Petco.com Banned or MIA
May 16th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO, Random Thoughts, SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
So we’ve cleared up the algae bloom in my freshwater tank and ready to start restocking it with fish, and I go to check the hours of the petco nearest me and find they aren’t listed online:
[petco.com] and [www.petco.com] have no results:
however [site:petco.com] shows 516,000+ pages of strange subdomain results (mostly reviews) considering Petco has annual gross revenues of almost 2 billion dollars a year [petco via google finance] I’d consider them a big player.
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When you search for just [petco] you get results, and when you click more results from petco.com you get [ site:www.petco.com petco] Not exactly sure what to read on that but it’s something I’ve never seen before.
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May 17th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
I wonder if they are still accepting adword ads from Petco?
May 18th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
OK, let me ask the silly but painfully obvious question:
If you know the site is petco.com, and you know petco.com has a store locator, why were you searching for it in Google in the first place?
May 18th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
If I’m not searching for something specific with complex query I often try to do things like “regular people”, sometimes it turns up interesting results.