Internet marketers, bloggers, advertiser, and online writers alike hate Google, and here’s why. Because Google owns an unchallenged monopoly in the internet world. And if you are arguing that Yahoo, and msn are challengers, well they are as much a challenger as Dal LaMagna is for winning the Democratic Party.
Let’s face it, if google hates your site, then it’s finished, especially if your trying to earn something like the adsense check of shoemoney. Google has complete control and can either make or break your blog. Nobody is comfortable knowing that their site, is merely a ship in the hands of the Da Mighty Google Ocean, and can be sunk at any point.
The question you have to face with google is, some money now? or possibly a lot of money later? Are you ignoring the smaller fish and keeping your net in for the big fish? or settling for money now. Every owner of a website who is interested in making money, has to decide between things like pay per post, bidvertiser,and paid per review programs, or the possible jackpot of adsense.
A perfect example of this is, the popular john chow and johncow sites. They have a page rank of 4 and 3. Now if you don’t quite understand how low this is then let me explain, this site has a page rank of 3 after a month. John chow has 15,000 RSS subscribers and thousands of visitors a day yet has an awful pagerank, that is not the only determining factor, but "generally" if you have a lot of visitors you have a high page rank. If you look at the john chow and john cow sites you will see links to the bidvertiser and pay per post sites, google hates these. If you go to problogger or shoemoney you won’t. Hence their page rank of 6.
Now people just starting websites hate this decision, I mean it’s like the TV show deal or no deal, do you settle for that first call from the banker or wait for possibly a jackpot. This is why everybody hates google, because nobody wants to make that decision.
And if you decide to try for the big fish, the 100,000$ ad sense check then you need google to love you, until you have such a steady source of traffic that you don’t need to rely on google anymore. Then you can kiss google goodbye and join programs like, ppp, and Bidvertiser… And rely on your consistent traffic to give you the tons of money provided in adsense.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:57 am
I think you could be making some pretty big presumptions on why people are hating Google. Really, I haven’t seen many Google haters until they started taking PageRank away. It’s a controversial topic and while Matt Cutts thought he posted “real answers” as to why this is done, it doesn’t explain why those who never did a sponsored post still had PageRank taken away.
That said, as you pointed out in this post, PageRank was never meant to measure a site’s traffic (or RSS subscribers). My blog, at 2 years old has a PageRank 3 and every single day more and more backlinks pop up and more traffic arrives.
Honestly, PageRank says nothing. Bloggers hate Google because they set a standard for what advertising rates should be and that messes with incomes, spare money, and the livelihoods of many families. Do I agree? Nope but at this point, nothing has come along to change it.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
yes I agree, I am making some pretty big assumpations. But the thing that people hate is knowing that they are powerless and have no control. And Page Rank does have some effect in search engine rankings.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I so agree with you. Google is like the Bill Gates (well old Bill).of the internet. They are buying up sites (YouTube) like there is not tomorrow. The problem they do not see is that their are indeed some upstarts that are going to give them a run for their money.
I mean one day when you have a page rank of 3 and the next day 0 with no explanation is some sort of shady move.
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January 24th, 2008 at 1:18 am
I have never been concerned about Google’s Page rank. Even wrote an article on my site about “Page Rank Paranoia”.
Much more concerned about getting readers and page views than worrying about a thing I have no control over
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