If you look around, almost everything you click on the web is set up to make someone money. It's none of Google's business how a website is making their money as long as it's legal and follows FTC policies. Browsers make money every time you use that little search box in the top right corner of Firefox. People have a right to be compensated for their work. If the site provides a good service, I'll use it. If you don't want people to make money off your clicks. It would be best to close your browser and never open it again.
My site got hit by Panda (no manual penalty). After relaunching my site (which I had luckily been working on for over a year), my bounce rate is 30% and my direct link rate is 50%. Still, Google has me by the throat. My traffic is almost dead. Panda doesn't care if you're solving a problem for users and giving them the eye candy they want. It apparently just wants your site to be a "unique, well-written" news site. People come to my site to browse vintage items and find stuff that they didn't know existed in the niche. They usually visit during work hours and late in the evening. Reading ease for these items is on a college level (Which Panda doesn't like). They don't want to read a 1000 word article, they usually just want to hear it, see it, maybe ask question or two about the item and see who may be selling one. I offer that.
Panda's obvious Bayesian nature doesn't understand nuance. It only knows napalm.
Niche markets are the ones getting the crap end of the stick. And it's funny, niche markets used to be what made the web so great! Not anymore. Now it's 100% Googlized Walmart-ization.
And yeah, I'll be using www.filleritem.com when shopping Amazon. I didn't know it existed until I read this post. I don't mind, transparently, giving someone a few pennies for a good service. You do it all the time.
My site got hit by Panda (no manual penalty). After relaunching my site (which I had luckily been working on for over a year), my bounce rate is 30% and my direct link rate is 50%. Still, Google has me by the throat. My traffic is almost dead. Panda doesn't care if you're solving a problem for users and giving them the eye candy they want. It apparently just wants your site to be a "unique, well-written" news site. People come to my site to browse vintage items and find stuff that they didn't know existed in the niche. They usually visit during work hours and late in the evening. Reading ease for these items is on a college level (Which Panda doesn't like). They don't want to read a 1000 word article, they usually just want to hear it, see it, maybe ask question or two about the item and see who may be selling one. I offer that.
Panda's obvious Bayesian nature doesn't understand nuance. It only knows napalm.
Niche markets are the ones getting the crap end of the stick. And it's funny, niche markets used to be what made the web so great! Not anymore. Now it's 100% Googlized Walmart-ization.
And yeah, I'll be using www.filleritem.com when shopping Amazon. I didn't know it existed until I read this post. I don't mind, transparently, giving someone a few pennies for a good service. You do it all the time.