| I have seen search engine stats from certain | | | | rankings. |
| companies that are blowing Googles wistel at max | | | | Sites like webmaster world and SEO inc have been |
| volume, But trusted sites like Alexa are speaking a | | | | running massive campaigns to keep Google on the top |
| totally different story than the webmaster and seo | | | | of the charts in the populations and webmasters minds |
| sites. Get some facts here. | | | | because they are making big bucks. Claiming that |
| Before we get too far into this I want to show some | | | | Google has almost 60% of the search market. |
| results from search on Google and and take a real | | | | This may have been true a few years ago, but I have |
| hard look at the results. For the most part you can get | | | | been watching Alexa and other traffic ranking sites for |
| different results according to which data center you | | | | over 6 months now and Google is in a steady decline |
| get and your IP address. With this noted, lets get | | | | nationally and internationally. |
| started. | | | | Now let me point out what I think is the bias and |
| Our First target keyword phrase in mexia real estate, | | | | reasoning for my thinking. Yahoo is Number one in the |
| This is the small town in central Texas that Anna | | | | global top 500 and also domestically in the U.S. |
| Nicole Smith is from. It only has a population of about 6 | | | | If you mouse over the site info a box appears and tell |
| thousand residents and 20 thousand in the county and | | | | you where searchers on yahoo also visit and most is |
| there are probably 12 to 14 real estate companies in | | | | within Yahoo, AOL ect. Now we look at Google site |
| the area that have web sites. | | | | info link and they also visit webmaster world then |
| There are only 3 real estate sites in the top 10 that are | | | | Yahoo and MSN. |
| actually local realtors. Trulia dot com, city-data , | | | | Why would people go from Google to Yahoo and |
| realestate.yahoo, realestate dot com are some of the | | | | MSN if they were finding what they want? I believe |
| top 10 listings. Most of these sites sell leads to local | | | | the answer is simple, Google is catering to national |
| realtors and agents. So they are not giving the most | | | | companies with their algorithm and the general public |
| quality results to their searchers. | | | | knows this. You can not find what you are looking for |
| This is the normal type of results across the country | | | | in Google because their algorithm is so complex. |
| for autos, real estate, and even the local hair salon. | | | | Google has also caught a lot of flack for censoring |
| Google has made their algorithm so tough that you | | | | videos of political nature by removing videos that are |
| need a professional seo or seo team to keep ahead | | | | exposing politicians and the news media to the public. |
| of the national companies. The average independent | | | | My Belief is that Google is on the way out because |
| site owner has very limited options to get their sites to | | | | the people will and are stopping the use of the popular |
| rank well in Google these days without paying big | | | | search engine because of the way they are doing |
| bucks. | | | | business. |
| Google is systematically dumping the little guy and | | | | I understand that search engines have to update their |
| selling out the population and small business owners on | | | | algorithms to keep spammers in check, But the bias is |
| a local level and national levels also and it shows on | | | | now noticeable to the general public and it is showing in |
| sites that actually give un-biased results for traffic | | | | their traffic rankings! |