Comments on: Will Google Judge You Guilty of SEO?

By: Manchester Wedding Photographer

Manchester Wedding Photographer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:44:57 +0000

Dallas, you are absolutely right. It’s not google’s fault, all google wants to do is to put the most relevant searches in the top spots. Writing great content that has a purpose is the next quest for google, many sites now have great content optimised for rankings pusposes but they don’t really say anything new. I think that google will use metrics such as bounce rates and the time spent on a site even more significantly in it’s algorithm as these are the metrics that matter and can provide relevant statistical information to google!

What do you think?

By: Dallas Internet Marketing Consulting

Dallas Internet Marketing Consulting — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:08:59 +0000

How can that be google’s fault? The idea of SEO should not be focused on getting on the top search results but rather be on the first organic search results by having the best and relevant content for the searcher. The competition for good content will bring up quality for all sites competing. Who’s to blame? The SEOs that do manipulation rather than providing good contents for their site.

By: How to Backup Games

How to Backup Games — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:10:17 +0000

SEOs simply play by Google’s rules. It’s Google’s fault in the first place.

By: no 5

no 5 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:38:13 +0000

o yes… great article… ofcourse they will never give the manual how to rank 1st, but we should put our minds in google shoes and ask our self: What google wants? For now it is great content, with a lot of comments… And if there is a lot of comments people like it and google wants that kind of content…. so let’s write interesting content and google wil give you better rankings….

By: Los Angeles DUI Lawyer

Los Angeles DUI Lawyer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:51:03 +0000

Google is becoming big brother!

By: need bad credit loan

need bad credit loan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:23:29 +0000

It is no doubt that Google might consider our SEO efforts that manipulates search results. I would say we SEOist should take an effort to form some basics in optimizing websites. We need to optimiza for visitors and not for search engines.
If we do this obviously search industry will benefit.

We get stuck because of scamers who spam forums and blog to manipulate serps. Also we G needs to tackle with black hat seoist.

So, lets take some time in improving the search industry.

By: law firm websites

law firm websites — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:44:08 +0000

Google’s a admirable company, they are just so powerful these days.

By: copy xbox games

copy xbox games — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:19:37 +0000

why, I do not think there are dangerous, and perhaps even google sebliknya I think is very easy and practical, thanks

By: Los Angeles Web Design

Los Angeles Web Design — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:23:02 +0000

It’s kinda scary how much power google has these days, over our whole society!

By: Adam89

Adam89 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:13:26 +0000

I agree that Google has to apply some filters to differentiate between ‘good’ and ‘bad-spam-my-techniques’ SEO approaches. But it’s hard to write the tiny line. Google changes their algorithm so often, so unless they disclose it publicly we won’t know for sure what exactly they are doing.

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:00:23 +0000

Nice article
I can’t agree you more.
SEO is tough and complicated because Google’s algorithm is so complicated, unknown, and changing.

By: itshumor

itshumor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:40:01 +0000

i appreciate to share your view on google seo

By: Oes Tsetnoc

Oes Tsetnoc — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:53:37 +0000

I think they should specify that they are against SEO that uses “black hat” techniques. I also think it would be fair to make new rules clear and give webmasters time to conform to them, as opposed to making new rules, penalize sites breaking them, and then outline what they now like or dislike.

The rise in SEO is due to the fact that so many good websites are being left behind because of all of the black-hatters that get away with their tactics. The good sites almost have to go with hardcore SEO tricks just to get their name on the list.

~ Kristi

By: High Vis

High Vis — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:08:33 +0000

Google doesn’t really target seo’s it targets spammers! Look, if you create a website providing unique content, selling a product etc etc and eatch page is unique then there are no issues. If you put ten title tags in your header then google is going to target you because you are trying to spam. Just make sure that your target market is what your site is all about – simples!

By: Daniel Gibbs

Daniel Gibbs — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:42:10 +0000

You can understand where Google comes from (afterall SEO is interpreted as the practice of improving rankings and that could be seen as unnatural) but it would be harse to label it on the industry that way.

SEO isn’t just about improving rankings its about decent content, a decent structure and “optimising” a site to standards. I’m sure a lot of SEOs have, at some stage, had a site ranked 1st and still had a bad conversion rate.

I firmly believe that with the advancements of search engines , like behavioural data, we will end up with the better and more useful site performing better.

As long as you stick to ethical practices and make a site better (for all parties) I can’t see a problem.

By: palm reading

palm reading — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:13:01 +0000

if you seo some crapy site and let searcher have some terrible experience then you are guilty! so first make great content that can help searcher then go to do seo work, google have no reason to make you guilty.

By: מקרן

מקרן — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:09:49 +0000

I guess the whole SEO stuff made us forgotten that we are marketing towards human end users. Sometimes we refer to the search engines’ crawlers through our search engine optimization. I agree that we should refocus on submitting valueable content for human searcheres.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:05:18 +0000

SEO can make search easier for the people. Google should punish trashsites, but if content is good for the issue, why would they punish it?

By: Quinton Hoover

Quinton Hoover — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:34:09 +0000

Every body does SEO… The point is how you do it. If you are giving quality content, then your SEO efforts are well guided..

By: SEO San Diego

SEO San Diego — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:01:29 +0000

There is no reason for Google to punish sites who hire SEOs. These website owners are just playing by the rules that Google publishes itself! The rules will continue to change, and SEO’s (Internet Marketing is what I like to call it) will change with it.

By: Nashville SEO

Nashville SEO — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:15:56 +0000

I’ve been convinced for a long time that no form of Internet marketing will be able to stand on its’ own and remain effective. You MUST integrate and innovate. I am lumped in with the SEO crowd; but I’ve consider myself a Search Experience Optimizer, for a long time.

So what if you gain rankings and attract traffic–if you are not integrating the user experience, you will get to brag about high traffic volume…hoping people don’t ask about your bounce rate.

Give valuable content. Present that content to the right audience. Test and Target. Rinse and Repeat.

By: Joelchrist

Joelchrist — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:08:53 +0000

SEO guys no need to change their field if they really have talents. google will always here for us guys.so no need to worry.

By: Dallas SEO

Dallas SEO — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:16:36 +0000

Sorry Ryan/Vegas Web Design, I’ve obviously hurt your feelings. I can see that you must be a disgruntled SEO user, and yes, I agree, there are plenty of bad SEO people out there. Almost all of my clients feel they were taken by another SEO “professional” in the past.

This is one reason I haven’t spent ANY time creating a website or optimizing it. I’m also not interested in having a ton of clients and building an SEO empire. I just want a handful of clients that I can give personal attention to and do a knock out job for.

Does your doctor have a website? Probably not. He’s a professional who can only see so many patients and most people don’t find doctors through the internet, they find them through referrals. The same is true with my profession. If you want a SEO consultant with a great website that ranks #1 there are plenty of them, but don’t be surprised if your contact is a recent college graduate reading you a script.

Understanding SEO, how it works, and how SEO professionals can help you can be really frustrating. SEO is new, it’s different, and small business owners don’t know how to think of yet.

I just wrote an article in my blog that is must reading for any frustrated small business owner who wants to understand how to deal with their SEO delima. You can read “Small Business Owners Hate SEO” by clicking on my user name, Dallas SEO.

By: the website guru

the website guru — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:15:53 +0000

I agree with you Dallas SEO about the SEO strength factor over search totals, but ryans point does seem valid – hes in the top 50 for a very competitive market and you cant be found in yours. You didn’t counter this point in your rebuttal.

By: Dallas SEO

Dallas SEO — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:39:38 +0000

Oh, and Ryan/Vegas Web Design, the number of search engine result pages don’t determine the difficulty of SEO, but rather, it’s the SEO strength of the top 10 results. It appears that you’re ranking #50 in Google for “Las Vegas Web Design”, the only logical term you could be referring to. I hope you do better in the future.