Google Refresh? Whiny SEO Geeks Say Yes.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
According to Web Analytics World, Search Engine Roundtable, and WebmasterWorld, Google is going through another data refresh.
Yes, this means that all of the SEO geeks will start whining as Google finally catches up to them and starts dropping the rankings for their mostly worthless sites.
I’m of the firm belief that all of these SEO tactics are a waste of time. Everybody thinks that they can make a quick dollar by using the latest tactics and methods to gain search engine position. What ever happened to quality? What happens when Google catches up to you and deranks your site?
We’ll use Tech-Recipes for an example - The site has been around for over 3 years now, and has over 1800 recipes. Because of the dedication to useful, quality content, now the site has grown to the point where it’s one of the premier tech help websites on the net.
Quality content over time is the only answer. Fame and fortune follow success, not the other way around.
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November 30th, 2006 at 10:56 am
i totally agree!! most sites are all fluff but no content. i’d say the subdomain that Tech-recipes gave me was a similar type of thing but not quite on the scale of growth of tech-recipes.com
when i first was given the seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com subdomain, i had about maybe 50,0000 unique visitors the first year or so (more visitors than my previous 3 geocities sites had together for their 4-5 year life span).
the main attractor of visitors was my content; DVD backup guides and XBOX modding info. early the next year, i added PSP homebrew/modding guides and my traffic EXPLODED! the last time i checked i was averaging about 15,000 to 20,000 unique visitors per month (not too bad for not advertising eh?) and believe i am still in the top 3 of “dvd to psp” google search results and my site is well, very plain jane and boring but the content seems to speak for itself. i appear to be on pace to break over 200,000 unique visitors and over 8 million hits (compared to 115,000 visitors last year).
excellent blog! :P should be fun to see the whining by those ‘pretty useless sites’.. hehe.
November 30th, 2006 at 11:26 am
I agree, too. There are some good things to do to make sites more “search engine friendly” and Tech-Recipes has done some of these over the years with varying levels of difference, some impressive.
I have a difficult time deciding whether to laugh or roll my eyes at some of the snake oil seo recommendations that I read. “Oh, German spaces work better than French spaces in the title, but not in h3 tags…” would be a good eye roll example.
Thanks for the compliments on Tech-Recipes! I’m amazed at the community that has formed around it and I’m looking forward to see where things go from here. Thanks to you guys for all that you do!
November 30th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
We love google and would never do anything to make the google gods mad. evar.
/humming in mediation