My opinions about Aquatics Business/Hobby, True Conservatism, The Media, Google, DCS/DHS, Dishonest Business Practices, Man-Made Global Warming
"My Opinions" about Aquatics Business/Hobby, True Conservatism, Google, DCS/DHS, Dishonest Business Practices, Man-Made Global Warming, The Media, Faces of Evil, Recycling, Arrogance of our local and National Leaders and more.
Most of the subjects are based on reading and study and well as real life experiences (my field is aquarium and pond research and information as well as business)
A lot is said in web optimizing websites, blogs, and in the news about the importance of social media to website traffic and over all SEO (search engine optimization).
While I cannot address businesses outside the fish keeping world; what I can say is I've have found social media plays a very small role in our website traffic and SEO rankings, especially in Google.
The FACTS are in an average 24 hour window, my website with the most traffic (about 4000 visits per day), American Aquarium Products receives 3-6 hits from Facebook or Google Plus. This is .09% of traffic!!!
See: "American Aquarium Products"
One might argue that we have no presence on Facebook, etc... but that would not be true. We have a Facebook page and many of our pages, such as Aquarium Lighting Information and Aquarium/Pond UV Sterilization have many likes and shares.
Recommended References:
*Aquarium Light Facts & Information
*Ultraviolet Sterilization, facts and information
Now I will admit that websites such as this one (My Opinions) obtains more traffic from Facebook, but still less than 1%.
So where does traffic come from?
HERE IS A LIST IN ORDER OF NUMBER OF VISITS:
Search Engines (34.4%)-
Google, Bing, Yahoo, Blekko, Dogpile, Ask, etc.
This should come as no surprise to anyone.
Book Marked (31.25%)-
These, I do not know how they originally found the website, but however they found it, they liked the content and re-visit regularly.
Other Websites/Blogs (7.81%)-
Whether it be websites I created with related content or even semi related content (such as this website), this this the third largest generator of traffic.
Aquarium, Pond and Other Forums (3.13%)-
This is where Google and so-called gurus of social media and SEO really screws up in their algorithm.
The FACTS are forums are a clear 4th, far more than social media, yet little attention is paid to these forums.
WHY? In my opinion we have become such a ME society and that is what social media is all about is selfishness.
However many forums are about helping others in a community of support. Admittedly some forums can be rather mean and dishonest with clear anecdotal agendas, but even the "bad" forums still post links to articles, which is helpful even if it's only to bash them with "straw man" arguments.
Either way, good or bad, forums are a major way readers find my most popular web site.
Recommended Forum: Aquarium Fish Forum
Sadly Google's search algorithm gives little credit to forum posts. This makes little sense when you consider the reasons many visit, post, & answer questions.
Yahoo Answers (1.5%)-
While I am not a fan of many of the answers given there, especially in the Fish/Aquarium category, the fact remains that questions with links to my article answered about 1-2 years ago or further back often come up in searches which brings in vistors.
Social Media (.09%)-
Social Media comes in dead last with .09% of traffic.
Even when activity is high on our Facebook page (including when we experimented with the disastrous Facebook advertising), few if any persons will actually come over from Facebook or Google Plus.
What do I think is the problem with Social Media?
As I noted earlier, part of the problem of social media is that its is "me centric".
As an example, I can post contests, pictures, articles, etc. about my business on my personal Facebook, and even persons such as my niece will NEVER even give these a like or share.
Most persons I know post everything about themselves or what they think is important, and never bother to think maybe I can look at someone else's stuff (my wife quite Facebook for this reason after no one even cared to comment after a family tragedy).
Personally I take the time to read or at least look at many others posts when I visit Google + or Facebook, but VERY FEW return this favor.
Interesting I have other websites which have no Facebook "like" buttons or little presence on Facebook, Google Plus, or other social media sites, yet these websites often come up ahead of my main website for search terms they compete heavily for.
An example would be "uv sterilization" which has copious amounts of Facebook activity, likes, promotions, etc...but still does poorly on searches. Yet on the other hand, I have a website that I do not promote in social media at all and even have less content, but still does MUCH better in Google Search. So much for Google giving credit for Social Media.
Recommended Reference: UV Sterilization
Of coarse this also does not say much for Google's spam ridden search engine either. There is a problem when a minor blog style website comes up ahead of a major research/content website!
Other (21.82%)-
This would other sources, and undiscernable visits, which I doubt any are stealth Facebook or other social media since these are easy to track with my software.
IN CONCLUSION:
Do not believe any of these people sending emails telling you your lack presence in social media is hurting your website or blog traffic. THIS IS A BIG LIE TO SEPARATE YOU FROM YOUR MONEY!
As well be wary of many well intentioned blogs that place too much emphasis on social media, take what they say with a grain of salt.
Also keep in mind this social media phenomenon is just a fad, and hopefully someday we as a society will wake up and realize that life is NOT all about ourselves!!
The Occupy Wall Street Movement is in general a very sad and telling snapshot on our society today, with their self centered, "give me", narcissistic attitude, and blame somebody else attitude, with no concept of economics or reality.
I will qualify my statements/comments to note that I am sure there are genuine persons with genuine grievances in the OWS movement; however from what I have read, seen, and simple analysis of most grievances most of these persons are not grounded in reality.
As a side note:
Just based on the ever increasing rude emails I receive in my business where others will attempt to blame me or others for their failure to read & understand, or get mad when I attempt to be as efficient with my very limited time to answer my many emails by "pasting" parts of my many researched articles in emails rather than provide a long 30 minute email or phone answer (at no charge).
These persons simply refuse to read the plethora of aquarium/pond information I have provided.
See my Aquarium/Pond Information Article web page: http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Information.html
Similar to this, I recently had a person claim a working UVC Bulb was misrepresented because it would not work in his degraded ballast and he refused to read the extensive information I provided to help him with his problem; instead he chose to make rude, accusatory and blatantly false accusations.
See my UVC Bulb/Sterilizer Troubleshooting Article: http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/UVBulbTroubleShooting.html
It is also noteworthy that when I/we are able to track persons that send us rude, demanding, etc., to blogs, Facebook, etc. we find that well over 80% hold almost exactly the same views as the Occupy movement (THIS IS A VERY TELLING FACT!).
My wife works at a general merchandise store (similar to Walmart), and she too has observed this rapidly increasing narcissistic attitude of "I am owed something", with customers expecting much for free (basically she or others, including this so-called "Greedy Corporation" are placed on this planet to serve them with absolutely no compensation!).
From my perspective (being in business 30 plus years), this problem has grown at an alarming rate in recent years and the often Socialist/Communist/Fascist aspect of the Occupy Wall Street movement exemplifies this as well for me.
As well my terrible financial situation I find myself in is in part due to this "stick it to the man attitude" since a couple that took advantage of a personal leave of absence and liquidated much of my business and worse; the person who took advantage of my wife's postpartum depression and screwed us out of $1000s as well as permanently harmed my young daughter voiced this exact view (I was/am a small businessman who has ALWAYS placed his employees and honesty to customer above all else and honest persons through the years can attest to this).
Frankly I can "see him" every time I listen to the Occupy protests, which is another reason I find the Occupy Movement so extremely offensive.
See this other post about Conservatism versus Capitalism
This is a subject so many misunderstand on both the left and the right.
Back to the "Occupy" Movement:
Here is the #1 Complaint I have heard repeated over and over:
Greedy Corporations are to blame for our current financial/economic issues:
This is a complex issue that I cannot cover in a blog post and do justice. I will however note that the Occupy Wall Street Crowd certainly has some merit to this claim, but it is very misdirected.
For one much of this problem has been caused by liberals such as Barney Frank via regulations on the banking industry that forced many of the bad loans that later melted down.
This is not to say many large corporations are not without fault and are to blame, but why do persons continue to do business with such corporations such as Bank of America, which by-the-way is a major contributor to liberal causes.
But what really blows my mind is the company that is THE MOST corrupt is Google, yet how many of these Occupy Wall Street crowd are "googling" or using Google Search, Google Android Phones, etc?
The facts are Google has been proven to plagiarize small business or writers for use with Adsense/Adwords then deny these revenue streams, as well it has been proven that Google Search is slanted toward large corporations, but new, innovative, or researched companies or information articles.
See this reference (one of many): Google Dishonesty, Plagiarism, with Adsense, Adwords, & More
*Also why is there no anger at the Obama administration which has supported bail-outs of corporations (in other words "Crony Capitalism")? As a small business, no government entity has ever come to my aid (nor should they).
What about denial of Food Stamps when we were struggling a few years ago? The Food Stamps program is very corrupt and is based on accounting methods with no basis in the reality of business.
Where is the anger here? Of coarse there is none since many in this crowd are receiving these benefits while others struggle all night collecting cardboard and bottles to feed their families.
See: Oregon Trail Card, Food Stamps Corruption
The recently released study of “heavy hitters” by the Center for Responsible Politics showed the amount of money the top 140 political donors gave to Democrats and Republicans from 1989 through 2010. Four of the top six gave $170 million over that period, with $151 million going to Democrats, and less than $3 million going to Republicans (the difference going to unaffiliated or independent political groups). In simple math, Democrats received 89 percent while Republicans got less than two percent.
*Back to corporations (& while this does not justify greed), it is important to note that Entrepreneurs/business are the ones that create jobs and "putting it to the man" is not going to get you a job!
The bottom line is while corporate greed and more importantly "Crony Capitalism" is a legitimate complaint (probably the most legitimate "Occupy" complaint IMO), there is no understanding of who creates the jobs, the fact that not all business are "greedy" (just as not all of the Occupy Wall Street Crowd are scum or without legitimate grievances).
There is also an extreme misunderstanding of economics, and lack of reality of how much more regulations will simply add to big government which is the real problem.
What this crowd simply needs to do is stop being hypocrites and simply boycott the companies that they feel this way about and stop using companies such as Bank of America and Google that are known for these issues!
As well tell government from City to Federal to end many of the regulations (that large corporations can get around, buy their way out of, etc. anyway), but HURT small business entrepreneurs which are the TRUE area of growth and jobs in this country.
*Put an end to agencies such as the EPA that cause more problems than they solve.
*Fire everyone at the The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) whom administers the CORRUPT Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) program that is anti small business
WHAT WE NEED IS LESS GOVERNMENT, NOT MORE as many in the Occupy movement demand!!
Finally; corporations are simply entities that serve their stock holders, of which these stock holders include many retirement accounts and similar held by everyday persons (including many of these "Occupiers"). Many corporate CEOs & Board of Directors are attempting to meet voting shareholders demands for growth, dividends, or both and admittedly many attempt to meet these demands through less than moral business practices.
While one person can do little about this, if MANY would stop their complaining and "occupying" and take the time to look over their Mutual Funds, etc. to see if there is a company they find offensive in their business practices and then either vote in the next stock holders proxy or simply dump these stocks or tell your account manager/broker that you are not interested in Mutual Funds or Stock with companies x, y, & z
While the above is admittedly an over simplification, it still is a starting point rather than blaming others, I know their are companies such as Bank of America or Google that I would never buy stocks or Mutual Funds that contained their stocks or bonds there in.
The Top 1% control too much of the income/assets!!
Again a legitimate complaint at the surface, but where is the complaining about the Hollywood elite, pop singers, athletes, etc. that make more money in a day than I or others will make in a life time?
Let me state that these persons only make this kind of money because persons are willing to pay.
As an example, I do NOT watch Professional Football, only college; so I can legitimately complain about what pro players make. That said, this is MY choice and someone who prefers pro football has every right to watch and enjoy the game, just do not complain about how much these persons make unless you are willing to stop financing this by your support.
In another example; I have a good friend who recently lost his wife of many years and mother of his children due to brain cancer. He has severe diabetics and other severe health issues and struggles with depression too.
A lady where he lives came along side him. She has taken care of him both in simply being there for him, and taking care of his needs. She also happens to make over $400,000, which places her in the 1% (approximately $375 is the cutoff).
She is like an angel from heaven, but in listening to many in the Occupy Movement, anyone who is in the 1% is the enemy (or simply evil)
From my understanding of the simple human compassion or the Bible, to call "Good" evil is simply evil itself as evil can exist along side good (darkness along side light), thus making these "Occupy" persons accusing this good person of being the enemy simply evil themselves!!
Then there are the attacks by Obama, the News Media, and the Occupy movement on Mitt Romney.
See this other article: News Media Dishonesty; List of Failures
WHAT??
This quote says it all: "Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine."
Some of these clowns need to look at how much Romney has done charitably with both his time and money; VASTLY more than Obama or his sleazy ilk.
Please Read this article for just one proof: Rumor about Mitt Romney is true
An important side note is government regulation is strangling small businesses and the jobs it creates.
We might make a dent in spreading the wealth around by shutting down the Environmental Protection Agency and similar government agencies.
The FACTS ARE only large corporations (the top 1%) can afford to pay the environmental studies which are nothing more than bribes in many instances.
I have a friend in construction who has told me so many of the ridiculous regulations such as having to make a washout basin for concrete. This same concrete is poured on bare soiling when building roads, sidewalks, etc. This is a ridiculous waste of efficiency and money that protects nothing.
The newest outrage is the attempt to shut down ports; Who does this hurt? It hurt the workers at the ports, it hurts retailers such as myself that supply many of these products, it hurts those I employ, it hurts consumers that depend upon many of these goods and will now pay higher prices.
Bluntly if this evil action that hurts so many families and jobs by the scum in the OWS movement does not convince those on the fence, nothing will.
This quote says it all (since one of the roots of this "Movement" is socialism): "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.."
By Winston Churchill
Pay My School Loans!!
This is another demand often heard which is utterly ridiculous.
I, nor does anyone else owe anyone for their higher education. Have these persons heard of getting work and saving first, or as I did working a 40 hour job, and even selling Crystal on the side while attending Cal Poly University?
I have friend that owes $90,000, yet he can NEVER pay this down because of a government bull #### screw up that will never allow him to use what he is educated to do (he even saw a judge that agreed and ex-sponged the system, but this still would not clear the way).
The credentialing board *deliberately* did what they did, knowing it would in large part ruin his future.
Where is the outrage against universities that continue to raise tuition far faster than inflation and often support 6 figure salaries for professors to teach a few classes per day. As well these professors have job security (tenure) that many of the "evil' leaders of the business world only dream about in their long days (this is not to say that all professors are lazy and do not necessarily earn their pay, but let's be fair with our criticism OWS supporters!!!)
As well what about universities that push students unsure of what they want to do in life into studies such as "English', whereby when they graduate they cannot find a job other than flipping hamburgers with little hope of paying off their school loans? Once again where is the outrage by the OWS crowd here??
Maybe some honesty to potential students to look to a trade school if they are not sure of what they want and if the result is less students in some University departments, so be it.
Again the problem is we need less government, more hard work, and more honesty.
Other Issues with Occupy Wall Street
*Support for socialism/communism
*Anti-Semitism
*Simple lack of responsibility for oneself (see Quote: "This is not the future I was promised")
See this excellent Video (which confronts the lies that fuel the Occupy Movement): Rich Man, Poor Man
A MUST view!
Supporters of Occupy Wall Street
You can often tell much about a subject or movement by looking at the supporters, here are just a few:
*Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
*Alec Baldwin; what a hypocrite considering his Capital One commercials and the FACT he is among the 1% in income/assets.
Alec Baldwin is a great case study for OWS supporters to learn from; here is a guy that epitomizes the condescending attitudes of many liberals (his recent incidence on an American Airlines flight is a clear example). Alec Baldwin makes more money than most persons dream of in a lifetime and I do know an honest OWS supporter who complained about him and actors/actresses in general as to the amount of money they make.
However my answer to anyone who does not agree with an actors, musician, etc. as to their income is the same as with a corporation; simply do not watch their movies, buy their music, etc. I will also add that while I do not have any respect for Alec Baldwin, and it would be nice if my talents could generate the same income as his;, the FACTS are his dry humor and acting abilities are such that many persons are willing to pay him for his talents and for me or any other person to be jealous or covet his talents or income is simply silly and wrong.
The short answer is most of us do not have talents that will pay the big bucks and to expect equal pay for unequal talents is ludicrous. I simply refuse to watch or support with my money anything this man does, but others choose to do so, which is their right as well.
*Michael Moore; another 1% person that has the audacity to even to deny he is among the 1%, SO HE ALSO CANNOT TELL TRUTH FROM LIES
See: Millionaire Michael Moore: I'm Not Part Of The 1-Percent!
For those who actually think this guy has any morals??, see: Michael Moore Exposed
Quotes from the "Mob" of protesters that show a total lack of understanding of economics, reality, and much more:
"Wall Street made Bush rich and we should shut it down."
"We don't know where it comes from. It just appears, and we eat it."
"This is not the future I was promised"
The Anti Semitic Remarks are down right sickening, and these are NOT isolated, just reading the comments on many YouTube Videos you will read many of these that are in the MAJORITY of comments! Sadly this Nazi like and Communist attitude pervade this movement, unlike the Tea Party where the percentage of Racists is tiny fraction of a percentage (it is liberal leftists of which own the racism and anti-Semitic problems)
"I think the Zionist Jews should be run out of this country"
"These Jews don't? understand the concept of hard work. Perhaps that is what killed them in the German WORK camps rather than these fairy tales about gas chambers?"
"The Jews are now crying that Americans, like Arabs, are waking up to the Judeo-Zionist Control Grid."
"Those damn Zionists again, first they create that whole Holocaust ? "myth", then manufacture evidence from all that documentation and actual evidence that Germans just happened to leave lying around, forge thousands of eyewitness and survivor confessions, and to top it all off, get those dumb Germans to take the blame for the whole thing."
Occupy Wall Street Anti-Semitic Scum (typical of the rude persons that expect free help from me & others):
The YouTube Comments on this last video in particular tell a lot, as the vast majority are hateful and if this is a representative of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, this is a good reason to not support it and to condemn those such as Nancy Pelosi who do.
From Genesis 12:3
"I will bless those who bless you [Israel],
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."
The 1948 Film (now a Video) below, while taken in context of the time period still is both educational as to how it shows the dangers of the thinking of the Occupy movement, Barrack Obama, and Big Business as well (these businesses are NOT too big to fail).
Testing Google new Penguin & Panda, Farmer Algorithm; Verdict, FAIL
"Testing Googles new Farmer/Panda AND NOW THE EVEN WORSE PENGEUIN Algorithm; Verdict, it is only a sham to get more Adsense revenue and is very anti-small business!"
Is Google's new algorithm any good, lets look at some FACTS based on my field of expertise (I have been in UV Sterilization and aquatic research and development since 1978)
Let's type in "UV Bulbs" (which for most persons in this field means replacement UV-C lamps/bulbs)
First Result:
http://www.bulbman.com/
This website only has a link to UV-C replacement bulbs, and even here the content is poor
Second Result:
http://www.topbulb.com/find/uv.asp
A little better, but still black lights are sold on this page and again, content is poor as per useful information for making a good decision
I might also add as per the first two results, both have marginal back links and very little reason to appear as they do on Googles terrible search algorithm
Third Result (now a SECOND PAGE result due to the Google Penguin disaster): http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/UVCReplacementLamp.html
Google finally gets it right; yes I am partial, but when you look at the accurate, specific information, Meta Tags, back links for reliable authoritative sources, there is no excuse that this link should not be #1 as it is on Yahoo or MSN (Bing)
Forth Result:
http://www.freshwatersystems.com/c-413-uv-lamps-accessories.aspx
Again mostly irrelevant results, basically UV systems Fifth Result:
http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/cat/info/23267/category.web
Sadly again, irrelevant results, these are reptile lamps (SO SAD Google)
Sixth Result:
http://www.diyhomecenter.com/uv-bulbs/
Finally more relevant results, although content information could be better
NOW with the Disgusting Spam Ridden Penguin Update, this page is no longer present for most relevant search keywords; which is sad since this is the most extensive and accurate UV Bulb Guide/Directory available on the Internet!
http://www.uvreplacmentbulbs.com/
Again finally more relevant results, with good information and links to very specific accurate content
*Now check Yahoo or MSN, while certainly not perfect, the page yields twice as many relevant results as Google. I will not address each individual results, as quite bluntly it does not take a rocket scientist to see the difference.
Now let's try, "which a UV Sterilizer can help maintain"
This is phrase that is specific to an article that has been plagiarized by About.com
Google is now treating the ORIGINAL CONTENT as the spam and about.com as correct.
How absurd is this Mr. Matt Cutts of Google?
Reference: Pathological liar, Matt Cutts of Google
Sadly the correct article with this researched content is this one: http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/AquariumUVSterilization.html
THIS IS the MOST UP TO DATE and researched to be found on the Internet. This article goes all the way back to my first controlled experiments in 1979, NO OTHER "cut & paste" article that Google displays can even come close to claiming the research and content of this article!!!!
The content is constantly being refreshed, yet if you use Google Search, you may have more trouble finding it when compared to Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, or Blekko
Now try "Planaria in Aquarium" or "Wiggly Aquarium worms", both of which our a couple of the main search terms for this aquarium problem based on stats and research.
The results here are down right mind boggling in inaccuracies & misinformation.
The results are anecdotal BS!!
UPDATE Now with the Penguin Update the ONE truly Accurate webpage cannot even be found on Google's putrid Penguin algorithm.
Planaria are predatory flatworms, not the annelid worms that consume detritus which is what all these pages are describing. This is allowing for the dangerous dissemination of misinformation! SHAME ON GOOGLE and the disgusting AND DISHONEST Matt Cutts!!
Still as of April of 2013 the second result is a SPAM blog that is made up of nothing more than "Cut & Paste" articles, including a terrible article about Planaria that is 100% incorrect as per identification, dangers, etc. confusing Planaria with Detritus worms.
Sadly this article is the typical cut and paste spam found in all the articles on this site in question and what Google Panda thinks are good results.
Here is this site to avoid:
http://onedersave.com/blog/
If one used the cut & paste logic of what makes quality content as per Google, one could conceivably get nothing but websites to the top of Google Search claiming that in fact the Earth IS flat.
The facts are that two VERY different creatures are being confused that have about as much in common as a dog to a lizard (as per scientific classification), yet because of Google's very spam driven algorithm that places authority to cut and past website many are being given the wrong information and are harming their fish as a result!!
I could use many more examples, such as how about.com comes up in way too many searches, and I thought it was this type of information spam site (content farm) that Google claims to be addressing in their new algorithm update.
While typing in "Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle" yields better results in Google, the fact that the information spam site about.com comes up proves Google has not addressed this issue very well, as well sadly Fish Lore also comes up and this website too is an anecdotal spam site, providing aquarium cycling information that was discredited two decades ago, yet sadly resurfaced on the internet.
Reference: Proven aquarium cycling methods An interesting note is this Fish Lore Article erased most of its content, including their bogus Raw Shrimp cycling suggestion, yet this article is still a very basic fluff article with little original content, YET still ranks well in Google; AGAIN SO SAD GOOGLE!!
About.com also comes up in an extremely misinformed/highly inaccurate article about Columnaris; anyone reading this article will be provided terrible information both in treatment and prevention.
Correct Reference: Accurate Aquarium Fish Columnaris Information
Come on Google and Matt Cutts, who are you fooling?
We know you are calling this an improvement when in reality this is a way to get more spam content up to that then forces readers to click on Adwords?
As well it is well known that these spam sites that now do so well in Google search along with Amazon get breaks in Adwords cost per click.
While I am addressing Googles lack of any integrity, I have to ask when Google Adsense will stop using plagiarized content to place their ads on all the while denying at least three credible sites that I know the use of their original content for Adsense?!
One of the few ways we can get back at Google is for advertisers to opt out of the "Content" network with their Adwords campaigns.
If every advertiser were to do this, it would force Google to take a second look at their support of "Scrapers" (websites that steal legitimate websites content for the sole purpose of selling Adsense for the Adwords content network)!
Google has tweeked their Panda Update even more, and even more spam sites (often displaying Google Adwords/Adsense) are appearing above good/real content that thankfully still appears on superior MSN/Yahoo searches.
Another search with the keywords "Aquarium Information" recently yields a clear spam site: http://newaquariuminformation.com/
This website is NUMBER ONE on Google and is nothing more than a site to sell ads with aquatic information that is VERY dated. As well the way this web page is designed, it is clearly set up to manipulate the system. ANOTHER Google Penguin FAIL!!!!
I do not know whether to laugh or cry (I showed the "Lighting" page from this site to another professional in the industry who also could not believe what they were reading, it was like a time machine to 1985!!
In fact the search term "Aquarium Lighting Information" now brings up mostly websites selling products generations out of date; this is similar to a web search for information about computers bring up information about DOS computers circa 1985 instead of a modern HP, Apple, etc. running a modern operating system such as Windows 7.
Here is the Google number one result for "Aquarium Lighting Information" (as of the last update here):
http://www.aquarium-lighting-guide.com/
This page is pure content crap! As well it is an insult to anyone such as myself that has spent a life's work in aquarium research that this would be the number one result.
Worse is I have have reported this to Googles webspam site multiple times over the last year, yet it remains; this once again shows Googles and Matt Cutts TOTAL LACK OF INTEGRITY!!
Here is Googles joke of a web spam reporting page: Report Web Spam
Another sham of Google Panda & Penguin, is that large businesses, regardless of content quality have leaped over better content smaller businesses.
In fact JCPenney which was recently caught with "black hat" SEO in their link building schemes, is suddenly back up for the difficult keyword; "lamps" (great job Google, NOT!)
Another search in my field of endeavor for SeaChem, has the company SeaChem coming up first as it should, however several large companies including the ultimate crap seller; Amazon leaping over quality sites with vastly better content, reputation, and more. Another Google Panda Fail!
SUMMARY
Let me point out a couple of flaws with Googles statements:
(1) Clearly Content is NOT king with Google search and I could provide example after example in my field of expertise.
What is "in Google search" is so-called authority back links. If someone at CNN or another authority website gives your website or blog a thumbs up; you are "in with Google" even if your facts are dead wrong and your content is cr##.
(2)Google likes to make the case that links should come naturally as a vote for a website, blog, etc.
HOWEVER while this might be all well and good in principle, SCIENCE AND FACTS NOT A VOTE (sorry Matt Cutts, you are wrong again).
As I have noted when cut and paste BS such as about Aquarium Planaria posted everywhere on the Internet, that does NOT make it true.
Is Matt Cutts really this stupid? No, I think this dishonest hack for Google Adsense knows exactly what he is doing!
The bottom line is if you are an aquarium or pond keeper and you use Google Search for information, may God have mercy on your fish!
Dishonesty of the Media; Truth, Lies, & Distortions
Updated 9/17/13
I think one of my biggest pet peeves is lack of honesty and person that are in authority to expose the truth that instead either hide or cover up the truth or distort the truth by taking what others say out of context. Even with subjects that are still open to debate, hiding facts that might sway another to see more merits of another side (even if not yet a proven a fact) is also disgusting.
This also includes judges, police officials, & major media outlets (that are supposed to be the guardians of free speech and the open discussion of facts and news) are no longer trustworthy.
This is not a right or left issue, as I know many persons that call themselves Republicans that are just as guilty of this.
In my opinion a “true” conservative would not talk down & would champion any cause that is in their power to correct. Hopefully the Republican Party has gotten this message, however RINO false conservative Republicans such as Greg Walden of Oregon are still in office and still supported by the Republican Party (which is why I never donate to the Republican Party, rather to individual campaigns).
See: Greg Walden; Condescending RINO Republican
The problem of honesty has also made it hard to know who to trust, such as with a Pro Israel Website I have supported and promoted where I took many of what they stated as gospel truth since I did not have the time to fact check them, only to get a nasty totally dishonest distortion of what Rush Limbaugh stated on his radio show about Haiti relief.
Even after being told that he should read the transcripts (for proof) the author chose to believe media lies and distortions, this is even more disgusting as we all get thing s wrong, but when corrected, this shows the true humility and integrity of an individual to admit they were wrong. Needless to say I will never trust what this person says again since he cannot apologize even when many persons confront him with the truth..
Even on a personal level, believing rumors or turning one’s back on another can destroy a person for life. I know my family has been devastated more than once by lies where the truth was so easy to discover (such as a call to person who knows us intimately or a therapist for my daughter).
See also: Where is God in Harmful Rumors
I also have a family member that had a major issue come up many years back where a so called Christian man (& Pastor I might) had the power to come to his aid, but chose to look the other way. This has destroyed his life to this very day to which all I can say is this man at Bethany Baptist Church in Southern California should be ashamed with his evil/immoral behavior when he had a chance to make life changing difference in a person’s life.
Here are just few/points as to recent problems/example of this behavior
• The media lies about Rush Limbaugh that is spread out of utter hate for this man. While I do not always agree with Limbaugh (especially in his optimism as to one’s chance of success in the USA as well as looking the other way in corporate corruption by Banks or Google), this still does not make it right to take out of context anyone’s comments.
In the most recent incident of Haiti Relief one might argue that he could show more empathy, this still does not make it right to state that he told person to not give to Haiti Relief when he did not and simply listening to his show (which I was that day) or reading transcripts is so easy to know the truth.
He simply stated that we already give to Haiti through income taxes (which we do and most of this money rarely reaches those in the most need), as well he commented that there were better organizations than the whitehouse.gov site such as the many charitable organizations already there and that are more efficient (an example is Samaritans Purse whom I support).
While on the subject of Haiti relief, I find it sad on how the media jumps all over right-wing loons such as Pat Robertson but ignore Danny Glover who believes that the Haitian earthquake was caused by climate change and global warming.
Here is a quote: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I'm sayin?”
• This brings me to how the media totally hid and refused to report one of the biggest scams in modern history, se this article I wrote; “The Global Warming Hoax/Farce”.
I never heard a word other than a few lame comments attempting to discredit the whistle blowers. Even if you might still agree with this, hiding facts makes one look even guiltier of dishonesty.
Persons in a free country have a right to the facts and both sides of an argument.
• The way the many liberals in power will do and say anything to get what they want, even when the will of the majority of the people is against it. An example is Martha Coakley's non-reaction to an assault on a Weekly Standard Reporter assault by one of her Goons, even though she knew that the reporter only was trying to ask a question.
Here is a photo showing Coakley looking at the reporter on the ground with the assailant standing there witnessing this, yet she denied seeing the attack happen.
Sadly this lady is the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in other words the number one law enforcement in this state.
As well I never heard any of this reported on Good Morning America, the Today show or other similar so-called news media.
Pushing a Health Care package using thug methods seems to be par for the coarse with or disgusting excuse for a President (Obama), Pelosi, Reid and others that care little for the surfs that they govern with contempt, and of coarse getting Martha Coakley elected is essential to this.
As well allowing backroom deals to allow unions to keep their premium insurance policies while placing a tax on others with similar Cadillac policies for private citizens.
The bribing for votes of senators such as the senator of Nebraska (Ben Nelson) is equally disgusting.
• I should also note that many Republicans are guilty of looking the other way to, such as the before mentioned RINO Republican Greg Walden or the many Republicans that carte blanche support many in corporate America such as Google, Bank of America and many more.
See: Google Dishonesty, Plagiarism, with Adsense, Adwords, & More
As to Banks, while the media and left wing of this country like to push the half truth that the collapse of the mortgage industry and banking industry in general was due to corporate greed, this missed the fact that Barney Frank and other in charge of banking in our Federal government forced bad loans upon these banks. However this does not change the fact that many banks (not all though) such as Bank of America treat their employees like dog meat and will cheat consumers and businesses at every chance they can get; and with this problem many Republican Politians and right wing pundits will look the other way.
An example is the common practice of Credit Card fraud committed upon small businesses such as myself where so called “buyers” will make phony purchases online then report the sale as fraud (often keeping the merchandise) and the Banks (such as B of A) will even charge the innocent retailer $20 for a reversal fee.
Recently I had a transaction come through that failed fraud tests. We attempted to contact the buyer in multiple times (documented too), yet the so-called buyer filed a fraud complaint after we already refunded the money back to his bank due to his lack of response, we were then charged $20 for this by his fraudulent bank.
I am told by our credit card processor that this is a common problem but the “banks can do what they want” and no government agency (Republican or Democrat) will correct this gravy train for banks.
Back to Google, pages can be written about the fraud committed by this company such allowing Adsense on plagiarized websites, making "search" updates that favor only large companies and website "scrapers".
The result is often spammy, irrelevant, out of date, or downright incorrect websites coming up in search well ahead of good, relevant and researched content. Despite this, the Media Goons swoon over everything Google states or does and repeat like parrots.
In my field of expertise, Searches such as "Aquarium Lighting Information", "UV Bulbs", & "Aquarium Planaria" are just a few proofs of this.
See also Google Panda Update Fail
And for a BETTER search more like what Google was like before 2005, consider: DuckDuckGo
In Summary, while I believe this problem is only getting worse, especially with the election of the most corrupt President and Congress in our Nations history, this will not go away as long as the average person is shielded from the truth by and even more dishonest media, as well as long as many Republicans cannot learn from the past and also look the other way when they have the opportunity to correct a problem (such as Gordon Anderson and Greg Walden of Oregon).
As well, as long as many Republicans fail to understand what a “True Conservative” is or that there is a difference between being conservative and a capitalist, we as Nation or God fearing people are doomed to repeat these problems.
See: What is a True Conservative; Conservatism versus Capitalism
The first three are regularly plagiarized and have very unique content (especially Aquarium Answers), however the forth is a more ordinary blog (no offense to Misti), that does not have nearly the content nor is it plagiarized.
Guess what? Google denied the three that they are already placing Adsense on plagiarized web sites without legal permission while allowing the third.
If this does not speak volumes about the corruption and dishonesty that is rampant at Google, nothing will.
Sadly the news media and others love affair with this allegedly EXTREMELY CORRUPT LIBERAL CORPORATION guarantees nothing will ever come of this. I also doubt that any lawyers with integrity will ever step forward and take on a class action lawsuit against this disgusting company
Although Google is the darling of the drive-by-media (which has about as much credibility any more as Osama Bin Laden has in teaching others to love their neighbors), they have actually gotten worse with their hypocritical use of Adwords/Adsense on illegal blogs/websites that use copyrighted articles to make money for both them and Google.
Reference: List of News Media Lies
What Google is doing is nothing new and not personal against me, this is how they treat all small businesses and individuals and why they are the multi billion dollar company they are, by going after and taking money from the little guy that cannot afford lawyers. Say what you will about Bill Gate's business practices, at least he has gone after those who can afford lawyers and to get the medias attention (I will also point out he is the #1 contributor to Autism research, etc. in the world).
In a search using excerpts from these and other researched and popular articles, helped me find this article chock full of Google Adsense/Adwords adverts
Here is the specific article plagiarized from me: http://www.newportme.com/and-nanometers/aquarium-lighting-wattage-kelvin-and-nanometers.php
(Please note that this url was not renewed, so my plagiarized content no longer displays on this particular website)
What is especially sad is that Adsense recently denied my article sites for content, and what makes this even more sad and blatently dishonest is that my articles are constantly researched and updated for accuracy of content, which these articles have not.
I have written many departments at Google and have gotten either no reply or lame dishonest answers such as Google stands by only offering up ads on the highest quality sites that have been checked by Google. WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP, and sadly many buy this load and continue to think Google is this company with the highest of integrity when the opposite is true!
What Google does is to provide nice products such as Google Docs, email and many other first rate services (although I beg to differ as to the quality of their searches since they are weighted heavily by the old boy network at DMOZ).
Source: http://www.fish-as-pets.com/2008/06/aquarium-forum-hall-of-shame-2.html
I will admit that this is a blogger hosted blog, however it should be noted that I have been with Blogger for some time and that Google bought them out as they have many other good services.
How Google pays for this is their dishonest and corrupt business practices such as screwing the little guys such as myself that cannot afford a lawyer or a class action lawsuit that Google deserves (I doubt there are too many Lawyers with the Huevos Grandes to take on Google anyway).
Just in case Google does take action about this site in particular, here are a few screen shots that show just a little of the ripped articles and the hypocritical Google Adwords being run there: Please click to enlarge
AdWords Corruption:
Another aspect of Google Adwords/Adsense corruption is they Ad Scores.
Google employees will not even be honest and tell you why an ad score is low, rather they hide behind a corrupt rating algorithm that is meant to score Ads low so as to charge more per click.
As an example, the search term "UV Bulb" & "UV Bulbs" gave me a score of 3 even though both search terms are contained there in. As well the landing page has both terms relevanty spread over the EXTREMELY content rich page with links to further related information NO OTHER site in Google Adwords provided.
Worse, a website that came up ahead of my ad took three clicks to reach the very popular G23 9 Watt UV bulb, and even then on a very content poor website (this even with a cost per click that is 40% of profit, which of coarse at normal CTR of 5% does not even come close to paying for the ad).
See product link: http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/UVCReplacementLamp.html#9wattg23
Come on Google, who are you fooling other than Obamanites??
What others can do:
Hopefully someday others, especially either the masses or those with the power to inspire the masses such as the media or popular TV/Radio show hosts like Rush Limbaugh will put their money where their mouths are and call Google to the mat (and stop using the vomit inducing phrase “to Google something” instead of simply to search).
Maybe then Google as a company will rise to the quality of many of its services instead of the bottom feeder this company is currently (ask Steve Jobs his opinion of Google of late for ripping off his iPhone platform).
If a basic search engine is desired that does not collect your personal information and is what Google USED TO BE 10 years ago, consider: DuckDuckGo
I have sent emails to many in my business and friends contact, as well I have urged members of my aquarium/pond forums to switch to using Yahoo or Bing as their home page instead of Google. I know of at least a couple dozen persons who have made this switch, which admittedly a drop in the bucket, but if enough other businesses with similar experiences start similar campaigns and those who received these forwarded emails do likewise, this can make a difference and Google will take notice (although in their extreme arrogance they may not figure out why).
As well Microsoft and Yahoo need to stop taking Google head on with their search engines, as although I strongly beg to disagree that Google is the better search engine (especially since they use DMOZ to weight many sites and DMOZ is nothing more than a good ole boy network of late), although sadly most in this country are convinced that Google is 'good'.
In my opinion the other search engines need to other unique services such as Google Apps, Docs, better blogging, less buggy email (are you listening Yahoo?), etc; maybe then many will switch just to use these services for which Google clearly is the king of for the time being.
Finally boycott websites that are nothing more than Google hacks such as Web Pro News, whose heavy handed editing removes posts that expose the truths about Googles business practices (I know as I used to comment there).
This goes especially Web Pro News writer Chris Crum who is so in love with Google it is down right pathetic.
Chris Crum could give George Stephanopoulos a run for his money as to lack of integrity in journalism IMHO!
I have never seen good results with our Adwords content ads and as I have investigated and searched the Google network I know why, the content they (Google) placed these ads on is very poor.
I have found ads for Shell wind Chimes on blogs with nothing more than some alluding to wind in their blog. But the worst part is quality sites such as my own (I know this from VERY positive feedback) are turned down for Adsense ads.
My website has a lot of content, good PR and has been around a while. Apparently Google figures there is a better chance of clicks on these sites as frustrated readers are looking for more than someone’s life editorial, which is why my 'clicks' are high but conversions are almost nil.
This is business corruption at its worst and quite frankly if it were not for the fact that Google is the 800 lb. Gorilla where by I must be present with adwords to be noticed in searches.
I would not advertise here at all, and at that I try and keep my advertising budget to the bare minimums with Google based on Google' business practices and place more ads elsewhere where there are more business morals in place.
What bothers me too, is that with so much corruption in business (and other aspects of life, from Religion to Government), is that nobody gives a #@1# about Google's business moral, or lack there of.
In another blog I commented about the fact that Google has gone to one extreme of business management (as many business treat there employees like dirt), they tend to treat their employees as royalty to a point that they look down on anyone who questions anything about the "great and mighty Google" when I have tried to fix things from Google Adwords, to Blogger, to Google CheckOut, to the most corrupt bunch at Google; ADSENSE.
By the way I think the ideas behind many of the before mentioned Google products are good, especially Blogger and Google CheckOut, it is just how Google handles them and treats customers.
In this comment I made, someone came to the defense of Adsense claiming how many little people have made a living or at least part time revenue from Adsense.
My answer; so what!!
What about businesses such as mine that have been ripped off in the content network and also have had Adsense accounts taken from them (including pending earnings) after Adsense disabled their account when someone got bored somewhere and decided to go on a clicking frenzy?
Google has the technology to detect these fraudulent clicks computer addresses and remove them and needs not do the heavy handed disabling of a legitimate business, which of course Google Profits from.
I guarantee you if someone went crazy and started clicking a high PR pet site of Googles such as http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/, Google would NEVER disable this account (which I can bet delivers a lot of revenue to Google Adsense).
Also I have had many of my Aquarium research articles ripped off by others only to display Google Adwords and these plagiarized articles ONLY place high in Google Search, not MSN or Yahoo (go figure, huh) which spot these rip offs much better than Google.
I could go on more about the many lies as to link relevance an other aspects of Googles search engine which are all directed at maximizing profit at ALL costs, no matter how dishonest the results.
I will someday post more about this subject.
This post was found at this blog: "Aaron Swartz; sociologist in exile". His blog "Raw Thought" has some interesting reading and comments, not many I agree with but they are worth while to see other points of view.
The post I found eye opening was "The Google Life": how Google keeps employees by treating them like kids"
Resources to websites of my professional experience; Aquarium, Pond, & Fish A little history;
While I certainly have an interest in public policy and "righting wrongs" as expressed in the articles in this web site; my career and research has been into aquarium and pond keeping.
I have spent 10s of 1000s of hours in hands on use, controlled experiments, and reading research into what methods and products works best for aquarium & pond care.
This dates back to 1977 professionally and 1968 as a hobby.
If any reader has aquarium or pond keeping as an interest, please give these web pages below a look:
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