I read and talk with many people who have problems being indexed and try
to achieve high rankings on Google.
I have submitted hundreds of web sites and thousands of pages to Google.
In general people seem to think that if Google does not index their
site, than they must be doing something wrong. This may not be the case.
Google may be the best search engine, however they are very far from
perfect. Goggle's lack of customer service for paid advertising and for
search engine questions and problems is common. Basically they do not
respond even if you are paying them money (Adwords). This seems strange
to me, if someone wanted to pay me money one of my companies top
priority's is to respond to paying customers. I think Google is losing
a tremendous amount of revenue by their poor customer service. This
also applies to little or no response to clear problems with their
search engine technology. Google tells people that having relevant
links to their web site will help your Google ranking. If you check
hundreds of web sites PageRank using the Goggle toolbar, you will find
that Google is very defective. The "links" do not show who is linking
to your site and many times shows your own pages as sites that link to
you. Sometimes you can not even see who Google says links to your site.
Google is not all bad. The Google toolbar is excellent and they even
give you a free pop up blocker, which does not always work. I think it
does help stop some of the pop ups. I personally hate pop ups and am
happy that Google is also against them.
Several top experts claim that Google will also rank a web site higher
if the site has important web sites linking to it, and it is better if
you do not reciprocate the link. If this is true, I think it is a bad
idea. Why should a web site be lowered in importance because it gives
links to other useful web sites. Someone might be good at picking good
web sites to link to and bad at obtaining links to their own web site.
Also highly ranked web sites (PageRank) are starting to sell very small
text links on remote spots of their web sites. This trend will
continue, and how will Google solve this problem? E.g. Someone could
have a poor web site and buy many text links from highly ranked
(PageRank) web sites, thereby dramatically increasing their page rank.
Best regards,
Tom Forrest
Phone: 805.493.4450
http://www.HTPcompany.com
Received on Tue Feb 18 2003 - 20:42:09 CST
