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Lady Google

In a forum thread of StatCounter Robin posted an answer to a person that was impatient with Google in regards to ranking.

This is what he wrote:

Lady Google does not provide immediate gratification. She considers that kind of thing to be undignified. She expects to be romanced for a considerable time.

She’ll pay attention to you only if she’s introduced by a circle of friends (aka incoming links). Once she agrees to a date, she expects scintillating conversation (aka plenty of readable text on the page). Even then, she will seem to ignore you for months on end (aka the PR 0 “sandbox”) until she’s convinced that you are really, really serious about the relationship.

She also claims to want to be called (aka Google sitemaps), although she doesn’t promise that she’ll actually respond to the call.

So, yes, give her time. Don’t give up. Once she does respond, she can be a very satisfying partner.

This is so funny and most of it is correct as well :)

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About the Author Jim Westergren Jim Westergren is a company owner from Sweden who lives together with his wife and son. Some of his interests are SEO, web development, writing and taking photos. Read his full about page or contact him. Follow Jim on Twitter or subscribe to this blog.
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4 responses »Leave a comment
  1. Fredrik Westlund
    said on February 2, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    This one is great and correct! :)

  2. Manny
    said on February 3, 2006 at 6:07 am

    I don’t think I have ever heard an illustration that more perfectly described something. Google is just that way.

    PS

    On “Sharpen Your URLs With Google”

    I put that rewrite code in the .htaccess file for all of my blogs. I hope it works!

  3. Puneet Thakkar
    said on March 12, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Yeah “Manny”…

    Thats very well written especiallythe wordings are well placed…..lol

    Keep writing such things to gain knowledge with a bit fun too..

    Regards
    Puneet M

  4. Bruno Raschio
    said on March 12, 2007 at 10:34 am

    Yeah “Manny”…

    Thats very well written especiallythe wordings are well placed…..lol

    Keep writing such things to gain knowledge with a bit fun too..

    Regards
    Bruno

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