| It's not a coincidence I've experienced EXACT same thing on a much larger scale Step 1: You start paying for Ads Step 2: You start making a certain amount of money from Ads Ratio is very good. So it is a win win Step 3: They drop the quality of ads/quality of traffic Step 4: It's not worth it to you any more, so you turn off the Ads Step 5: They kill your organic traffic Step 6: They switch it to someone willing to pay a lot for ads 3 Problems A) Organic Traffic is allocated based on who is willing to pay the highest extortion fee not on quality B) If you start growing/prospering without their ads and without their organic traffic, then they don't just let you go Then they start pollluting your search results When people search for you they show every @#$#$ negative thing they can They try to kill your traffic which was ALREADY coming to you they also kill your reach on Youtube etc They also start putting your email newsletters into wrong folders so your email list also gets hit. Only for gmail. Yahoo, outlook etc are fine. Only gmail starts dropping your emails C) If you are still doing fine then astroturfing starts People make completely nonsense false claims about you Then it becomes #1 search result when people are searching for you
If you start paying, all of it disappears and business as usual If you stop paying, suddenly it all restarts * I am getting the popcorn out. Google especially and also Amazon and Facebook are going to get really @#$@#$ if there is a proper anti trust case these companies instead of building newer businesses and better products (like Apple and Microsoft) focused all their energy on screwing over their competitors and even their partners |