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That robots.txt is so big that even with comments maybe google will drop it after trying to parse it for a while....
http://www.amazon.com/robots.txt http://aws.amazon.com/robots.txt http://www.google.com/robots.txt http://store.apple.com/robots.txt
I think SEO is practically dead, and for good. The Social Web is supposedly lot more democratic and apparently a better choice.
Keep up the good work Google. I hope this serves as encouragement for them to continue to screw over those who want to turn searching for relevant information into a war for who can cheat the system the best.
"Before, SEO was the game of really skilled people, you know like professional poker players. You had to know the game, know when to raise, and when to bluff."
Then with the "Maybe I should find another job?" I thought this has got to be satire. Well played, sir.
The way the piece is framed, the writing style, surely a work of humour?
I always thought SEO was supposed to be a cat/mouse game. The search engine tries to balance the search results fairly. The SEO consultant tries to game the system and get certain links to appear ranked higher, whether fair or not. Isn't that just how this works?
Keep up the good work Google. I hope this serves as encouragement for them to continue to screw over those who want to turn searching for relevant information into a war for who can cheat the system the best.
Nobody else read this as a joke? I read it as a joke (and a slightly racist one at that).
I wonder how this post got to the top even though the sentiment in the comments is that this posts sucks.
I thought the guy was complaining that he had to jump through Google's hoops to get his product in front of his users.
Now that I know he's complaining that Google are making it harder for him to game the system, I'd retract and reverse my upvote if I could.
Keep up the good work Google. I hope this serves as encouragement for them to continue to screw over those who want to turn searching for relevant information into a war for who can cheat the system the best.
Exactly what I thought, SEO should not have ever become a "thing" if Google did its job right.
SEO will always be a "thing" as long as people are not always interested in providing relevant information. It will always be an asymmetric battle between people who want to prioritize their noise over useful signal.