Comments on: Shops fall out of Google results http://tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: eBay Italy competition for reviews : TameBay http://tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-3971 eBay Italy competition for reviews : TameBay Mon, 21 May 2007 14:32:20 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-3971 [...] I really like this competion, with visibility of eBay listings dropping out of Google, encouraging rich search engine friendly content makes sense. Even if you don’t sell the products directly related to your reviews they will not only attract search engine traffic to eBay, but buyers can click through to your eBay listings and discover what you do sell. I’d really like eBay.co.uk to run a promotion like this! [...] [...] I really like this competion, with visibility of eBay listings dropping out of Google, encouraging rich search engine friendly content makes sense. Even if you don’t sell the products directly related to your reviews they will not only attract search engine traffic to eBay, but buyers can click through to your eBay listings and discover what you do sell. I’d really like eBay.co.uk to run a promotion like this! [...]

]]> By: Biddy http://tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-790 Biddy Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:24:08 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-790 Lisa: Have "ya" considered exactly what you're saying about Google here? Although Page Rank is to an extent arbitrary (indeed, it's <a href="http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2007/03/kinderstart_v_g_2.htm" rel="nofollow">arbitrariness has been enshrined in US law</a> recently), the reputation of Google's search engine rests on the perception that it is impartial, and that the results it gives are the best match for the query. If Google were to start messing with that, and removing their competitors from their rankings "manually", they would have shot themselves in the foot mightily. I don't believe they're about to do that. Especially to their largest customer. And anyway, if Google wanted to use their own search results to promote themselves over their competitors, don't you think <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=search%20engine" rel="nofollow">they'd be a bit higher up the page for "search engine" results</a>? Lisa: Have “ya” considered exactly what you’re saying about Google here? Although Page Rank is to an extent arbitrary (indeed, it’s arbitrariness has been enshrined in US law recently), the reputation of Google’s search engine rests on the perception that it is impartial, and that the results it gives are the best match for the query. If Google were to start messing with that, and removing their competitors from their rankings “manually”, they would have shot themselves in the foot mightily. I don’t believe they’re about to do that. Especially to their largest customer.

And anyway, if Google wanted to use their own search results to promote themselves over their competitors, don’t you think they’d be a bit higher up the page for “search engine” results?

]]> By: Lisa http://tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-784 Lisa Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:01:37 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-784 Aarf! Please no conspiracy theories??? Okay, um... Google LOVES eBay, so much so that they want eBay to be more successful than them! They would never, ever do anything that might drop eBay's ranking - EVER. Ya happy now? I told ya what ya wanted to hear. ;-) Aarf! Please no conspiracy theories??? Okay, um… Google LOVES eBay, so much so that they want eBay to be more successful than them! They would never, ever do anything that might drop eBay’s ranking – EVER. Ya happy now? I told ya what ya wanted to hear. ;-)

]]> By: Chairman http://tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-747 Chairman Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:06:37 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-747 I noticed that Yahoo passed Google for the % share of traffic to my eBay store Imports-and-Slavic-Books. Considering Yahoo used to be half the % of Google hits thats a pretty huge drop I noticed that Yahoo passed Google for the % share of traffic to my eBay store Imports-and-Slavic-Books.

Considering Yahoo used to be half the % of Google hits thats a pretty huge drop

]]> By: Aaron http://tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-737 Aaron Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:52:56 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/03/shops-fall-out-of-google-results.html#comment-737 Maybe it's payback for <a href="http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2007/3/1173753996.html" rel="nofollow">Google "bait"</a> spam being included in listings? Google doesn't usually look too kindly on this sort of thing. Maybe it’s payback for Google “bait” spam being included in listings? Google doesn’t usually look too kindly on this sort of thing.

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