Is it time for an SEO revolt?

[The Buzz]

Over in Search Engine Journal, they're open discussing whether it's time for webmasters to revolt against Google. The basic gist of the argument is that paid and sponsored search results are kicking out organic results, and webmasters need to diversify. It's an interesting argument, but Buzzy isn't sure how much traction it's going to get.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/s...-google/66425/

[Doolally]

Great in theory but the masses will still use Google, paid ads in premium spots or not. Until the service Google provides deteriorates or someone comes up with a better search engine then things will only get worse.

[universal4]

Funny isn't it....and webmasters and their fascination with that stupid little green bar is what made Google.

Sure it helped that back in the early days they actually worked toward valid results, and for many years provided that, but I figured this day would come....

What's even more ironic to me is that back in the early days Microsoft was the big mean company that everyone wanted to go after for having a monopoly, and if it wasn't for Microsoft, Google would have almost NO COMPETITION whatsoever. Granted Bing isn't the competition Google should face, but at least it is some.

It's OUR FAULT, we never search for things, nor do we tell people to search for things, we tell them "Just google it".

Are we now willing to now start saying, "Just Bing it"?

Rick
Universal4

[thebookiesoffers]

google still provides me with what I want when Im searching so have no interest in using another service. It makes me laugh that the majority of people that I have heard moaning about google are webmasters that aren't performing how they would like.

even before I had a website or interest in the search engines I never clicked the ads anyway

[xecutable]

And they started with a quote, that a search engine serving ads would always have the interest of the advertiser, rather than the user. A few years later, Adword shows up and that moto was forgotten forever.

[ujjwal]

I think things might go in paid advertising direction and then stabilise after having a cut in traffic going to organic results.this might happen as advertisers become adept at both being relevant to most search queries and at the same time able to extract good roi.

[slotplayer]

Enjoy organic traffic while you can because it will eventually be all paid inclusion.

[edgarf76]

things go in cycles I do not think anyone can really predict where SEO is headed in the future IMO. The reason I say that is because of all of the drastic changes. For instance if Bing gets a much larger market share, then google may stop doing spam algo's. Changing things like that may drive people to Bing and I would not underestimate Bill Gates and whatever the next internet craze is and the next "internet geniuses".

[Doolally]

Enjoy organic traffic while you can because it will eventually be all paid inclusion.

I don't disagree with you, however, if everything changes to paid inclusion then quality generally deteriorates too. Less quality, less people clicking your links making you money. Google have to play a pretty tight balancing act and I suspect natural results will always have to be a part of that.

[RacingJim]

Never underestimate the public though, most people I know realise that the paid ads are just advertisements and go for the organic results first, it's only people less savvy on the net who fall for it. The day that paid adverts becomes the basis of a search engines results is the day people will move to another search engine.

Same with things like Facebook, fair enough, feed me a few targeted ads if you have to, but if they ever tried to make the whole thing a paid service people would move on to the next thing. Google just has to keep striking the balance.

[NorwegianViking]

Theoretically I am all for it, but I think a SEO revolt won't really work, and would be very hard to pull of in reality. But I guess any initiative in this direction is good, maybe then we'll eventually get close to having an impact of some kind on Google one day? But I think that day is far, far away...