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> only AdWords sponsored content appears in Google searches anymore. Wrong, AdWords sponsored results are promoted (just in a less obvious manner than before),

> only AdWords sponsored content appears in Google searches anymore. Wrong, AdWords sponsored results are promoted (just in a less obvious manner than before), but other websites also appear.

JonathonW 7y ago
In normal web searches. For product searches, there's also Google Shopping-- this started out (as Froogle and Google Product Search) indexing any shopping sites Google found, but, as of the rebranding to Google Shopping in 2012, exclusively shows paid listings. Google Shopping also gets more prominent placing in web searches for products than the actual web results do.
anon1m0us 7y ago
What I meant was that only websites that have google adwords embedded in their content show up in Google results. If you aren't generating revenue through google advertising blocks on your content, google doesn't show the content. Google things new, updated content on large sites is more relevant, but it's not. That content is recreated from older content on the web that doesn't have ads on it. I'm sure it's just that google requires more and more work from webmasters to easily find searchable content, meta tags, modern HTML, etc, but the way new content is being produced now is under the guise of ultimately getting the content reader to buy a product. The old internet was, "Omg, I can share my knowledge with people." Now it's, "Omg, I can make money with ads."
- philipkglass 7y ago
  I have been running an ad-free web site about a niche hobby since 2002. I've never attempted to do any optimization for search. My site still shows up in the first page of Google results for relevant search terms.
  - anon1m0us 7y ago
    For you because you click on your links a lot. Your first page of relevancy is totally different for someone else -- from a different country, or county... or even just prior click history. Google knows you want to click on that link. If your niche hobby had an ehow article how to do it, that'd be first for me I bet, unfortunately.
    - philipkglass 7y ago
      I tested again just now using the TOR browser bundle. After some tedious captcha-solving, the same search term again brings up my site in the first page of Google results.

> only AdWords sponsored content appears in Google searches anymore. Wrong, AdWords sponsored results are promoted (just in a less obvious manner than before), but other websites also appear.

JonathonW 7y ago

In normal web searches. For product searches, there's also Google Shopping-- this started out (as Froogle and Google Product Search) indexing any shopping sites Google found, but, as of the rebranding to Google Shopping in 2012, exclusively shows paid listings. Google Shopping also gets more prominent placing in web searches for products than the actual web results do.

anon1m0us 7y ago

What I meant was that only websites that have google adwords embedded in their content show up in Google results. If you aren't generating revenue through google advertising blocks on your content, google doesn't show the content. Google things new, updated content on large sites is more relevant, but it's not. That content is recreated from older content on the web that doesn't have ads on it. I'm sure it's just that google requires more and more work from webmasters to easily find searchable content, meta tags, modern HTML, etc, but the way new content is being produced now is under the guise of ultimately getting the content reader to buy a product. The old internet was, "Omg, I can share my knowledge with people." Now it's, "Omg, I can make money with ads."

philipkglass 7y ago
I have been running an ad-free web site about a niche hobby since 2002. I've never attempted to do any optimization for search. My site still shows up in the first page of Google results for relevant search terms.
- anon1m0us 7y ago
  For you because you click on your links a lot. Your first page of relevancy is totally different for someone else -- from a different country, or county... or even just prior click history. Google knows you want to click on that link. If your niche hobby had an ehow article how to do it, that'd be first for me I bet, unfortunately.
  - philipkglass 7y ago
    I tested again just now using the TOR browser bundle. After some tedious captcha-solving, the same search term again brings up my site in the first page of Google results.