Was Google Hacked?

Reviewing some SEO work for one of our companies this morning I was surprised to see that last night (according to Google) we grew from about 20,000 pages of content cached to over 3,780,000,000.  What was more alarming was Google now showed under the search result a little note that said “this sight may harm your computer”.  The site was listed as a spam site!  I started to fire off a string of emails to get the technical team working on the problem, tried calling the CEO and then I noticed something even more alarming.

Organic Search, Seriously?

A brilliant friend of mine and V-fluence (leading interactive public relations firm) commented there is nothing organic about search anymore. Interesting comment, and an accurate one.

With the explosive increase of web sites, blogs and anything else you can think of to throw on the Internet, becoming visible in search is far from organic or natural.  In fact an entire industry has developed focused just on improving search visibility.