Sharing the Blame: Is it users of SEO programs or is it Google?
I confess. Prior to learning about SEO software and site promotion business, I thought Google was great. I Used Google to look for everything from celebrities, to images, to news stories to strange things and blindly trusted the search outcomes. Then I heard about SEO applications and a whole industry specializing in website marketing, and my attitudes were never the same. But even before that, after doing some reflective musings, I got an inkling that search engines, Google to boot, know far from all, and pass on to the web community even less than that.
My Google travails soon persuaded me that Flikr is a higher quality image search source, that with the help of RSS I can access nice current events coverage without having to rummage through Google search retrieval (rummaging seems more appropriate than Google search), and people search is best managed by Facebook. It seems like whenever I search for odd gadgets on Google, the results are almost always messy, to put it kindly. Try searching for SEO programs and other SEO related topics on Google and you are almost prepared to give up your sanity. I mean, come on, what’s the connection between SEO apps and employment webpages or Internet casinos? Gladly, in my disappointment.
So when news of seo software review and the whole industry built around it came into my modest worldview, my qualms about webpages appearing on first page of Google increased virally. Do they deserve to show up on there and whose fault is it, Google or site promoters using SEO apps. The moral dilemma is vast. Do I quit using my SEO keyword ranking tool or do I seize using Google instead? I decided that I can’t boycott Google just yet. At least not till the decent rival enters the market. 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 continue playing with my SEO programs.
Truth is that SEO programs is the reason why folks like myself get some visibility online. Sophisticated as they are, search engine robots are unlikely to find some average person and rank his webpage highly. In this respect, I still am a steadfast admirer of SEO applications and organic search. If it was all about the money, the multinational entities would demolish me before I knew it. And there are 1000 organizations on the Fortune list! But here is something else that irritates me and other backlinks checker users, I am confident. There are people who buy SEO applications and use them to sell beddingon casino sites and the like. What we are given is rubbish that not only exists on the web but is also well valued by Google.
What is the public perspective on this? People search for SEO product reviews and will instead find disconnected content. They get disappointed. So much for the “Internet fairness”. Does this mean that SEO product and service field is harmful? Not necessarily.
The abusers of SEO products need to stop brutalizing the Net but it’s like asking hackers to stop cracking the code. The sad side about it is that black hat SEOs are overusing the opportunity to be visible on the Internet that is offered to the average dude like me. For now users just have to be patient with them. We can only hope that Google will put more emphasis on finding the schemers unethically using SEO applications, and if Google doesn’t, the competitor Google will.
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