Haven’t posted anything here in a long time. Not for lack of things to say, but for lack of time to sit and compose a sensible post.
Kind of hard when most of what I want to say is mostly out of sheer frustration. It might come through as nasty and spiteful. Plus it would clash with some of my earlier rants.
But here it is: I am growing increasingly impatient with some people in the Google Webmaster group.
Those who drive me bonkers there are in 2 flavors: the ones displaying childish tantrums of denial of responsibility (and lash out at me and my posts) and those outright idiotically vicious (who are so incensed by my posts that they’ll resort to insults and personal attacks, as the only thing that morons can articulate).
I won’t name names. But I have to vent and my own blog is exactly that, crawled or not by Google et al.
Of course the disputes always revolve around any and all of my posts after I’ve spent time analyzing somebody’s website in a bid to have whatever problems may be that result in the site not getting indexed or getting penalized by Google.
You’d think it would be appreciated, wouldn’t you, when you’re told what is wrong? Well some do but a few are totally in denial and refuse to acknowledge the problem is on their end. They prefer to think Google is playing favorites, the high tide or moon phase must be interfering and would rather do a rain dance than fix what I point out needs fixing.
Heck, I’m not alone in applying the same elementary methods – but I seem to draw the most ire from some of those misguided folks for my diagnoses. And the 2 or 3 fools who resort to hurling insults my way, no matter what I said and in response to whose post, are positively psychos in my view.
So why am I anathema?
Why, only because I advocate using the w3 validators to find problems on a website. Sheesh, you’d think they’d be thankful for knowing that they have an actual damn problem which can actually be fixed, rather than being told that they need to perform incantations and offer sacrifices to Google .. or sell their soul .. or buy links … or whatever else.
It seems that some people think too highly of themselves to allow the possibility of having produced something that’s built on a shaky foundation.
Some years ago I called a technician from my cable company because I had very poor TV reception. Instead of testing and repairing the wiring, he conned me into buying a new TV…. that’s how silly I was. It took several attempts after that to convince them the cable was still rotted and no amount of me using better and pricier tv’s would change that fundamental problem.
Anyway, since I can’t name names, nor will I bother to point to threads as examples to substantiate what I’m griping about, LOL, the point is moot for the time being at least.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
