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I Don’t Like Conflict (But Google Doesn’t Think SEOs are Criminals)
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Published: Jun 12, 2009 - 09:28 am
Story Found By: vangogh 976 Days ago
Category: SEO
The SEO community is buzzing about how Matt Cutts sat up and openly stated that "Google profiles SEOs like common criminals." Even though what Matt actually said was rather mild and nothing we haven’t heard before, there’s a couple good lessons here for SEOs to remember.
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from steveplunkett 976 Days ago #
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Yes, SEOs are held to a higher standard than mom and pop shops; SEOs are professionals. - @susanesparza (great quote)<div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"></font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">"Build websites for users, not SEO..." - google</font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"></font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">hmm.. then what purpose does nofollow serve to user? noindex means remove from index, as in login pages, etc.. </font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"></font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">using nofollow hurts your rankings and flags you in google database because it really provides no value to the user. but.. tells google.. "hey we use nofollow, which means we are probably using links to rank.. so come scrutinize us.."</font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"></font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">as a GOOG stockholder i am glad they do this.. i want google to provide the best, most relevant NON-Paid listings to the user so they will keep the search share and the stock price wont fall again..</font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"></font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">p.s. if consistent bitching and whining makes the stock price fall.. hopefully google will just remove the URLs of the offending parties.. at least i hope they do.. you have no freedom of speech to criticize google.. they don’t have to list your website.. they are not the government.. you have no inalienable rights to be included in google.. and if you think most people other than the drama queens want to see this crap.. we DON’t it brings bad vibes to the industry, creates negative buzz which we have to explain to our clients about why these people are whining and complaining.. along with all the other disinformation out there.</font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"></font></div><div><font size="3" class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"></font></div>

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from MetaJP 974 Days ago #
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Thanks for the submission. So many SEOers have been so quick to post the frantic article about Google crimializing SEOs.  This makes much more sense and stays inline with what Google has professed all along.

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