Traffic Flow SEO

Google, Google, Google - that is all I hear nowdays from my clients. Google this, Google that. I feel that the Google Propoganda Campaign (as I have coined it) is fueled by their constant promotional onslaught of all their FREE (free as in dollars, but not free as the data they are collecting which is much more valuable then anything they are giving away) to all my clients.

ENOUGH ALREADY, YOU ARE NOT ALL THAT JUST AND RIGHTEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me lay out some examples:

1. ShoeMoney Vs Keyen Farrell
- Admit your employee lied and cheated Shoemoney out of a lot of revenue. Quit denying as it only breeds hostility and suspicion of even a larger cover up.

Resources for your review:

- TechCrunch - ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations

- Search Engine Land - Google Employee Alleged To Have Bypassed AdWords Trademark Policy For Own Benefit

- John Chow - ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations

2. Google Asks (Demands) That Website Owners Update Their Privacy Policy
- Just because we run Google AdSense ads on our sites, does not mean you own us!

Resources for your review:

- Circle ID - Google AdSense Asks Publishers to Change Their Websites' Privacy Policy

3. Google Censors Chinese Version of Search Engine at Government Demand
- You are one of the largest online companies dominating a large part of the Web, stand up and act like it and do not allow governments to push you into further oppressing people!

Search Engine Watch - Google Now Censoring In China

The Boston Globe - Google China Censorship Fuels Calls for US Boycott

Boing Boing - Google Founder Regrets Censoring China (I guess better late then never)

3. Google Kills a Deer
- Watch your driving.

Switch - Did Google Street View Kill This Deer?

These are just four examples, the list goes on and on. The point is this, in my world I see Google closing in everywhere. How about this as proof positive:

Google has tried (and sometimes succeeded) to:
- Convince some of my clients to use their analytics program
- Convince some of my clients to switch ad tracking systems (from Atlas, owned by Microsoft to DART which is owned by Google)
- Convince some of my clients to advertise and upload content to YouTube
- Convince some of my clients to increase their spends within their search engine
- Convince some of my clients to use their campaign optimizer tool (free bid manager)
- Convince some of my clients to use their online office products
- Convince some of my clients to use a professional version of Gmail for their companies
- Convince some of my clients to use AdSense ads on their sites (as this site does)

So, basically we could have Google monitoring about 90 percent of all online activity happening with some of my clients. A little scary would you not say? You have been warned, the best things in life are NOT always FREE (even if Google gives them to you free).

Learn more at - Google Watch