Who Does Google Think They Are?

I love Google, but sometimes I want to tell her right where to stick it. Ok, breathe and preface: I am a internet marketer / programmer / nerd guy. By default Google is a big part of my life. For the most part, she is like most women: pay attention to her, make sure she knows she is on your mind always, do everything she asks the way she asks for it, and she will love and honor you. But, like most women, sometimes you can think you do everything right and she will bitch and moan and nag you and punish you and make your life hell.

Let me explain my scenario to you. I recently started a project called ZinText. This tool has been featured on eBay’s official developer’s blog. There has been writeup after writeup after writeup, all linking the word “zintext” to my site, www.zintext.com.

You would think at this point Google would know when someone searches for “zintext” they are trying to get to my site. But for some reason, through some hole in some algorithm written 10 years ago, or because some guy at google has a grudge against some site that linked to zintext, or because the freaking space time continuum has ceased to exist, Google thinks that visitors who search for “zintext” need to see this obviously SPAMMY page and never see zintext.com in their SERPS.

Now I am not a professional SEO nor would I ever claim to be, but I would like to think I know how to make a professional web page that should rank well in the SERPS. But who knows, maybe somehow I got too many links too fast or it’s because the project is an embedded javascript widget, but that doesn’t seem to apply to the competition. I can understand if I was trying to rank for “real estate foreclosure” or something like that but I am trying to rank for MY OWN NAME, something there should be no competition for.

And what can I do? Send an email to google with the subject line “how come my site doesn’t come up when I search for it?” Yeah right, I am sure they never get those. Maybe there’s someone I could call? I do know a couple engineers that work for google, but they are all in systems administration and would laugh if I asked them something like “Whats wrong with my SERPS?” So what can I do?

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