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by jermier 2135 days ago
It's as if the author writes content to /please/ Google. There are other players in town that will spread my message wide, other than Google. Google is a single point of failure too. If most of your traffic relies on a black-box algo developed by Google, at some stage you are going to be butthurt by that algo. Others will celebrate their success at gaming Google's algo and getting good rankings consistently, but these people are mostly blackhat SEOs probably trying to peddle cialis with a cheap discount.
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> I don't write to please Google.

You can afford to do that if the website is not your primary source of income , not everyone has that luxury.

Online small and medium biz have to pay for their expenses , it is not for ad driven models either , organic traffic is significant source for people to purchase of your site. if your content is invisible to google for most sites that is a killing blow .