo update. It is just a matter of too much data to process or a major failure of some G components. The ones responsible for the algo, spam filters and PR crunching.
On my sites also, Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html) is only spidering my index pages, not spidering deep into my sites that got hit by this update.
64.233.189.X results WON'T propagate because they are threatening google business model!
Googleguy will NOT answer any of your queries - he just won't get a permission to do that from shareholders!
Why on Earth should he teach you how to get your a**e out of this - he's not paid to do that. He and those 50 PH.D's are paid to devise elaborate methods to strangle SEO as a viable business!
You don't like SERPs - who gives a rat's ass as long as Joe Dow finds what he wants through adwords and not organic SERPs.
It took them years to captivate Joe Dow and they are NOT going to lose him as long as Joe finds what he want and Joe is not bothered if he clicks on the links below the search field or the links to the right and finds what he wants. Google does bother though...
Just wait until Billie integrates MSN into the Longhorn and then there's a chance of changing Joe Dow's behaviour. New MSN is old sweet pre-florida google that we all loved to bits.
