Google is becoming more strict each and every single day when it comes to certain industries. The kind of information related to these industries can have a lasting impact on people’s lives and Google doesn’t want to be guilty of people consuming bad information when it comes to sensitive areas in their lives. Today I’m going to break down five industries that are getting crushed by Google in their SEO.
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Look, as Google continually grows and dominates the web even more, sometimes it’s going to be at the expense of other industries and you can’t blame them and you can’t get mad. It’s their company. They should be able to do whatever they want and yeah, of course, privacy and all that kind of stuff, and of course certain things need to be regulated but in general, they should be able to control what they want.
The same goes with their algorithm updates. You may not like that your traffic goes down. I may not like that my traffic goes down but hey, my traffic when it goes up, it’s great, when it goes down, it’s sad, but in general Google has done a great thing for the world because it’s helped us turn a lot of traffic and a lot of sales.
So here’s five industries that are going to be crushed by Google in terms of of their SEO.
The first is travel agencies. Travel agents are likely to be one of the biggest impacted, negatively impacted by some of their latest updates. A few years ago Google introduced featured snippets.
Google also made it where you can start buying products and services, directly from Google search results.
Now you may look at that as a bad thing, but as from someone who’s a searcher, that’s a great experience.
As a marketer, of course, I’d rather have people on my website. In theory, great update, but in reality, businesses will loose traffic and potentially sales from this, especially if you’re an industry that’s offering flights, hotels or anything related to travel.
Google itself has virtually become a travel company.
Now to give you an idea of how big of an impact this is, according to forbes, Expedia even ousted their CEO, due to poor performance. In other words, it’s hard for anyone in the travel industry right now.
The next industry that Google is really shaking up, a start-up business.
The ability to compete with businesses who have built authority in the online world, you know, it’s just getting harder and harder cause some of these have been around for 5, 10 years and they dominate the listings.
Even in terms of pay per click, the cost per keyword is so high, most start-ups these days are raising money for sales and marketing, the money is not really going towards development. It literally is going towards sales and marketing.
No-one is searching for their brand, they’re a start-up. They’ve got to build it from scratch. You know how hard that is? SEO is not going to help you build a brand, content marketing is not going to help you build a brand, you got to go above and beyond.
And as a start-up, they’re going to struggle with that. That means you’re going to have to guest post more. You’re going to have to do podcasting, more videos, more social media marketing, you can do SEOs, speak at conferences.
The next industry, the health industry.
They want a doctor to speak on medical-related stuff. They don’t want a marketer like me to speak on medical-related stuff. In other words, they’re really picky about who is releasing what content. This is one of my favorite updates, even though I have medical related companies that we do marketing for and health related companies.
Another industry that got hit really hard is finance and legal industry.
Google has just created an algorithm, not just about ranking the best content, it’s about making sure the content they are ranking aren’t impacting people in negative ways and hurting their lives.
And last but not least, tech gadget companies.
Google themselves is dominating the tech industry because their products are really affordable.
And you’re probably wondering, “wait, how is this going to affect all the other tech companies and stuff like that?” Well, few things, one, if you search for things like “cellphone” or “cellphones for sale”, Google Pixel comes up first.
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Hi Neil. Hope u r doing good. You have mentioned about ranking of some key industries hampered, but you have not mentioned the way out, as to how they can get the same back or at lesat improve. Also, but i have noticed the two wesbite of the same industry, one completely out of google ranking, while other one which was nowhere on first page, now got the first page ranking…..so how come that happened?
How any Seo tool made
Hi Neil. I need your help on my site especially SEO part. I want trafic. Please do get back to me
Right on the way to technocracy. 😮
Suggestion: kindly add English subtitles in your videos
Google are Hippocrates though because they show bogus health-related content all the time. What's Googles own EAT score? Google isn't a doctor or a nutritionist are they? So who is Google to decide what we see when we look up a health issue? If they are going to play policeman and are likely to get it wrong they are more likely to get sued.
They should show everything and give it their rating score but show it anyway.
I think it's time for other big companies to come up with a search engine to compete with Google. Otherwise they will dominate everything in a few years. Has anyone seen that Simon's cartoon that talks about it? It mentions about Google enslaving more than half of the world. Don't know about all those predictions that other people talk about but you see what's happening?
Hey Neil are you Indian
Just asking
Audio sounds off, might be software issue or just for this video but it really sounds bad … content => niiiceee! Thank you!
Greedy google!! Monopoly .
This is quite sobering but thank you. I think I fall in the category of the startups and I've definitely noticed how hard it is to rank on Google nowadays. I concur with that we have to do more videos, podcasts, blog posts etc.. so far I'm working on my own and will need a team to be more effective with time. Thanks, Neil
This is awesome, but which industry does google support then?
Could you please shed some light here Neil.
Excellent video, please make a similar video for SEO in Youtube
Building my travel website while watching this video ✈️. Thanks Neil 😂
Hi neil, I have been watching your vedios even before i launched my website this year. Even with your recent scary vedio about how google is making it hard for starts up, I really want to succeed. I was wondering if could be my mentor. I have an environment/lifestyle blog. I will do anything it takes to succeed. I would also be happy if you are my mentor and also coach me to be a successful blogger. I look forward to hear from you. Thanks.
Hey Neil, thanks for your information. Though I would say your slang has changed a lot -how I know this because I follow you from 2011 and watched almost all your videos…there are tons of Indians following you, it should be better if you present it in a way ( something more slow and better understanding in polished language suits us). Not sure how others felt it.
Is google to be trusted in the long term? If the biggest companies in the world that sell drugs which make people sick and food which make people sick have the most amount of money,
That means they have the MOST amount of money to spend on ads.
Don't you think these companies who can spend the most on ads can have some leverage on google, like a pharmaceutical company can ask google only to rank websites that show how to cure cancer with chemo and derank all the website that help people cure cancer naturally.
Personally when I do a search in google I NEVER enter a website where it says ads, because I DO not trust it, because I know they paid to be there.
Hey Neil, I literally thinking about other search engines who compete with google
Now Google ls a competitor for us
Google killed my Coupon website in 2015.🥤🤣
Hmmm, if Google starts to only give precedence to whoever is the biggest authority figure regardless of organic SEO how will smaller blogs talking about topics like personal finance or health based on their firsthand experience grow? (specifically thinking of sites where people talk about how they made money from a certain skillset or how someone got out of debt and giving financial advice from that POV, etc)
Hey Neil, I can write good content daily.
Other then a blog where can I market my content to build an email list.
I just discovered your website today. Does your company offer services to small start ups with meager budgets?