Internet Business

I started out learning about SEO through link building for companies that recruited bloggers to do so. I had no idea that their was anything about it that was in any way unethical when I started doing it. I was told that writing posts and linking to pages was the way that SEO was done, and I invested a lot of effort into doing that.

Suddenly, a year and half ago or so, all of my blogs were reduced to less than zero by Google, and I of course researched it all and found out that I was a bad guy all of a sudden. My income essentially came to a screeching halt, and that was bad. But I also felt sad and hurt, because to me, I had been just doing an earnest and diligent jog touting my clients and linking to their products and services, just like every magazine, radio station, and TV network does.

All this really does is make well financed enterprises more powerful and make it harder for the "little guy" to survive. Not just the blogger, but the small companies that they (we) were supporting. If you have unlimited funding, you will get unlimited links anyway.

I am just writing this because I'm revisiting this blog, and I used to care about it and I did some good work on it. Now it has been largely dormant for a long while, and I have to wonder if the 'net wasn't a little bit better when Life In Vegas had life. It wasn't much, but there was energy, sincere effort, love, hope, and humor invested into it.

Anyway...disappointment is synonymous with life, right?