I was reading through some of the comments over on Bruce Clay’s blog and a couple things hit me. One was by Brian. Brain was saying that if the
SEO industry does not come out with standards the U.S government would. A lot of work in the U.S is already being outsourced to other countries due to the government’s involvement in how one runs their business. And I am not sure that the U.S government would even be able to enforce such standards but it would take a lot of U.S companies out of the game.
If the U.S put standards on the
SEO companies they would put junk in that would cause U.S companies to raise their prices and they would no longer be able to compete on the internet.
But the best reason for not doing it came from Kalena. She claims the industry needs standards because there are too many people loading up blogs with nonsense about "rel='nofollow'" and sculpting PageRank.
I don’t want to get into a debate about sculpting PageRank but can you imagine how long it would take the U.S government to decide rather something like sculpting PageRank was good or not. It would take U.S companies years before they would be able to get into something new because they would be waiting on a government organization to decide rather what they were doing was good or not.