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External Since: Jul 04, 2003 Posts: 93

"Charles Sweeney" <me DeleteThis @charlessweeney.com> wrote in message news:<c55oq5$2nvj5q$1@ID-162618.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> "Greg Hewitt-Long" <newsposting0209 DeleteThis @webyourbusiness.com> wrote in message
> news:29fc5134.0404081546.29a9c910@posting.google.com...
  > > Excellent news Charles! SEO is a tricky business, and good results
  > > often take many months, if not years to obtain - especially for
  > > popular searches, or even unpopular searches with fewer more generic
  > > phrases.
  > >
  > > The irrelevant results and portal sites have become a plague recently,
>
> Thank you Greg! Good to hear from you BTW.

I'm popping in once in a while - although it was a month since I was
last here - I do try to take a look at the threads with interesting
topics, the longer threads etc., I don't have time any more to visit
daily or even weekly!

>
> I have noticed an increase in portal sites in the results. Quite a pain
> sometimes.
>

A month or two ago, it was even worse - they (google) appear to
getting slowly back to the old form, but I honestly think they blew it
in a big way. IMO the quality of results has dropped for me as a
searcher, and I find myself cursing more and more than I'm simply
trying to find information. That has got to be infuriating for
someone who is less than an expert searcher (I don't think it a
stretch to consider a seasoned internet professional an expert
searcher, although you do run into some clueless tossers in this
business!).

> Whether there are simply more of them around, or Google's new algorithm is
> favouring them, I don't know.

I think it's both - but it doesn't matter to the average searcher -
they are after quality results, if and when they hit a portal site
with one or two quality bits of information on the page, and a lot of
ads and junk, are they impressed? Possibly not, but if they're total
newbies, do they care, or do they simply click through the paid ad to
the info they're after? I don't know for sure. I'd like to see some
REAL research on the matter. The regulars and older resident long
time posters are probably NOT average searchers!

regards

Greg
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External Since: Mar 12, 2004 Posts: 123

While sitting in a puddle Greg Hewitt-Long scribbled in the mud:

>> Do you remember the little flood they had on the Big Thompson river,
>> July 31, 1976?
>
> Sorry Duende, no - I don't... reason being I moved here in June 2000!

I was living in Estes Park when it happened. We just got a sprinkle. Lost a
few friends that lived in the canyon though.

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Duende