Comments on: Google Can Kiss My Fanny

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:03:36 +0000

Well, there’s always the “juicy” aspect of having double the incoming links that some PR5 sites do but being rated a PR3 now.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:41:38 +0000

Damn! I was hoping I had stumbled on to something VERY juicy. I would’ve loved nothing more than to go on a tear about that…

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:27:18 +0000

Oh, HELL. I take that back. I was looking in the wrong place. There are 80,039 incoming links to Electric Venom. This just pisses me off even more. Where's my martini?!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:19:01 +0000

Well, there’s that! Let me ask you, did those numbers drop in the past day or two, as well? I’d be very interested to know if there’s a correlation between the PR spank and a drop in backlinks.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:15:34 +0000

I do use it, Matt. It shows the same number.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:45:58 +0000

Kate, do you use Webmaster Central? I know we all hate Google right now, but just so you’re aware…they won’t show you your accurate inlink numbers with the link: command or any other tools. You have to verify your site with them through WC and then you’ll see more accurate data. I don’t want to slow the Google bash at all, but I wanted to make sure you knew that.

Shoes, huh? They’re like heroin for women. Yvette’s closet is stacked deep…it boggles my mind. I think I’ve maybe got 10 pairs at the most.

By: lattegirl

lattegirl — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:22:33 +0000

I stopped doing paid blogging, so I am blissfully a) unaware b) uncaring about all this. Glad you got some shoes in the process, though.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:35:47 +0000

I bought shoes. Glorious shoes. Also, candy. And wine. Fortunately, I still have the shoes. You know what pisses me off most about Google? They show that EV has 3,510 incoming whereas Yahoo shows 70,902 incoming links, and AltaVista shows a whopping 251,000. But here's the kicker: my Google backlinks are well over double what several other PR5 blogs show. (I know, I've checked.) So Google is definitely discounting some incoming links, and possibly penalizing EV. Why? Well, perhaps it's the links in the right sidebar, which compete with Google Adsense. Thing is, I have YET to earn one single check from Google in 4+ years of running Adsense. If they were in the least bit profitable for smaller bloggers, I'd ditch the others. But they're not. Unfortunately, they ARE still the paradigm by which a blog's "importance" is judged. And. That. Pisses. Me. Off.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:13:07 +0000

Trouble is, most of the world isn’t paying attention. Google is a verb. Yahoo is not. Well, not in the search-engine sense anyway.

Tell us what you get in retail therapy. They do sell naps, don’t they?

By: Jae

Jae — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:58:07 +0000

You already know how I feel, but I’m not terribly embroiled with Google. I, however, will not use them to search again.