My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her

Post by DanBC » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 12:27 PM UTC

grey-area wrote: post #109

wmf wrote: post #100

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One free thing you can do to optimize marketing is to not name your business a generic term . If your business has a unique name you generally don't have to worry about competitors outranking you for the name. For example, I don't think my brother will ever get outranked for "porcelain rocket"; he currently owns not just the top spot but the entire first page.

Plenty of products/services like Windows, Xerox, tipex start as generic terms or become them during their lifetime. I'm not saying that they should therefore always come first, but it's instructive if you compare xerox to this website - they dominate the entire first page of google results. What should come first is what would be useful for end users, and I think it's fair to expect a company named after and with an…

Post by johnmu » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 9:33 AM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #102

ChuckMcM wrote: post #101

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Two other pieces of information would be great here. 1) What is the URL in question. 2) When you click the 'why not' link what does it say? The other (possibly not relevant) question is whether or not you have any Google advertising or not on your site. I'm not suggesting that there is a 'pay for play' here, what I'm looking at is that when you use 'AdsenseForContent' or (AfC) the only way Google can know what sort o…

My url is: http://www.smitecamp.com

Post by latj » Tue, Dec 17, 2013, 8:03 PM UTC

thrill wrote: post #99

latj wrote: post #36

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In one sense you are correct that Google is "free" because one does not pay cash directly to Google to be listed in its results or to preform a search. But in another sense, Google is not free at all. The fact is, Google lives and thrives off of the data generated by the public. Yes, Google employees smart people. But its real value is derived from the underlying public data that Google gets- for free. Google search…

Google does not get its data for free - what do you think the 50,000 people employed there are doing? The vast number of servers, the ridiculous power bill, the research efforts - all these are so they can not only gather the same data that any of us can also gather with a simple bash script, but also present it in such a way that is significantly "better" than the competition that some people are actually willing to…