Friday, October 22, 2010

Top 8 Reasons Why I Hate SEO!

Lets get to the point of making this blog- most important reason; to talk about why I hate search engine optimization (SEO).Second, discuss issues faced by the newbie's like us related to SEO. Since, i am coerced to join internet marketing field thanks to the DOT COM economy! Here are my reasons to hate the most loved phenomenon on the web. 
  1. The day i got to know about SEO, my wonderful image of innocent search world got destroyed. I thought Google cant be tricked. I thought whatever keyword i type in search bar, Google will search for the big www world and find the VERY right page for me. Sighs!
  2. SEO has made people wicked! So now if i want to search for some good make up tips(surprise, i am a girl!) and go to a forum, i don't even know if the people exchanging views on forums are actual people/consumers or they are just saying because it will help get them some traffic to there website. SEO= murder of honesty!
  3. It got worse, when i had my own site and i typed in few keywords and excitedly wait to see my site in the search results. Blimey! i couldn't find my site till some 10th page! (who goes till the 10th page in search engine!)
  4. People complained about competition and monopoly among multinationals in the gaga brick and mortar companies. Oh guess what in the www world thanks to SEO, a newbie has to compete with giants. I mean in offline world, you can at least run a small shop and still earn some money. Here 'there is no chance honey'!
  5. SEO is technical. I thought it would be about content changes, keywords, writing about fancy thing. Wrong again, there are things like duplicate content, URL structures, meta tags.Agggh, it is too techy for my taste.
  6. There are smarter people than me in SEO world. I shall admit that! So like i am some 5 years behind and it will take me some months or a year or two to catch up. I realize that and live with it every day!
  7. What is right and what is wrong in SEO?! It keeps varying. Matt Cutts though tries and tell us now and then, there is still a lot of confusion. Google SEO starter guide is of  little help only. I think its more of there own product promotion (i hope you reading this Google bot!)
  8. Intense efforts required with uncertain results. So for example, if i want to get my site on the top on search engine results, i would have to do two hundred things or so. But guess what, i would never get to know if these efforts are a) well directed b) will pay me off on time c) his highness Google really cares about them or not!
I feel a little light today.

Hear me grumble more! or grumble with me. i am a whiny!
maidiya
seo critic