Well I personally think they have and want to hear from others what they are thinking just lately they have gone overboard on how they deal with links from site to site IMO. I have a few site that all lost PR and seprs at the time of their clamp down on link sales yet I have never sold a link for any of them sites. It seems like they now are penalising any site who wishes to link to other sites that are unrelated to an excess amount, which is nothing to do with them who I link to on my sites, if I have a site about weddings but I have a link to the London 2012 Olympics and to the company who made the website, why should my site get penalised? The internet is a network of sites linked together, but yet now the almighty Google have decided that not the way they want it to work, they want it so you are not allowed to advertise unless it is with their advertising. Google have to large a percentage of the market and are now getting out of control I am thinking. I can see where they are coming from to an extent, there is a mass amount of spam on the internet and all these sites selling 1000’s of links from fake sites made simply to host all these bought links is lame. Thing is though penalising and I have even herd of cases of sites being banned from Google just because of a site linking to a site which is not relevant is way out of control. Up until of late they had been doing quite a reasonable job against the spammers just making it so excessive amounts of links to irrelevant sites you will then be penalised. It also felt like even if you had loads of irrelevant links pointing to your site your site was not penalised as you are unable to control who links to you. Now it seems that even sites linking to you can have a massive effect to your site, again I have herd of site being banned and sites being penalised due to irrelevant sites linking to theirs. So it seems at the moment if you want your competitor to do badly all you have to do is go to cheapcraplinks.com and buy a 1000 links for $10 and their site will be penalized. Which is a joke! I personally feel that Google have got out of control and want to take over the internet advertising market completely now they how such a massive chuck of the market already and this is just the start of it. I for one will be not using Google anymore, I have been using Yahoo and MSN for the past few weeks to try and figure out which one I will use, I have found the search result to actually be very good from Yahoo and I am not supporting a company that is getting out of control. If you support me in what I say here I suggest we all market this post and our feelings across all the forums we use, email to our friends and family, tell our friends and family and do just about anything to spread the word, before its to late and Google takes over the market completely charging as they wish for advertising. Thank you for your time.
like yourihost said he never actually said come use Yahoo but was saying not to use Google. He mentioned using Yahoo and MSN and asked for anybody agreeing to then send out the word and use anything but Google basicly. Anyways yeah I also have to agree with alot of what is said here and I will also be going along with this me thinks.
Damn, get a sense of humor, i thought a smart ass comment was in order since your spammin this thread on every thread im reading. anyway i dont think it was necessary to make a new id on dp just to share your thoughts. lol but yes google is getting bad
What? Sorry for showing my support like the OP asked for, I dont see how posting link to the thread in 2 other threads is spamming, come on. I also posted it over at Iweb tools as I use that forum aswell and wanted to show my support, I dont see how your post was funny or useful all you put was dont you work for Yahoo very sorry my sence of humor differs from yours boss.
Lol very true, I like the new ask myself it has been advertised loads over here in the UK and I have been using it of late.
I agree that yahoo is a great search engine but google will always be the most well known and most used search engine. It's a great money maker for everyone and I doubt google will be going down anytime soon.
its all good and well getting all us webmasters to swap ovet to yahoo but then who is going to tell the other billion google users that dont use dp?
True I still use Google for my normal research of serps for the sites I work on no getting away from that but I have been using other search engines for normal use, which is quite alot as I am on the internet all day everyday. Very true, but insaying that webmasers I should imagine do take up quite alot of the search engine traffic, be it though searching seprs over and over and over or be it though normal use cos we tend to be on so much. Even if it is just a small portion of the market still that bit will help carlm them down maybe google were never this bad 6 months ago when they had slightly less of the market share. Also I know me personally where as normally I would say to a famly member or mate just google it I will now say just search it on ask.com I aint even gonna comment on your other message in this thread about me.
He's right to a degree. I have abour 20 websites that interlink, and I guess those are counted as "bought links" because they were all pr 4, 3, or 2 and now i got all pr 2, and no 3s or 4s. sucks, my pr 4 site gets about half the traffic now, and shows up on the 2nd page of the search results.
Yep and then yet I find a site like this one ranked at #6 for a search term contract hire. http://www.smartlease.co.uk/ Even though if you look at his links pages it is rammed full of loads and loads of unrelated link exchanges on about 6 different links pages. It seems that if you have your spammed links on links pages then your ok but if you have a few outbound links to usful sites in your main pages then you get penalised bug time for it. So the way to do well at the moment is to go back to the old days of spamming the hell out of links pages as many unrelated sites as you can fit on a links page. This makes me mad I used to do the same thing a while back not as bad as that I still limited each page to like 15 links per links page but stopped doing it as Google were clamping down on links pages saying it was spamming their index, yet it now seems to me that one of the best ways to do well, I am totally confused by Google these last couple of months things have really gone down hill IMO.
Is linking to 2012 Olympics site actually beneficial to your target audience, who are clearly looking for information about weddings? Now you might reply with, it’s my site and I will link to whoever I want and you would be correct. However this is what Google is doing, they own the search engine and they would display search result in which ever fashion they want. After all it’s not a Government run organization which has to be fair to all, it’s a commercial entity whose main focus should be to earn maximum revenue for its investors and this is what they are doing! The real problem here is due to the fact that Google has become so huge that for some it has come to symbolize the internet and sadly most of its competitors are failing to keep up. While Yahoo is getting better at indexing, MSN it seems is at a complete loss! But even Yahoo isn’t nearly as good as Google in showing relevant results and supporting a mediocre product just to show your hatred for market leader is some thing that would only stifle the growth of their search engines. Also what makes you think that yahoo wouldn’t start acting in a similar manner once it gets the larger share of the traffic? Creating another monster to deal with an existing monster is a bad idea!