Comments on: Google’s Hypocrisy Knows No Borders

By: SEO consultant

SEO consultant — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:30:50 +0000

Google owns Performics and MSN now owns AvuenueA|Razorfish. It just seems that search engines owning SEO firms is THE oddest couple ever! But I guess it must be super easy for Performics and Avenue A|Razorfish to close deals!

By: Marian

Marian — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:20:51 +0000

I just discovered your blog, this article is excellent. Going to surf on the archives now

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:46:09 +0000

Hi Johan,
I think Google is overwhelmed by the amount of sites skilled enough to exploit its algorithm failures. To rank websites solely based on links is not fair. But the bot cannot see the quality of content, so links will always play a role. Google can do whatever it wants. After all it is a private company and if they choose to deindex blogs, so be it. What I am saying is that SEO should not focus solely on Google. SEO should focus on gaining authority for a site: targeted traffic that increases the trust rank in all the search engines.

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:26:31 +0000

Does this mean that SEO is fruitless? Do you think that Google’s deindexing blogs are the same reasons they change their search engine algorithms?

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:51:34 +0000

I suppose the ownership of Performics is news to many, Deb.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:21:13 +0000

Wow, their ownership of Performics was news to me. Love your inclusion of the definition of respect

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:31:31 +0000

I think they started to use it a long-long time ago. And they used us in the process too.

By: Houston Properties

Houston Properties — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:05:58 +0000

Great article. Google has done an excellent job of starting with the theme of “do no evil.” As they get bigger, richer and many of the early people leave the company - they have the data to understand how to REALLY make money on the internet. And they’re now starting to use it.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:06:04 +0000

Oh James a trial against Google would be fun, but pointless. I strongly believe that it will be more fun to force Google to admit its mistakes. We can start by no longer using Google search, then by eliminating adsense from our sites. And that, Alina, answers your question too… somehow. Adsense is nothing but “paid link placement.” Was google slapping websites that only display adsense? Of course not. It slapped instead all the bloggers who work hard to make a living online.

By: Alina Popescu

Alina Popescu — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:35:46 +0000

The more I think about it, the more your suggestion makes sense. Most of us bloggers use Google owned stuff, from blogger to google search and google adsense. We cannot really drop them all, but we can move our searches elsewhere. I wonder if they do something in case of a massive traffic and usage drop