Rationalizing the Blame: Is it my SEO software or is it Search Engines?
I admit. Before learning about SEO software and Web promotion business, I considered that Google was great. I Googled anything from friends, to pictures, to news to strange gadgets and indiscriminately trusted the search outcomes. Then I found out about SEO applications and a whole e-commerce centered on site optimization, and my search habits changed. But even before my discovery, having done a bit of introspective musings, I got a feeling that search engines, Google to boot, know far from all, and share with the web community a fraction of what they know.
My search experiences soon convinced me that Flikr is a better image data bank, that with the help of Digg I can access interesting current events coverage without the need to rummage through Google SERPs (rummaging seems more appropriate than Google search), and people search is better handled by Facebook. It seems that when I look for strange things on Google, the results are often messy, to put it mildly. Try searching for SEO software and other SEO relevant subjects on Google and you are almost prepared to surrender your patience. I mean, tell me, what’s the connection between SEO tools and employment websites or online casinos? It happens in my frustrations.
So when news of free link building software and the entire field revolving around it invaded my humble worldview, my suspicions about things landing on page one of Google grew manifold. Do they deserve to be there and who is to blame, Google or webmasters using SEO tools. The ethical dilemma is vast. Do I seize using my SEO google rank checker or do I quit using Google instead? I decided that I can’t boycott Google just yet. At least not until the worthy contender enters the market. 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 tools.
Frankly, SEO products is the reason why guys like myself get found online. intelligent as they are, Google search algos are unlikely to find some random dude and index his webpage well. In this regard, I still am an unyielding admirer of SEO software and non-paid search. If it was all about the paid search, the Fortune entities would destroy me before I knew it. And there are hundreds of powerbrands on the Fortune roll! But here is something else that irks me and other backlinks checker users, I am certain. There are individuals who invest in SEO software products and use them to sell dresseson online education sites and the like. What we have is litter that not only exists on the Internet but is also highly indexed by search engines.
What is the public perspective on this? They Google SEO app reviews and will instead find junk content. They get disappointed. So much for the “Internet democracy”. Does this mean that SEO application and service industry is bad? I don’t think so.
The abusers of SEO software have to stop brutalizing the Web but it’s like ordering hackers to stop cracking the code. The bad thing about it is that black hat SEOs are overusing the prospect to be noticeable on the Internet that is offered to the no-name person like myself. For now we just have to be patient with them. We can only wish that Google will put more effort into catching the schemers unethically using SEO programs, and if Google doesn’t, the new Google will.
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