My Thoughts on Google Right Now (Spoiler Aleart! Google is Almost DEAD to me!)

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6 months ago

So, I haven't been blogging on WA for some time, like almost a month, and I come up with "sad" news (not really, but I think you get what I mean).

So before I get into this post, I would like to say my reason for not blogging here on WA, and that is I have been mad busy, and I caught a cold 2 times in a row. Crazy, I know, lol! So that is why you haven't seen my blogs lately.

Now to the topic. Google, are you a friend or are you my enemy? If you haven't been under a rock lately, there are a lot of discussions about if Google is even reliable at this point. Ranking in Google has been almost as hard as running 100 marathons, lol!

I know that people are saying that Google wants, that or this, etc. But from my experience, Google HATES me, it is like they want to k!ll me. And I am not alone.

This is a bit controversial, but I just have to tell you what I have been doing the last month, (quietly, lol) and what I with my own experience seen how things are. So I speak from my own experience, so don't come at me and tell me that Google wants this or that, I am just telling you what I have experienced.

Let's Talk DA (Domain Authority)

This is a topic that is people are mixed about, some people say it doesn't even matter, and some say that DA does really matter. Someone who is on the DA side is a well known member, Partha, who left sadly. :(

But which side am I on? For now, I don't know, ok? But how things are looking, I am more on the DA side. Since I haven't seen a low DA site rank in page 1 EVER! Seriously, nothing below a DA of 70. Ok maybe some websites had like a DA of 50, but HOW AM I WITH A 1,1 DA WEBSITE GOING TO OUT RANK A SITE WITH A DA SCORE OF 50??

That is a question many say the answer is IMPOSSIBLE! But for now I am not 100% on the DA side yet, I am working on a little test site, and I will share with you all the end results to see if there is a way to get around this high DA sites.

So, why am I saying this? I don't want to discourage anyone, or say that it is impossible to rank in Google, or that we all are going to fail our business. No, that is not what I am saying here. I just want to bring it up that Google might not be a reliable source anymore, it is sad, but it is also reality. High DA sites are kinda taking over.

So, how do I know that Google is almost impossible to rank in right now? Well, you can just take a look at my sites stats.

I wrote an article around "How To Get Started With Real Estate Investing" and with a week or so, I started ranking, on position 100+. TERRIBLE! "But maybe your article just was bad". I will tell you that I made that article as good as I could.

SEO, user experience. I made everything! Internal, and external links, SEO friendly in general. But not only that, I made sure it was helpful, I even had one of these "key points" at the top. There wasn't 1 thing I was missing for great user experience, and in terms of SEO.

What is something that am I lacking here? 2 things, time, and authority. SEO takes time, of course, but I also don't have authority. So I won't be ranking that high. And I have a few articles around real estate investment to show Google that I know a thing or two about real estate investment (topical authority).

Now this is 1 example out of 100, pretty much every one of them kinda has the same results. I won't get too much into detail here, but the thing is, I have articles that have around a year to rank higher.

The Solution!

So if you are someone who hasn't gotten that much love from Google, then there is a way around this Google problem. Think like this, it isn't Google that pays you, it is people. And Google is just a source for you to drive in traffic to your website, and then maybe you can make a sale.

So, we need to change your source of traffic here (if you aren't really generating traffic through Google). Now there are a lot of places of doing this. Just name ANY social media platform, all of them can be a great new source.

Personally, I like Reddit, Quora, Pinterest, Medium, LinkedIn Pulse and Facebook. And yes, I recommend you doing multiple platforms, to kinda maximize the amount of traffic you can drive in.

It doesn't need to be 10, perhaps just 3. For now, when it comes to Reddit, and Quora, just go around and answer questions like if it is WA. It isn't hard at all. Post helpful content, and comment, it is very simple, and you can gain a lot of traffic out of it. That is what I know for now on how to build up traffic from those platforms.

And don't promote your website the first thing you do, you will want to have a good amount of post and comment karma on Reddit at least. Quora, not so sure, lol!

Pinterest, or Facebook. There are training here on WA you can watch.

That was the end, I have a few things left to say. Firstly, I hope you all are doing well, secondly, if you want to argue against what I just said, I won't respond, I won't even listen, so it is pointless. This is what I have seen and experienced, and you can't argue against it, ok?

(Also quick disclaimer here, you shouldn't stop writing articles on your website, keep it going, just don't have Google as your main priority.)

I wish you all my best! :)