Is Michael Gray from wolf-howl.com a crybaby?
Michael Gray runs a popular SEO blog called wolf-howl.com, and it is assumed by most of his readers that he is an expert at SEO as well as a sane, rational individual. But has it ever occurred to anybody that he is a crybaby and possibly a noob? Probably not, until Ned stopped by his site and uncovered numerous morsels of noobishness, idiocy, and hilarity.
For example, here is a recent tear jerking article by wolf-howl regarding google supposedly punishing ‘innocent’ webmasters for selling links. By the time I finished reading it I had to reach for a tissue because how dare google penalize webmasters for trying to facilitate link spam. The audacity! Seriously though, this article was so pathetic I almost burst into laughter. He writes:
“…are you going to let Google bully you into doing things that are in Google’s best interests and not your own, and how long are you willing to take it? … Google may tell you it’s all about creating a higher quality web, but if that was the case the Adwords quality score would disable your ads, not turn a blind eye if you are willing to overpay $5 or $10 a click.”
Google has made it abundantly clear though their SEO spokesperson, Matt Cutts, that they are cracking down on sites that sell links and or advertising without using a rel ‘no follow’ attribute. Either you play by google’s rules or face the consequences; it has noting to do with google being a ‘bully’.
Michael goes on to write:
That status quo is Google being the the leader in mind and market share of the search space, and reaping advertising revenue that goes along with that.
Google has one goal, ruling the internet in an unchallenged top-down dictatorial manner. If you stand up for yourself and challenge them, they will do everything in their power to smack you down, until you submit to their will.
The irony is that wolf-howl has adsense ads so while Michael may oppose google’s conspiracy of trying to force webmasters into using overpriced Adwords ads he still can’t resist the revenue adsense brings in, which is actually dependent on Adwords advertisers. If adwords advertisers stopped paying adsense revenues would consequently fall, which would be devastating for webmasters dependent on adsense. More importantly, isn’t wolf abetting google’s dominance, which he claims to detest, by running the ads? Wouldn’t this make him a hypocrite? On one hand he wants the revenue that comes with Google Adsense, but he wants to play by his own rules with regard to links, which is akin to the mindset of a five year old. What a crybaby and a flooz. Maybe he should go on Opera and give his sob story about how the big goo is cracking down on those big, ugly, square text link ads and being unfair. I’m sure he’ll find plenty of emotional support there from equally dull minded individuals.