Google has a flaw? Didn’t think it was possible.

Written by John Romano


First off, Google is king. Yahoo buying Inktomi and Overture puts them back on top for now, but Google is clearlyrepparttar Yahoo ofrepparttar 128328 00’s. However, we do have a few particular beefs withrepparttar 128329 mighty and mostly benevolent Google.

Google has a problem with one of their ad products, AdWords. AdWords isrepparttar 128330 revolutionary keyword buying tool that lets small, and now big, businesses buy keyword terms that show up in ads alongside Google’s organic search results. Studying and utilizingrepparttar 128331 Google system has reaped some interesting facts and a few flaws. Here are a few things we learned.

A.A technique for gettingrepparttar 128332 most traffic and clicks (Sorry, not going to reveal that, as this isn’t a hack’em and rob’em article.) Oh, and: WARNING - NO KEYWORD CLICKS WERE HARMED OR STOLEN inrepparttar 128333 writing or researching of this article. B.How to find amazingly robust and cost effective search terms (Again sorry, that technique separates a mediocre ad buy from a great one and everybody who finds good words should keep them as close torepparttar 128334 vest as possible.) C.A glitch in Google’s system that can unfairly penalize top performing search terms. That’srepparttar 128335 focus of this piece.

Picture this: Johnny T-Shirt Co. spends time doing keyword research for terms suitable for marketing their business. JTCo is diligent and finds a few ripe terms that larger competitors missed, like let’s say “Gold T-shirts”. JTCo then sets up an AdWords campaign on Google with a budget at $175.00 a day with a cost per click of $0.25. The ad goes live. Customers see and click on JTCo’s ads at a 1.8% click rate. Pretty good. Business goes along for a few months, Google makes some nice money and JTCo grabs customers ahead ofrepparttar 128336 competition. Now here isrepparttar 128337 glitch.

Google expects all ads withinrepparttar 128338 AdWords system to garner 5 clicks per 1,000 impressions. Fair enough. JTCo’s ad forrepparttar 128339 term “Gold T-Shirts” is rolling along at a 1.8% click rate (18 clicks per 1,000) so not a problem. But, if JTCo fails to get 5 clicks per 1,000 ad views just once, Google’s default programming will triggerrepparttar 128340 disabling ofrepparttar 128341 word and give JTCo no clear way of making a case for reinstatingrepparttar 128342 word. It’s akin to a father being wonderful to his children then being late for dinner by ten minutes once andrepparttar 128343 community ostracizes him as a neglectful father - FOREVER. We studied a real world company, www.threedayweekends.com, which had paid Google $1,092 over a month long period for a specific word. The word had received a large number of clicks and hundreds of thousands of impressions, yet whenrepparttar 128344 term missedrepparttar 128345 five click threshold just once, late on a typical Thursday night,repparttar 128346 term was shut down.

Is Search Engine Submission Necessary?

Written by Partha Bhattacharya


Recently, a customer of ours was insistent on announcing his new website to big search engines. Otherwise, he argued, *...how wouldrepparttar world know that I exist...*. Indeed,repparttar 128327 belief that one *must* submit his/her website to search engines has spawned growth of umpteen agencies (some with questionable intentions) that promise *guaranteed inclusion in search engines* for hefty fees. There are others who promise *guaranteed top placement* in search engines. But that's a different story.

So then, what takes..! Let's first separate grains fromrepparttar 128328 chaff. It's worth looking at a few apparently contradicting, yet important aspects.

Google isrepparttar 128329 king

Recent reports suggest Google presently isrepparttar 128330 most popular search engine inrepparttar 128331 US. A May, 2003 research finds Google's share of *search-pie* an overwhelming 76% among US web surfers compared to MSN's only 15% (reference: article by Danny Sullivan on Aug 1, 2003 at Search Engine Watch, http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156431).

In continental Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK), in June, 2003repparttar 128332 average viewership of Google (about 29.06%) was very close to (in fact a little less than) MSN's nearly 29.43% (reference: article by Danny Sullivan on July 31, 2003 at Search Engine Watch, http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156441).

With rapid-fire developments like Yahoo's acquiring Inktomi and Overture and MSN's plan to float its own crawler, none is sure what would happen one year hence. There are even talks of 3rd generation search engines taking over soon. Atrepparttar 128333 time of writing this article though, Google remains firmly atoprepparttar 128334 surfers' list of most preferred search engines.

Do not submit to Google

Yeah, you need not submit to Google. Google will find you. It has been Google's long-time practice to extensively crawlrepparttar 128335 Web so as to build its own comprehensive database of webpages, no matter whether you submit or not. Inrepparttar 128336 process it has *outsmarted* others in producingrepparttar 128337 most relevant search results. Surfers love Google. Since Yahoo presents Google's search results andrepparttar 128338 fact that Looksmart has changed its listing procedure, it is obvious that their paid-listing programs are just not working.

Google's famed robot, *Googlebot*, crawls millions of webpages everyday and it's quite probable a new website will be automatically crawled sooner than one may imagine, whether *submitted* or not. One may also expect periodic visits by AltaVista's *Scooter*, Inktomi's *Slurp* and numerous other crawlers after you're *known* to Google.

Google's uppishness

Google doesn't like *orphan* sites. To quote Google's own words (at http://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html), *The best way to ensure Google finds your site is for your page to be linked from lots of pages on other sites. Google's robots jump from page to page onrepparttar 128339 Web via hyperlinks, sorepparttar 128340 more sites that link to you,repparttar 128341 more likely it is that we'll find you quickly*.

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