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Hi there,

Never forget the first rules in SEO: It changes all the time. So, Google has made a change, which is not the first one. Do the basics right and you will have a sound long-term strategy.

Good unique content, links (one-way and link exchange), no keyword stuffing, and good promotion of your business.

Once you got that right, you need to monitize your site. Use 3 to 4 or more income streams. I prefer google adsense and started a blog on Google Adsense Tips .

Cheers.

"I do blame a lot on the changes Google made since over 65% of our web traffic came from Google."

Maybe you should THANK google for the past revenue they have provided you. Things change in tech. Complaining because what used work no longer does is not going to help things.

There are many updates every year, and this has been going on for years. This is nothing new. Every significant update some people start crying like babies and blaming Google. Things keep improving for me. So far I'm up almost 20% from last year's revenues. More traffic and higher revenues. Put my first web site on the internet in January 1996 and things have been up hill ever since. My only 'down' year was 2007. If a site has good content, it will thrive. However, anyone who bases a business on the internet, particularly based upon ranking high in search engines, is taking a great risk. If you go down in flames, you can't blame Google. You have to blame yourself for not doing what is necessary to stay ahead of the competition. I'm so tired of hearing people complain that Google isn't ranking them where they think they should be it's laughable. Year after year, web sites that can't make it blame Google for their own failings. If someone chooses to make their living on the internet, they should know the risks involved and quite complaining when things don't go their way.

Hi everyone.

I need to know how can i promote my new website http://www.manandvans.co.uk on google , bing and yahoo.

It s brand new site, i just got the site developled yesterday and made entry to get indexed in google, yahoo and bing. How long it will take to get indexed?

any suggestions to quickly get promoted with spending for paid links and using legal SEO tricks.

Regards

Kashif

Google serves two groups; adveritsers and users. They have to balance the two, and they don't want the same things.

I wish Google searched better for what you really wanted to find instead of the things that wanted to be found the most. I search on the exact name of a site and get pages of maybes and city guides first.

As webmasters get better at comming up on more searches, Google has to change so that users can find what they want to find.

I don't need to know where to get best price on artheritis for my cat.

Just after our "mayday" currently the TOP 10 results for our main key words start to show up "new sites" like old online news with only one short press article (4 lines long) referring to the key word.

At the same time long existing sites with richt content (regarding the keyword) are no longer listed on the first result page.

If google wants to improve things with that change in algorithm I actually can't see any benefit from that!

If you are making money via Google Organic or Google Paid Search don't quit your day job! Google is constantly changing stuff that will eventually screw you.

Google has killed my organic search and has de-listed and re-listed my site for no apparent reason I'm aware of. On one of my sites, Google PR has gone from 0 to 1 to 3 to 4 to 0 to 4, which makes absolutely no sense. I've received threatening emails from Google that my Adwords account will be deactivated when I did not violate any of their rules.

In the past I could speak to an Adwords Rep.. Not any more. Forget getting someone on the phone. Send an email and your lucky to get a response. If they do respond it's a canned response that never answers your question.

It's very unfortunate that Yahoo and Bing don't control a third each of the search market. Google has too much power and I'm hoping Yahoo and Bing can take away market share from Google.

Google does indeed suck!

Thanks you, very good

I know when google changes its algorithms some people lose out, but also others gain. This has to happen in google as if things stayed the same then the larger companies would really be able to monopolise the business (making thousands bust). I cannot for the life of believe why people think this is a bad thing, yes maybe your not making as much money but then this gives another person an oppurtuninty.

The comment above is a typical example "hes been around for 15 years and has been ranked number 1" now down to 4 or 5 so you must of made a lot of money over the 15 years then and now its someone elses turn to make money. Google is a business that changes like every business does, you need to change to accomodate this.

To be honest I've had noticed no change to the number of visitors to my main site - although the adsense income has dropped this month.

The positions that I monitor have remained rock solid - 12 year old site tweaked on a regular basis but no real changes since the beginning of the month apart from a couple of blog postings.

All internal pages have links from the home page and many have links from external sites - this is not an e-commerce site with 1000's of items but a regular site with information and articles on almost every page.

Sales have not changed either and have remained constant.

We have noticed a big change in our Google shopping results. We have been completely taken over by eBay and Amazon listings which aren't even as relevant to the search term. It's very frustrating.