Google’s Destroying SEO

switchjohnny said:

Don't worry, I have a solution, buy a bigger monitor and rotate it vertically.

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No need to waste money, just zoom out to about 50%

Hi To All,

Yes.. That is G job. They are looking to develop their business.

As a SEO Expert we need to find a way to crack for G. Till Now We are finding a great way to crack G. I'm Damn Sure We can always crack it. !

I just took a quick look at one of the link examples (above) and saw Wikipedia's prints all over the "monopolized" search results. Like most people here are saying, we have to adapt to Googles changes.
I see so much junk in the first half page of my Google searches nowdays its ridiculous. Worst part is the junk is from Google!

it cracks me up that you guys still use Google for your main source of income and yet most of you have the nerve to declare yourselves SEO masters/gurus/experts

Scritty my man as always you're the bees knees.... anyone who discovered the gem from your post should be able to understand where my post is going

lmxftw said:

Scritty my man as always you're the bees knees.... anyone who discovered the gem from your post should be able to understand where my post is going

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Absolutely! You will see the true professionalism once you read all his posts

ba_laz said:

Google will destroy itself,soon

eg.go to bing,videos,search for any adult keywords,safe search off
bing videos is now a big porn tube with gigantic traffic

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homey you cant be serious.

Google is one company you wont be seeing disapear anytime soon. Then you come in and tell me that bings porn search is better? Who cares homey

Microsoft has been trying for years to make a dent with bing. Have you seen their advertisements? They give Google free promo by trying to talk shit to hem and then they still have a junk search engine.

Take a look at googles revenue

accelerator_dd said:

(...)SEO won't die out because Google's value is in its organic listings(...)

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- prove it

Is Google still #1 as a traffic source? I think Facebook is #1 now with tons more time on site ... I am switching over to SEM on Facebook and consider any Google traffic as an added bonus.

SEO died many times, and many times it did not die. G is making money, and we are taking it away from them. They fight back. Nothing new, now and then. It's just they're big and can do what they want, and we must adapt or perish

By what Google is doing, they may die soon. GO BING!!!

lol. I'm done with SEO. If they want to index and rank the pages, I'm fine with that but I'm not gonna chase them and abide by their rules, I've tried hard multiple times trying to please them but in the end, they just piss on me. I remember when they released a major algorithm update which killed a lot of innocent business.

hardcorebiker said:

"How to get rid of acne" - You will find the best deals from all ecommerce sites in your country. which is pretty good as a surfer..

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hardcorebiker, I think you are way off on this one and missing the point.

Many "how to" queries are returning results that give recommendations. Try searching for how to treat migraines as an example. Google stole the answers from places like the Mayo Clinic, etc. While this may be acceptable for users, places like the Mayo Clinic are losing traffic because Google took it upon themselves to take their content and display it in such a way that fewer people will visit Mayo Clinic's website.

hardcorebiker said:

They have even started to quote articles in the search for cure terms like "how to get rid of stretch marks"..(google it).

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This is another example of Google taking someone else's content and using it in ways that they have not given permission for. First it starts out as a small quoted snippet, next a paragraph then the whole damn article. We are talking about Google here, and they obviously want to assimilate our content for their financial gain. I call this a violation of copyright laws.

hardcorebiker said:

But you cant say SEO is dead..people still click on those Blue links from 1 to 10 no matter what google does on the top section of their search.

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SEO is not dead, but Google is definitely trying to cause it some serious damage. The reason why they are doing this is quite simple. Google wants more Adwords users. The more people that Google can convert into believing SEO is dead the more people that are likely to spend money on Adwords. The goal? Possibly Google simply becoming a bid engine in the near future. Shit half of Google's search pages are already halfway there with organic listings stuffed beneath the fold.

In their attack on SEO, Google is also using their market dominance to instill fear about linking to other sites and those sites that link to ours. This fear is resulting in millions of link takedown requests and is wasting the time of many people/businesses. While the link removal process tosses SEO companies a bone, as it's another service that they can offer, fewer links means the average user is more dependent on a search product.

Google has no halo above their corporate headquarters. Because Google enjoys a special relationship with the government, by handing over private information to the NSA, don't expect any other government agencies in the United States to get in their way. In fact, Eric Schmidt of Google is pals with President Obama and has been to the White House many of times. With buddies like that, Google is pretty much free to steamroll entire industries that depend on a digital presence by holding them hostage to overpriced Adwords ads if they want any type of visibility in Google.

assphuck said:

hardcorebiker, I think you are way off on this one and missing the point.

Many "how to" queries are returning results that give recommendations. Try searching for how to treat migraines as an example. Google stole the answers from places like the Mayo Clinic, etc. While this may be acceptable for users, places like the Mayo Clinic are losing traffic because Google took it upon themselves to take their content and display it in such a way that fewer people will visit Mayo Clinic's website.



This is another example of Google taking someone else's content and using it in ways that they have not given permission for. First it starts out as a small quoted snippet, next a paragraph then the whole damn article. We are talking about Google here, and they obviously want to assimilate our content for their financial gain. I call this a violation of copyright laws.



SEO is not dead, but Google is definitely trying to cause it some serious damage. The reason why they are doing this is quite simple. Google wants more Adwords users. The more people that Google can convert into believing SEO is dead the more people that are likely to spend money on Adwords. The goal? Possibly Google simply becoming a bid engine in the near future. Shit half of Google's search pages are already halfway there with organic listings stuffed beneath the fold.

In their attack on SEO, Google is also using their market dominance to instill fear about linking to other sites and those sites that link to ours. This fear is resulting in millions of link takedown requests and is wasting the time of many people/businesses. While the link removal process tosses SEO companies a bone, as it's another service that they can offer, fewer links means the average user is more dependent on a search product.

Google has no halo above their corporate headquarters. Because Google enjoys a special relationship with the government, by handing over private information to the NSA, don't expect any other government agencies in the United States to get in their way. In fact, Eric Schmidt of Google is pals with President Obama and has been to the White House many of times. With buddies like that, Google is pretty much free to steamroll entire industries that depend on a digital presence by holding them hostage to overpriced Adwords ads if they want any type of visibility in Google.

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Agree with that. Didn't look at it from that angle. It really looks like Google is stealing content(Not sure if they have taken permission) and trying to keep the visitors as close to the ads since they probably dont wan't them to scroll down. I am sure in coming years google will start quoting websites articles the same way which would suck!

If the search results are degraded by Google's blatant profit mongering then consumers will learn to use another search engine. That combined with concerns with privacy could happen faster than you realize. Everything changes in life including who is king!

Interesting point about stealing content that Neo and others have mentioned.

I searched for 'London top attractions' and got the same black bar a the top. The first image I checked the source of (London Eye) is pretty much guaranteed to be a stolen image from somewhere - even if it has a CCL there is no attribution.

This isn't a simple Google Image search - Google have curated these photos and are presenting them almost as if it were a magazine. A lot of other photos are from Wikipedia - absolutely no guarantee of no IP infringement there.

If Google want sections of their website to look like a bloody magazine then they should act like one and pay for the content.

Rant over

Perhaps we should all start watermarking our images with "Google Sucks!"

Scritty said:

Imagine you walk into a shop looking for information before making a purchase.
The shop ONLY shows you one brand.
Eventually you go to another shop.

Google understands this - if you want to try and rank for VERY commercial short tail terms - Google is monopolizing those.
But as soon as people see Google has turned from "Search Engine" to "Massive advertisement for itself" they will just go to their internet options and change their default SE to something else.

I mean once a search engine fails to search for anything other than itself - it's not a search engine anymore, you're just choosing to see the adverts a privately owned corporation wants to show you.

Do you have an "emotional involvement" in using Google?
No? - neither does anyone else.

Google are walking a tightrope. They are THE brand name and have been for 13 years. Before that no-one thought Yahoo could lose...or IBM would ever lose the PC market, or Hoover would not be the leading vacuum cleaner manufacturer or Ford would be such a crap car manufacturer ... Free markets don't like massive unbalanced weights in them for long - they always get corrected eventually.

Google is showing too much hubris "do what we like" attitude, but no one (well maybe 0.0001% of their users) gives a fuck about them. If another company did a better job - and Google just presented you with pages of their own ads? People would move quick, and Google would be right roytally fucked

Key thing here is No-one has ANY emotional involvement with them. No one would care if they went tomorrow. Couple that with providing a less than satisfactory service to your key customers who only use you out of habit - when there are better alternatives they could switch to in 20 seconds... That's a precarious place for Google to be.

Scritty

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Scritty have my LIKES again, couldn't agree more than this.

it is just too much of a human nature to not trusting Advertisement, people use GOOGLE for what? Content? information? aint those what GOogle have always been whining about? "oh you gotta put up the good content, so you will have authority from us!"

For big short tails keywords, even if google don't put their own advertisement up, are you confident you can outrank those big company? are you sure you can outrank all the SEO experts across the worl

Man google cannot live without organic traffic, that is how Google hold their ground, so man.

INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT THE END OF SEO, WE SHOULD SPEND MORE TIME ON OPTIMIZING AND BUILDING OUT SITES STRONG AND BULLET PROOF.

Peter

Scritty you must send that amazingly accurate comment of yours over to the G team. maybe a light bulb will turn on in their heads. now something like Starbucks is something that some people feel an emotional attachment to. sort of like a cult type of thing.

I don't do much SEO so this doesn't bother me, but I can say from user's point of view the search results from google totally suck. I've been noticing that for the past year and it's getting worse. I'm testing bing, yahoo and DDG to find a replacement for google and nothing seems to be good enough. I'm probably gonna have to build my own search engine

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