Is the Wikileaks scandal impacting SEO?

Michael Martinez of Seo-theory.com just did an articles about how he thinks all the distributed denial of service attacks on sites that stopped providing services for Wikilinks (Visa, MasterCard, and others) could harm SEO and internet sales.

I find his take on the matter a bit extreme. For example here are some of Michael’s main points:

The junk traffic from these attacks is slowing down the internet and this could affect site rankings.

Site loading speed is one of hundreds of factors and certainly a minor one at that. Also, I haven’t noticed any slowdown in my internet as Michael has and at any rate, this is only temporary. If for some reason it goes on and on, I’m sure Google can compensate their ranking factors to compensate.

The scandal is pulling people away from their normal search habbits of looking for things to buy and this will hurt December sales.

In reality, there’s always some big thing going on distracting people. The mass media makes sure of this, it’s how they stay in business.

This event will be the start of some apocalyptic demise of the small web host, innocent websites caught in the crossfire, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

The online group responsible for the attacks, Anonymous, is akin to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. Somehow I don’t see American/European teenagers running automated DDoS software on their laptops as having the attention span, much less the motivation to dedicate their lives to internet terrorism.

It’s an interesting read and has a Fox News, get you all incited with worst case scenarios vibe to it. Read the article and see what you think.

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