subject: Whats going on with Google and web design? [print this page] In the old days it was east you put a thumping great ad in the yellow pages say under the website design classification and wait for the phone to ring. Nowadays if you want to be on google and easily found you ahve to spend a fortune on SEO and then you might not even get placed wheere you want to be. This is a real issue and will present some serios problems for new business start ups in the future as well as existing businesses who for a long time have relied on the yellow pages or a more traditional media mix to generate sales leads.