Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
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Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
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#3"SEO consultants are just web designers who are incapable of doing the other 90% of the job"
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#4This article lost me about half-way down with all of the over-the-top language. Google is not all that is good and just in the world, and those that manipulate its algorithms for their own ends are not all that is evil and base.
Come back when you've gained a bit of nuance.
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#5"Spam" exists in most communication channels.
Telemarketers in call centers. Automated voice messages. Bulk SMS messages. Bluetooth spam. Junk mail. Email spam. Usenet spam. IRC spam. Web spam. Word-of-mouth spam. Celebrity “endorsements”. Street peddlers. Classifieds spam. Flyer spam. Sky writing, flying banners etc. Huge billboards with blinking fucking lights.
I could go on for a while.
Are all of those people evil opportunistic bastard cockroaches?
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#6"If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned."
Not really.
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#7"Spam" exists in most communication channels. Telemarketers in call centers. Automated voice messages. Bulk SMS messages. Bluetooth spam. Junk mail. Email spam. Usenet spam. IRC spam. Web spam. Word-of-mouth spam. Celebrity “endorsements”. Street peddlers. Classifieds spam. Flyer spam. Sky writing, flying banners etc. Huge billboards with blinking fucking lights. I could go on for a while. Are all of those people evi…
Yep, pretty much.
Just because preying on ignorance is easy and lucrative does not make it okay.
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#8>> 1. The good advice is obvious, the rest doesn’t work.
Not really. The rest also works, or used to work in the past.
>> Occasionally a darkside SEO master may find some loophole in the Google algorithm to exploit, which might actually lead to an increase in traffic. But that ill-gotten traffic gain won’t last long. That's true, but sometimes it last for several years. In some specific cases, it lasts only a few days, but brings so much revenue that it is still worth doing it.
>> Remember this: It’s not your job to create content for Google.
:-) This is laughable. Everyone can create content, no matter how spammy it might look, that's just a freedom of expression. It's Google problem that they index it.
But of course, there are shady practices like automatically spamming blog comments, and that's evil. I think SEO is ok, it made some people very rich by exploiting search engine holes, which then allowed Google to fix them and make the engine better.
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#9The article's reasoning seems to imply that everyone who releases a good product without advertising will eventually succeed by word of mouth. This doesn't sound to me like an accurate description of our world, though I'd have liked it to work that way.
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#10"If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned." Not really.
True, you haven't been conned, you've just made two shitty hiring decisions in a row -- paying sone designer or developer who didn't build you a good site, and then paying a snake oil salesman to try and make your troubles disappear.