This may not be an entirely relevant question for this forum but can anyone
please tell me what's going on with GOOGLE? For many years in the past I
could do a search for any of my items/products contained in any of the 16/17
pages of my website and the search engines would find that page easily but
now GOOGLE has allowed various sites like 'Hotfrog' and 'Kellysearch' and
many others to HI-JACK my page titles and if you want to find my 'Lincot
Socks' (reg trademark), or 'Mattress Covers', Yakka Wear'  or even MY NAME
'John Ahern'  the results that come up will be these OTHER sites offering
links to MY pages (if you can ever find them in there - I can't!) and some
of the sites won't even allow you to reach ME until you register with THEM
first!! You hve to scroll through a hundred results before you find any
reference to my pages now.

Is there something I can do to rectify this when uploading my pages? Could
it be that I lost my rating when my site was down for a few days some weeks
ago and if so will it improve as time goes on? Would the number of 'hits' on
my site make a difference to it's rating? The other search engines are doing
the job OK but what's the use to my little business when most people are
using Google?

Any advise appreciated,  John in South Australia