The Official Who's Dissapointed With the last Google update thread

[Alphawolf]

>>>Then again I haven't seen many reports of success in doing anything to retrieve lost rankings since 'Florida' happened... everybody is panicking and looking for reasons / answers (understandably).<<<

Really, I wouldn't expect to see that info shared. If you found a loophole through Google's traps, would you post it all over the net?

I'd expect over time some common factors start to pop up. I doubt this will be a quick fix sorta deal.

>>>The one thing that causes me the most hassle & wasted time is 'seo gurus' who preach as facts what are really only guesses<<<

Yeah- but it's good in a way, since people can compare notes and come to some sort of general conclusion. I think most know they aren't facts, but guesses based upon experience.

The biggest problem is that nobody can agree on anything because it almost seems like each results page has it's own set of rules..with a bit of random results tossed in for good measure.

I just keep thinking of those ubber dorks in thier casual outfits sitting on their bean bag chairs, eating free lunch, getting massages while at work, all the while knowing they will get some SERIOUS money when Google IPO's.

Doesn't matter at all if they wiped out 90% of the top 100 sites from their respective phrases. They laugh and go eat their free lunch then get thier free massage.

Also, the general media views SEO as 'cheating' more than not. That's why the New York Post titled an article something along the lines of "NO MORE FREE LUNCH FOR FREE LOADERS", or something to that effect.

I recall in some forum where i picked a nickname with 'seo' in it. Someone commented "So, you're one of those people who puts up a Britteny Spears site but when clicked on it takes us to a porn site, huh?"

There's no in between with most non web people. SEO=scum/spam/redirects

Only thing different this update is that it took out a lot of clean sites...sites that weren't optimized in any way shape or form.

Somewhat ironic that GOOGLE rode the wave of good SEO's trying to get relevant sites to the top of on target phrases for a couple years...then dumped us for the juicey money phrases and left the scraps only.

OK- sorry for the rant.