Comments on: Dear Google, you scare me

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:10:06 +0000

@Will, whether you use Adsense or not has no effect on your search rankings.

By: Will McNamara

Will McNamara — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:08:04 +0000

Does Google realize that the lives of ordinary workers are dependent on the business’ rankings?
If my business dropped out of the top ten or first page, it would cost many people their jobs, lead to other problems like family issues, mortgage payments, etc.
I hope Google understands the HUGE responsibility their company has for the not just the ordinary business, but the employees that would suffer as well if google blacklisted a website.
Am I to understand that there are SEO experts who believe that Google gives preference to those companies that use pay-per-click or adsense? Obviously the website appears in the sidebar listings for adsense, but do they actually penalize sites that don’t pay for adsense pay-per-click advertising?
Living in fear is no way to live!!!!
Any advice?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:19:33 +0000

Anyone who bases their internet marketing solely upon “pagerank” is a fool. There are plenty of sites out there getting plenty of traffic for their niche with low PR or no PR at all. Webmasters should concern themselves more with posting relevant unique content than with optimizing their site for some arbitrary and sometimes irrelevant ranking.

By: Kalena Jordan

Kalena Jordan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:44:03 +0000

Either you read my article http://sphinn.com/story/11456 or you read my mind!

By: Kimota

Kimota — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:34:38 +0000

After days of blogs going berko over the PR drop and speculation going rampant, wouldn’t it be nice if Google took the mystery out of everything so [people could focus on what is really important? If the wider community starts seeing Google’s decisions as arbitrary or random, faith in the existing system is damaged and that has consequences for all internet users.

By: stumblepaul

stumblepaul — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:07:09 +0000

if it makes you feel better, i thumbed up the page as i stumbled?

By: Subway

Subway — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:48:40 +0000

Sorry, but Google isn’t there to make your CEO tactics work, they’re not there to make you rich, they are not business partners of you, they are there to find the best results for a searchstring. The Google search algorithm doesn’t care about some “guidelines” you’re basing your business on and hey, there shouldn’t be any of those. Google would work best at the exact moment when CEO people can’t find anymore tactics for high pageranks, at the exact moment when only the sites with the best content or the perfect match to the searchterm show up on the first searchresults. Yeah, CEO people would need to find a new job, but again, Google is not your business partner, they are there for the people that search the web. Telling people whats going on doesn’t help Google at all, it just helps CEO people and lets them place litle Google bombs for money, why exactly should they do that? It’s not at all in Google’s interest.

By: Mizhizzyfitz

Mizhizzyfitz — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:29:12 +0000

Well said!
But Google isn't going to change. We need to find or create alternatives, so that we aren't so vulnerable to the corporate vampires.
Never before in history have so many been gathered in one space, at one time, as there are on the Internet today. We have the ability to speak in one strong voice.
We don't have Googles assets, but they don't have our flexibility, our maneuverability, our speed or our numbers. Corporations are slow and cumbersome.
Figuring out how to harness our strengths within this medium (the Internet) is one answer to this, and any number of other conundrums we face in our society today.

By: sokhodom

sokhodom — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:28:58 +0000

I couldn’t agree less. After googling about this topic, I found your site and I thought of sharing my similar thought as yours. Basically, Being a monopoly, it’s aint good for everyone.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:25:27 +0000

Forcer, you are wrong…google owns the WORLD
No PR changes for my main sites, a few jumps from pr0 to pr3 for my other sites however. I think by people being kept in the dark about what means value now in the world of pagerank, google can eliminate people trying to sell quality to simply add to their pagerank score.
Nice job google =)