Comments on: Deciphering the Latest Google Slap…

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:32:47 +0000

My first experience with the slap today.
3 decent campaigns, all destroyed.
My sites had resources, privacy policy, about us pages. But, not much original content.

Amit (or others who might know),
If you are still checking this blog, would it be enough to add articles, some original content, and build these sites up to a 15 to 20 page footprint?

Or, is the domain blacklisted now.?.?
Carl

By: sterndal

sterndal — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:47:53 +0000

hello

i used to have a PR3 and now it’s zero

i did a lot of sponsored posts

i think that’s the reason why google took away my PR

is it possible to restore it back?

thanks

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:53:04 +0000

Hello everyone,
In response to post # 15 above.

Eric thanks for the tip.

Let me say you are correct in your assumption. Lots of clicks not many sales, yes all of my eggs are not in one basket so to speak, I have a site Wireless-home-computer.com that I have been building for a long time, this is my flag ship site.

Now people say I’m crazy, too much competition, Wow – are they correct, absolutely.

But this is my passion, this is what I do in the real world (JOB) In yahoo I have first page ranking for my domain term, even though not many people search for the term, out of 333,000,000 number 7, last check. Right under the king about.com

PPC is another train I ride, reach “100 + million people searching for stuff” If these words don’t get your attention, nothing will my friend.

If I can give some advice to all here is, don’t quit STAY FOCUSED, you will get there.

To your success,
Jim Novak
Wireless-home-computer.com

By: Juggler Search Marketing

Juggler Search Marketing — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:23:24 +0000

Vivian Rollins speaks the truth. last year I made thousands a month on thin ppc travel commissions. But the ppc competition is growing and the costs are increasing. Affiliate programs are cracking down on PPC direct linking. Let’s face it, while we can exist in the cracks for probably 2 more years what is a truly sustainable strategy? are you building real websites? This is scary stuff…

By: Googlelady

Googlelady — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:20:21 +0000

In December 17, 2007. I published a case study on how to create quality landing page and it focuss on Blogs. I predicted that in the future google will be slap those sites that are “Fake Real Sites” and that’s why if you want a long-term business with ppc you should create “real sites” like I did on my case study with Blogs:
http://www.googlelady.com/423/ultimate-google-adwords-landing-pages-guide/

I really recommend to read my e-book on Adwords Quality Guide e-book is for free:
http://www.googlelady.com/614/adwords-quality-guide-free-ebook/

By: Vivian Rollins

Vivian Rollins — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:41:51 +0000

The reason why most of us got into PPC is because we don’t have the ability or time to create a full site with good quality content and continuously feed it. If we are able to do so, we’ll sell ads on our own. The beauty of PPC was so we can pre-sale other peoples products with a landing page or direct link to them with PPC but now that is no longer an option, what is a small fish like myself to do to try to make a living?

By: Mike at Need Website Help

Mike at Need Website Help — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:41:33 +0000

I work for a 500 employee financial services firm and we just took a HUGE hit in Google organically. We went from page 1/2 for our primary keywords down to page 8 overnight. Hopefully we can rebound as we’ve been very consistent in building links, creating unique content and keeping in line with Google’s good ole guidelines!

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:01:32 +0000

Amit,
Thanks for the insights. Google has been clear in the past that they want content, not spammy, thin sites, and it’s good to know they are remaining consistent. Whenever there is an algorithm change there will be some winners and some losers, whether fair or not. The losers will whine, the winners will quietly count their blessings.
…Walter

By: Eric Itzkowitz

Eric Itzkowitz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:05:45 +0000

@ Jim

You are definitely not the only person who has trouble selling ebooks. That niche is extremely saturated. And I bet you’re probably spending quite a bit per click? Try using negatives and long-tail keyword phrases to better qualify your traffic.

Having said this, I don’t think you should put all of your eggs into the PPC Basket. Have you tried writing articles on the subject(s) people are looking for? Articles will allow you to add a mention of a product(s) or service(s) you believe will fit the readers’ needs, which links them off to the merchant’s sales page you like so much. Not forgetting to mention, if you host articles on your website, there’s a good chance that they’ll end up being indexed by the SEs, which could lead to high rankings, and ultimately free traffic. Just make sure you SEO them correctly, and start driving some traffic to them.

Good luck!

- Eric

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:35:56 +0000

Hey Amit,
If google slaps you it’for a reason, I don’t try to fight google, I just give them what they Want. I don’t waste my precious energy fighting the top dog, I have to many other things to do. But what concerns me is, the lack of sales.

I promote some of the top (or so they say) selling ebooks related to the pet industry, think fish. Their sales page in my estimation is really good. I usually set my keywords into tight groups and can get the clicks. Great quality score, low minimum bids, no direct linking. Purchase domains just to promote their product the whole nine yards. Not many sales. It seems that a lot of people just want free information, and at my cost. It’s hard selling information on via click bank, talk about frustration !

I know it can be done, and I will never give up. I’ll just keep plugging away, persist and prevail, if anyone has any suggestion, I would surely appreciated it.

To your success,
Cheers,
Jim Novak