I am not what you would call an experienced marketer, yet I make money. I get on average 1 hit per day from Google, and over 1000 from other perfectly good sources. Yahoo, MSN and many smaller engines are still alive and well.
I think we all need to remember that although Google is #1, it's not the only way. As a small guy just starting out, I actually believe that following Google's many complicated rules is more of a hinderance than a help. My paid links do very well for me, and if it screws up my page rank, oh well.
For now, I am ignoring all of Google's rules and doing just fine. I have paid links and they are profitable for me. They aren't raising my page rank any, and I don't care. I get plenty of direct hits from them, and they pay for themselves and then some. Everyone has to start somewhere, and if Google doesn't understand that, forget 'em. If my page rank eventually goes up, great. If not (which it probably won't), I'll still survive.
I'm not gonna let one company decide the fate of my business.
I have been successful without Google, and I'll continue to be successful with or without them.
Thank you Google for the Adsense program. It does a great job of offsetting the cost of those paid links you hate so much.
The next "search" advancment is going to be P2P like the file-sharing networks. It's already in development in the "open source" community but it will take a few years to catch on. The benefit is that no single company or entity will control search and search results will not be "advertising results" like Google currently is.
Our site went from N/A to a PR5 which lots of the google crazy's would be drolling over. But honestly the majority of our traffic is still from other search engines and referrals from other sites. SO I'm always thought of PR as just for people who want to sell links on their sites. For people who want traffic well a bit of traffic from everywhere is a whole lot better.
I am not what you would call an experienced marketer, yet I make money. I get on average 1 hit per day from Google, and over 1000 from other perfectly good sources. Yahoo, MSN and many smaller engines are still alive and well.
I think we all need to remember that although Google is #1, it's not the only way. As a small guy just starting out, I actually believe that following Google's many complicated rules is more of a hinderance than a help. My paid links do very well for me, and if it screws up my page rank, oh well.
For now, I am ignoring all of Google's rules and doing just fine. I have paid links and they are profitable for me. They aren't raising my page rank any, and I don't care. I get plenty of direct hits from them, and they pay for themselves and then some. Everyone has to start somewhere, and if Google doesn't understand that, forget 'em. If my page rank eventually goes up, great. If not (which it probably won't), I'll still survive.
I'm not gonna let one company decide the fate of my business.
I have been successful without Google, and I'll continue to be successful with or without them.
Thank you Google for the Adsense program. It does a great job of offsetting the cost of those paid links you hate so much.
I agree.. who cares about Google.. do what you do.. enjoy what you do.. and forget Google. They'll keep doing what they do regardless.. so I'm with you guys I'm tired of worrying about 'am I following Googles rules?' it's just a domain like any other!
Personally, I think Google's search engine is boring.. it's just what the masses currently are comfortable with searching on.
My website gets about 50 hits from Google with average traffic 200-300 daily people. I belive that over 80% of my clients i found through forums, social websites, word of mouth.
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The dont put all eggs in one basket rule is useful here as well. Receiving traffic and income from several sources make things more stable.
I completely agree and have tried to spread my search engine eggs around a little. But when 70% of our traffic is comming from google it is hard to ignore it.
I'm tired of worrying about 'am I following Googles rules?' it's just a domain like any other!
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