Hey Google - You Show Me Yours & I'll Show You Mine

[payabian]

I have worked tirelessly for over a year developing my ecommerce website. I have loads of good, relevant content (I run a writing contest, have lots of recipes, ideas, suggestions, etc) all original content with fresh content added several times a week.

Many sites sell the same items as I do. From the beginning I wanted to make my site different & better. My first step was to hire professional writers to re-write hundreds of manufacturer descriptions. I researched keywords and had the writers use 2 or 3 per description following accepted standards such as a keyword close to the beginning of the first sentence, near the end of the last sentence and then scattered several times throughout the descriptions. I also appropriately use <h1>'s, <h2>'s. The copy flows very smoothly with good keyword saturation offering the visitor an easy read of about 250 words or so.

The point of all of this is - google has had no problem, almost from the beginning sending people to my site for recipes, ideas, etc but I'm buried in the SERP's for any keyword(s) that are from a person looking for a specific product. I've followed goog's recommendations for making a site "worthy" by providing quality content and I know I have one of the better sites in my "niche". Yet, SERP's have consistently brought up sites that don't follow what goog preaches ( for example: on one of my "most wanted" keywords; a competitors 1 page site that redirects to other domains has been #1 for the last year; also, a dead site with dead links was in the top 3 for about 8 months).

The point of this whole post is.......It seems that goog doesn't follow what it preaches. I'm reaching the point where I'm about to tell disallow google from my site (can this be done?). Why should I allow google to have the benefit of my content when it refuses to acknowledge the rest of my site.

I also tried PPC's with goog and the click fraud was unbelievable. The actual cost per visitor was astronomical.

As my confusion grows, patience with goog is nearing an end. Do any others feel this way or is it just me?


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[animasola]

I think you should have robots.txt or something. I read about this somewhere else. You should also change your META tags in the header. Change how robots should index your site. I just can't remember but I have encountered this before. Maybe you could search for php codes in the net? I just forgot sorry...

[Zegg90]

Why should I allow google to have the benefit of my content when it refuses to acknowledge the rest of my site.

How does Google benefit from your content?

Google doesn't have people picking out quality sites and placing them in a ranking, it's all automated. Maybe your site doesn't have a high pagerank. Even if you have all the best content in the world, if your pagerank sucks, your site's not going anywhere.

What do you mean by 'disallow' google from your site? You want to stop their robots from spidering your site? You're worse off without it.

patience with goog is nearing an end

Just a note, google doesn't owe you anything.

PS. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, just trying to help :/

[Hyrulian Link]

You're right, animasola - it does have to do with robots.txt. You can edit all of this via Google's Sitemaps project, located here. Using Sitemaps, you can see what parts of your site Google is indexing, and you can learn how to stop it if you feel like it. However, seeing as how worked up payabian is about Google, I don't think he's going to want to use another Google service to get rid of his current problems with Google. Oh well...I still recommmend Sitemaps to all webmasters. :wink2:

Matt

[Thiago]

Well, how much people use your "wanted" keyword on a article? and time for google is the same thing as trust, if your website have 3 years expect to have higher page rank than the one with 1 month. Get a lot of traffic, googles likes traffic, there is so much things that google use, these are the most used.

[animasola]

I have to agree with Zegg90, having google's spiders index your site is really good. Some people even want their pages to be indexed properly and want it to be maximized.

What I dont understand is why you are angry at Google when they give you traffic by the people that search for content that only your site can give. Are you afraid of the bandwith? Look for a host that offers high bandwith! :dribble:

Having more traffic and higher pagerank can really help you! Place some ads and that should get you some money. Hope you understand. :king:

[Rayden]

yeah google is good in suppling traffic and I agree with animasola...try withs ads to got more money.... and advertise more. finally I think google is best for websites as it is like a giant portal linking all sites together