Comments on: Google Openly Profiles SEOs As Criminals

By: samrat kafle

samrat kafle — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:02:36 +0000

Definitely great stuff to keep in memory really face things are written here thanks for sharing cheers!!! :O

By: Lannon

Lannon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:27:05 +0000

Always love your articles Lisa. Another good one, thanks! I agree with Scott, with power comes responsibility…

By: Tonyzhao

Tonyzhao — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:15:35 +0000

I think the racial comments were well chosen and perfect examples of what google is doing to these innocent people that specialize in SEO.

By: Annia

Annia — Sat, 07 May 2011 10:06:32 +0000

SEO paranoid :-)

By: Jackie @ 10th Degree

Jackie @ 10th Degree — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:23:52 +0000

This intent issue is ridiculous! So just because one individual knows the value that a link can bring, they get penalized whereas someone who just owns a bakery shop isn’t because she is giving away cupcakes just to promote her business? For all I know, perhaps the bakery owner DOES know a thing or two about SEO. Most smart business owners do have a clue or two and it’s not that hard to figure out SEO when so much info and webmaster resources are available online.

Google’s attempt to figure out someone’s “intent” is very patronizing in my opinion. I think other people should be outraged too that Google makes assumptions about our intentions; it doesn’t make sense that two people would be treated differently just because of their intent.

Also, I don’t think Google has enough resources to determine the intention of each website… How would it figure that one out?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:14:15 +0000

Lisa I’m in total agreement with Kathy. I enjoy your articles, follow you on Twitter, and really enjoy reading the comments to your articles, but some people just have to ruin the flow, please delete this kind of comment in the future.

Sticking with the subject at hand, I’m not a professional SEO, but I read a lot and I help local businesses to increase their rankings by getting backlinks, using Squidoo or article submission, and we interlink with each other. I am in fact a journalist and tourism advocate.

The trouble is that my efforts would be all too easy for Google to track since all of my websites are added to my Analytics and WebMasterTools accounts, and I frequently login into my friends accounts from the same browser. I can’t afford multiple computers or IP addresses to cover my tracks. Reading your article I am then going to be considered a high-risk SEO by Google.

The reason my business contacts and I are working together is that in our area a random Google search is unlikely to bring up our websites, nope, instead multiple large hotel booking sites, or huge content farms outrank my wordpress news site and my friends little 4 or 5 page websites. We fight back by following Google’s guidelines and the advise of SEO people we read. Consequently, we create link wheels, we build Squidoo and Hubpages, we add our links in forums and blog posts. And in all of this, we use rel=”nofollow” on our contact pages or links to affiliate products because we believe Google has our best interests at heart. Sadly our rankings never seem to improve beyond the top of page 2, and when we try the same things that we see other sites doing we get our pagerank slapped.

You say that anyone who engages in SEO is going to be profiled by Google, now I’m worried that I’ve let me friends down by doing exactly what I’ve been told to do by Google and those same SEO experts who regularly attend conferences where Matt Cutts speaks.

“Do no evil” is starting to sound like a bad joke.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:20:48 +0000

Lisa, Well I am now a reader, you got me. I loved the article but I won’t link my site in the comments just in case the Big G is watching…Lol.

By: Ross Marcus

Ross Marcus — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:31:13 +0000

Google can do whatever they want in the shadows. They own the internet and all their employees are sworn to silence.

By: Sang Min

Sang Min — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:30:36 +0000

Yeah this is kind of sickening. I thought Eric Schmidt was bad enough, I had no idea that Matt Cutts was just as bad. Or worse. Then again, Schmidt is out, and Cutts is not. Looks like a lose-lose to me.

Thanks for bringing to my attention, I had no idea Google was profiling like this. I’m going to have to do more research about this. Thanks again.

By: Jimmy Jamm

Jimmy Jamm — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:40:01 +0000

you are so right on! I cant believe i did not think of this