Doing some research at some popular products from when I was a teenager is always fun. You can dream back to those times, and at the same time see which products are still in demand or which brands are just lasting forever. And who didn’t want to have a real Victorinox Swiss Army Knife when you were younger?
So I was very surprised to see all Victorinox watches as related products being displayed next to the Wonder wheel when you search for Victorinox Swiss Army Knife. See screenshot below.
Makes you wonder why these watches are shown here or what triggered these to be displayed. Non of the related searches of Victorinox Swiss Army Knife in the wonder Wheel are actually watches…
If you search for the query Victorinox Swiss Army Knife on Google products, you will see that there are plenty of knifes for sale available.
I guess the highest bidder is able to show somewhat unrelated products next to the Wonder Wheel related searches. As long as you just show the same brand, but a different product, the quality score won’t be too much effected.
After Amsterdam, Groningen and The Hague were launched on Google Street View, yesterday Mister G launched a great number of other cities in The Netherlands. This meant a lot of folks were searching for the funny shots they could find. One great tourist attraction of The Netherlands is the Red Light District of Amsterdam. And although this is the best known outside of Amsterdam, there are many more red zones throughout The Netherlands.
Prostitution in The Netherlands is legal. I’m not always particular proud of the fact that almost all people outside of The Netherlands start asking me about the way prostitution is legalized. First thing in a conversation when you say you are from Holland, is probably marihuana, porn or prostitution. Nevertheless, here are some screenshots from the red light districts around The Netherlands found on Google Street View.
Red Light District Eindhoven
In Eindhoven, you could find a DHL delivery man taking a break at the red zone. I highlighted the address in the different screenshots.
Between the trees, you can clearly see the red and yellow uniform. Red and Yellow are the DHL colors.
He is walking towards the entree/exit of the red light zone in Eindhoven…
Where his large DHL red/yellow truck is parked at the entrance. Do you think he was delivering something…?
Red Light District Deventer
In Deventer, a whole street has been photographed in the red light district.
It must have been on a warm day, as a number of the ladies have their door wide open. Maybe they do this to make it more inviting to enter, as it seems to be pretty slow this day.
Or did the men know that Google Street View car was passing by today? I bet these guys didn’t…!
The ladies are bored. They are either calling on their cell phones, or taking a nap in the chair behind the window.
In the window you can even see a reflection of the grey Google car making all the photo’s.
Red Light District The Hague
Only one picture of the Red Light zone in The Hague, but somebody would probably whished he stayed at work that particular day. The picture is probably clear enough for anybody who knows the man calling on the left side to recognize.
On a blow up version, you can see more, although I decided to make his face unrecognizable.
If it wasn’t enough difficult to rank on the first page of Google, with all the competition, universal search includes. Now, Google is even showing less results on some search result pages. Normally, the first 10 results on any search query are already competitive. Most SEO’s will know how the click distribution on average is allocated to the different positions, with the majority going to the top 10. With less results on the first page, it will become even more difficult to get any traffic on relevant pages if you are not the brand owner, Wikipedia or Google.
Below you see a SERP for Zhu Zhu Pets on Google.nl, where the first page only has 8 real results. The page with 8 results looks so short… There is something missing!
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Ever wondered how a splog looks like which has real unreadable Markov Chains on it? I just found one through following the most popular searches yesterday. Like always, just follow the money, in this case the traffic, and you will find some pretty bad web spam.
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Original vintage Levi 201 jeans dated 1890-1901
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We have consigned this [...]
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As I’m working on a little experiment to rank a couple [...]
