Supposedly a Twink Site has been banned from the Google Index, and it has some people scared. Well one anyhow. The thing is this, SO?

Seriously, Google is a business, like any other business. It provides a service to it’s customers, and because it has a large number of customers, some have the notion that it is there to help them make money off Google’s back. It is a relationship that is interesting, because while we all want our share of the pie, the fact is, Google Exists for it’s own interests, not ours.

YES, our sites help power that index, but hey, it is OUR CHOICE. Seriously, if we don’t like how Google is conducting its business, we can simply block it’s spider, put ‘no index/no follow’ right up front, put a disallow in our robots file and not bother with Google. After all, there is Yahoo, MSN, ASK, and a host of other Search Engines out there, but WE CHOOSE TO INCLUDE GOOGLE.

This sense of Entitlement is bizarre. Google has its rules, like any other business does. WE HAVE OUR RULES TOO! I mean how many sponsors will allow a member to share their password with their friends or for everyone on the internet to use? WE CANCEL THEM, DON’T WE?

Yet everyday, on virtually every webmaster board, someone is bitching about Google, as if Google is their personal window to mega money. They Bitch about the rules, try to find ways to short circuit those rules, then when they get caught, they run in a panic, claiming they are being Censored. Course they aren’t writing letters to their Senators or Congressperson to argue against Patriot Acts I&II or about GItmo or even about how the Government uses TORTURE. But they sure do WHINE when Google makes a decision.

If those running Google think a site is not suited, that is their right, just as it is our right to disagree, or say that age limits are wrong. Just as we determine which credit processor to use, or drop, which affiliate to drop for too many emails, it is a business choice we make. Just as Google does.

IT IS THEIR BUSINESS

Some of us will refuse to sign up for sponsors who promote Scat, or Piss, because it is too risky. Others will ignore the BDSM type sites, and some will ignore the BEAR sites, because, it is something WE DO NOT WANT.  After all, it is OUR SITES, so we are entitled to do as we please, to make our income.

WHY DO WE THINK GOOGLE SHOULD BE DIFFERENT?

Posted on July 6th, 2008 by No Bull
Filed under: SEO Mysteries & Myths