Comments on: This is a Load of Hooey http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/ A personal finance blog dedicated to discussing such topics as budgeting, asset allocation, 401K, IRA, cash flow, insurance, financial planning, portfolio management, and other areas in personal finance. Wed, 23 May 2012 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: GaryP http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-2341 GaryP Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:47:40 +0000 http://allthingsfinancialblog.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/#comment-2341 The site you mention probably gets 99% of their traffic from Google searches - I don't see anything there that would attract return visitors. So if Google got smart and quit directing traffic to them from searches their traffic (and therefore their income) easily could have dropped off. The site appears to exist simply to draw people in from searches and then have them click out of the site when they see that an Adsense ad might have a better answer than the site itself. If they had built up their page rank then they would get quite a bit of traffic on the 100s of topics they have pages on. I am guessing that Google looked at the site and determined that its sole purpose was to bring in search results and point them to Adsense ads - in other words they serve no value. Google therefore zero'd out the site's page rank which would put them so far down in the search rank that nobody ever found them. So if they went from thousands of hits per day to hundreds they very easily could have lost all the easy money they were making on such a site. The site you mention probably gets 99% of their traffic from Google searches – I don’t see anything there that would attract return visitors. So if Google got smart and quit directing traffic to them from searches their traffic (and therefore their income) easily could have dropped off.

The site appears to exist simply to draw people in from searches and then have them click out of the site when they see that an Adsense ad might have a better answer than the site itself.

If they had built up their page rank then they would get quite a bit of traffic on the 100s of topics they have pages on. I am guessing that Google looked at the site and determined that its sole purpose was to bring in search results and point them to Adsense ads – in other words they serve no value. Google therefore zero’d out the site’s page rank which would put them so far down in the search rank that nobody ever found them.

So if they went from thousands of hits per day to hundreds they very easily could have lost all the easy money they were making on such a site.

]]> By: JLP http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-2329 JLP Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:26:14 +0000 http://allthingsfinancialblog.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/#comment-2329 "Hooey" means "nonsense." “Hooey” means “nonsense.”

]]> By: Your Uncle Darnell http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-2326 Your Uncle Darnell Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:45:23 +0000 http://allthingsfinancialblog.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/#comment-2326 "Hooey" is potty talk. Shame on you. “Hooey” is potty talk. Shame on you.

]]> By: Steve http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-2321 Steve Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:32:01 +0000 http://allthingsfinancialblog.com/2006/03/19/this-is-a-load-of-hooey/#comment-2321 Your right, that is a bunch of hooey. It goes for every company that gets to big, they get sued more. Anyways I enjoy reading your blog. Can you link my blog to yours. I would appreciate it. Thanks Steve Your right, that is a bunch of hooey. It goes for every company that gets to big, they get sued more. Anyways I enjoy reading your blog. Can you link my blog to yours. I would appreciate it.

Thanks
Steve

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