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Re: Adwords’ Keyword Tool replacement story

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Post by babuskov »

krelian wrote: post #19
JDDunn9 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think paid search campaigns don't need more detailed data? Why do you seem to think SEOs shouldn't get data?

>Why do you seem to think SEOs shouldn't get data? Because they pollute the real results. If you write your content for search engines and not for users then it's bad content.

Couldn't agree more. I run a small website and was ranked within first 10 results for some keywords in the past, because my content is very relevant to the niche and I did a lot of research to write it.

In the recent year or so, I have been pushed to 30+ place and top 10 results are completely useless junk websites that contain all the SEO and keywords, but really, really shallow information. I guess someone used Mechanic Turk or Fiverr to get someone to write about it for $5 and then slapped all the possible SEO stuff and now ranks well and earns money from AdSense.

Or maybe I was just punished because my website does not have AdSense on it...? I hope not.

Re: Adwords’ Keyword Tool replacement story

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Post by andrenotgiant »

babuskov wrote: post #31
krelian wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why do you seem to think SEOs shouldn't get data? Because they pollute the real results. If you write your content for search engines and not for users then it's bad content.

Couldn't agree more. I run a small website and was ranked within first 10 results for some keywords in the past, because my content is very relevant to the niche and I did a lot of research to write it. In the recent year or so, I have been pushed to 30+ place and top 10 results are completely useless junk websites that contain all the SEO and keywords, but really, really shallow information. I guess someone used Mec…

Not that it will help, but Matt Cutts posted a request for people in your situation just yesterday: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/372801217727979520

Re: Adwords’ Keyword Tool replacement story

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Post by bengrunfeld »

Karunamon wrote: post #24
bengrunfeld wrote: post #23

The search button says it all - "Get Ideas", not "Get Info". You can't even choose Broad, Phrase, or Exact. This is a shocking tool. I feel that in addition to its philandering with the NSA, Google is abandoning every principle it once stood for.

Oh, look. Google changed a service and now they're "abandoning every principle it once stood for". Which has been said by someone, somewhere, (or some variation) for literally every service change Google has ever done. Stop it. You're adding nothing. And they are not "philandering" with the NSA. They are subject to NSL's just like everyone else.

Couldn't disagree more.

Google won over developers in the beginning because they provided information on search, essentially making the SEO business possible.

Hiding information is a increasingly popular trend that SysAdmin's, above other people, should be wary and distrustful of.

If you vehemently demand that Google (or any other company) has absolutely no obligation to its community, then don't be surprised when you're left with absolutely nothing.

What next? You're going to demand that banks increase fees for the fun of it?

Re: Adwords’ Keyword Tool replacement story

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Post by ozi »

JDDunn9 wrote: post #28
ozi wrote: post #22

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They're pretty tough on spam, actually; far more strict than any other network I've dealt with.

They will manually remove sites for spam in their own search engine, but they don't ban the associated Adsense account. In other words, they are more than happy to pay you to spam other search engines.

One of my AdSense accounts was just banned (testing cloaked traffic to made-for-adsense sites), so I beg to differ.
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