SOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act, is a bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.
Though it is a good bill where many corporations across the world, particularly the dominating businesses in different sectors such as in the music industry, movie industry, software industry, and many others, can largely benefit from, smaller businesses and even a number of Internet Marketing techniques will be largely affected by SOPA. One of those is SEO or Search Engine Optimization.
Fears Many SEO experts, specialists, managers, and most particularly writers fears that the SEO industry will fall once SOPA has been passed. The reason why is because most techniques used in any SEO campaign makes of websites which SOPA are targeting to put down.
Affected Techniques
Article Marketing, Blogging, and Blog Commenting, Press Releases Some of those techniques which will be affected include article marketing, blogging, blog commenting, and the use of press release or PR sites. The reason why is because the websites which are used for these techniques are the kinds of websites that SOPA are aiming to put down, such as blogs, article directories, and PR sites.
According to many seo Philippines experts, websites that has the capability which can be used for infringing, even though there are no evidence of such use in a website, are prone to be banned within the US. And if its servers are found within the law’s jurisdiction, which is all over the US, those said websites will be closed down.
Forum Posting, Social Networking, and Social Bookmarking Similar to article marketing, blogging, and blog commenting, the use of forum posting, social networking, and social bookmarking, may also be affected once SOPA has been made a law.
Similar to article directories and blogs, forums, social networking sites such as Facebook, and social bookmarking sites such as Digg, can also be classified as infringing websites which allows its users the capability to share copyrighted information all over the World Wide Web, and because of this, many SEO experts, including those from seo services Philippines companies, fears that SEO as an Internet Marketing technique will finally stop.
Hope for SEO Websites affected by SOPA are those that are found in places where the US has jurisdiction. They could ban a website within the US if they find it infringing, but other countries can still access these websites for their use.
Though it will affect greatly, particularly because SEO’s major market comes from the US, SEO can still survive through other western countries that the US has no jurisdiction, such as in Canada and in Australia.
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