I made a thread <12 hours ago about the
problem with internet forums, and one of those problems I highlighted was the gross spreading is misinformation.
That WF thread, and indeed some here on BHW, are prime examples of misinformation being perpetuated as truth -
whoever said it's a 30 day delay? Nobody knows how long the delay is, and how it works.
It's irresponsible and foolish to suggest it's a 30 day delay.
Completely agree. There is 1 theory in psychology that I take very seriously and it's called "confirmation bias" which forums are LITTERED with.
Like 1 person posts something, a few people agree, then you fast forward a month and thousands of people have hopped on the bandwagon.
This thread is confirmation bias at it's best. There is no significant statistical evidence of anything but everyone's trying to prove their own hunch.
I even get caught into this bs myself. For all we know, this update could have been rolled out in January and people are just noticing it now.
It's sad because people come to forums to get answers. But lately I've leaving BHW and WF with 1000xs more questions than when I arrived.
There are only 2 things I can really say for a fact right now -
1) YT has slaughtered the retention view market place which has obliterated the incomes and livelihoods of thousands and thousands of rookie
and amateur video marketers. People who don't know much of anything about SEO in the first place. And now these people are flocking over to
website SEO in hoards, desperate as all hell to find new and working methods.
2) Google has *allegedly* made some changes to SEO. Nobody really knows
what those changes are,
when they were actually implemented,
whether these reported changes are the results of 1 update or a
series of updates.... but at the same time people have 0 reservations in
guessing what's going on and finding their own flawed and insignificant anecdotal evidence to support these popular trends.
Right now, to me, this thread is nothing but a trend.
And it's a very DISTRACTING trend.
It's causing people to seek out answers that don't exist. It's distracting people from work. It's robbing forums of quality threads.
The IM journey section has went to shit. Like 6 months ago there were a lot of active threads with people making money, now there is very little
if anything happening there.
The SEO forums have been cluttered with conspiracies and rumors.
I really think it's time to ban myself from WF and BHW for 30 days. Just to clear my head and get back to what I should be doing which is work.
-BB
