Google punishes critics
What you about to read might sound unbelievable, so i ask you to give me the benefit of the doubt and just read what i have to say.
to get straight to the point: i'm afraid of Google, yeah that's how serious it is.
if i wasn't afraid, and if i wasn't certain of what i am about to reveal, i would have posted this information on my own blog, instead of creating a new blog just for 1 article...
A year ago we created a general blog / news site, and wrote about different subjects but mainly technology ...
Google indexed our pages and we started getting visitors from search, until we wrote negative articles about Google, 2 days after we wrote these articles our visitors went from 250 to around 15 and remained so since.
Everything was normal for 8 months and then we got punished because we criticized Google, some tried to convince us that before we had a honeymoon period (usually lasts 2 weeks not 8 month), so we just continued and tried to get traffic directly instead of counting on people finding our content through search!
Our articles were being indexed, even-though they didn't show up on 1st page of results when exact title is copy/pasted in search box!
Whenever we have a negative article about google, we experience delay in indexing pages and an decrease of visitors coming through search! we have noticed this at least 5 times.
Hard to believe i know, and i don't expect you to believe me, i ask you to try it yourself, if you are ready to gamble with your established site, if not, create a site post frequently about other tech news, then post few post about google manipulating results & youtube copyrighted content or how google hoover private data ... you'll see by yourself what will happen to the traffic of your website ...
Google is a Mafia, it intimidates blog and news site this way!
no one dares to write against it because they will suffer the consequence!