SearchWarp, Google, and the Panda Fiasco Unraveled!
Posted: Sunday, July 10, 2011
by Al Case
http://www.alcasebooks.com/
Back in January of February Google released something called ‘Panda,’ or something like that. I was only peripherally aware of the thing, just too busy to bother with it. Then I started reading horror stories from some of the article directories I was submitting to. This got my attention, but something weird was happening. My statistics were going up.
Huh? Panda destroys article directories, and my statistics go up? Curiouser and curiouser, I started analyzing what was happening.
What was happening is very simple to understand, nefarious in its effects, and cruel.
Google is a phonebook. I know some people think it is important, but it ain’t, except as a facilitator of URLs.
In the past Google has encouraged article directories, so why would the Great Fonebook suddenly turn on those it had been encouraging?
Money.
After all, an article directory is a phonebook of a different sort, and with all the little phonebooks out there...let’s just say that Google is a jealous god.
Why should little phonebooks be suffered to exist, when Google could be the only one?
So Google stomped on what it had encouraged, and what it had, in its avaricious nature, grown to view as competition.
Now, traffic does not disappear. It simply gets rerouted. Where did it get rerouted to? Well, all Panda did was take importance away from article directories and give it to lesser, non-phonebook entities.
Month after month my statistics go up. Not wildly, just enough to encourage me to take out google ads.
Now, I wrote about this before, but Google ads, for most people, don’t work. They are expensive, people get tired of them, and there you go.
But, in the last months I have tracked my ads and I realized something interesting… one of my set and forget sites, making a hundred a month regular as clockwork, was suddenly pulling in four or five hundred a month. Then it died. And it was easy to see why.
In the beginning Google had put my ad above other ads, even above big paying company ads. Then it slacked off and I was down in the rankings. Solution? Get an ad and put it back to the top.
I did this, I’m sorry to admit, and it went back up to making money, and Google made more money.
Now, what is the conclusion here? Google is an enemy. It manipulates rankings and ads and whatever they can to make more money. And if somebody is making good money, stomp them a little, and spread the cash around, and...can anybody spell ‘redistribute the wealth?’
Okay, I know people get tired of hearing these stupid conspiracy theories, but let me explain something.
It takes 11% of the stock to control a company.
Every, and I emphasize EVERY, Fortune 500 company is controlled by a small group of hard to trace individuals. There are interlocking directorships, secret handshake agreements, price controls that totally destroy any concept of fair trade and competition.
Google is a Fortune 500 company...draw your own conclusion.
Now, here is the sad thing...it is not just SearchWarp that is effected. They are just the flagship that took it on the snout. So who’s next?
Depends. But remember this...the Google Slap is now in the hands of very cruel people who will do whatever it takes to control everything. They will slap and regulate and control whoever and whatever, and through any means possible. And, in Google, they have all the means, and with virtually no accountability.
So what is the solution? Oddly, the solution is the same and only conclusion for every bad situation in the history of the world.
Educate yourself, find out what Google is doing, or going to do, and adjust your thinking accordingly. Once you have a means of making money, don’t stop and put all your eggs in one basket, figure out other ways of making money.
Above all watch and analyze Google, and the other internet companies that control life on this here ball of dirt we call a planet. Figure out what the people who really own Google are doing, and take countermeasures. Go against them or with them, but negate them.
This may all be hard, for most people are a bit lethargic when it comes to educating themselves, but it is the solution.
Now, the question, should article directories such as SearchWarp continue to exist? Abso-forking-lutely. They are the flagship for enterprise and capitalism and innovation and all the things that make the good old US of A the beacon of freedom on a planet that is hurting.
What form they should exist in I don’t know, for that is up to the Captain of the Ship, people such as the honorable Bruce Horst, and their loyal crews. Whatever they choose, I’m with it. I might be making more money right now, but I know it is temporary, that the avariciousness that Google has displayed is a quick fix, and that the pendulum will, sure as night and day, swing the other way. Simple, people have to see and understand Google for what it is, and put the right kind of controls on that beast.
What was happening is very simple to understand, nefarious in its effects, and cruel.
Google is a phonebook. I know some people think it is important, but it ain’t, except as a facilitator of URLs.
In the past Google has encouraged article directories, so why would the Great Fonebook suddenly turn on those it had been encouraging?
Money.
After all, an article directory is a phonebook of a different sort, and with all the little phonebooks out there...let’s just say that Google is a jealous god.
Why should little phonebooks be suffered to exist, when Google could be the only one?
So Google stomped on what it had encouraged, and what it had, in its avaricious nature, grown to view as competition.
Now, traffic does not disappear. It simply gets rerouted. Where did it get rerouted to? Well, all Panda did was take importance away from article directories and give it to lesser, non-phonebook entities.
Month after month my statistics go up. Not wildly, just enough to encourage me to take out google ads.
Now, I wrote about this before, but Google ads, for most people, don’t work. They are expensive, people get tired of them, and there you go.
But, in the last months I have tracked my ads and I realized something interesting… one of my set and forget sites, making a hundred a month regular as clockwork, was suddenly pulling in four or five hundred a month. Then it died. And it was easy to see why.
In the beginning Google had put my ad above other ads, even above big paying company ads. Then it slacked off and I was down in the rankings. Solution? Get an ad and put it back to the top.
I did this, I’m sorry to admit, and it went back up to making money, and Google made more money.
Now, what is the conclusion here? Google is an enemy. It manipulates rankings and ads and whatever they can to make more money. And if somebody is making good money, stomp them a little, and spread the cash around, and...can anybody spell ‘redistribute the wealth?’
Okay, I know people get tired of hearing these stupid conspiracy theories, but let me explain something.
It takes 11% of the stock to control a company.
Every, and I emphasize EVERY, Fortune 500 company is controlled by a small group of hard to trace individuals. There are interlocking directorships, secret handshake agreements, price controls that totally destroy any concept of fair trade and competition.
Google is a Fortune 500 company...draw your own conclusion.
Now, here is the sad thing...it is not just SearchWarp that is effected. They are just the flagship that took it on the snout. So who’s next?
Depends. But remember this...the Google Slap is now in the hands of very cruel people who will do whatever it takes to control everything. They will slap and regulate and control whoever and whatever, and through any means possible. And, in Google, they have all the means, and with virtually no accountability.
So what is the solution? Oddly, the solution is the same and only conclusion for every bad situation in the history of the world.
Educate yourself, find out what Google is doing, or going to do, and adjust your thinking accordingly. Once you have a means of making money, don’t stop and put all your eggs in one basket, figure out other ways of making money.
Above all watch and analyze Google, and the other internet companies that control life on this here ball of dirt we call a planet. Figure out what the people who really own Google are doing, and take countermeasures. Go against them or with them, but negate them.
This may all be hard, for most people are a bit lethargic when it comes to educating themselves, but it is the solution.
Now, the question, should article directories such as SearchWarp continue to exist? Abso-forking-lutely. They are the flagship for enterprise and capitalism and innovation and all the things that make the good old US of A the beacon of freedom on a planet that is hurting.
What form they should exist in I don’t know, for that is up to the Captain of the Ship, people such as the honorable Bruce Horst, and their loyal crews. Whatever they choose, I’m with it. I might be making more money right now, but I know it is temporary, that the avariciousness that Google has displayed is a quick fix, and that the pendulum will, sure as night and day, swing the other way. Simple, people have to see and understand Google for what it is, and put the right kind of controls on that beast.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)True, very true indeed! I have not taken ads but lets face it. The entire bit is about money and you didn't mention it quite this directly, POWER. No amount of money or power is enough once they get it. Your article is excellent and, I believe, right on the money!Power. Ahh, yes. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Money buys it, and people think it's love. Thanks to you, OGM
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