Google is my favourite search engine and for years, I’ve been using it and then helping my clients optimize their websites for a good Google ranking and then writing articles aimed at Google’s ranking system and attracting their spiders….etc. Hang on, I’m not going into a half-hearted wishy-washy shoe-polishing effort. I think something’s wrong with Google ranking today.
It’s simply not what it used to be.
OK, I am taking this from a writer and also a web surfer’s point of view. You see, being a freelance writer and a mother at the same time, life can get pretty hectic. I find using Yoga (currently into Yin Yoga) for stretching and invigorating my life and work useful, so, I performed a search for that today and the result was far from accurate.
Basically, I was looking for a results page that was filled to the brim with useful information, tips and articles with pictures and useful links, perhaps? Google has become more and more ‘advertisy’…there’s no such word but what the heck. It’s either people are getting smarter in manipulating the results with the words on their pages or Google’s lagging behind.
I don’t know.
Then again, Google’s search algorithm changes all the time…by the minutes and seconds, so, I could be right today and then wrong tomorrow. Well, whatever it is, it’s an observation I thought worth blogging about.