Google Drives Me Crazy
April 30, 2011
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Google Drives Me Crazy
This post was originally posted in 2009.
That’s right Google drives me crazy, but it still shows this website and blog a lot of love. The overall site and blog rank extremely, as in it ranks on the first page for over 60 keyword phrases that we target. That’s the love part. The crazy part for this site is it can’t seem to make up its mind when it comes to the keyword phrase, Local SEO. It can’t make up its algorithm on which page that it should rank higher our Home page or the Local SEO page.
I though that Google had settled on our home page as the primary page for this search. For most of the summer it settled into the # 4 position. Then in August it started bouncing between these two pages and our rankings suffered. Over the last three days it had delivered our Home page first. Today, it is serving up the Local SEO page first. A lot of this has to do with what data center your search was directed towards.
Yes, Google results are not the same across all of their data centers. I have never seen an explanation for this but it continues to be a problem, at least for people like me.
My other really big concern is the changes that Google is making to its Local Business Center (LBC.) (Now Google Places) They are rolling out new add features that have been appearing in San Francisco and San Diego and that have been widely covered by local maps followers.
For those outside of our industry the LBC simply is the known as Google Business maps.
Just when I was ready to start offering optimization of the LBC for clients Google started rolling out new features. This caused a major upheaval in the results. The LBC algorithm is separate from the primary results that it produces. It is based on what is known as citations.
These citations usually appear as recommendations and reviews that appear on other websites. These have disappeared not only for us but all across the board. This caused many websites to be dumped off of the first page of the maps. This is not a very good thing at all.
So from one day to the next Google sends me and thousands of others into frenzy while we try to figure out what is going on. Generally, these work themselves out… in a week or two. Did I say that I am still waiting! This new add placement feature will make us all rethink Local SEO.
04/20/2011 This craziness continued at a rampant pace in 2011 with the May Day update and Places Search roll out just to name a few changes. The biggest change is Google’s push into local markets. It has rolled out and then closed Tags.
Google is also slowly rolling out an AdWords product for local business that it calls Boost. It is the spawn of the testing that I spoke of earlier. Boost is basically a fixed price AdWords program for local markets. This might be a promising option for local advertisers.
It really all depends what the price per month per keyword phrase is before one can accurately determine what the cost/benefit is. I, for one, have never used AdWords but I might consider offering Boost for clients. It all depends what Google is going to charge.
What say you?
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7 Responses to “Google Drives Me Crazy”
haha , your title is very attractive. but i have not met any problem you faced. So from one day to the next Google sends me and thousands of others into frenzy while we try to figure out what is going on. Generally, these work themselves out� in a week or two. Did I say that I am still waiting! This new add placement feature will make us all rethink Local SEO.
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Google is the thing you can say whole internet is called Google. The most important thing in your post is your title which is eye catching. Very attractive it is, I hope you will share some thing very interesting again.
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I for one don’t have your experience when it comes to SEO. Infact, this time last year I had no idea what I was doing at all. Since then I’ve done quite a bit of research, and I think I kind of know what’s going on. I get to number one in google for my primary keyword search on one of my sites, and then get a much more competitive keyword to number 2 for my other site.
I think I know what’s going on by this point. Result? I can’t even get my third site indexed, and although I do nothing different, the first site plummets. Although I don’t know much, I know I did nothing to change anything. So yes. Google and I have a love hate relationship too, althoug mine is part time!
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Your link profile might be messing you up. What I mean is that if you have many links pointing to anchor texts other than “local seo,” you wont rank where you want to for “local seo.” To improve, I would suggest building quality links if you have not done so already.
The site ranks for Local SEO along with 80 or so other phrases.
I liked you r title a lot . it specifies very clearly that Google is indeed a major part of internet . My homepage is google itself & I don’t think that I may be able to find any desired info without google . thanks for sharing