Google said they where sorry?

[janeth]

If it is a problem me doing this let me know but anyway here it is this came from webproworld
http://webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=9888

They have had someone at the SEO thing this week


This just in - Google has apologized! That's right, folks. There's been a lot of anger and frustration since the Florida Updates but apparently Google understands the fact that people's businesses rely on their results. For what it's worth, Craig Nevill-Manning, Google's Senior Research Scientist, said, "I apologize for the roller coaster. We're aware that changes in the algorithm affect people's livelihoods. We don't make changes lightly." Well, at least that's good to know.

"What's with the Ups and Downs?" During the Meet the Crawlers session, a woman from Conferencecall was clearly upset because her site is not ranking highly in google right now. She asked, "What's with the ups and downs?"

The response from Google was bland and dodgy, to say the least. The representatives said that there is a difference of relevance from engine to engine. When asked to comment specifically about Google's search relevance, they only stated that relevance is subjective and didn't really answer the question.

Who's in Charge Here? Another interesting question came from a man named Dave. Dave is the owner of http://www.ProPools.com. He asked whether he should provide info regarding pools and product research on his main website or on a separate informational site that would then lead to a sales site. This is an important question, and it provided some intriguing responses:

The Google representatives claim Google has no bias against commercial results -- which most people wouldn't buy at this point.

Jon Glick, senior manager for web search at Yahoo, said, "Keep the information within your site. We view the tactic of having separate informational and commercial sites as being 'bait and switch.'"

So you should have it all on one site? Who gave them the right to dictate the way people present online content anyway? One of the things I've come away with from this conference is that everyone is trying to call all the shots and in my opinion, it's just not right!

What do you think?

Searchers and Readers. Greg Jarboe, president and co-founder of SEO-PR, shared with me his interesting concept of search engines. We discussed the different search engine user personalities, and Greg told me he compares searchers to the readers of newspapers. Think about it - New York Times readers are going to be different from New York Post readers. They're going to have different interests, needs and wants. The same can be applied to search engines. Google users will naturally differ from Yahoo! users and MSN users... You get the general idea.

Get a Shopping Cart! Craig emphasized that the importance of putting products in Froogle is steadily increasing, but you HAVE to have a shopping cart. It's vital for anyone selling products. If you don't already have a shopping cart you can't get into Froogle right now. He promises that this will change eventually, once the algorithm gets sorted out, but it's part of a long list of things they are planning to do for Froogle. In that case, I hope you're patient!

Stamping Out the Rumors. Here's something that's been discussed and debated many, many times. Someone asked Craig whether the change in Google's algorithm was put in place to drive Google Adwords sales.

(It's always funny to watch the Google representatives squirm when asked questions about their algorithm.)

Craig replied, "Oh, that's a surprising question! I never thought anyone would ask me that!"

After the audience was loosened up a bit, he went on, "At Google, we want to give the best results possible. In the long term we want people to keep coming back to Google. There's a high wall between our sales department and our search department. We'll be tweaking the algorithm gradually."

Hmmm... Do you folks believe his response?

[janeth]

Now this is what I have a problem with

Jon Glick, senior manager for web search at Yahoo, said, "Keep the information within your site. We view the tactic of having separate informational and commercial sites as being 'bait and switch.'"

My site is only about 8 months old but as time goes on I plan to have a lot of different domain names not to try and trick anyone but if a host goes down or I have a site get banned then I still have another site online.

Who are they to tell me I can not do this.

I should be able to run my business anyway I want.

When I started in business I used godaddy.com my site was down for a week and they could not figure out why.

I would like to have a lot of sites online so if this happenes I'm not out of business. Is that wrong?