Dilbert Features The Darker Side Of SEO

Jun 24, 2011 - 8:28 am 11 by
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Google Dilbert SEO cartoonWith all the mainstream news press of JC Penney, Overstock and Forbes using paid links and some darker methods of boosting their rankings in Google - Dilbert has decided to feature some best practice lessons in their past two cartoons.

Dilbert featured two cartoons on SEO & Google.

Yesterday there was a Dilbert on Black Hat SEO which read:

“I want you to use “black hat” methods to raise our website’s ranking on search engines.”

“What do you like best about that ideas – the fact that it’s unethical or the near certainty of getting caught?”

“That’s sort of a loserish thing to say.”

“Talking doesn’t work for people like me.”

Dilbert Black Hat SEO

And today there was a Dilbert on paid links which read:

Employee: “Google found out that we use fake links to boost our search rank.”

Employee: “Now our website only shows up when someone enters the search string “dung for brains.”"

Boss: “They won’t get away with this!”

Computer [aka Google]: “Shut your pie hole.”

Dilbert Google Paid Links

Good times for the SEO industry!

I believe the first person to notice these cartoons was Googler @pedrodias.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

 

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