Category — seo

You ever hate being called an SEO guy?

I decided to take GoogleSearchSucks in another direction. I realized I can not compete on being first to break online marketing news. I also can’t take away the attention people seem to focus on the Gurus. From now on every post will be either a graph, a cartoon, or a funny image having to do with Online Marketing.

This first graph was my attempt of trying to explain to a buddy how online marketing works.

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The more time passes the more I realize how worthless the google toolbar PageRank is. The first thing that pissed me off is when I started a website which had a pagerank before any kind of links were built. I did a backlink analysis on Yahoo, because Google’s link: query is completely worthless. The result was no links. Since I was using a virtual host I realized that that page rank must be left over from another website.

Last night PageRank hick up was  ridiculous. I was about to write a great post on Affiliate marketing when I realized that the PR was up to 5 on this site. Of course I went to check my clients websites to see if their page rank has moved. The PR was all over the place. I went to check my own websites and it was a similar story. Within 20 minutes all the PageRanks reverted back to what they were previously.

Was this just an error on Google’s part? Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Is this a sign of something bigger to come?

Today I noticed something searching for “web conferencing.” The Google has decided to move suggestions of other searches before the organic listings even start. I don’t know if this feature will be rolled out permanently, but it will have dire effects for affiliates and SEOs alike.

Screen Shot Below:

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Recently my AdSense earnings have been dropping significantly (yes I hate Google, but I gotta pay the bills). For a while I was wondering what the hell was going on. Well my theories are correct and advertisers are pulling their ad money out of AdSense due to the recession. he clicks remained high but the payout dropped significantly indicating there are less people bidding on many of the terms I am going after. You can check out a good summary about it at Google AdSense Down.

I decided to try my hand on using AdWords PPC and affiliate marketing to make up for the loss of revenue. I realized that now is the perfect time to use PPC to make money from affiliates. My findings below:

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