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What the Heck is Google Hell?

posted on April 30, 2007


Ok, I have to admit that I didn’t realize we had labeled Google’s supplemental results as “Google Hell” – well actually Jim Boykin gave it the label - I must have been building my Zwinky avatar at the time.

Anyway, Boykin joins Aaron Wall and Michael Gray in explaining Google’s supplemental results to Forbes.

Two observations from the article.

  1. How can a consultant take a company’s $35k and “mistakenly” create duplicate content?
  2. If you’re hired as a company’s “vice president of search marketing” and you got burned by you link-building practices – costing your company $250k in sales – why would you want to tell the world and shouldn’t you be looking for a new career?

(in case you don’t read the article, neither of the two cases above are about Boykin, Wall or Gray).


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  • http://www.wealthbuildinglessons.com Nirav

    shouldn’t they atleast get their $35k back from the ‘consultant’?

    my site’s been up for 2 months and its PR5 already.

    Quality rules – don’t need a $35k consultant to tell me that!

  • http://cling.worpress.com Seo? – Cling

    a little laugh to see looking for new careers.. should I ?

    I wouldn’t do that, just follow the rule this term is Google …

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  • http://bushidoblog.com.ar Dario

    3 people link to this post with the same anchor? *cough* duplicate content *cough* :P

  • http://www.seotrends.in SEM Consultant India

    Right, duplicate content was a mistake – but the situation is not bad either, if the site delivers what it promises, it will regain it’s position. I do not think Google is anyone’s enemy (except maybe YHO or MS!). Losing $500,000 is an insider’s view – something the employer and employee has to sit and discuss.

    Cheers!
    Sagar

  • http://seotechnique.blogspot.com Arnab Consultant India

    Not quite sure on Matt Cutts view on “The approach I’d recommend in that case is to use solid white-hat SEO to get high-quality links (e.g. editorially given by other sites on the basis of merit).”

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  • http://www.ksaler.com designer jewelry fan

    Everyone is using abusing links in order to gain PR and rankings.so high-quality links is most importance.

  • http://thesmallbusinessmarketingblog.com Kenney and Kim

    Funny. I saw this post referenced by Matt Cutts and thought I’d check it out. Heck yeah I’d be mad and would tell the world. Accidentally creating dup content eh? Yeah right. LOL

    Kenney and Kim’s last blog post..7 Small Business Marketing Tips That Will Grab Your Market’s Attention

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