Rationalizing the Blame: Is it my SEO applications or is it Google?
I admit. Before learning about SEO apps and website marketing trade, I thought Google was cool. I Used Google to look for anything from human beings, to pictures, to articles to odd things and heedlessly trusted the results. Then I found out about SEO programs and a separate e-commerce dedicated to site promotion, and things were never the same. But even prior to my discovery, after doing a bit of introspective analysis, I got an inkling that search engines, Google to boot, know far from all, and reveal to the users a fraction of that.
My search experiences soon persuaded me that Flikr is a higher quality image search source, that with the help of Digg I can get quality news stories without having to rummage through Google search retrieval (rummaging seems more descriptive than Google search), and human search is better handled by Facebook. It seems like every time I search for strange things on Google, the results are often messy, to put it mildly. Try Googling for SEO software and other SEO connected topics on Google and you are just about prepared to surrender your self-control. I mean, tell me, what’s the relationship between SEO apps and online education webpages or online casinos? Gladly, in my disappointment.
So when news of seo management software and the whole industry built around it entered my humble worldview, my qualms about domains popping up on P1 of Google increased virally. Do they merit to show up on there and who is to blame, Google or webmasters using SEO software. The moral dilemma is immense. Do I quit using my SEO rank checker or do I quit using Google instead? I decided that I can’t quit Google just yet. At least not till the decent contender enters the picture. 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 using my SEO apps.
Frankly, SEO programs is the reason why folks like myself get discovered on the Internet. smart as they are, search engine web indexers are unlikely to find some no-name person and index his website highly. In this respect, I still am an unyielding advocate of SEO programs and non-paid search. If it was all about the money, the corporate entities would destroy me before I knew it. And there are up to one thousand corporations on the Fortune roll! But here is something else that irks me and other backlink check users, I am confident. There are guys who purchase SEO products and use them to sell dresseson employment sites and such. What we have is litter that not only lives on the web but is also well ranked by Google.
What is the user perspective on this? People search for SEO app reviews and will instead find disconnected content. They get disillusioned. So much for the “Internet equality”. Does this imply that SEO product and service industry is bad? Probably not.
The unethical users of SEO apps need to stop bastardizing the Web but it’s like asking hackers to stop hacking. The sad side about it is that black hat SEOs are overusing the prospect to be visible on the Web that is offered to the average guy like myself. For now users just have to treat them. We can only hope that Google will put more effort into finding the schemers unethically using SEO programs, and if Google doesn’t, the competitor search engine will.
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