Comments on: What Google giveth…..

By: 360Digest » Yahoo relief?

360Digest » Yahoo relief? — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:17:48 +0000

[...] those suffering from the malaise of Yahoo non-existance, maybe this will help. Yahoo’s just released some fresh updates to their crawling, indexing [...]

By: The Search Engine Idiot

The Search Engine Idiot — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:11:35 +0000

Cool. I’m an “authority.” I guess I’ll start writing more stuff so I can get quoted more.

By: B.R.

B.R. — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:23:46 +0000

I will do some recip links, however, I do not link with sites that use ads, or sites that use directories. Linking to those can make you guilty by association. Amen on keeping them honest.

By: Marlow Harris

Marlow Harris — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:59:02 +0000

I’m still receiving requests to exchange links with other real estate agents and I’m so totally done with that. I’ve removed all my reciprocal links on my website and have added no-follow tags on my other link pages and the few pages that have duplicate content. I was penalized for 30-days and totally disappeared off Google. I filed a reinclusion request and am slowly crawling back up in page rank, but I realize now that my position is not “guaranteed” and my site could disappear again at Google’s whim. I’ve read about “black hat” SEO tactics but never believed my actions could fall under that category! So it’s nothing but white hat for me from now on, and I’m working on other options to prepare for the other shoe to drop, just in case.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:26:30 +0000

If Google doesn't care about making their biggest paying customer, eBay, happy, what makes you think they would care about the organic ranking of several thousand realtor web sites? I would diversify your marketing (or be at least be ready to switch at the drop of PageRank). If for no other reason, than to keep Google honest.

By: B.R.

B.R. — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:27:43 +0000

some of you have to much faith in google- diversify your marketing now if you haven’t already. Google will not only go as far as yahoo, they will step right over them and set a new bar- I believe it will be this year. They have already begun adjusting and you can see it in searches already.

By: Louisville Real Estate

Louisville Real Estate — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:56:21 +0000

Great article. I agree with the other commenters that Google will most likely not take the same path as yahoo. They have had too much success taking their own direction.

By: havensofmanhattan

havensofmanhattan — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:19:01 +0000

I don’t think Google will go down the same route as Yahoo.

By: ekday

ekday — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:08:27 +0000

I don’t see Google going as far as Yahoo. Lets hope Google learned something from Yahoo.

By: Marlow Harris

Marlow Harris — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:21:02 +0000

Yes, you may have been penalized. In Google, when you search for “Jonathan Dalton”, your site http://www.daltonsazhomes.com comes up #2. In Yahoo, I found your site buried on page 3 at #22. Your website should come up fairly high in organic search, when searching for your own name. When searching “Phoenix Real Estate For Sale”, I gave up after searching through the first 100 sites on each portal, though your blog did come up on Google.

However, I’m sure Yahoo would be happy to SELL you higher placement for your own name.