Gloucester,
VA Local Government Using Local Business Tax Dollars To Kill Local
Businesses
GVLN
Press Release
July
17th, 2012
Gloucester,
VA. Local county government is flooding the local search engines
with a huge amount of pages from it's main site located at
www.gloucesterva.info. With a net effect of taking over the vast
majority of local search results. This is coming at a large cost to
local businesses with web sites and any other potential business
considering putting up a local web site as the sites are getting lost
in the search engine results.
A
business that yesterday may have been on the first page of a
Gloucester, VA search engine result may now find themselves way down
on the 5th or 6th
page of search results thanks to local government efforts to tie up
local search. This is just bad for local commerce. How can anyone
compete with a local government with such deep pockets all funded by
local tax dollars? Where one ranks in the search engine results can
make a huge difference in the amount of business one does in this
information age.
Expected
response from local government officials would be to say that it's an
honest mistake made as the county was only trying to make the
community aware of all the local government services available and
part of it's effort in a transparent government process. Gloucester,
VA Links and News thinks that there are other reasons for the county
flooding the search engines. An old SEO trick when the county comes
under attack with negative press is to flood out the results of that
press so that it has little to no effect on the county government.
Gloucester,
VA Links and News has been covering numerous negative news pieces
about Gloucester, VA official’s and various offices and believes
that this is the exact reason why the county government is flooding
the search engines.
Either way,
it's bad for local businesses as their sites keep getting pushed
further down the search engine results causing a net negative effect
in local commerce that helps fund the local government to begin with.
It's just a self defeating move on the part of the county.
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