johnbremner
04-23-2004, 03:27 PM
Pagerank has no meaning in Google now - at least, not one that I can understand. Google has dropped all commercial sites in rank for .org and .edu sites. If you type in D-Mannose uk, despite having a high page rank, www.d-mannose-uk.com does not come in the first 20 results. Instead, what you get is a lot of irrelevant nonsense with zero page rank. Even pdf files with blank or jumbled pages come higher if they are from a .org site.
It's perfectly clear that Google are trying to force all commercial sites to pay per click, but in the process they are shooting themselves in the foot. Case in point, as I said, users who type in 'D-Mannose UK' want to find a source of D-mannose in the UK. Instead they get a bunch of reports on using D-mannose in the lab - highly technical and irrelevant.
A number of our clients (I run a PR company and a company that sells D-mannose) have told me that since the Google algorithm changes they have switched search engines, because Google now produces nonsense results for most searches.
Google may profit in the short term from this because webmasters desperate for rankings will pay for adword clicks, but in the long run they are alienating the public who now get totally different results than they are used to in their searches. So long term, Google is going to lose popularity, and people will switch to search engines that bring in results like those Google used to return. Plus, webmasters will switch to other forms of publicity like ezines and affiliation - both of which are now giving better results than Google- so long term, Google will lose revenue too.
John Bremner
It's perfectly clear that Google are trying to force all commercial sites to pay per click, but in the process they are shooting themselves in the foot. Case in point, as I said, users who type in 'D-Mannose UK' want to find a source of D-mannose in the UK. Instead they get a bunch of reports on using D-mannose in the lab - highly technical and irrelevant.
A number of our clients (I run a PR company and a company that sells D-mannose) have told me that since the Google algorithm changes they have switched search engines, because Google now produces nonsense results for most searches.
Google may profit in the short term from this because webmasters desperate for rankings will pay for adword clicks, but in the long run they are alienating the public who now get totally different results than they are used to in their searches. So long term, Google is going to lose popularity, and people will switch to search engines that bring in results like those Google used to return. Plus, webmasters will switch to other forms of publicity like ezines and affiliation - both of which are now giving better results than Google- so long term, Google will lose revenue too.
John Bremner