Google’s new Feature or Bug
- 22nd Jul 2008
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Recently I blogged about maybe links aren’t so important any more, I didn’t want to really give out the example I had found, but Richard Young and Myself where chatting about this early today, and I feel that google has created a Time Machine Bot :
ok let me try to explain what I mean you will most probably punch holes in this one .. lol
In the real world companies that have traded for many many years build up a natural authority, I’m sure that there are many industries that we don’t know anything about but could recognise a brand, in the UK Singer is a massive sewing machine brand , Singer has been around for 150 years !, but I don’t do sewing I have never SEO’ed a sewing website but I’m brand aware God only knows why lol
possible hole punch, So why don’t singer rank for sewing machines .. ( www.singermachines.co.uk ).. if my theory is correct 150 years of trading and a good aged web presence it should .. so you tell me why it doesn’t ;)
but what about Cheese http://www.teddingtoncheese.co.uk been on the internet since 1999 look at what they looked like in 1999
or Fish take http://www.tropicalfishcentre.co.uk/ look what their site looked like 2000
and finally Bras take http://www.amplebosom.com/ they have been around since 2000
Now Im not saying that these sites shouldn’t be there, in fact anyone who has been trading online for 8 years plus, should have authority of some kind, maybe google just dipped into the past and found sites that where authoritative in their day and are still trading online today.. it’s just a thought ..
Dave
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Does this mean that Dogpile will be listed #1 for ’search engine’ :)
I can’t believe it, that’s Altavista
>maybe google just dipped into the past and found sites that where authoritative in their day and are still trading online today
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Move along.
HAHA rcjordan.. your sites have been around before the internet was the internet :)
Dave
WOW I was only joking but i just looked and altavista and dogpile are listed as the top 2 search engines. has it always been like that?
Isn’t this just another way of saying established sites with long standing domains are doing well with less links :) The weight of links is being reduced and other areas are picking up the slack. Its just frustrating that it really reduces the chance of any new start up successfuly ranking quickly. More so than ever before.
we are having problems getting links to the shopping site we run to show up in google, and before anyone says anything i know we need more links.