Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
1 page is # 1. About 400 more are underwater and show no signs of emerging. Traffic has fallen by 10X or more. This has now been well over 60 days.
Nothing black-hat or even approaching spam. The client is too busy updating prices, filling orders and ordering product to do anything but that.
Of course, I'm not alone in my needs / wants, but I think there are other patterns and issues that need to be explored here.
This site has got tons of in and out links, many new since things dropped out of the bottom at the end of November. Blogs, forums, other good sites, etc. So for that, I thank Google as this drives traffic as we all know. Now the client knows it too.
It is just plain wrong that these "filters" can come into place, and other than really hard reverse engineering across multiple sites (a process that really deserves FEA!) there's no way to know what's so.
Forgive the rant but where's the ombudsman? Where's a fair and reasonable dispute process? I'd pay for a professional assessment to see if there was something I did or didn't do. How can I buy or trust that?
Where's the invisible hand doing anything but pointing to the big corporate bucks?
Google is great, but hey, Google can be MUCH better.
How do we put the pressure on? Google's got googlebucks. They're smart. They're hiring.
Why is the little guy (and lots of em) getting the short end of the stick?
This is capitalism at its worst when the filters go wrong on ethical sites run by good folks who are just trying to make a living.
We sell organic widgets. Yep, all natural. And I'm guessing there's some weird filter set because folks trying to manipulate the serps overused the word "organic" and subsequently we're tarred with that brush. Hey - that's just plain wrong.
What do we do now?
Forgive the rant but where's the ombudsman? Where's a fair and reasonable dispute process? I'd pay for a professional assessment to see if there was something I did or didn't do. How can I buy or trust that?
Chewy I feel your pain, I have been there and suspect that as we speak I may be going back again, but you must never forget that in organic results Google owes you nothing.
There is no ombudsman.
