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Suspicion Confirmed: Google Has It Out for Small Businesses

9 points by TannerTJ 13y ago

MDCore 13y ago
How is the author's "suspicion confirmed"? What is the point of the Julian Assange aside? The cartoon is confusing, I don't see how it fits the goldilocks narrative at all. This is a confusing and low quality article.
- ErikAugust 13y ago
  It's an SEO article. The purpose is not to be readable but to be stuffed with keywords. "Julian Assange" is a hot one right now. If I could downvote this article, I would.
  - TannerTJ 13y ago
    I have an SEO business of my own and I'm well aware that people use keyword stuffing for SEO. Explain to me how using the name Julian Assange two times in this article of probably 500+ words is keyword stuffing?
- TannerTJ 13y ago
  Hmm. I think it's a really well written article. But to each his own... I also think the cartoon is really good. If you're confused by it, maybe you don't understand SEO and what's going on with Google. Maybe you should refrain from judging the quality of an article about SEO when you have no idea what's going on.
michaelochurch 13y ago
If you run a small business and a gruff-looking man comes in muttering something about "The Perf Room", be nervous.
- VikingCoder 13y ago
  Could you please just change your username to something like michaelochurchhatesgoogleperf, and then TRY to limit your comments on articles about Google to things that are remotely topical?
  - michaelochurch 13y ago
    Is that your attempt to take me to The Perf Room? I'm not at Google anymore, so I have no fear of it. Google's Perf Room is just a cheap knock-off of Room 101. I don't think most of the branch offices even have a dedicated Perf Room.
    - VikingCoder 13y ago
      It clearly has so much power over your life. You bring it up at the drop of a hat. You're like the guy at a party who starts EVERY sentence with "One time, my ex-girlfriend..." EDIT: And honestly, it's a better comparison than I first thought: all of your rants about "Open Allocation" sound exactly like the crap I'd hear from someone who wanted an "Open Relationship" with his ex-girlfriend.
      - michaelochurch 13y ago
        I enjoy sharing amusing facts that are embarrassing to established players, and it's also good for society. Such a thing has little power over my life, actually, because I can cease at any time. It's hilarious to me that a company actually has a physical space called a Perf Room. How does a person not find that funny? You might think I'm in pain, but I actually enjoy some good entertainment. On open allocation, I believe that it's our duty as a generation to end closed allocation for good. It serves absolutely no purpose in a technology company (in fact, if you're running closed allocation, you should become a hedge fund because you're not a technology company, so you might as well re-tool to something with money in it) and there's immense profit to be made for all sides in ending it. We can be the dinosaurs, or we can be the meteor. I choose the latter.
Bosslady666 13y ago
As a SEO small business owner, I actually think this blog was really helpful in pointing out the current confusing contradictions put out by Google's web spam team. I read Search Engine Watch religiously to keep current with trends and they only ever post high quality blogs, so I doubt this article would have made it on to SEW if it were keyword stuffing. Mentioning a hot topic like Julian Assange is actually newsjacking and is what PR professionals do all day long and have done forever. Nice work. And why are we talking about peoples' ex girlfriends as metaphors and why are we talking about some room at Google? Nobody cares!

9 points by TannerTJ 13y ago

How is the author's "suspicion confirmed"? What is the point of the Julian Assange aside? The cartoon is confusing, I don't see how it fits the goldilocks narrative at all. This is a confusing and low quality article.

ErikAugust 13y ago
It's an SEO article. The purpose is not to be readable but to be stuffed with keywords. "Julian Assange" is a hot one right now. If I could downvote this article, I would.
- TannerTJ 13y ago
  I have an SEO business of my own and I'm well aware that people use keyword stuffing for SEO. Explain to me how using the name Julian Assange two times in this article of probably 500+ words is keyword stuffing?
TannerTJ 13y ago
Hmm. I think it's a really well written article. But to each his own... I also think the cartoon is really good. If you're confused by it, maybe you don't understand SEO and what's going on with Google. Maybe you should refrain from judging the quality of an article about SEO when you have no idea what's going on.

michaelochurch 13y ago

If you run a small business and a gruff-looking man comes in muttering something about "The Perf Room", be nervous.

VikingCoder 13y ago
Could you please just change your username to something like michaelochurchhatesgoogleperf, and then TRY to limit your comments on articles about Google to things that are remotely topical?
- michaelochurch 13y ago
  Is that your attempt to take me to The Perf Room? I'm not at Google anymore, so I have no fear of it. Google's Perf Room is just a cheap knock-off of Room 101. I don't think most of the branch offices even have a dedicated Perf Room.
  - VikingCoder 13y ago
    It clearly has so much power over your life. You bring it up at the drop of a hat. You're like the guy at a party who starts EVERY sentence with "One time, my ex-girlfriend..." EDIT: And honestly, it's a better comparison than I first thought: all of your rants about "Open Allocation" sound exactly like the crap I'd hear from someone who wanted an "Open Relationship" with his ex-girlfriend.
    - michaelochurch 13y ago
      I enjoy sharing amusing facts that are embarrassing to established players, and it's also good for society. Such a thing has little power over my life, actually, because I can cease at any time. It's hilarious to me that a company actually has a physical space called a Perf Room. How does a person not find that funny? You might think I'm in pain, but I actually enjoy some good entertainment. On open allocation, I believe that it's our duty as a generation to end closed allocation for good. It serves absolutely no purpose in a technology company (in fact, if you're running closed allocation, you should become a hedge fund because you're not a technology company, so you might as well re-tool to something with money in it) and there's immense profit to be made for all sides in ending it. We can be the dinosaurs, or we can be the meteor. I choose the latter.

Bosslady666 13y ago

As a SEO small business owner, I actually think this blog was really helpful in pointing out the current confusing contradictions put out by Google's web spam team. I read Search Engine Watch religiously to keep current with trends and they only ever post high quality blogs, so I doubt this article would have made it on to SEW if it were keyword stuffing. Mentioning a hot topic like Julian Assange is actually newsjacking and is what PR professionals do all day long and have done forever. Nice work. And why are we talking about peoples' ex girlfriends as metaphors and why are we talking about some room at Google? Nobody cares!