Written by GoogleWebmasterHelp asked:
Why Google supports SEO specialists with advice? Google business is to sell text ads / ad space so bad optimized web sites are the target of Google, aren’t they? With giving good SEO advice Google works against its business or it’s not true? borislav123, Plovdiv
Thank you, Matt!
I’m a SEO specialist and I dont’ think SEO is bad, I love it – the way it makes web-site more ‘understandable’ to search egines.
I just wandered what the vision of Google is. Thank you.
I really like the answers you make the users – always useful and always friendly!
All the best!
Borislav Arapchev, Plovdiv
@wearealltubes I agree its their policy, but how do we know that google is not giving preference to websites that have google ads vs websites that do not? Is there a 100% sure shot way to know it.
Thanks for sharing this view of point. It is great
Well its the hole I’m feeling lucky, there was a hole report on that but I lost it.
its why me the user likes google.
@RohenQ get adblock on firefox or chrome. Works good.
I think this a very good view point.
I keep thinking that good, unique content will make my website rise to the top as Google says, however, my competition (who spams irrelevant blog comments) are DOMINATING my seo. I’m press releasing, videos, article submission. Nope. Blog comments are way more powerful.
@wearealltubes I am merely stating that they are annoying. I see ads in other video sites but they are not as annoying as YouTube’s for some reason. I’m sure they can come up with a better way to embedd video ads.
Or simply google wants to “teach us” SEO so people who search with google find what they want. If a user search for something and google return non related results they wont use it. So Google Needs US and WE need Google.
That is how i see it.
@jhogguk If the discussion had stayed civilized for too long, the Internet might have ceased to exist. I had to save the Internet.
@vyasarkrish I keep trying to give Yahoo a try. It’s terribly irrelevant and useless to me. Maybe it’s just the types of things I need to search for.
I now tell the real secret behind Google giving this video. The thing is Yahoo search results now more and more relevant than Google search results. Last 3 years I am closely notice the search results of both Google and Yahoo. Only first 4 results are matching and relevant to user query in Google search results. But in yahoo first 30 search results are relevant that’s what matter and everybody looking for.
to make the web better …simple…….
@BOBXLII Blew it.
@jhogguk FIRST!
@BOBXLII I think this was the first civilised discussion ever on YouTube.
@jhogguk That’s true. We can never know for sure. We can only hope that if they aren’t, and they are being greedy, that another company could be less greedy and compete successfully against them and win by virtue of having a better user experience, yet still remaining profitable.
@TechieGeek1 I know, how rude of them.
Why does Google tell website owners not to spam links everywhere and write nice content and have their sites load quickly?
@BOBXLII Fair enough if that’s what they found. But couldn’t they have supported the site on other ads rather than the embedded ads? I don’t know. Maybe they need the embedded ads to turn a decent enough profit, or maybe they get by fine and its greed because they know they can get away with embedded ones too. I suppose we’ll never know.
@jhogguk True… but they studied this. While it did create a bad experience for some, it didn’t create AS bad of an experience as the advertising methods employed by other video websites. At the end of the day, if a video site can’t profit, it will have to eventually vanish. So, YouTube does what is necessary to stay alive, even if that means annoying some people. Other sites could try to be less annoying, but they also won’t survive long.
@wearealltubes No, but ads in the vid really are horrible and create a bad experience. Like Muttsy says up there, you’ll be less likely to come back to a site if you get a shit experience.
@wintogreen1 There would be a clear ethical issue there, so it would go against their stated company policy. Plus, when I think of awesome sites, i don’t think of pages with adsense on them, and google does want awesome sites to rank well!
@RohenQ Would you rather pay to have an ad free youtube?
Let’s not forget that the number of sites that can “rank well” is a constant! So it is imposible this number to increase. It will be just other sites investing in ads. So Google has nothing to lose.