Comments on: Link roundup 30.07.07 http://dottourism.com/blog/2007/07/30/link-roundup-300707/ Online and destination marketing for travel and tourism Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:12:27 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Adam C http://dottourism.com/blog/2007/07/30/link-roundup-300707/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 Adam C Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:56:28 +0000 http://dottourism.com/blog/2007/07/30/link-roundup-300707/#comment-1759 Reading that Q & A on TravelMole, I was pretty surprised by both the questions and answers given. >the internet being a level playing field...? In 2007, no way. Especially in terms of SEO. In the past good SEO could produce results for any business or website. However these days large, established businesses have a massive head start, having naturally acrued the type of high-quality links that massively influence Google and that smaller businesses struggle to get these days, unless they are particularly remarkable businesses in their own right. I'm surprised Latitude didn't pick up on that point. But then again, the article was plugging their SME service. Reading that Q & A on TravelMole, I was pretty surprised by both the questions and answers given.

>the internet being a level playing field…?

In 2007, no way. Especially in terms of SEO. In the past good SEO could produce results for any business or website. However these days large, established businesses have a massive head start, having naturally acrued the type of high-quality links that massively influence Google and that smaller businesses struggle to get these days, unless they are particularly remarkable businesses in their own right.

I’m surprised Latitude didn’t pick up on that point. But then again, the article was plugging their SME service.

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