I'm Done With Google

Funny, i opened this thread just to say that. Google doesn't owe you anything. Something most people here seem to forget.

Yeah, and we are not forced to use them.. Everyone should do like I do and not use them. Maybe that will knock them off their high horse.

Of course they don't owe anyone anything and neither do we. Just don't go changing the rules and acting like they are some kind of moral authority. do your job and give the people what they want. Stay out of trying to figure out what they want or what they should be searching for.

There are a few potential factors:

1. They aren't usually affiliates. Most of them are not giving out 1-3 backlinks to the content owner.
2. They are giving out full scenes instead of promo clips 100,000 other affiliates have.
3. They paid for massive backlinks and do very well on the popularity contest part of the G algorithm.
4. They aren't embedding the content from another site they are hosting it themselves.
5. Because of the full length clips they have a massive time on site metric.
6. They are usually heavily SEO with custom software.
7. Is being flagged as a legitimate content provider by Google rather than an affiliate.

The regular affiliate on the other hand:

1. Is using sponsor clips which 100,000 other webmasters have up.
2. Often is embedding content from the same source as thousands of others.
3. Has all sorts of backlinks to the content owner which are seen as "affiliate links".
4. Does not have massive link popularity and paid backlinks.
5. Has lower time on site due to shorter clips.
6. Is usually using cookie cutter software along with maybe a custom template but is limited in SEO potential by it.
7. Is being flagged as a "porn affiliate" by Google's classification mechanism.

Just my opinion. It's worth what you paid for it.

Google doesn't owe anyone anything

Focus on writing for surfers and quality content in general and search engines, including Google will respect your site over the long haul. I do agree focussing on the quick SEO tricks is dumb and will have you chasing your tail. No traffic source is 100% under your control including media buys, ppc etc.

Best thing you can do, is just forget about GOOGLE and just concentrate in your sites content...

Like the above post said.. plus if your content is interesting it will get sshred liked and tweeted giving yoyr site traffic..thus ranking you high in the search engines.

You need a few hundred people on the case building sites.