Google: The world’s number 1 (sucking) Search Engine?

March 8, 2009 by  
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It’s Sunday and it is time to Kick Google a bit. Take note, this post is not to whine about Google but just to show you what can be done and how easy these things are. So, don’t misinterpret this post. I love Google cause they bring in dollars for free. But, that is besides the actual point of this post. :)

You know, people say, Google is the world’s number one and best search engine due to its perfect ways to give the searcher what he or she wants. Sure… It gives a certain group of people what they want, but, mainly, they are NOT the searcher crowd. The people who think Google is the greatest are indeed us, the internet marketers… (And, the Big G’s group of stock holders of course)

Google states: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We work hard to return the most relevant results for every search we conduct. To that end, we encourage site managers to make their content straightforward and easily understood by users and search engines alike.

(Every time I feel sad, I log on to the page where I can read that. Moments later I am laughing. It IS the biggest joke…) Then, they claim this:

Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to decide which among the billions of pages on the web to show them — and in what order. Lately, we have been doing other things as well. But more on that later.

For something that is used so often by so many people, surprisingly little is known about ranking at Google. This is entirely our fault, and it is by design. We are, to be honest, quite secretive about what we do. There are two reasons for it: competition and abuse. Competition is pretty straightforward. No company wants to share its secret recipes with its competitors. As for abuse, if we make our ranking formulas too accessible, we make it easier for people to game the system. Security by obscurity is never the strongest measure, and we do not rely on it exclusively, but it does prevent a lot of abuse.

The details of the ranking algorithms are in many ways Google’s crown jewels. We are very proud of them and very protective of them. By some estimate, more than one thousand programmer/scientist years have gone directly into their development, and the rate of innovation has not slowed down. (source Official Google Blog)

What crap is this?

Ready to go down the rabbit hole just a tiny bit?

Google is the easiest search engine to manipulate. Seriously. And, if they claim to be, they ought to do something about that to actually be, or, stop claiming to be.  That would be false advertising and we can not have any of that.  And, then I do not mean what they are already doing: Just saying they do something and ARE the best…

To be honest, they have been hiding LONG enough behind their impeccable imago.

Google is a cash machine. Especially for internet marketers like myself. Sure, I will not state otherwise. Once you know how, Google is the place to cash in. But, saying that Google is the best search engine providing the searcher with only the best results related to the searcher’s inquiry  is to be called utter bull shit.

Let me give you two examples:

First, looking at the keywords ‘private jet for sale‘ (Results 1 – 10 of about 317,000 for Private jets for sale)

To give you an idea: This is what other companies pay per click on Adwords: (And, obviously, the number one on this result page is NOT paying)

Around 3-4000 people searching. So, let’s say 1,000 click. That is more than $8k p/month on advertising costs that the Adwords advertisers need to pay, and that Omnijet in this case is saving. They get the traffic for free.

Sure, the results are targeted precisely to the keyword. Yet, my point in this part of the post is showing you how easy it is to manipulate going AGAINST Google’s TOS)

And, before I will show you the way the first page (with red circle) is build, I will show you part of Google’s TOS on for instance Keyword Stuffing:

Keyword stuffing

“Keyword stuffing” refers to the practice of loading a webpage with keywords in an attempt to manipulate a site’s ranking in Google’s search results. Filling pages with keywords results in a negative user experience, and can harm your site’s ranking. Focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context.

To fix this problem, review your site for misused keywords. Typically, these will be lists or paragraphs of keywords, often randomly repeated. Check carefully, because keywords can often be in the form of hidden text, or they can be hidden in title tags or alt attributes.

Once you’ve made your changes and are confident that your site no longer violates our webmaster guidelines, submit your site for reconsideration.

Not familiar with keyword stuffing?

Simple, you basically make a html document, lash in as many on topic keywords as possible, hence ‘keyword stuffing’ and your page.

I know, I am not such a writer, so, to make it more clear to you, here is what Wikipedia says:

Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical search engine optimization (SEO) technique. Keyword stuffing occurs when a web page is loaded with keywords in the meta tags or in content. The repetition of words in meta tags may explain why many search engines no longer use these tags.

Keyword stuffing had been used in the past to obtain maximum search engine ranking and visibility for particular phrases. This method is completely outdated and adds no value to rankings today. In particular, Google no longer gives good rankings to pages employing this technique.

Hiding text from the visitor is done in many different ways. Text colored to blend with the background, CSS “Z” positioning to place text “behind” an image — and therefore out of view of the visitor — and CSS absolute positioning to have the text positioned far from the page center are all common techniques. By 2005, many invisible text techniques were easily detected by major search engines.

Ask nearly any black hat SEO marketer about keyword stuffing and they say it is passe and not effective anymore. But, is it?

So, based upon the above, Google does not allow, nor will it rank high, pages that practice keyword stuffing.

Have a look at the source code of the page and try to see, whether or not it is hard to determine if this page is using ‘keyword stuffing’ or not: (sorry for the huuuuge image… :) )

What? Me? Keyword stuffing? Noooooh, not me…

What do you think?

Well, I think this can be defined as ‘keyword stuffing alright. So, if we were to follow Google’s TOS, we should, once we find this out, report this to Google so that they can take these nincompoops out of the index.

Ha, guess what? I know someone who did report this site. Many times. Google does nothing. Google states that keyword stuffing can ‘ can harm your site’s ranking’ Then, how about the above results? How is that harming the site? If at all, it is harming other parties (stupid enough) to follow the Google TOS. It harms sites that pay $8k per month on Adwords for sure. (should it rank confirm Google’s TOS then ok. But, is it?)

Fair? Nope. Therefore, I think it is time Google stops hiding behind their so called imago.

Want another typical case? Why not, it involves a site of mine which does not participate in black hat techniques and is filled with relative (quality) content.

Sure, the site was made to rank high in order to make sales on the Howies Apprentice 3 launch coming Monday.

I watched this page as a hawk and saw it land on the #1 spot on the keywords ‘howies apprentice 3′ amongst others. I managed to do this following Google’s TOS at all times. Yes, it can be done.

Thing is, today I noticed my site was overtaken by someone else:

Hold on a minute. The second ranking is the basic ‘about’ wordpress page. How can THAT rank based on being quality and relative content?

Please… Have a look at the perfect on topic and high quality relevant posts that are to be seen: (PS: I could have copied the text, but I refuse to have such textual crap on my blog, therefore the pic:

What on earth is this? Sure, it is English… but.. wtf are they writing about?

Is this nice related and quality content that deserves to rank #1?

In my opinion, if we have to believe Google it shouldn’t. Unless there is some kind of secret message embedded that only customers who use Google and want to buy Howies Apprentice program 3 understand.

I certainly don’t understand it.

Of course I know how this page has been made. It took the owner less than 2 clicks to do. She, since I know her, then fires up software to get back links pointing to this crap site. She does this with submitting screen savers to software download sites and she does this buy firing this kind of content to massive blog networks all with references made to her site.

That my friends is the key to success it seems

Where there are black hat marketers who say keyword stuffing and screen saver submissions to rank are not effective anymore, Google seems to think different.

What do other bloggers say?

Just read on Shoemoney.com that not only the organic search results are attracted to spam and scraped sites. Ranking on Google has become a business as you can see on Problogger.

So, conclusion is this:

If you want to rank highly on Google following their TOS you can. You need not to worry taking over HIGH competitive keywords as easy as you may hope but doing it right you can beat millions of other competitors to it with the greatest ease. This is what I do and have made thousands of dollars with personally. My shit works. Period.

However,

The black hat techniques ‘she’ uses work as well and I have to say, even better.

The funny  thing is this though.

I make way more sales then she does. She may rank well but her conversions stink. Trust me, I know.

So, another conclusion is that if you do not know the whole package on how it is done, you may rank well but won’t convert your visitors in to buyers. They simply go back to Google to find my site lol.

If you know how to convert but don’t know how to rank then you are still lost. Find the key to both of them and you’re smiling.

Anyone interested to know how this is done? I might just tell you how you can. :)

PS: I know there will be people saying that the keywords in the above examples are piss easy. to rank for …

Sure, I will be the first to agree. Yet, I have seen sites (I made) beating tens of millions of other sites in a matter of a day’s work. Once you know how, yes: too easy.

But, do you know how to convert those visitors too?

Another question I have is this:

What do you think of Google?

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The Official Howies Apprentice 3 Review

March 4, 2009 by  
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I like the following words a lot:

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for one day. Give him the fishing rod and teach him how to fish will feed him for life. – Dunno who the heck said it before, but it applies here:

My Howies Apprentice 3 Review: I have been watching most of the material Howies Apprentice members have become so successful with and the same information and techniques you will be taught once you are actually on the inside of Howies Apprentice.

And, you know what?

The complete concept of the whole Howies Apprentice program seems to be a very good if not the perfect one.

On top of the whole organization you will meet Howie Schwartz. And, as you will soon see Howie does not like to waste any time on making business successful.

If you are serious enough and determined enough to make it big then Howie is your man.

Here is a guy who literally dominates hundreds of niches on Google and is making thousands of dollars per day. He has found the perfect system assuring the whole operation could run 100% on autilot and delivers results unheard of.

Then, one step down you will meet the four project managers who all have their own specialty they will help you with. These people will coach you towards you income. The drill sergeants so to speak but they will keep you going in the right direction you can be sure of.

Then, if you see how the whole Howies Apprentice 3 program has been set up:

You will be taught by Howie Schwartz personally and be personally coached by the four internet marketing specialist project managers.

As from what I have now seen myself they taught previous Howies Apprentice members exactly what they needed to know and everybody (newbie or experienced) found the course to be attractive and 100% successful.

Some ex Howies Apprentice members have reportedly made millions of dollars online since they started out as Howies Apprentice only a few months ago.

Sign up for Howies Apprentice 3 and get $1,000 worth Videos Bonus from Howie Personally!

What is inside of Howies Apprentice 3?

First of all there is of course the personal coaching aspect you will enjoy. Howie Schwartz is considered one of the best if not the best Google marketers with free traffic methods.  Learning anything he does will assure you can make profit as well. You will be practically marketing alongside Howie Schwartz. And, knowing Howie, he does not lift a finger shouldn’t it be very profitable.

Then there is an extensive step by step plan set up from which you will be able to learn exactly how to do things and do them right. (as in better than anyone else is)

In the video I saw Howie mentioned something that indeed earned money the very first day I implemented this trick. That was yesterday by the way.

In one of the videos I saw, Howie shows how you can get on the first page of Google EVEN if there are 150 PAGES of Adwords advertisements competing and hundreds of millions of competitors on the organic results. And, that is a LOT of competition.

But, this little trick alone can land your site on page one near instant. How good is that?

Most of the ex Howies Apprentice members have praised the program and have left a video testimonial on Howies Site.

All of them liked the fact that they were actually sort of pushed to make the steps to get to where the real money is.

Howie will reveal a new niche to all new Howies Apprentice 3 members with which he will make his next fortune. The best thing is, this time you are involved. You will see how it is done, learn how it is done AND, since Howie is sure of profitability in this niche you will make money for sure.

For as far as all of the ex Howies Apprentice members go and that I heard testimonials of they all became massively successful after being a Howies Apprentice.

So, not only do I personally think that the material Howie teaches and maybe even more important, THE WAY he is teaching it is of huge value, the methods, the software tools and other contents provided in Howies Apprentice are top notch. These are up till now exclusively in use by Howie and his current and ex apprentices.

The results I have seen coming from it are just beyond anything else I have seen. Now I understand why Howies Apprentice sold out twice in mere moments after I launched.

That reminds me…

Howies Apprentice 3 will have a strict limit to the amount of people being admitted to it.

This on its own would not be such a problem, even if you wanted to become Howies Apprentice 3 really bad.

Because you could just surf over to Howies Apprentice 3 page on launch day and sign up to join.
Well, sorry. You can’t

There is a huge waiting list reportedly of over a few thousand of people who all missed the previous two launches and wanted to be sure to be on time for the third time…

So, how are you going to beat all of these people to it?

Simple. :)

Leave them behind you and sign up today. This Howies Apprentice 3 site is offering you a special exclusive Howies Apprentice video bonus worth $1,000 given to you by Howie Schwarts himself and, as said, you can skip the line, sign up today and be sure to be on the inside of Howies Apprentice 3 BEFORE it actually launches.

Of course like any other internet marketing product you are backed by a 100% money back guarantee sohuld you not be 100% satisfied with being a Howies Apprentice 3 member. But, I doubt that will be ever the case…

Read More Good Stuff On or sign up for Howies Apprentice 3

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Howies Apprentice 3

February 28, 2009 by  
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Howies Apprentice 3 – A few days ago I received an email from Howie Schwartz. He wrote to me about the recent successes his ‘Howies Apprentice’ members had enjoyed thanks to the system, tools, software and personal coaching they were getting from Howie and his team of highly specialized marketers.

I remember when they first launched Howies Apprentice program as a pilot case to beta test the whole program. Howie told me they had only expected to have about 10 new Howie Apprentice members to work with but they had a surprise coming. More than 40 people signed up for it and they went to work, testing Howies Apprentice program.

Howies Apprentice 3 is the ONLY offer on the market that allows you to become Howies Apprentice to partner up with him and dive into a pre-determined market head first. It gets even better: Howie even revenue shares with the Howies Apprentice members as you will be marketing together. Because you as one of Howies Apprentices gets to have your hand held by Howie Schwartz and and his staff of project managers every step of the way. Lol, they nearly FORCE you to make money has been said.

Newbies and advanced marketers alike LOVE the system that they’ve put in place for them. They especially like the fact that Howie and his team PUSH them if they feel they’re starting to slack off a bit.

This time around, it’s going to be bigger and better than ever! Not only does the Howies Apprentice program have TONS of social proof as you will be able to seen in the videos after you sign up, They have proof that the system they teach the Apprentices works and generates massive revenue for them!

For Apprentice program #1 the Howie Apprentice members generated over $50,000.00 in sales in less than 30 days, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Howie Apprentice Program works. Then, since support is most important to those who might need it: The Howie Apprentice support staff works around the clock to make sure all your questions are being answered.

The first time Howies Apprentice launched I was too late unfortunately. :(

This time around, before I even spend a minute writing about it here, I made sure I signed up at Howies Apprentice 3 for the waiting list.

There are you see, TWO waiting lists of people wanting to get in on Howies Apprentice 3.

There is the list with the regular people who have signed up just after the launch of the first two Howies Apprentice programs and it has been said that this list is in the thousands of people all expressing their wishes to become a Howie Apprentice.

They know what is the price of Howies Apprentice 3 and will not hesitate on moment to sign up as soon as they get the opportunity to sign up as Howies Apprentice3.

You need to know that there will be a strict limit to the amount of people who will be allowed inside of Howies Apprentice 3 program.

And, this gives you rather a dilemma. Cause, how will you get in if you only heard about it now and there are thousands of people wanting to sign up? Normally you would never succeed and it would be best to just forget about becoming Howies Apprentice.

HOWEVER… :)

On this Howies Apprentice 3 Site you can sign up for a special list organized by Howie Schwartz himself allowing you, once you sign up, to skip the waiting list and jump ahead of all the thousands of other people.

With other words, now you CAN become Howies Apprentice. And, just to let you in on a little Howies Apprentice 3 Bonus, if you sign up you will receive TWO special Howies Apprentice 3 Bonuses.

And, you will get them from Howie Schwartz himself. Not only will you get these things and privileges, Howie will show you how you will be able to get MORE value out of Howies Apprentice 3 program should you decide to sign up BEFORE initial launch day.

This is the only way to be able to skip the waiting list and making 100% sure you can become Howies Apprentice.

All of the previous Howies Apprentice members have changed their lives. Isn’t it time you at least checked out whether or not you could do the same?

Howie Schwartz is a genuine hard working and most successful internet marketer. He has made millions online for himself and created the path to financial independency for many other people, once like you and me, trying to hit the big one.

I signed up, I want to be on one of those videos for Howies Apprentice 4 giving my testimonial after making tens of thousands of dollars in 30 or so days.

With Howies Apprentice 3 program I firmly believe I have a very good chance to improve what I already have build up.

Once more, keep in mind that there is a limit on the amount of members allowed inside. I think it is something you do not want to miss out on.

As soon as I receive some material I will review it on the Big Internet Marketing blog.

For now I advise you to sign up on Howies Apprentice 3

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