"Though its just your opinion like you said but its also in line with the thinking of most people in the industry"
:shock: :shock: :shock:
That scares me, as I don't like to be, "in line" with the majority's, "thinking"
With the rise in the current stock price, I'd bet my opinion may be a bit, "out of line" with the industry. :wink:
Think about it for a sec. Every forum you go to it's, "Google" this and, "Google" that. And, "PR" this and, "Backlinks" that. It seems most are so consumed and in awe of the almighty Google. I can understand this, as their SE used to have AWESOME results, and it was a pleasant surprise to sit in front of your PC, with your little children, type in, "Barbie/Snow White, etc." and actually see sites, which feature these fixtures, rather than 50 porn sites. Don't get me wrong, IMHO, it would still be hard NOT to call them the best SE, but I'm not the only one who's opinion of the search results, is that of, "Less Quality" compared to the Google two years ago.
IMHO, the reason for the diminishing search results is due to the fact so many are consumed with, "tricking/SEO/Whatever you want to call it" their results, to move sites into the top 10. The problem is, many are very successful at it, thus the SE SPAM. And when the SPAM gets the BAN, the SPAMMER already has a pre-planned site, which they simply SPAM again. And around and around they go.
I mean just look at this obsession:
http://www.watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/
http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/40-hijack.html
http://www.affiliatejackpot.com/index2.htm <---
at that one
And just check out this, "Contest":
http://www.seochallenge.com/
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/0...217&tid=95
http://abw.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?q=Y&...104654&p=1
They had that contest, IMHO, just to find out the techniques used so they could use them, promoting their ROAR/Pageseeker.com PPC search engine, which I would highly discourage anyone from using based on my personal experience.
I’m just not buying the whole, “You MUST be ranked high in Google to be successful online†BS
Ok, I'll end my rant.
Paul