Hello Google you arsehole

[Fred]

This may offend and I will remove if one member says to do so

Hello Google you arsehole

Those of you that know me and Psoriasis Club's fight with Google will know that our forum today will never get highly ranked in a Google (Note I'm using the word "Google" a lot. It's stuffing and something they tell me is wrong) search, because ..................................... I will never pay them and this is called word stuffing. Yes we have been accused of putting the word "psoriasis" too many time on out forum.

I do use their so called "Webmaster Tools" and have gone to huge extremes to try and please them, I even created psoriasisclub.com just to please them, but they are only interested in money.

Google you may have control of 92% of the people searching the internet, but don't keep telling me I need to do more. I am fed up with trying to please you, so much so that I'm now posting this in our public boards.

Our members (a great bunch of people) will already know my thoughts about you, but it's time to make it public that ................................

Psoriasis Club recommends you find yourself a better search engine as Google are controlling you. I'm not posting this to tell you which search engine to use and there are many out there, what I am doing is saying that Google are keeping information about you and bumping up results from those that pay Google

Psoriasis Club has been around for 10 years now and I have always followed Google advise to get us found in search results, but they are now taking the piss and will never push Psoriasis Club up for it's Good, Regular, Honest, Content instead they will push us way way down the bottom because I refuse to pay them.

You can carry on using Google for your favourite search engine, but please remember that by doing so you are helping destroy places like Psoriasis Club.

*I will post this in the public boards, but our members are welcome to add their comments or suggest it is removed from public or Google view.

I will listen to our members, but I will no longer listen to Google. Google tells small people like Psoriasis Club what to do and how to behave, even if you conform they still punish you if you don't pay.

Psoriasis Club is the only totally independent psoriasis website to be found, we may not get so many new members these days but the ones we do have are genuine.

I'm not allowed under Psoriasis Club rules to swear in this thread, but I will say for now Google ............ you may control 92% of the world, but you will never control Psoriasis Club.

All capitals on a forum is classed as shouting and I dislike it, but in the case I have to say .....................................

USE GOOGLE AND WAVE GOODBYE TO FREEDOM .........................................

Your choice, Psoriasis Club is here to stay but by using Google you are destroying places like this.

Comments welcome

Fred.

[jiml]

Fred I have been a member here for many years and have seen time and again Google trying to extract money to keep us high in search results. I know you have changed the forum to meet with Google's changing criteria . But they then throw another obstacle in the way .
This is a genuine independent free site giving information and exchanging views between members and we have open public boards that anyone can access for information on the disease

I have noticed a marked drop in new members particularly in the last year as the club is moved down the Google rankings for no reason apart from the reluctance to pay for advertising. How is this kind of blackmail acceptable.
To now say we are word stuffing is crazy this is a psoriasis forum where we talk about psoriasis 

I think it's reprehensible to treat a truly independent free site so shabbily

[Caroline]

Agreed about Google
They are only interested in money, as so many on this Earth.

[Wooley]

I agree with Caroline, they are only interested in money!! 

[Fred]

Yes it's all about money and domination. And there search results are very biased.

DuckDuckGo and Qwant are my go to search engines these days.

[Turnedlight]

I was thinking about this the last time I was bored stupid at an appointment..

What do you think to doing a leaflet, which we can print off and pop in the wire rack at the hospital? I’ve seen leaflets there for local support groups?

I might have to look back through my diary to check what I wrote about the derm dept tho ha ha..

I just think it’s worth considering - would only be able to target members near where we live of course but there might be a good level of interest since it’s very targeted.

Feel free to point out why it’s a terrible idea

[Fred]

I was thinking about this the last time I was bored stupid at an appointment..

What do you think to doing a leaflet, which we can print off and pop in the wire rack at the hospital? I’ve seen leaflets there for local support groups?

I might have to look back through my diary to check what I wrote about the derm dept tho ha ha..

I just think it’s worth considering - would only be able to target members near where we live of course but there might be a good level of interest since it’s very targeted.

Feel free to point out why it’s a terrible idea 

No it's not a terrible idea TL, we used to have a flyer which is still there: https://psoriasisclub.org/PCFly2.pdf

But I removed the link to it when we got our new logo. Psoriasis Club Cards

The old flyer and the new cards hardly ever got/get downloaded though, but you are welcome to use the cards or the old flyer if you wish.

[Turnedlight]

Well I never! I will see what I can do with them!

[Fred]

Well I never! I will see what I can do with them!

[jiml]

I printed several cards off and always leave a few in the dermatology department on the tables with magazines on.. But of course haven't been since the first lockdown as my appointments are all being done on the phone