Are we SEOs polluting the web?

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I think most of us agree that what you get today on the 1st page of Google isn't necessarily what is mostly relevant to your query, it's the 10 websites that invested the most in SEO. (Apart from Wikipedia who's always gonna be there, thank god)

Is being an SEO spiritually right? lol

Think about the honest working mom who wants to find a way to make money at home to feed her 5 children. The top 10 results she'll get from keywords in that niche are probably gonna be from hungry marketers trying to push their aff links, adsense banners and all that shit. 10-15 years ago, she probably would have been able to get some real information from honest people lol

Same goes with other niches like health, Google's trying its best to push relevant sources, EDU and Authority sites, but SEOs are always able to get their shit on the 1st page in the long run LOL ...

picture this scenario: a guy goes to the Amazon jungle and finds a miracle herb to treat ED, and he wants to open a blog to share it with the public... his blog could be useful to millions of men yet more likely he will never be found, as we know companies like Pfizer spend millions in SEO to dominate that niche.

again thank god for Wikipedia... that's probably the best (and most honest lol) thing that happened to the Web since the last 10 years.
 


I get where you're coming from, but it's kinda like saying people die in car crashes so is selling cars spiritually right.

It is what it is. Gotta take a piece of action.
 
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JoseArmando said:
I get where you're coming from, but it's kinda like saying people die in car crashes so is selling cars spiritually right.

It is what it is. Gotta take a piece of action.
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Quoted for truth. Much rather be on this side of the tracks.
 
I understand your moral dilemmas, please stop polluting and transfer all your keywords and domains to me, thanks.
 
Doesn't mean you can't put a few more hours into providing GOOD content so that you can actually feel like you deserve that #1 ranking and god forbid provide your users with quality, truthful information.

Sure, I did my fair share of spamming and xrumering on my top site. But it's also far and away the best site with the most content on its subject matter. I don't feel bad one bit - I just needed "nudge" Google in my direction and it figured out the rest.
 
You sound like a little bitch.

Take a hit of this, and kick that old Dirt Nasty shit about getting your dick sucked.
 
hahaha

I don't know... all I know is that I see a lot of bullshit on the 1st page today compared to 10 years ago. Who's to blame? :)
 
With localized search indexes, your assertions will never become reality. For example, I will never see Chinese sites selling viagra in the search engines. Probably on some scrappy search engine like MSN or Yahoo, but not with Google. Why? I don't speak Chinese and don't live in China (just using this as example). Google has no reason to show me such a website. With adsense and gmail, Google will be able to offer extremely personalized search indexes. Skynet will have to wait another century. Sites like ebay and amazon have localized subsidiaries and you will always see them in the search engines, but only because they're on the bandwagon.
 
avatar33 said:
picture this scenario: a guy goes to the Amazon jungle and finds a miracle herb to treat ED, and he wants to open a blog to share it with the public... his blog could be useful to millions of men yet more likely he will never be found, as we know companies like Pfizer spend millions in SEO to dominate that niche.
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If promoting said product through a single blog is his plan, the dude is an idiot. That's hardly the fault of a free market and its participants.
 
bsun no you don't get it... in my example the guy isn't trying to "promote" anything, he just wants to share an honest information hoping that it would help other people like him. He has no time nor interest in promoting it. It's like if you go to the Himalaya and learn some secret meditation technique that cured your disease, and then you go back home and want to open a site to share your finding, in the hope that it will help other people in a similar condition... your valuable information will most likely never be seen (or it would take a couple years in the best case scenario) because the health niche is dominated by the big players.

All I'm saying is that true honest information is becoming hard to find... and I'm wondering if I as an SEO played a part in it (by promoting a couple shitty sites throughout my career to earn a living) :)
 
avatar33 said:
bsun no you don't get it... in my example the guy isn't trying to "promote" anything, he just wants to share an honest information hoping that it would help other people like him. He has no time nor interest in promoting it. It's like if you go to the Himalaya and learn some secret meditation technique that cured your disease, and then you go back home and want to open a site to share your finding, in the hope that it will help other people in a similar condition... your valuable information will most likely never be seen (or it would take a couple years in the best case scenario) because the health niche is dominated by the big players.

All I'm saying is that true honest information is becoming hard to find... and I'm wondering if I as an SEO played a part in it (by promoting a couple shitty sites throughout my career to earn a living) :)
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In your scenario, if the "cure" really worked it would be slammed by media outlets, posted on forums, twittered, blogged, etc... it would hit top rankings in mere hours probably. Assuming it works as the discoverer claims.
 
cheshire said:
In your scenario, if the "cure" really worked it would be slammed by media outlets, posted on forums, twittered, blogged, etc... it would hit top rankings in mere hours probably. Assuming it works as the discoverer claims.
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^This. If it wasn't for a single mom's teeth whitening and weight loss discovery everyone would still be fat and have yellow teeth.
 
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