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http://greenguysboard.com/greenguy/google-lor03.png Off to look at some live stats..... |
...and there's an increase in Google hits so far today |thumb
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I'm waiting anxiously for any explanation of what the fuck has happend. Congratz on regaining the light spot but to be honest this , your site example just shows how heavily dependant we are on Google.
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My site/page was still called Greenguy Link O'Rama & while I was out surfing & trading links, we got a trade request from a site called Kara's Link O'Rama. We emailed them, asked them to change the name, got into a HUGE fight with them & Joe's solution was to register link-o-rama.com in my name (he even made up a company name to make it look more legit: Greenguy Marketing) Thus, my 1st domain became link-o-rama.com BTW: The Kara that was running the other site was the same person that was working with RB & Max Cash & owned/ran their flagship paysite Kara's Adult Playground. Needless to say, RB & I had a very rocky relationship, even though I promoted Max Cash & got to become very good friends with the staff over there, especially Alyssa. PS - Domains were not cheap back then. Network Solutions charged $100/year to register one (although, you didn't have to pay right away - you had a couple weeks to try out the domain before you bought it, which made it really easy to buy a domain name that you thought might get type in traffic & give it a spin lol) Anyway, I had already become good friends with Al4a & Ampland, who had also recently been kicked off their free host (concentric.net oddly enough) & bought their 1st domains. A couple years later, Amp told me that they were on the phone talking about me buying link-o-rama.com & joked that they should by greenguy.com & then sell it to me for $102 - and WOW do I wish they had done that! I've got a Greenguy Trademark story, too, if anyone wants to hear that :) |
That was interesting, love hearing those early days stories and how people started out. :)
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(Well I was for a brief time, but being shut down by freehosts for no reasons, discovering people fucked you over / did not really own what they claimed to own, resulting in angry emails, I chose to go for a bachelor in Multimedia instead. I picked up this shit in 2011 needing to do something in my then new health-situation. What's the moral of this short story? I DO remember Greenguy from back then :) So it's a strong brand.) J:)lly |
The Greenguy Trademark Story
I think it was 1998 when I got a lawyer (good friend that I grew up with) and decided to trademark the word Greenguy. So he started doing some research & found out that the guy the owned greenguy.com had applied for the trademark the week before, and for the same thing I was going for (electronic magazine or something like that) However, it was not yet his & was in a status where if anyone wanted to object, they had 30 or 45 days or something to submit paperwork as to why they objected. I knew a lot of people in the biz by then, so my lawyer drafted up a blank affidavit (or something) that I had about 30 people that knew me as Greenguy sign & notarize. The trademark office had to have it in their hands by a Friday & I gave everything to my lawyer on Wednesday & he was going to send it in with some legal objection paperwork. But, instead of sending it overnight via UPS or Fed Ex, this fucking dummy sent it on Thursday via standard US Mail. About 2 weeks later, I recv'd a letter stating that my objection had not been recv'd before the deadline, and the trademark went thru |banghead| Needless to say, I never used him as my lawyer again & barely speak to him to this day. OH! I also dropped $2k to WIPO trying to get linkorama.com which was also an adult links list that was almost EXACTLY like my site, but I got fucked on that, too: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/d...2001-1106.html |
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Does that still happen? |
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Once again, I can't find my site in Google searching for "greenguy" What's worse is that this is the top 10 when you search for "greenguy links" |banghead| http://greenguysboard.com/greenguy/google-lor04.png And I was having a kinda good day.... |
That sucks hard!! Webmasters tools should tell you why you're getting de-listed.
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At least you're still #1 in Bing!
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A thought did cross my mind about this - and I REALLY hope & pray that this guess is correct. Google Mobilegeddon is today, where they are "...implementing another major overhaul of its mobile-search algorithm."
Now, I know my site is not mobile ready & I don't really care. I'm currently redirecting everything to my AEBN theater. So it makes sense that I would not be found in Google if you searched for me on a smart phone. So my hope is that what we're seeing on PC's at Google is the Mobilegeddon search results, and in a couple days, it'll be back to "normal". |pray| *Note: None of this - my redirecting or Google Mobilegeddon - effects tablets, where my site looks fine if you turn your 768x1024 screen sideways :) |
Hmm I've been making all my sites responsive lately as mobile searches are quite a lot of traffic. If you need help let us know. It's not too bad.
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there are plenty of bootstrap+responsive templates which you can easily adjust to suit your needs.
ditch the tables from html layout, it's 2015, not 1995 :) |
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Tables can be responsive, I use this all the time: Code:
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