“Too much work”, that was about the first message I got from someone who I was chatting with today. So I asked him what he was doing and he replied “deleting links”. And that reminded me of the ten or twenty e-mails I get every day in my mailbox from SEO companies trying to sell me SEO services. And while writing this it reminds me of the one hundred plus spam type e-mails I get every day. So my reaction was something like “that would be a hard job for me as first (your company) has put the links (and was paid for it) and now you are deleting them (and your company gets paid for it)” as I don’t see much value in following all the Google updates that would make SEO needs different. And my reaction was also something like, can’t we do something more for Inspiration for Success, this website, the project to inspire people, to bring more inspiration to the world. And the reply was something like, yes, but I’m too busy (earning my daily bread) and I don’t have time for that.
And this whole thing made me a bit sad, as many people are being paid for work that doesn’t add anything, doesn’t add any value to the life of people, like building cars or TV’s or even growing food.
But later on I thought a bit further, as today I was quite busy with work (also) and was very happy with that as I’ve not been that busy for quite some time as I couldn’t find enough work, couldn’t fint customers to serve, people to serve (business wise). To thinking further I asked myself if what i was doing, what I am doing is so much different from what my friend was doing. As these new jobs are also related to SEO and related to ‘selling’, to ‘advertising’. And while thinking now I am quite often working on pages, on websites where the main purpose or even the sole purpose is SEO. And one of my jobs of today was finding content writers to write articles where the only purpose of the articles is to create a quality link to the site of one of my customers.
So what I was working on today, what I am working on most of the time may not be that different of what my friend was doing, is doing. So yes, I started to ask myself if what I was doing is really different and why. As I presume I’m doing quality work, quality link building. But it may not be that different after all.
So let’s think if what we are doing is really useful, really adding something for the benefit of people, either ourselves or other people.