Your post is interesting, does it mean you do not aim to be on page one in search engines for fear of what you outlined above?

What you are saying is not about seo, it is about the human nature I suppose. The envy has been a decisive catalyst of our human history. If you exceed from the crowd, you need to get ready to protect your position.

Otherwise it is a pitty that this thread has been started at almost every webmaster forum.

Yeah it's natural because every thing has it's advantages as well as disadvantages ,.

Originally Posted by jingwen

Why we use seo with our web? I think all of us want our web is the number one on the search engines.But is it good?
Yes, it could have high traffic,and you can earn more money .
But did you think is it have any disadvantage?
1. There will be more people copying your content.
2. There will be competitors trying to use various methods trap you.
3. Will attract the attention of search engines, will be artificially blocked your site.
4. Some people will be on your optimization technology, and then imitate you, kill you.
So we could not cling to the number,we'd better abundance our content,only we do that,though we have no good number on search engine,we also could earn more money online.

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Very odd logic. Any business will benefit from more visitors by being ranked number one compared with being ranked number 5 for example.

Point 1 - Yes, but people may copy your content whether you are number 1 or not.

Point 2 - I am perfectly happy in the knowledge that competitors are spending time attempting to 'trap me' whatever that means.

Point 3 - You'll only be 'blocked' (you mean a manual penalty) if your site has gained the number 1 spot through dubious means.

Point 4 - Again. let them spend time on this while I spend time serving customers/developing new services.

I am number 1 for 'google expert' on google,

have I had death threats? YES, but because of my rugby forum
Have i been penalised NO as I am white hat.
Have I had my content copied? YES all the damn time

is it worth it? YES as I have bragging rights, and it got me on the BBC

Yes, It is good for me. It is not easy to stay number one in Google and you can done it than you make a brand identity.

Well I am #1 for google expert for a search on google.co.uk (keep in mind that results are now geo located, so outside the Uk you might get different results).

Originally Posted by jingwen

Why we use seo with our web? I think all of us want our web is the number one on the search engines.But is it good?
Yes, it could have high traffic,and you can earn more money .
But did you think is it have any disadvantage?
1. There will be more people copying your content.
2. There will be competitors trying to use various methods trap you.
3. Will attract the attention of search engines, will be artificially blocked your site.
4. Some people will be on your optimization technology, and then imitate you, kill you.
So we could not cling to the number,we'd better abundance our content,only we do that,though we have no good number on search engine,we also could earn more money online.

your web is the number one on the search engines it is really good thing, dont affreid of your compititor, seo having more competitive market.so try to do better than your competitor