I visit a lot of webmaster forums and visit blogs about SEO as well as write some blogs of my own about SEO, Article Marketing, and Blogging. I learn a lot by visiting other people’s blogs and forums and learn a lot by sharing that information with others.
But one thing bothers me about what I read on most forums and blogs. People are obsessed with Google. There are forums where they refer to Google as just “g” because they seem to be afraid someone at Google might read their post and not like it.
This Google obsession borders on lunacy. Webmasters seem to be convinced that without a good ranking in Google and without Googles seal of approval, page rank, they cannot be successful on the web.
Let’s think about that for a moment. If Google folded tomorrow, not likely, but if they did, suddenly they just weren’t there. http://Google.com did not resolve, page cannot be displayed, what would you do?
Would it be like the stock market crash of the 30’s? Would webmasters be jumping off buildings? Would everyone just stop doing business on the web because Google was gone? Would the forums be full of grieving webmasters with...