Tue-09-07-2019, 13:23 PM
Some of you will know I am constantly battling with Google to keep Psoriasis Club in search results. You will also know that I will never pay them to get a better ranking, I prefer to follow their advice and give regular and reliable content. But this time they have gone too far and I'm not happy.
Towards the end of last year 2018 our Google performance graph started going down a little before dramatically rising at the beginning of 2019. Nothing had changed in the way we publicise ourselves and there was no explanation for the odd movements.
Then in March as you can see by the graph there was a sudden drop and again nothing had changed. But then suddenly I kept getting Emails from Google offering me £240 of free ad credit if I spent £240. I always ignore them as I'm never gong to pay, and we continued to drop.
After a couple of months I got more offers, this time it was "Get more visitors to your website for £120" Again I ignored the emails. As you can see by the graph this is again where we took another drop. Now call me sceptical. but there is no denying the emails coincide with the movement in the graph.
This is very underhanded and a dirty tactic. We don't have any money and we are just a bunch of people trying to help each other, but Google thinks they can push us around and milk us. Well it isn't going to happen, and although we are loosing our visitors we will never bow down to Google.
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So what next?
I have been pushing Googlebot back to our website and now they keep saying our forum isn't mobile friendly. I accept that it isn't, but I asked our members and not one of them has a problem using it. The problem we have is that we use free software and it's not mobile friendly, and I know whatever I try Google will keep moving the goalposts anyway till I pay.
So I have now taken Google on yet again and built a homepage on our .com that is mobile friendly. Maybe it will please Google for a few months till they start dropping us again and offer more incentives if I throw money at them.
The new page probably won't get used as it's the forum our members want, but it does give some basic information and hopefully will help people find our great group of people. If anyone out there reading this values the small independent website owners they should stop using Google.
https://psoriasisclub.com
5 Points in closing:
#1 I now it won't work for long, but at least we will have tried.
#2 We will never pay to get a better results.
#3 Bing and Qwant are much better search engines than Google and don't play these dirty tactics.
#4 Google should be ashamed for the way they treat not for profits just trying to help people.
#5 If you are a so called SEO expert and thinking of offering your skills we are not interested.
Hey Googlebot you should check out https://duckduckgo.com if you want a good honest search engine.
Towards the end of last year 2018 our Google performance graph started going down a little before dramatically rising at the beginning of 2019. Nothing had changed in the way we publicise ourselves and there was no explanation for the odd movements.
Then in March as you can see by the graph there was a sudden drop and again nothing had changed. But then suddenly I kept getting Emails from Google offering me £240 of free ad credit if I spent £240. I always ignore them as I'm never gong to pay, and we continued to drop.
After a couple of months I got more offers, this time it was "Get more visitors to your website for £120" Again I ignored the emails. As you can see by the graph this is again where we took another drop. Now call me sceptical. but there is no denying the emails coincide with the movement in the graph.
This is very underhanded and a dirty tactic. We don't have any money and we are just a bunch of people trying to help each other, but Google thinks they can push us around and milk us. Well it isn't going to happen, and although we are loosing our visitors we will never bow down to Google.
So what next?
I have been pushing Googlebot back to our website and now they keep saying our forum isn't mobile friendly. I accept that it isn't, but I asked our members and not one of them has a problem using it. The problem we have is that we use free software and it's not mobile friendly, and I know whatever I try Google will keep moving the goalposts anyway till I pay.
So I have now taken Google on yet again and built a homepage on our .com that is mobile friendly. Maybe it will please Google for a few months till they start dropping us again and offer more incentives if I throw money at them.
The new page probably won't get used as it's the forum our members want, but it does give some basic information and hopefully will help people find our great group of people. If anyone out there reading this values the small independent website owners they should stop using Google.
https://psoriasisclub.com
5 Points in closing:
#1 I now it won't work for long, but at least we will have tried.
#2 We will never pay to get a better results.
#3 Bing and Qwant are much better search engines than Google and don't play these dirty tactics.
#4 Google should be ashamed for the way they treat not for profits just trying to help people.
#5 If you are a so called SEO expert and thinking of offering your skills we are not interested.
Hey Googlebot you should check out https://duckduckgo.com if you want a good honest search engine.