He's bitter but it's an interesting listen.
http://tag.theaveragegenius.net/wp-...lder-Tim-Carter-on-Google-and-Web-Traffic.mp3
http://tag.theaveragegenius.net/wp-...lder-Tim-Carter-on-Google-and-Web-Traffic.mp3
One man's Google theory
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This is Tim Carter of Ask the Builder, Google's Adsense poster boy for years. He was getting about 60k unique visitors a day, after Panda he only gets 15k because he got hit in the "content farm" update.
He thinks there is a conspiracy where Google made deals behind the scenes with niggas like Demand Media, who pumps out eHow who basically pays people to copy his own content and other people's content.
He says fuck free organic traffic. Build a list. (SEO is dead)
He says have a product and sell it and pay for your traffic if you have to. (PPC rules)
He's going to testify to the FTC about Google's lies.
He says that Google is trying to kill the affiliate business (the middlemen) with their local results, CPA's on the search screen, and adwords. They are offering to build sites for company's who don't have them (to show their own ads).
The real deal is the same. Google can do what they want whether he likes it or not. Whether it's ethical or not. This is capitalism and they run a business and can run it how they like until they start breaking laws.
He says he's focused on his real business with a real deck stain remover product.
He says all of his new content and even some of his old, he is yanking and turning into ebooks for the Amazon Kindle, so at least he can get paid something.
He said his loss was so devastating that he was psychosomatically sick for a year, like big time lol. (fag) (Because 15k visitors a day clicking on his ads just ain't enough? The Gorg giveth and the Gorg taketh away).
That's my cliff notes. 8===D
He thinks there is a conspiracy where Google made deals behind the scenes with niggas like Demand Media, who pumps out eHow who basically pays people to copy his own content and other people's content.
He says fuck free organic traffic. Build a list. (SEO is dead)
He says have a product and sell it and pay for your traffic if you have to. (PPC rules)
He's going to testify to the FTC about Google's lies.
He says that Google is trying to kill the affiliate business (the middlemen) with their local results, CPA's on the search screen, and adwords. They are offering to build sites for company's who don't have them (to show their own ads).
The real deal is the same. Google can do what they want whether he likes it or not. Whether it's ethical or not. This is capitalism and they run a business and can run it how they like until they start breaking laws.
He says he's focused on his real business with a real deck stain remover product.
He says all of his new content and even some of his old, he is yanking and turning into ebooks for the Amazon Kindle, so at least he can get paid something.
He said his loss was so devastating that he was psychosomatically sick for a year, like big time lol. (fag) (Because 15k visitors a day clicking on his ads just ain't enough? The Gorg giveth and the Gorg taketh away).
That's my cliff notes. 8===D
Here's a little somethin' to throw into the mix.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BslAhJ5-C9g]Google Senate Antitrust Hearing: Foundem's Analysis - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BslAhJ5-C9g]Google Senate Antitrust Hearing: Foundem's Analysis - YouTube[/ame]
And this, my friends, is how something being your own site, can trick you into thinking it's better than it actually is. You see that a lot on WF. Maybe it used to be good, but looking at it now... I wouldn't want to read that.
Homepage, from a user standpoint, fine. Although, from an SEO standpoint, he needs some content up top. But meh.
Reviews: The keyword stuffing up top is horrible. Case in point, the first review there, the Ryobi Paint Sprayer. Ryobi ProTip Paint Sprayer Tool | Ask the Builder - did he really need to suffix "tool" to the end of that in the first paragraph? Next, look at the second paragraph. Jesus, I don't think I've ever seen a kw used so much in one paragraph. Look at how many times he says "paint sprayer" - would you want to read that? He even adds the tool name at the end, (with the "tool" suffix still) even though it'd make much more sense to just to use a generic word. You can claim you're not writing content for search engines, but that article clearly is.
Does this look like a site you'd want to go on? (site displayed at 1024x768 resolution, still a fairly common res)
Homepage, from a user standpoint, fine. Although, from an SEO standpoint, he needs some content up top. But meh.
Reviews: The keyword stuffing up top is horrible. Case in point, the first review there, the Ryobi Paint Sprayer. Ryobi ProTip Paint Sprayer Tool | Ask the Builder - did he really need to suffix "tool" to the end of that in the first paragraph? Next, look at the second paragraph. Jesus, I don't think I've ever seen a kw used so much in one paragraph. Look at how many times he says "paint sprayer" - would you want to read that? He even adds the tool name at the end, (with the "tool" suffix still) even though it'd make much more sense to just to use a generic word. You can claim you're not writing content for search engines, but that article clearly is.
Does this look like a site you'd want to go on? (site displayed at 1024x768 resolution, still a fairly common res)
And this, my friends, is how something being your own site, can trick you into thinking it's better than it actually is. You see that a lot on WF. Maybe it used to be good, but looking at it now... I wouldn't want to read that.
Homepage, from a user standpoint, fine. Although, from an SEO standpoint, he needs some content up top. But meh.
Reviews: The keyword stuffing up top is horrible. Case in point, the first review there, the Ryobi Paint Sprayer. Ryobi ProTip Paint Sprayer Tool | Ask the Builder - did he really need to suffix "tool" to the end of that in the first paragraph? Next, look at the second paragraph. Jesus, I don't think I've ever seen a kw used so much in one paragraph. Look at how many times he says "paint sprayer" - would you want to read that? He even adds the tool name at the end, (with the "tool" suffix still) even though it'd make much more sense to just to use a generic word. You can claim you're not writing content for search engines, but that article clearly is.
Does this look like a site you'd want to go on? (site displayed at 1024x768 resolution, still a fairly common res)
Yes. You are right.
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Yeah, he was a victim of panda because his site looks like some Warrior Forum shit. I'm not surprised that he absolutely killed it.... last decade.