Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Fred Urban
I see that with other searches too. Too many porn sites taking over old domain names, too many squatters doing the same. All these worthless directory sites come up before the actual site you are looking for. Really sucks. On 9/28/05, Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed that

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Bryan Stevenson
YepGoogle created a huge new industry (associate marketingthink cialisoh...and of course Adds by Google)now their own creation is ruining what they originally created (a damn fast and accurate search engine) Makes you wonder if they can continue to grow or if it will all cave

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Ken Ferguson
Actually, I was gonna complain that it's too hard to find good, free porn on Google anymore. Because I mean, when you really get right down to it, isn't that what the internet's all about anyway??? : ) Lee, you bring up a good point and I think you should build a Google successor in CF, sir.

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Robert Munn
It's such a big indutry it even has its own acronym - SEO (searche engine optimization), conferences, the whole nine yards. Google apparently tries to stay ahead of the curve on the marketers, but I just don't see how they can. There are way more people trying to game their system than they

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Bryan Stevenson
- Original Message - From: Robert Munn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:09 PM Subject: Re: OT: Google Degrading It's such a big indutry it even has its own acronym - SEO (searche engine optimization), To be fair

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Ray Champagne
, September 29, 2005 2:09 PM Subject: Re: OT: Google Degrading It's such a big indutry it even has its own acronym - SEO (searche engine optimization), To be fair to legitimate SEO folksthe problem is the SEO being done to raise garbage (i.e. directory pages used to link

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Bryan Stevenson
- Original Message - From: Ray Champagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: Re: OT: Google Degrading We've got a full-time SEO guy here, he does that stuff because it raises page rank, and produces legit results

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Ray Champagne
are just going to have to do what they have to to get ranked. Hence, hate the game. Bryan Stevenson wrote: - Original Message - From: Ray Champagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: Re: OT: Google Degrading

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Robert Munn
That's sort of my point. SEO is agnostic to the quality of the material, so you have to deploy your own SEO White Hats to foil the SEO Black Hats working for the squatters. To be fair to legitimate SEO folksthe problem is the SEO being done to raise garbage (i.e. directory pages used to

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Yep...doorway pages are a different beast than these directory sites Doorways are usually same domain for starterand optimized for specific keywords. That allows you to setup multiple doorways and log through-traffic to see which ones are working and which ones suck. Directory sites are

Re: OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-29 Thread Bryan Stevenson
That's sort of my point. SEO is agnostic to the quality of the material, so you have to deploy your own SEO White Hats to foil the SEO Black Hats working for the squatters. I would NEVER want to be in SEOthey call Google CONSTANTLY and try and have their competition

OT: Google Degrading

2005-09-28 Thread Lee
Has anyone else noticed that Google is become less effective? If you type in a say a restaurant hoping to get their home page you get get dozens of restaurant listing pages and no main page even though it exists. This is unforgivable. Is there a service out there that is better for the