Really no financial reason to be visible. I don’t even interlink posts or track users. I don’t blog for other people. I write and post because FB doesn’t offer much in the way of an audience any more. I’d rather post invisibly where people can see it, if they want.
It’s one of the sad results of Google’s SERPS these days. More is more, but not necessarily better. Recipe sites are the worst for this… waffling on and on about irrelevancies. Finally, you get to the recipe (which is obscured by all sorts of ads/clicks to reveal)… It’s really a bad user experience. Here is…
Why? It’s simple. Google is a terrible business partner. Why? Because its recent actions have brought many webmasters nothing but trouble. Would you want Google to be YOUR business partner if it were a fella or a lady? Think about it. Google offers to find customers for its search engines, but at a cost of…
Google is largely a monopoly now. Google now competes with their own customers in select fields, skimming content off Wikipedia and showing it separately without attribution or links. They now show their own results in the top of the page, in the middle, at the botttom, and on the right. And they excerpt other content…
Ultimately, SBI’s success depends on the SEs… that’s the message in the sales literature. Social media is a recent thing; and still relatively unproven. Google has the majority of the SE market in many developed markets (not all). Therefore, we can conclude that SBI’s success is dependent on Google’s favor. In other words, despite what…
I have learned a lot from developing my site; but I feel that Google has changed the game in a number of significant ways, and SBI so far has failed to grasp the real import of those changes, for whatever reason. It’s true that Ken Evoy is conducting an aggressive research campaign, which may reward…
For those of us who’ve pursued rankings in Google’s Search Engine results, building quality sites, building in bound links, developing social media, etc.., the aftermath of the past 24 months is akin to breaking up. Nothing you’ve done is good enough for the other party. You’ve disavowed all your former friends; you’ve redesigned your wardrobe;…
So you can start to work on building non-Google traffic sources, instead. Your blog is a great way to access social media. Your newsletter and autoresponders and a switch to mobile pages will enable you to contact your readers directly. I’m thinking that Google is struggling to stay relevant (and there is ONLY one reason)…
My site was impacted by Google’s updates all this year and last. Not sure why. And despite Ken’s helpful updates in the forums, few sites have recovered from the combination of the anti-spam updates. There are many quality sites that have been really hit by the updates. And since many sites are larger, it’s hard…