Macro - 3:33 pm on Feb 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

JustinPrefs, nice post.

Doesn't put food in the oven though

That's a large part of the problem Chelsea. I do sympathise with webmasters who *rely* on free traffic to put "food in the oven", but that doesn't mean I think that relying on free traffic is a good business plan.

Perhaps if they weren't any SEOs Google had to fight against, if they weren't millions of sites devoting a lot of resources to manipulating/influencing SERPS, if they weren't black hat/grey hat/dunce hat webmasters they had to cope with... then Google'd be able to do a better job of giving Joe Surfer the relevant results he seeks. And we'd all have less of the algo experimenting and tweaking that sometimes comes up with irrelevant results for everybody.