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In the previous part, I talked about some of the reasons you might want to add content to your site that might go viral. I noted that it can help you rank better in the search engines. If you add content regularly, search engine spiders will find it when they crawl the web. And if you make a point of staying focused on your site’s topic, it will grow more and more relevant in relation to your keywords. That can only help your standing on the search engine results pages. I also stressed that you’ll need to work to make sure your content is very good, regardless of which approach you use. I list…
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The Decline of Organic Links Infographic
Last Updated on Monday, 12 December 2011 01:13 Written by a2e Monday, 12 December 2011 01:13
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For many years it was true that SEO = links, but due to the rise of rel=nofollow, fearmongering & social media, organic links have lost much of their relative importance in many verticals.
Links are still valuable in some areas of course, but where the search results are full of listings from Google.com, pushed below the fold from larger AdWords ads and/or heavily skewed by things like brand bias there is much less value in link building in numerous big money markets. After all, few care who ranks #1 if #1 is below the fold!
Google Admits ‘Organic Results’ Are Filler To Pump Deceptive Ads at Consumers
Last Updated on Monday, 12 December 2011 01:13 Written by a2e Monday, 12 December 2011 01:13
Some of Google’s new search results look quite alarming in terms of every single link above the fold is either a paid ad, or links to yet another Google page wrapped in ads.
I have a huge monitor & it is impossible for me to click *anywhere* above the fold on some search results without going through Google’s toll booth or clicking off to yet another Google ad wrapped page.
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Some people have given Google the benefit of the doubt “well this is just vertical search” and “this is just for the consumer” but we see that in many cases it harms consumers by limiting choice:
Charlie Leocha, the director of the Consumer Travel Alliance, says Google Flight Search is “limiting consumers’ knowledge.” He explains, “this is a situation where Google is trusted as a ‘search engine’ that goes across the whole Web, but it is only going to a small select group of airlines and including them in Flight Search.”
The bottom line?
According to Leocha, “Google and the airlines have a sweetheart deal with each other, and the consumers are getting screwed.”
Those who coddled Google & gave Google the benefit of the doubt now have egg on their face, and the industry as a whole is poorer for their poor judgement & lack of stewardship.
As absurd as the above behavior is, it gets worse. When Google acquired DoubleClick, Larry Page wanted to keep Performics (an SEO/SEM company). But since it would have been a flagrant violation of law for him to run an SEO company, they now decide that nobody should run an SEO company…telling consumers to simply forget about SEO even when they specifically search out information about SEO!
Google recently ran AdWords ads with the following copy when consumers searched Google for SEO information:
“Forget about SEO. To be visible in Google today, try Adwords”
You know Google’s slogan: “maybe the best ads are just answers.” And sometimes they are misdirection or scams that quite literally kill people.
You can’t be 100% certain which is which until long AFTER you click. And by then Google’s cash register has already rang & it is off to dupe the next person.
Comments turned off, as this is a conversation that NEEDS TO SPREAD. If you run a blog about SEO, you owe it to your readers & your industry to cover this topic. If this topic doesn’t get broad coverage then pretty soon your career might be over & you will deserve it too.
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