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My website has plenty of outbound links, but they are on relevant pages. The problem my site has always had, was a lack of "inbound links." I got tired of searching for people to link to me (with all the spammy sites around) and gave up. So my pages have acquired some links naturally I guess(and I'll bet I still don't have more than 30 inbound links for the whole site) Still have a PR4, which I've had since it disappeared in Nov.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:54 pm (utc) on May 27, 2005]
All the while, my RELEVANT site is getting trashed further and further into the bowels of cyberspace, along with my LIFE.
Google is trashing your life? Wow....time to find a new source of income and stop letting google trash you then.
Bring on the FTC.
Many of you are going to hate me for this but...Any site that carries Google Adsense on the front page should never be allowed to list in the top 10 positions of any natural google listing. Seems to me this is a HUGE conflict of interest that Google can manipulate to its own ends just like so many other issues they currently sweep under the rug.
And what would the FTC say? You're not allowed to manipulate your own product? Give me a break...google doesn't owe anyone a damn thing. If they wanted to make the first 100 listings all adsense sites, they are perfectly within their right to do so. A company can do anything it wants to its product. The fact that so many people put their fiscal lives in google's hands is not their problem - it's yours.
Seems to me they are going head long into so many different media avenues they have become a marketing entity and therefore should be REGULATED based on market share similar to how AT&T was regulated at one time.
Apples and oranges. At & T was a M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y, Google IS NOT.
The fact that they have the largest market share has to do with the fact that they built a better mousetrap, not the forced exclusion of competition. Anyone in the world is free to build a comptetior to google and steal their business, just as they did to altavista/yahoo etc.
Don't worry if the feds get involved the SEO game will still be afoot but this time there will be some set of rules a search engine must abide to be a search engine.
Yep...that's just what we need...rediculous government rules dictating the method in which a search engine can disply it's results. And who would be the judge of that? I amy have a vastly different set of criteria to what I consider relevant to a search than you do, and so will the next person.
If we're going to start recommending rediculous government intervention, shouldn't we also consider mandatory fines for search engine spamming. As well as making it a felony for someone to hijack a site and/or scrape a sites content. Where should we stop with your government intervention?
YAWN.
Maybe I'm crazy.What's your take on this?
Yep. You're nuts.
it is only perceived as such by those who are obsessed with google to the point that it is monopolizing their life.
it would be best to let this thread rest for awhile until we can identify commonalities in the serps. In the meantime...to all those that need to vent their frustration, start a new topic and do it there.
As expected and told by our good friend GG, I see some movement on the DCs. Maybe the addition of that famous 0.5 improvement is taking place right now.
I have noticed during this update that google UK is the one most sensitive to changes on the DCs.
Any of UK folks can update us?
Thanks.
Ready, set, go!
Not seeing much movement - off to check a bit more. - It is the time of day that things happen (typically almost bedtime UK time - & I dont stay up to gone pi 0 clock ;))
Yep Google UK does seem to be a bit different (yep everyone who knows these things - I know it is just a dc - currently 216.239.39.104 for me) - but is slightly different to this dc due to local targetting - or whatever.
In the meantime...to all those that need to vent their frustration, start a new topic and do it there.
Right.
Well, although I was not frustrated I did exactly that, started a new thread asking for opinions about Google's "mindset".
That was on May 31st. It is still on hold and I can't even delete it as it is pretty old now.
Topic? What topic?
Oh yes: the results on all datacenters are still weird. ;)
>It is the time of day that things happen (typically almost bedtime UK time ..<
The same here, but we i northern europe have the advantage to exchange posts with gg in "real-time" early in our mornings while our north american friends are still in their warm beds.
>currently 216.239.39.104 for me) <
Me too my friend. Me too... as you know ;-)
>Funny... in my corner it looks like a perfect alignment of the planets... all the DCs are finally lining up!<
Can you see your site anywhere on those DCs?
