Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Shame on Google

Jut doing some link analysis in my Internet Marketing research. I came across this page when searching "free speed reading" in google.


FreeSpeedReading.org
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www.freespeedreading.org/ - 8k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
#9 | PR: 0 | Google Cache Date: ? | Age: ? | del.icio.us: ? | Y! Links: 1 | Y! .edu Links: 0 | Y! .gov Links: ? | Y! Page Links: 0 | Y! .edu Page Links: ? | Technorati: ? | Alexa: ? | Compete.com Rank: ? | Compete.com Uniques: ? | Cached: ? | dmoz: ? | Bloglines: ? | dir.yahoo.com: ? | MSN Links: ? | MSN .edu Links: ? | MSN .gov Links: ? | MSN Page Links: ? | MSN .edu Page Links: ? | Whois



Anyone has any idea why it can be listed as #9?

Today (Around 1:20PM EST, 10/22/2007) I saw their page is not optimized(a squeeze page only). Almost no external links. (Yahoo link is 1, yahoo page link is 0.

How come this page was listed as #9? The only optimized part is the domain. This makes me wonder if Google lists paid site in here, disguising it as a good site. (but without sponsored link sign so it's the best ad for a company).

Or it is a real shame on Google to rate such a useless content page (a squeeze page) as #9.

I did not see a reason why that is listed as #9? Or am I missing sth. here? BTW, this is not the only one I found.


Or google got paid by sprinkling some junk into search results in exchange of money, as long as the percentage is small? The pay should be pretty high as those sites disguised themselves as "authority sites" without any meaningful data regarding keywords user entered?

Google should be smart enough only to pull those junk from first 10-20 pages. However, those pages are not rare in first page - let me wonder Google is corrupted in exchange of MONEY.

Time for another search engine ???


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BTW, this is what they have in that page: (What a crap, Google can not find it out???)

Sign up for our FREE Speed Reading course.
It's so easy! Our site is 100% free.

What is your current reading speed?
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Click the button and enter your Zip Code then fill out the survey completely (it's several pages long). Take note of the Last Word on the Last Page after you fill out the entire survey. Click here to see an example.



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