Businesses Scramble To Stay Out of Google Hell

whoever57 writes "Forbes has up an article on the consequences of being dumped into a claimed 'supplemental index', also known as 'Google Hell'. It uses the example of Skyfacet, a site selling diamonds rings and other jewelery, which has dropped in Google's rankings and saw a $500,000 drop in revenue in only three months after the site owner paid a marketing consultant to improve the sites. The article claims that sites in the supposed 'supplemental index' may be visited by Google's spiders as infrequently as once per year. The problem? Google's cache shows that Google's spiders visited the site ss recently as late April. 'Google Hell is the worst fear of the untold numbers of companies that depend on search results to keep their business visible online. Getting stuck there means most users will never see the site, or at least many of the site's pages, when they enter certain keywords. And getting out can be next to impossible--because site operators often don't know what they did to get placed there.'"

*Caring*

[UbuntuDupe]

"Forbes has up an article on the consequences of being dumped into a claimed 'spam index', also known as 'Mail Hell'. It uses the example of e360, a site selling mortgage refis and anatomical enlargement, which has dropped in graylist rankings and saw a $500,000 drop in revenue in only three months after the company paid a marketing consultant to improve the emails. The article claims that sites in the supposed 'spam index' may be re-evaluated as infrequently as once per year. The problem? The site was reevaluated as recently as late April. 'Mail Hell is the worst fear of the untold numbers of spammers that depend on breaking spam filters to keep their business visible online. Getting stuck there means most users will never see their emails. And getting out can be next to impossible--because spammers often don't know what they did to get placed there.'"

Dante

[inkedgeek]

I suppose this is Dante's 9th ring.

A 21 year old ...

[ThirdPrize]

with a $3,000,000 diamond business? He deserves to be in Google hell for that alone.
/goes to sit in the corner wondering what he did with his life/

Re:My tips on Google penalties

[hotdiggity]

If you do get into Google hell:

A player gets out of Google Hell by...

(1) Throwing doubles on any of your next three turns. If you succeed in doing this you immediately move forward the number of PageRank ratings shown by your doubles throw.

(2) Using the "Get Out of Google Hell Free Card"

(3) Purchasing the "Get Out of Google Hell Free Card" from another e-business and playing it.

(4) Paying a fine of $50 before you roll the dice on either of your next two turns. If you do not throw doubles by your third turn, you must pay the $50 fine. You then get out of Google Hell and immediately move forward the number of PageRank rankings shown by your throw.

Even though you are in Google Hell, you may buy and sell on e-Bay, buy and sell houses and hotels (in Second Life) and collect revenues.

Also, on the way to Google hell...

[Kamokazi]

...do not pass Go(.com) and do not collect $200.

Additionaly, you may visit Google Hell with no penalty, but you must route all traffic through the 'Just Visiting' proxy.

Re:My tips on Google penalties

[Dachannien]

We usually play that the $50 goes under the Free Domain Parking space, and you get all that money if you land there (but you also have to punch the monkey first).

Re:Must have happened already, right?

[Minwee]

It would be getting Joegled.

You Insensitive Clod!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but me, my lovely wife, P'zaz, our son, P-dawg and little baby Paashavimochaka absolutely do not like where you're heading with this...

Re:My tips on Google penalties

[Idbar]

Seriously, isn't that you go to hell if you don't pray?

Our search engine, who art in CA
Well known be thy name
Thy business come
Thy will be done
on earth as it is on the internet
Give us this day our daily ads and increase our PageRanks
And forgive us our bad links
As we forgive those who spam and DDoS against us
And lead us not into Yahoo
but deliver us from MSN

There! Now you know it.