Idealistic Google

[jg_v7n]

Google likes to encourage natural linking and discourages pretty much all artificial linking.

This being the case, I guess that the ideal internet in their eyes would be a totally organic internet whereby you create a site, and do nothing at all about links and allow purely organic inbound link growth.

If we went back to the very start, say with 1000 sites, and assumed that only natural linking occured, how different would the internet be today?

[kwvarga]

not sure, itd be blurred

there would not be clear cut best websites, etc.

but in same line, there would not be as much spam/marketing crap that floats around..

[John Scott]

I'd say 99% of the webpages on the Internet are commercial - for profit - and Google ought to know that, insofar as they are one of the biggest commercial websites on the Internet.

[MacroChap]

I suspect the internet would be a pile of garbage if we relied purely on Natural Linking. Not in the quality sense, but certainly in the quantity sense. Fools aside, it is the people out there putting hours of effort into getting their sites well ranked that also spend a lot of time creating quality content and resources to give people what they want.

I started with a very amateurish website providing purely sales content in a fairly niche market. My limited success in gaining exposure "unnaturally" allowed me to gradually develop a website that now attracts over 1.4million genuine visitors a year, not big by some standards, but fantastic by our own. The current incarnation of our site is a highly useful and valued resource within our market. We are now receiving natural links, as testimony to our efforts, but had we failed, the website would have gradually vanished.

Where would I be if I had to wait for natural linking to get me where I wanted to go? Maybe serving McD****d's burgers to people who can ill afford to be eating them. The internet would then be a fractionally less rich resource for the lack of my site. Multiply that by the number of good websites that have followed a similar journey, and you have your answer.

[jg_v7n]

Originally Posted by MacroChap

Fools aside, it is the people out there putting hours of effort into getting their sites well ranked that also spend a lot of time creating quality content and resources to give people what they want.

MacroChap very good point, all round nice post.