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Nothing about SEO is ethical. It’s about appearing on google when you wouldn’t under natural circumstances.
by kabwj 7y ago
Nothing about SEO is ethical. It’s about appearing on google when you wouldn’t under natural circumstances.
- gbear605 7y agoIt depends on the type of SEO. SEO includes, for instance, making sure that your page loads quickly when otherwise you wouldn’t have prioritized that. A lot of it is unethical though.
- moonbug 7y agoWhat, precisely, is "natural" about Google?
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoThe progression towards evil as it became more of a monopoly.
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoWhat Google has done over the years is thwart some of the scummy SEO practices by penalizing websites that do it; a big part of current-day SEO practices are to make your website conform to web and content standards. Basically, turn it into a decent site. There's still the black market SEO where people hire spambots to send links, but that's been thwarted / voided by just adding a nofollow to links in user generated content like comments.
- mcnesium 7y agobut then you wouldn't do "search engine optimization", but rather proper web engineering.
- Jorsiem 7y agoSEO has become an ambigous, all encompassing term. "Proper web engineer" is now a subcategory of SEO. Also "proper web engineering" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
- dredmorbius 7y agoPWE -- peewee.
- bduerst 7y agoThe point is there's a Venn diagram where these two standards overlap.