Jon Todd » Search http://www.jontodd.com Optimal Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:33:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google SEO is ruining the internet http://www.jontodd.com/2006/07/25/google-seo-is-ruining-the-internet/ http://www.jontodd.com/2006/07/25/google-seo-is-ruining-the-internet/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:23:36 +0000 Jon Todd http://www.jontodd.com/2006/07/25/google-seo-is-ruining-the-internet/ If you’re anything like me, you use the google search box more than the URL box to navigate the internet. Heck, I even check my spelling of a word with it. Google really is amazing in many ways but if you think of its role on the internet, well its almost God!

Type in some random words and google decides what to show you based on some very complex algorithms. Most of the time it does a pretty good job however as people realize that google 0wnz the internet, they start to design the internet around google.

I’ve been investigating world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or in lay terms “how to make web pages show up higher on google search results” and came across this interesting article on the aforementioned issue:

“Any time Google tweaks its algorithms, it sends SEOs scurrying to figure out what’s going on. The latest tweaks are no exception, even though they don’t affect Google’s organic search results. If you have a pay-per-click campaign going, though, you’ll want to keep reading.” – read more here

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