I just wish Google would return my own site when I search for it instead of someone else’s site. Recently in the last few days Google has stuck a competitor’s site under my site’s listed results.

There is still a failure to return exact results after all their changes my traffic has been cut to 30 percent of what it use to be before the Feb change.

After you weed through the corporate results on the First Page -the Maps, the local ads, etc., you practically on page 3 to find what you searched for initially. This is not a natural experience for the user and frustrating so much that I use Yahoo now to search or Bing. Google is manipulating the hell of out itself to the point where search is not natural anymore, let alone my readers trying to find my site which is more difficult.

That’s why I don’t respect G. and tell everybody to game it or die. G. couldn’t care less about your relevant content or your white hat seo. Your 1 year good boy work can be destroyed in 1 second by Google. That’s why all I do is blackhat. I’d say game it or die. That’s the language they seem to understand. And now I finished listening to The 50th Law by Robert Greene and 50 cent so to hell with Google! I’m more determined than ever.

“They are playing God with the search results again”

Of course they are, Google created their search engine so they can do what the hell they like with it.

I hope htis means what I think it does that those of us with content deep sites will finally ge the pay off we so richely deserves for all are hard work – or maybe it just means that Google wants you to pay to play an to hell with the free riders….

… just another pain in all our necks.

Realising top 10 Google results is difficult for some and easier for others. That’s old news. The fact that Google will now feature more results from one site IS news. BUT, how important is that news? What are we going to do differently to get into the top 10, maintain and ADD new results? NOTHING. We’re simply going to track the search engines as we’ve always done and apply whatever accordingly.

Having said the above, I think Google could have gone the extra mile to add this as a tool which features under PREFERENCES instead of laying it out across the board. It would have added a nice personalization feature to the Google service. On that score they may have made a slight Goo Goo. Time will tell.

Even so, if that’s the way it’s going to be, we’d all do well to cut the moaning, hop online, track the search engines as they track us … and use those administrator panels & brains for the purpose for which they were designed

People will start to get used to looking on page 2 or 3 if Googles algorithm doesn’t get it right for the user. Or maybe they’ll have an ajax drop down to show the results from that one site so it doesn’t take up the whole page. Users will have a say and it will be fine in the long run. I think it’ll be hard to be that one site that has multiple results but it just means web designers will have to work a little harder and make more relevant content to rank highest. This is good news for small firms like my own that make content so I’m kind of psyched about this. Because we’ll have to up sell our clients to use this service more!

Peter M.
Owner of a
NYC Web Design and Marketing Firm