Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 10:02:37 GMT
Since I started publishing articles on SEO (or natural referencing ), some people have gotten into the habit of systematically criticizing my articles. It started in 2012 with a text published at the end of August 2012 on the former Locita blog. The article in question is no longer online, but the title was: “SEO is becoming more and more social, towards the end of technical SEO?”. 2 propositions in this title: on the one hand an assertion: SEO and social networks are increasingly linked and on the other hand a question: will SEO remain mainly technical (code, structure, architecture, incoming links, etc.) or will it evolve and integrate new know-how such as knowledge of social networks? I simply wrote that SEO was no longer a purely technical subject and that, to do it well, we would have to take into account the signs coming from social networks.
I was “lynched”, insulted throughout the day. I submitted my article to the editorial manager Email Data of the site and he published it one day when I was leading a training course. As a result, I wasn't connected and I took everything at once at the end of the day when I got back to the office. In the meantime, the site's editorial manager defended me. He never said that I was right or wrong, but that my argument was serious, reasoned and that it had its place on his site. Common points in all these interactions: criticism, insults (an anthology of all the rich diversity offered by the French language), anonymity (very courageous, therefore) and... no counter-argument, no step back, no attempt to elevate the debate or offer a different thought or approach. Some even went there with their articles: pages long enough to explain that I was “uneducated”, that I said “enormous nonsense which one wonders how my spine could support the weight of”, that I said “everything and anything”, that I was “stupid”, “mediocre”.
I found an extract from my article in the response I published in September 2012: “to be visible, a brand must have a strong presence, including outside its site. Social networks are increasingly taken into account by search engines. It is therefore necessary to enter into a conversation process to create or even improve your e-reputation.” Moreover, regarding the subject of SEO and social networks, we could read on the Moz blog (for those who don't know, it's an institution) on July 9, 2013, the article 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors where it is written : 1. Page Authority 2. Social signals especially Google +1 and Facebook shares… This article included a study on “strongest association with ranking highly in Google”. In fact, I mostly feel like I was right a little too soon.
I was “lynched”, insulted throughout the day. I submitted my article to the editorial manager Email Data of the site and he published it one day when I was leading a training course. As a result, I wasn't connected and I took everything at once at the end of the day when I got back to the office. In the meantime, the site's editorial manager defended me. He never said that I was right or wrong, but that my argument was serious, reasoned and that it had its place on his site. Common points in all these interactions: criticism, insults (an anthology of all the rich diversity offered by the French language), anonymity (very courageous, therefore) and... no counter-argument, no step back, no attempt to elevate the debate or offer a different thought or approach. Some even went there with their articles: pages long enough to explain that I was “uneducated”, that I said “enormous nonsense which one wonders how my spine could support the weight of”, that I said “everything and anything”, that I was “stupid”, “mediocre”.
I found an extract from my article in the response I published in September 2012: “to be visible, a brand must have a strong presence, including outside its site. Social networks are increasingly taken into account by search engines. It is therefore necessary to enter into a conversation process to create or even improve your e-reputation.” Moreover, regarding the subject of SEO and social networks, we could read on the Moz blog (for those who don't know, it's an institution) on July 9, 2013, the article 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors where it is written : 1. Page Authority 2. Social signals especially Google +1 and Facebook shares… This article included a study on “strongest association with ranking highly in Google”. In fact, I mostly feel like I was right a little too soon.