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Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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post #32

I am currently struggling with Google and been even considering just straight up creating a Brazilian "Yandex/Baidu" clone or something somehow. My current business is heavily Google reliant, and Google been proving to be a very poor business partner: * Keeps punishing my site both in organic rank and AdWords rank (thus price) for not being mobile, despite my site being intended to be viewed by engineers with big scr…

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Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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> As fewer results of such not-for-profit websites show up in Google Search, competition will be reintroduced to the search market. I don't think it will. While I personally hate AMP, and disagree with many of Google's practices, this is not the solution. Google is everywhere . It is the default search engine on almost every browser, as well as on most devices. How often do you hear someone say "look it up" as oppose…

I'm not saying it proves anything, but Kleenex is synonymous with facial tissue and Velcro is synonymous with hook and loop fasteners. I "google" things on DuckDuckGo. :)

Yeah, I was just pointing out that to most people, ["google" == "web search"]

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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I'm very confused by this article -- AMP is an optional framework: https://amp.dev/ and even if you use it you can opt out of having Google load/point to it: https://support.google.com/news/producer/answer/7281462?hl=e... You don't need to no_index your site. What can you do about it? Just don't implement AMP. Yes, sites who do AMP get preferential treatment in search engines, but you can still get excellent results…

It's a matter of principle, AMP is a terrible thing for the web in general.

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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post #21

There's an easier way - don't implement AMP.

Yeah, I don't understand this post. There are billions of pages out there without AMP and Google indexes them just fine. If you don't wanna implement AMP, then just don't implement it. You don't have to completely block Google over it.

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Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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post #21

There's an easier way - don't implement AMP.

Yeah, I don't understand this post. There are billions of pages out there without AMP and Google indexes them just fine. If you don't wanna implement AMP, then just don't implement it. You don't have to completely block Google over it.

Exactly! I am so confused as well. It's like this person doesn't understand that AMP is optional. And even then there's ways to instruct Google NOT to point to your AMP page. (And no, you don't need AMP for SEO -- it's only a slight boost)

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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post #32

I am currently struggling with Google and been even considering just straight up creating a Brazilian "Yandex/Baidu" clone or something somehow. My current business is heavily Google reliant, and Google been proving to be a very poor business partner: * Keeps punishing my site both in organic rank and AdWords rank (thus price) for not being mobile, despite my site being intended to be viewed by engineers with big scr…

Add to that that their "upgrade" of their adwords/adsense interface is an unmitigated failure of constantly spinning progress bars and cards cards cards everywhere making it really infuriating to use.

And charges and payments have become suspiciously opaque. Things like CPM swings (for adsense) in the exact same audiences. As for adwords, luckily i can afford to forgo all mobile traffic.

I don't know what shit google is going through, but it seems to be pretty bad.

> Only thing I don't tried yet is more traditional ads, but I don't have money for that (for example TV ads)

I think we should try a webring-like structure , there is a lot of inventory that can be shared between small publishers (and they are underserved/plain ignored by google)

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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post #32

I am currently struggling with Google and been even considering just straight up creating a Brazilian "Yandex/Baidu" clone or something somehow. My current business is heavily Google reliant, and Google been proving to be a very poor business partner: * Keeps punishing my site both in organic rank and AdWords rank (thus price) for not being mobile, despite my site being intended to be viewed by engineers with big scr…

Have you tried FB ads?

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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post #32

I am currently struggling with Google and been even considering just straight up creating a Brazilian "Yandex/Baidu" clone or something somehow. My current business is heavily Google reliant, and Google been proving to be a very poor business partner: * Keeps punishing my site both in organic rank and AdWords rank (thus price) for not being mobile, despite my site being intended to be viewed by engineers with big scr…

Out of curiosity (and I really do mean, out of pure curiosity), why do you care about fraudulent clicks? Unless the fraudulent click volume is "lumpy" or unpredictable, the only thing that matters is cost per lead/cost per purchase.

Fraudulent clicks make clicks worth less, so presumably the price already takes this into consideration?

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