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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Sharing knowledge destroys the edge you have built up.
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No, it really doesn't. Because nothing posted in this thread hasn't already been posted on places like the Google Webmaster blog, SEO Roundtable, Search Engine Land etc.
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Anyone that good at SEO would be keeping it quiet and using it on his own sites. Or charging mainstream sites a lot of money to get them to the top rankings.
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One of my mainstream companies (my largest) does SEO for corporate clients, however nobody can guarantee rankings - anyone who does is not being honest. The best you can do for people is ensure they have the best chance at ranking - on page/site SEO is the place to begin.
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As for furthering innovation. What's the point if people give it away as soon as it's created?
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I'm not in the pay site business anymore. Sharing my observations on how sites are leaving opportunities on the table does nothing to depreciate or take away from my business.
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We destroyed the recorded porn industry by giving it away.
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The sharing society was happening long before porn got online and has grown exponentially over the years. People were sharing technical knowledge at computer clubs in the 1970s, people were sharing software they had written too.
The very same language upon which this site is built is open source and contributed to - see
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor - yet PHP has been used to build forum software, tube software, Facebook and countless other things. PHP being Open Source has not stopped Facebook from being a runaway success has it ?
A walled garden isn't everything you think it is, perhaps you should leave the walled garden and explore the universe ?