Are search results being throttled ?

[mikeinjersey]

A weird trend i've noticed recently... (from someone that analyzes his stats several times days )

It almost seems like our positions lately are being throttled. (our as in everybody's)

No more are the days where you were #1 or #2 forever on google... it's like once google realizes you've had a certain amount of hits per day, your results get throttled back some...and others gain forward.

thoughts ?

[tangor]

With that kind of confidence, and if there is verifiable and testable proof of such things, and they are detrimental to affect a class of webmasters, all that's needed is a champion to rise up, show standing (in a legal sense) and become famous overnight as the leader of a class action lawsuit against unfair competitive practices.

Name the villain, reveal their practices, prove such exist and sue for not only lost business but punitive as well, and do it for all those other webmasters, too.

Otherwise it sounds like a lot of agitated speculation and perhaps a touch of sour grapes.

That said, I have no doubt that there's some kind of weird rotation of serps going on as the hidden AI for g struggles to provide consistent and reliable results. Unfortunately the AI is a slow learner and/or its human keepers continue to tweak it too far one way or the other.

But if you can actually prove ghost, zombie or other non-performing traffic is specifically sent after x sales by the webmaster that lawsuit mentioned above, upon success, will be pretty amazing and one could retire for life. :)

[NoobOperator]

@tangor

Otherwise it sounds like a lot of agitated speculation and perhaps a touch of sour grapes.

What would be your interest in all of this ? You seem upset every time anyone says anything about google. Especially from the US, large companies also send their stooges in to forums to misinform and to muddy the water, so to speak. Those people are really quite easy to pick out.

In law as in politics, the winner is the one who has more funds. The reason small business webmasters don't sue is because when going against large capital, the odds are not in their favour. It has nothing to do with whether they are right or wrong.

[EditorialGuy]

What would be your interest in all of this ? You seem upset every time anyone says anything about google. Especially from the US, large companies also send their stooges in to forums to misinform and to muddy the water, so to speak.

I can't speak for Tangor, but I will say that anyone who values a useful forum gets tired of recycled conspiracy theories, rants, and insults toward other members.

[NoobOperator]

@EditorialGuy

I can't speak for Tangor, but I will say that anyone who values a useful forum gets tired of recycled conspiracy theories, rants, and insults toward other members.

Would it have been more respectful of me to call him sour grapes. I am new here and haven't yet worked out what is considered to be respectful keywords. But through a helpful comment from you now I will feel unfettered to respectfully call people out as grapes.

[tangor]

The meaning of "class action" is the small guy gets a bigger voice. :)

If there is truly something which is ACTIONABLE then organizing for that is a good thing. If there's nothing which is actionable then it's just speculation ... and sour grapes merely means disappointment expressed with no intent to follow up.

Trash traffic has been around since the web was invented. Proof that a multinational corporation is filtering potential customers to company approved/partner sellers is something that would make headlines. I've read a lot of claims that there is proof out there. I just want to know what that proof is.

(Hint: I am not a g lover, but I'm not a hater either)