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SEO is such a fickle beast. To everyone here who's saying they brought this upon themselves, when rules are unenforced and all your competition breaks them, yo
by istorical 13y ago
SEO is such a fickle beast.
To everyone here who's saying they brought this upon themselves, when rules are unenforced and all your competition breaks them, you've already hamstrung yourself if you don't break them too.
If everyone in the MLB is juicing and a rookie gets caught, you don't say "what an idiot", you look at either 1) enforcing the rules on everyone and broadly changing the culture or 2) question whether the rules make sense in the first place.
- codygman 13y agoNo. They broke the terms of service. They got banned. End of story.
- istorical 13y agoWhat's it like seeing the world in black and white?
- codygman 13y agoNot sure. I'm too busy seeing all the gray lines that would be created by Google giving preferential treatment to those deemed more "important" when they could have stayed black and white.
- istorical 13y agoMy point is that punishing RapGenius despite the blatant use of the same tactics by hundreds of other big internet brands IS preferential treatment. The fact that RapGenius' competitors weren't punished is giving THEM preferential treatment. Either punish everyone or punish no one.
- codygman 13y agoYou know I think you are right. We should also apply this to murderers. Find and punish all the murders or let them all go free!
- pnathan 13y agometa-note: this is a great real-world example of the Lawful vs. Chaotic arguments.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoIt's not that fickle. Even if all their competitors are engaged in blackhat SEO and buying links from other blog sites (using cash, tweets, etc). RapGenius was the one who publicly boasted about it. Which caught the attention of Google. Which earned them the smackdown. That's not fickleness at work. That's... what's the opposite of genius?