• PC Magazine, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:15 PM

John C. Dvorak doesn't believe SEO works and provides a list of reasons why. His biggest gripe, based on how Google handles SEO, makes him think achieving the correct results would take a miracle.

In the post Dvorak presents problems and proposes solutions. Some of the topics he discusses range from page rankings and search results to user flagging. He suggests flagging parked sites the way you flag spam on a message board or an incorrect categorized post on craigslist. "The risk here is that creeps trying to shut down a specific site could swamp Google with false flags, so maintaining integrity would be difficult," he writes. "People with their own agendas have already infiltrated and controlled aspects of craigslist and Wikipedia, unfortunately."

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