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I am pretty sure that the Nigerian scammers and multilevel marketing fraudsters made more money. SEO is not fraud per se, but it smells like one. SEO works for
by niyazpk 17y ago
I am pretty sure that the Nigerian scammers and multilevel marketing fraudsters made more money.
SEO is not fraud per se, but it smells like one. SEO works for sure and it may take your website from 100 page to the first page, but it feels like they are gaming the system, not adding value.
- henrikschroder 17y agoThe thing that makes it smell like a fraud is that they can only improve a client's score if few others use SEO as well, and if a client is moved to the front page for some keyword, someone else has to drop off the front page. So imagine a world where everyone uses SEO, what then? How could you ever move to the front page, if everyone else on it is using SEO as well? Cheat? Use better SEO? Who would win on an SEO arms race? Certainly not users, and I would imagine the search companies becoming even more annoyed about it.
- davidw 17y agoSummary: rankings are zero-sum games.