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	<title>Michael Cheney BlogGoogle schmoogle. Who needs &#8217;em? &#8211; Michael Cheney Blog</title>
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		<title>Google schmoogle. Who needs &#8217;em?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2015 12:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[It was the late noughties&#8230; I&#8217;d built up quite a collection of content websites which were raking in 5-figures per month in earnings. All from free Google traffic. Google had me by the short and curlies. I couldn&#8217;t see it at the time but I had all my eggs firmly in the Googleplex-nest. And what [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google-logo-300x182.png" alt="google-logo" width="300" height="182" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1196" srcset="https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google-logo-300x182.png 300w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google-logo-518x314.png 518w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google-logo-82x50.png 82w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google-logo.png 570w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />It was the late noughties&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;d built up quite a collection of content websites which were raking in 5-figures per month in earnings.</p>
<p>All from free Google traffic.</p>
<p>Google had me by the short and curlies.</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t see it at the time but I had all my eggs firmly in the Googleplex-nest.</p>
<p>And what happened next still makes me shudder.</p>
<p>I woke up one day to check my earnings;</p>
<p>First site &#8211; zip.</p>
<p>Second site &#8211; nada.</p>
<p>Third site &#8211; zilch.</p>
<p>Oh crap&#8230;</p>
<p>Google had zapped all my sites overnight and decided in their infinite wisdom that my content (all top notch, unique, hand-created stuff by the way) wasn&#8217;t worth listing in their holy index.</p>
<p>Muthafunsters.</p>
<p>And to this day I&#8217;ve kinda had a &#8220;hate-hate&#8221; relationship with Google.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t want to ever rely on their traffic or money again.</p>
<p>But you know something?</p>
<p>If you can find a way to take advantage of Google &#8211; to get tons of free traffic (and money) from them on your terms, not theirs, then why not do it right?</p>
<p>Which is why you should jump on this new Google ranking method from Peter Froud.</p>
<p>Sure &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to be 100% reliant on all the traffic and money it gets you.</p>
<p>That would be silly.</p>
<p>But who doesn&#8217;t want more traffic and money?</p>
<p>And right now time is of the essence because at midnight EST on Sunday (tomorrow) the price on this goes up;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.michaelcheney.com/number1-on-google/">http://www.michaelcheney.com/number1-on-google/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>c) Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Please do not try to copy or swipe this because even my lawyers have lawyer</p>
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