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I submitted this link because there had been lots of discussion lately that SEO is fraud and it isn't worth it. I stumbled across this link and the money that t
by paraschopra 17y ago
I submitted this link because there had been lots of discussion lately that SEO is fraud and it isn't worth it. I stumbled across this link and the money that these companies are making really make me doubt that businesses don't value SEO.
What are your thoughts?
EDITED: corrected a typo
- oscardelben 17y agoCompanies value SEO because if they get higher ranks on search engines they'll make more money. So it's natural for a company to invest in a service that it'll grow their revenues.
- yuvi 17y agoThere are really two separate issues with SEO: 1. The little legitimate stuff they do that would increase pagerank (better website design, alt text, metadata, etc.) is incredibly overpriced for the actual value, especially compared against SEO claims. But companies that don't shell out for a website designer that can do this in the first place deserve to be ripped off. 2. The even shadier SEOs will use botnet linkspam and the like. This is actively destroying the web and companies that do this do not deserve to exist period.
- brk 17y agoCompanies do value SEO, though often for the wrong reasons. There is a combination of SEO companies selling vague and expensive services, plus promising unrealistic results. On top of that, many small businesses think they can buy their way to the top of Google and get significantly increased sales through "SEO". The vast majority of SEO boils down to creating good content and making your webpages compliant and robot-readable.