Anonymous

Stow, OH

Interactive Media Developer.

BMW didn't "optimize" their site for Google. They made a blatent portal page with extra keywords and content to appear as another site with a lot of good content when all it did was take you to the actual page.

Even though I am a designer/developer, I'll risk saying this anyway. SEO is a scam in a lot of ways if it's about manipulating code for nothing but good rank. I've seen and done plenty of tests and found that most often, the best results are obtained when you just make well formed pages with GOOD content.

Is it fair to be sandboxed for "optimizing" for Google? Yes. Would you feel manipulated if you found out that Coke and Pepsi were owned by the same person. They use tactics that put up false pages to do nothing but unfairly push themselves high on the list than they should be.