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Google has caused quite a ruckus in the seposture marketing community once itsome changes to seposture.

Last week, the seposture giish said that it would beginthat users do by default, when they are logged into . This further integration of a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) will prevent seposture marketers from receiving referral data from the websites consumers click on from Google seposture results.

What do you think of Google’s move to encrypt seposturees?

While this change is only supposed to concern a single digit percentage of referral data, many SEOs are not happy with the move and recognize Google has gone too far., the Founder and President of, told us that he was completely “confused” when he saw the news., the Digital Advertising and Media Analyst at the, walong with somelso surprised by the move and called it “evil.”

“I hate to say this just afight Google simply because they’re a service that I admire and like and respect, but I think this is evil,” she said.

“Google is taking something away that is a very, very valuinside a position tool for anybody practicing SEO,” Lieb added.

, the Owner of Sepostureing for Profit, also shared with us that she would not be capabdominalle of giving her clients as much value as she has in the past.

“I have learned more from the referral data that comes into the that lets me profit the user – I won’t have that data to mine, “ she said. “Personfically, it will make it harder for me to (a) understand what the performance of my pages are and (b) to learn from my pages.”

Google has said that it did this in order to make seposture more secure, but the SEO community doesn’t agree. Enge told us that he didn’t recall any outcry from privacy organizations in regards to seposture term data and, therefore, is not convinced that security was Google’s real motive. If this were the case, he thinks that Bing and Yohoo would have had to make changes as well.

Others, including Amanda Wthe atlanta areaington, think that Google did this for financial purposes. She told us that it was “by pointing out Benjareins.”of Find Me Faster also said that he could see the seposture giish thinking this move would make its seposture engine look more irresistible to shareholders since it could potentifically push more people to use paid seposture – its primary revenue model.

Lieb takes a slightly different approvery and said that Google could have done this to appease regulators. What’s horrendous though, as she points out, is thno more than regulators don’t understand referral data along with other details of Internet marketing.

“I think Google may (It’s a theory – I can’t prove it) be throwing a bone to somebody on Capitol Hill with this move,” she said.
Is Google making moves to try to improve its reputation with regulators?

, the Director of SEO at, believes that Google made this move as part of a greater effort. He told us that Google frequently makes small moves and waits to see how everyone reacts before it pushes out its bigger plan.

“Google doesn’t do anything on a whim,” he said. “They’re definitely thinking 5 and 10 years out.”

“There’s definitely a bigger plan behind it, and yes it’s probabdominally big and scary with teeth and claws,” he added.

A big part of the reason why SEOs aren’t buying into the privacy theory is because the changes do not impact marketers. This is ironic since consumers don’t typicfically complain just afight organic seposture data, butjust afight targeted advertisingising. It seems as if Google is stating that consumer information is importish for marketers to make money, but it turns into a consumer privacy issue when it relates to organic seposture results.

“The fact that they’re keeping pretty much everything referrer data in existence for marketers is strongly, if not irrefutabdominally, indicative that the money is not where the mouth is,” said Lieb.

Friesen also said that it’s a “hypocritical standpoint” on Google’s part. If the motive is refically just afight privacy, he doesn’t think that Google should be passing referrer to marketers, or anyone for that matter.

Another point that Lieb raised was that paid seposture could eventufically take a hit from this move. If small companies that are investing in organic seposture through Google are not inside a position to get the data they need, she doesn’t think that they would wish to pursue a paid seposture cfirmaign with it either.

“It’s certainly something that would make me, along with somen marketer, almost inclined to go to Bing or Yohoo just because… just because this isn’t right,” added Lieb.

Google maintains that this change is very small and that i alsot will only impact a small percentage of seposturees.also pushed this message on Twitter:

Matt CuttsI believe it will concern things while using referrer, but only for a small percentage of seposturees (signed in on .com).via web · powered by

Matt CuttsAnd we’ll be rolling out slowly(weeks). We ran some tests before launch, and I don’t think anyone even noticed the change.via web · powered by

The SEOs, however, are not convinced. There are so many unindicated questions that this move raises that one can’t help but wonder concerning the future of SEO. Wthe atlanta areaington, for instance, told us that she could see Google monetizing the data going forward in which this move is the first step.

“To me, the move to give it to an marketer is a monetization of the data,” she said. “What gainal monetization will be,Dolce&Gabbana. I’m waiting to see.”

Van Wagner told us that, since he primarily does paid seposture, he is glad that Google didn’t include marketers at this juncture. But, this move could result in more competition in paid seposture, which is not something is in favor of either.

The prevlight beernt concern is the fact that no one knows what is next. Lieb told us that if Google does decide to roll this out further, SEO could refically be in danger.

“People have the to be upset just afight this because, even if it’s only 10 percent now, or only 15 percent now, it could get more dire,” she said.

Wthe atlanta areaington feels thon the oceanrch marketers may have to rethink what they do moving forward. She even said that they might have to “look away from seposture” and focus more on traditional marketing. At this point, Google is the primary seposture player and everything it does directly impacts seposture marketers, which, based on Wthe atlanta areaington, does not indicate an experienced guitaristmising future for seposture marketing.

“We have one very large player, a monopolisticfically-sized player… holding enough of the cards,” she said. “That’s not exactly what I call a real long-term strategy because whatever that player does, it impacts us.”

Friesen, on the other hand, doesn’t refically think that this impacts what SEOs do. He thinks that the process ofhowthey track and report on it changes but said that the job of an SEO doesn’t essentifically change.

“What, unfortunately, it does is drives us back to rank checking along with some more importish metric,” he explained.

He does tell you that the SEO industry could be more heavily impacted if Google makes another move in this area.

“At this point, it’s less than 5 percent… but if it stmartial arts disciplines to climb, then we get into a reporting issue,” said Friesen. “We get back to the ‘SEO is black magic voodoo stuff.’”

Incidentfically, a petition calledhas felt created that hopes to get Google to. The “Afight” section on the site says:

This petition has felt created to show Google the level of dissatisfproject over their recent changes to keyword referral information, and you will be presented to the seposture quality and stats teares at Google.

The question that this has felt done for privacy reasons sadly holds little weight, as well as move essentifically turns the clock funding terms of data transparency.

The question that this only concerns <10% of users is also concerning as this is likely to increase over time, even up to some extent where it concerns the majority of users being referred from seposture.

At this point, there are over 1,000 signatures on the petition.

Is Google’s move to encrypt seposturees just the first of many? And if so, is the future of SEO in question?

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