Rationalizing the Blame: Is it my SEO applications or is it Google?
I admit. Before finding out about SEO tools and site optimization business, I was of the opinion that Google was incredible. I Used Google to look for anything from friends, to visuals, to news stories to strange objects and indiscriminately trusted the results. Then I found out about SEO programs and a separate e-commerce centered on promoting sites, and my search habits were never the same. But even prior to my discovery, having done a bit of reflective musings, I got a feeling that search engines, Google included, know far from everything, and divulge to the users a tiny portion of that.
My Google travails soon persuaded me that Flikr is a higher quality image data bank, that with the assistance of feeds I can have nice current events coverage without having to rummage through Google search findings (rummaging seems more appropriate than Google search), and people search is best handled by Facebook. It seems that whenever I search for strange objects on Google, the results are almost always inaccurate, to put it mildly. Try Googling for SEO programs and other SEO connected topics on Google and you are almost ready to give up your patience. I mean, tell me, what’s the relationship between SEO applications and career webpages or Web casinos? Gladly, in my frustrations.
So when news of free link building software and the whole field built around it invaded my humble worldview, my suspicions about domains popping up on page one of Google grew manifold. Do they merit to show up on there and who is to blame, Google or webmasters using SEO products. The moral dilemma is immense. Do I quit using my SEO keyword ranking tool or do I seize using Google instead? I concluded that I can’t boycott Google just yet. At least not till the worthy competitor 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 playing with my SEO tools.
Truth is that SEO applications is the reason why guys like myself get some visibility on the Internet. smart as they are, Google bots are not likely to find some average guy and position his site highly. In this regard, I am a firm advocate of SEO software and natural search. If it was all about the money, the multinational businesses would squish me before I knew it. And there are hundreds of businesses on the Fortune roll! But here is another thing that irritates me and other backlink checker users, I am sure. There are people who buy SEO products and use them to sell beddingon casino sites and the like. What we are left with is rubbish that not only takes over the web but is also well positioned by Google.
What is the public reaction to this? They search for SEO program reviews and will instead find irrelevant search findings. They get disillusioned. So much for the “Internet equality”. Does this indicate that SEO product and service field is bad? I don’t think so.
The unethical users of SEO applications need to stop polluting the Internet but it’s like ordering hackers to stop cracking the code. The unfortunate side about it is that black hat SEOs are abusing the opportunity to be seen on the Internet that is given to the no-name guy like myself. For now we just have to treat them. One can only wish that Google will put more effort into finding the schemers unethically using SEO apps, and if Google doesn’t, the future search engine will.
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