potatoDie Web Development Scrapbook
Assorted thoughts about web development
To hell with SEO-motivated content
It is ridiculous to write website content motivated by search engine optimization (SEO) issues. The motivation to inform, interest or convince people is enough! Lacking this motivation, why write at all?
The search engine makers have to sort it out for us. How can we help?
At first I thought social media’s Likes and Thumb-up‘s could help search engines a bit. Then I imagined, if SE would pay attention to these, soon Like Farms would emerge, providing Likes for money. People would earn a living ‘Liking’ webpages, clicking all day cheerfully on selected buttons…
Maybe we can help by not confusing the search engine and just write like we normally would. Then the search engines could come up with a kind of Turing test, to separate the engine pleasers to the righteous men. Without that confusion, they could evolve much faster!
