visit a lot of webmaster did, suddenly they just weren't
forums and visit blogs there. about SEO as well as write href="http://Google.com"
some blogs of my own about SEO, title="http://Google.com"
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information with others. cannot be displayed, what would
you do?
But one thing bothers me about
what I read on most forums and Would it be like the stock market
blogs. People are obsessed with crash of the 30's? Would
Google. There are forums where webmasters be jumping off
they refer to Google as just "g" buildings? Would everyone just
because they seem to be afraid stop doing business on the web
someone at Google might read because Google was gone? Would
their post and not like it. the forums be full of grieving
webmasters with nowhere to turn?
This Google obsession borders on Would they erect a statue of Matt
lunacy. Webmasters seem to be Cutts and hold memorial services
convinced that without a good for the CEOs of Google? Would you
ranking in Google and without light a candle for Google?
Google’s seal of approval, page
rank, they cannot be successful The point I'm trying to make is
on the web. that business was being done on
the web before Google became a
Let's think about that for a search portal, before adwords and
moment. If Google folded adnonsense, before Matt Cutts had
tomorrow, not likely, but if they a blog, and before Google hired
an artist full-time to keep Or do you have the Google habit
making cute little Google logos. so bad that you actually believe
Before there was a Google the web could not actually
toolbar, page rank, Google function without Google? It's
images, Google stores, and Google like Al Gore saying he invented
pay, we made money on the the Internet. We know he didn't.
Internet. Neither did Google.
Yet, people write articles,
blogs, and forums posts that
start with things like, "If you do business on the web, you have type="text/javascript">
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About the Author:
Chris McElroy aka NameCritic has been doing business on the web since 1995. Visit ACP, BCP, or SSP for more articles.
