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I agree, that’s why half our sales come from elsewhere (social media, mailing list, subscriptions etc.) But we can’t ignore the power of organic search. For mos

I agree, that’s why half our sales come from elsewhere (social media, mailing list, subscriptions etc.) But we can’t ignore the power of organic search. For most people it’s where they start when shopping With the level of power google has over us, can they really hide behind the defense of being a private company? What are the changes being made to the algorithm? Why isn’t this public knowledge? Perhaps we should augment any decline in traffic from Google via paid search ads on Google. If google really is operating as a private company, maximising shareholder value, deliberately pushing businesses onto this path is a perfectly logical strategy for them to pursue. The unfortunate implications on society is a consolidation of wealth and power and a widening gap between those who have and those who do not.

zikzak 4y ago
Do you submit a feed to Google? https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en
- rurp 4y ago
  Not to be snarky but is there any evidence this goes somewhere other than /dev/null? I've seen support forum threads with hundreds of posts, many of them from users saying they had submitted feedback, and can't think of a single time it visibly made a difference.
  - pyr0hu 4y ago
    He is not talking about submitting feedbacks, but using the Google Merchants for providing a feed for their products.
    - beckman466 4y ago
zepearl 4y ago
If I interpret your statement correctly, you're basically asking, in a summarized form, this: Is it right for Google, by changing their (non-public) algos, to de-rank to lower levels your website? ? (therefore multiple themes like a potential conflict involving their public_vs_private services, impact of changes on the global users, can search algos be non-public, lack of alternatives, etc...)

zikzak 4y ago

Do you submit a feed to Google? https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en

rurp 4y ago
Not to be snarky but is there any evidence this goes somewhere other than /dev/null? I've seen support forum threads with hundreds of posts, many of them from users saying they had submitted feedback, and can't think of a single time it visibly made a difference.
- pyr0hu 4y ago
  He is not talking about submitting feedbacks, but using the Google Merchants for providing a feed for their products.
  - beckman466 4y ago

zepearl 4y ago

If I interpret your statement correctly, you're basically asking, in a summarized form, this: Is it right for Google, by changing their (non-public) algos, to de-rank to lower levels your website? ? (therefore multiple themes like a potential conflict involving their public_vs_private services, impact of changes on the global users, can search algos be non-public, lack of alternatives, etc...)