February 12th, 2009

Search engine optimization (SEO) has come up a few times in my internet and real-life travels over the past 24 hours, and I’d like to take this opportunity to say the following.

SEO is a joke. If your stuff is worth being visited, people will find it.

Addendum: If it was possible to circumvent what Google’s algorithm considers to be worthy of the first page of their search results, Google would eventually become worthless as a useful search engine. I’m fairly certain they’ll do their best to ensure this doesn’t happen. You cannot win versus The Google, puny human.

  1. stryker reblogged this from topherchris and added:
    I want to agree with this, but it’s just not true. At least not yet. I was employed for
  2. bryanboova reblogged this from topherchris
  3. kat-harine reblogged this from elliotttt and added:
    » agreed, idk what’s so0o0 funny about carrot top.
  4. elliotttt reblogged this from topherchris and added:
    Wow. I do agree that content is king. Good content will get found because nobody except Google knows exactly what’s in...
  5. beccawashere reblogged this from topherchris and added:
    I took a shot for every client that wanted their site...in “the google” for some...
  6. dawnowar reblogged this from topherchris and added:
    serious gripe of mine too. I hate it when buzzword spouting salesmen cheat me out of jobs by promising bullshit
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