New Google Update - Where the Hell is Everyone's Professionalism?

Lowbrow said:

Like I said today to some random old person I was passing on the street (in reference to SEO): "This is a game. It's a big game. Just remember that. It's a game that my livelihood depends on...but it's still a game."

Didn't we learn anything from Omar on The Wire? He said it all the time, when things would go bad for him or the people he jacked...it's all in the game.

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audioguy said:

It proves that in this business, mindset is more important than technique.

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azguru said:

It's embarrassing for BHW as a community to have tons of black hatters posting stuff about their business being completely ruined and their lives being over because of this Google update. We are black hatters. It's our job to remain confident and find the next new way to "beat the system." These posts are regressive and childish.

I GET IT. Your rankings dropped and, consequently, so did your income. Fix it! Any experienced SEO specialist has been hit by a panda update, the sandbox, or something that negatively effects their SERPs. You CAN get out of it. There is always a solution. Luckily, I wasn't hit by this one, but I was hit by the last one. After that, I developed a new SEO plan which is probably what saved me from this newest Panda/Penguin update.

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Aullus said:

I hear you, but I think people have the right to voice a little frustration. I think the problem is that a lot of people don't look at it like trying to "beat the system." A lot of us are simply trying to provide a good experience for the people that visit our sites. Of course, we are also trying to profit from that good experience, but that doesn't make us evil webmasters.

People are pissed because this update didn't accomplish anything. Google didn't improve on the overall user experience, and that has us upset, which I think says a lot about some of us. I think if the update actually did get rid of the shitty sites you wouldn't see so many people bitching. It just gets sickening when completely worthless sites now occupy the top spots, while some of our quality sites sit at #48.

I'm not giving up (and I don't think most people are), but that doesn't mean we can't talk (or bitch) about it.

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Expertpeon said:

While I agree, websites are often infrastructure... loss of infrastructure can be very serious. Especially when there's thousands of man hours behind something.

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manny521 said:

Sometimes we/all of us need to to bitch and complain as it helps to relieve some of the stress of lost income. If it makes you so mad, don't read it. I read what I want on this forum and what I don't want to read, I ignore.

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beakon said:

I think the amount of negativity surrounding this recent update is warranted. You're going to sit there and tell me this update has improved search results?

Please get off your high horse and come back to reality.

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Needalead said:

While I understand that there are some pissed off people but if you are being legit. You would have nothing to worry about. My sites were okay because I knew I was okay because I just build links naturally & add content, I know people always want a quick way out but honestly? What's it worth in the long run?

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azguru said:

It is getting incredibly annoying to see all of these immature posts about the new Google update every time I log on to BHW. People are blaming this on Matt Cutts and creating obscene posts cursing the guy. I see people talking about dropping out of SEO, or straying away from Google and onto other search engines. Aren't you guys professionals?

Yes, this update does kind of suck, but this is business. In business, shit happens. A good business man will evaluate the situation and start drafting new plans and implementing them immediately. NO good business man takes a hit and then complains about it being the end of the world on a forum. I come to BHW to learn more and hear about the great finds of others. I do NOT log on here to see a bunch of professionals bitching about a recent hit.

It's embarrassing for BHW as a community to have tons of black hatters posting stuff about their business being completely ruined and their lives being over because of this Google update. We are black hatters. It's our job to remain confident and find the next new way to "beat the system." These posts are regressive and childish.

I GET IT. Your rankings dropped and, consequently, so did your income. Fix it! Any experienced SEO specialist has been hit by a panda update, the sandbox, or something that negatively effects their SERPs. You CAN get out of it. There is always a solution. Luckily, I wasn't hit by this one, but I was hit by the last one. After that, I developed a new SEO plan which is probably what saved me from this newest Panda/Penguin update.

This post may piss some people off, but it had to be said. Nothing ever goes as planned in business as business is a cut throat, sink or swim battle. Are you going to sink or swim?

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Cnotey said:

Dude, 90% of the people on this forum are children. Of course you are going to hear nothing but bitching and whining when something doesn't go their way.

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jstorm said:

It's quite easy to say all that when you then say, "it didn't affect me". Hello. I get what you're saying, even respect to a degree, but when a person gets knocked for a loop like this they react. "To every action there's a reaction". It takes a while to regroup and venting is normal. Some may react more strongly than others, but we're all only human. "Scolding" sure doesn't help anyone.

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Expertpeon said:

I'm upset, and I have not seen ANY drop in revenue because of the work I did post feb...
I think every person who was doing well in this game is upset right now.

I saw a site that was bought for $150k (EMD in a hyper competitive niche and had no backlinks before he bought it) drop from #1 (spent at least $25k/mth on backlinks for a year), to #11 in March, to #68 now.

He was making at least $20k/day in profit... now I'd guess about 1/20th that... and that's only because he's still #1 on bing/yahoo....

Seriously, can you even imagine that? That's a site with around 25 employees. The vast majority of them will be laid off within the month.
This is a market where you have to have your own Visa/MC ISO to operate in... and you cannot exactly move that to the next site down the line...

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Needalead said:

While I understand that there are some pissed off people but if you are being legit. You would have nothing to worry about. My sites were okay because I knew I was okay because I just build links naturally & add content, I know people always want a quick way out but honestly? What's it worth in the long run?

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