Following my recent post about leading web design/SEO firms using black-hat SEO to elevate their search rankings, the question is: Should black-hatters be reported to Google and Yahoo!?
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If the SEs want me to be a human editor to help them present "better" results so that they can get more market share and make more money, they need to pay me for it.. They don’t.. So I’m not willing to be a human editor for them..
Gee, you guys use Black Hat SEM because it works. Getting your competition banned from Google 100% would certaining work, just as well if not better than most anything else. Ergo, ...
if the department of sanitation wants me to help them keep their streets clean so people don’t get sick, they need to pay me. they don’t, so I dump my garbage on the street where I and all of my friends live and work.
"I dump my garbage on the street where I and all of my friends live and work"That is precisely how things were in Europe in Urban areas prior to the 19th century. Which resulted in a number of different plagues throughout the middle ages.That is exactly what is happening in Google, today. Europe stopped experiencing plagues not because of immunizations, but rather because the public started doing something about garbage that was polluting where they lived. The same strategy will work in Google. It is also very effective at rubbing out your competition.Google, just like the police, goes after the worst offenders. Crime Watch Neighborhoods help both Google and the Police keep their streets clean of pollution.
The big problem with spam reporting is too many people use it to compensate for their own lack of optimisation. If someone can rank better using simple tricks, you’re not trying hard enough. Focus on making your own site better than criticising other peoples, IMO.
@iBrian, the question is not about criticising. The techiques referred to are merely examples of practices that are seemingly frowned upon by Google and Yahoo.The question is, should people bother reporting ’spamdexing’ when they discover it? Will it / could it even make a difference to search results. Is ’grey/black-hat’ such an ever-changing variable that search algo’s could never keep up etc etc?
I’ve never reported a site before. But if a BH site knocked my pages out of the serps, you bet your ass I would report them. It’s got nothing to do with helping Google and everything to do with doing my job. If I’m being paid to make a site profitable, I’m going to use every tool at my disposal. It is my duty to do so.