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Google on Your Shoe
Posted August 8,
2006
If you are a Google
watcher, new web owner or fellow optimizer, you have
undoubtedly noticed some very peculiar Google behavior
the past couple of months? Perhaps you think you
are going crazy? It's not you --- it's Google.
I have been working
on this poem to explain what has happened. I
posted it on Google employee and unofficial spokesperson
to the Internet community Matt Cutts' BLOG on Saturday.
You are welcome to use this poem on
your web or email it to others if you put up a link to
http://www.roncastle.com Otherwise it is
copyright ©
2006 by Ron Castle and all rights are reserved.
Here she
goes:
Google on Your Shoe
by Ron Castle
www.roncastle.com
I am a website marketer; my
friends all think I'm cool.
I sell stuff on the Internet, where my web
rankings rule.
One day in May they dropped from sight, were no
place to be found.
Google took my website ranks and sent them
underground.
If you smell something funny when you’re on the
Internet,
You think it's body odor, loss of rankings make
you sweat,
But it really smells much worse than that, it's
worse than doggie poo,
You weren't watching where you step; it's Google
on your shoe.
First week of May two thousand six, there was a
Google crash.
Their content filter went bizarre, bad websites
made a dash
Right into the index where they'd never been
before.
Good content that they should be crawling
totally ignored.
Google says they do no harm, but didn't say a
word
That anything was wrong or that this even had
occurred.
Of course it's good for AdWords, but they say
they never do
Anything organic that would make you need them,
true?
The moral to this story is that Google's not
your friend.
Friends will tell you when they're wrong, be
truthful to the end.
They will not betray your trust and will not
make you blue.
Which is why you should be careful, don't get
Google on your shoe.
So, if you smell something funny when you're on
the Internet,
You know your SEO is good, you've nothing to
regret,
And all your pretty pages simply disappear from
view,
It wasn't anything you did; it's Google on your
shoe.
I hope you feel better now? I do. Why no
word about this in the press? Good question.
Cheers,
Ron |
