<story><title>Robots.txt</title><url>http://explicitly.me/robots.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buster</author><text>Am i the only one who thinks that SEO is more a plague then it is a real profession? Google making it hard for SEO is exactly the right thing to do. Making it impossible for SEO should be the ultimate _goal_ of a good search engine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>homosaur</author><text>Depends what you mean.&lt;p&gt;If you mean people whose goal it is to help site owners learn how to structure their data intelligently for dissection by machines, people who make companies think very hard about their content, people who encourage high-quality crosslinks and meta tags, and people who generally help sites manage data, then no, SEOs are great. They help users and companies alike.&lt;p&gt;If you mean the dirtball black hats, then yes, they are a parasite that deserves no mercy and should be eliminated at all costs.</text></comment>
<story><title>Robots.txt</title><url>http://explicitly.me/robots.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buster</author><text>Am i the only one who thinks that SEO is more a plague then it is a real profession? Google making it hard for SEO is exactly the right thing to do. Making it impossible for SEO should be the ultimate _goal_ of a good search engine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Caligula</author><text>My opinion of google improved reading this article.  I equate the quality of Google&apos;s search as the inverse of the happiness of &quot;seo gurus&quot;.</text></comment>