Google, SEO, and the Ruination of the Internet

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1. • onreact.com

   SEO hate link bait to get links from the anti-SEO crowd.

   If you don't understand SEO stop offending people. SEO has been around even before search engines appeared. SEO is good for relevancy. If you can't distinguish between SEO and spam just read some Wikipedia or Google Webmaster Guidelines. I'm sick and tired of ignorant people like you. Also stop blatantly self-promoting your hate propaganda on Mixx. Go to the SEO hater community #1: Digg.

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2. • TinPig

   @onreact.com
   My post isn't about SEO Hate, though it's curious that you're so defensive. I also don't understand how you can say SEO was around before search engines existed (please remember what the S and E stand for).

   Anyway, the gist of the post is how the relevancy algorithm is badly flawed, and that flaw has created an industry of practitioners and tactics ("link-bait" - it even sounds deceitful) that attempt to expliot that flaw.

   I don't bear any grudge against the people who call themselves an SEO or do SEO. I'm just writing my opinion and would actually welcome an intelligent discussion on the subject.

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3. • FatLester

   I agree with your conclusion, albeit on somewhat different grounds. Google needs to be called out for its inability to control SEO saboteurs, whose tactics are becoming more and more prominent, despite rarely being mentioned in blogs or anywhere else (I think Forbes did an article on this once).

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4. • TinPig

   @FatLester I think the reason it rarely gets covered on the blogs is because most of the blogs that would write about this topic are run by folks who make a living in the SEO. It's an easy mark for the industry right now and there's fear that the gravy train will run dry. As true marketing professionals, these folks should instead be advocating an evolution of the system so that the product (i.e. web content) can speak for itself and the cream will rise to the top based user perception, interaction and experience - the way most products achieve a level of success.

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