What to Blame: Is it my SEO applications or is it Google?
I confess. Prior to finding out about SEO products and Web promotion business, I was of the opinion that Google was incredible. I Used Google to look for anything from people, to images, to current events to weird things and blindly trusted the search outcomes. Then I found out about SEO tools and a whole business focused on site optimization, and my convictions changed. But even prior to that, having done some philosophical reading, I got an inkling that search engines, Google included, know far from all, and reveal to the users even less than that.
My search escapades soon persuaded me that Flikr is a better image search source, that with the assistance of RSS I can get nice current events coverage without the need to rummage through Google search results (rummaging seems more appropriate than Google search), and human search is better administered by Facebook. It seems like when I look for weird objects on Google, the results are often messy, to put it kindly. Try Googling for SEO products and other SEO connected subjects on Google and you are just about prepared to surrender your sanity. I mean, seriously, what’s the connection between SEO software and online education sites or Internet casinos? Gladly, in my disappointment.
So when news of seo software review and the whole industry built around it came into my humble worldview, my doubts about webpages appearing on P1 of Google grew exponentially. Do they deserve to show up on there and who is to blame, Google or webmasters using SEO applications. The ethical quandary is immense. Do I stop using my SEO keyword ranking tool or do I stop using Google instead? I decided that I can’t quit Google just yet. At least not until the decent contender enters the game. For now I will keep juggling between Blekko, Google and the above methods to complement the SERP mess that Google is. And, oh,yes, I will keep using my SEO products.
Truth is that SEO products is the reason why guys like myself get found on the Internet. intelligent as they are, Google search algos are not likely to find some little person and index his webpage highly. In this respect, I am a strong advocate of SEO tools and organic search. If it was all about the money, the multinational giants would squish me before I knew it. And there are 1000 businesses on the Fortune roll! But here is another thing that annoys me and other check backlinks users, I am sure. There are people who purchase SEO tools and use them to sell shoeson employment sites and the like. What we are left with is rubbish that not only lives on the net but is also well indexed by Google.
What is the public reaction to this? People Google SEO tool reviews and will instead find irrelevant search findings. They get disillusioned. So much for the “Internet justice”. Does this mean that SEO software and service industry is bad? Not necessarily.
The abusers of SEO programs need to stop brutalizing the Web but it’s like asking hackers to stop cracking the code. The bad side about it is that black hat SEOs are abusing the opportunity to be visible on the Net that is given to the no-name dude like me. For now people just have to tolerate them. One can only hope that Google will put more emphasis on finding the schemers abusing SEO software, and if Google doesn’t, the competitor Google will.
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