Anyone in business is constantly battling for results: more customers, more sales, more profit. And more profit. Naturally, humans with such tasks are under severe pressure and use many ways to achieve the results.
However, not all the ways to make money [online] are helpful, useful and valuable to customers. In fact, they can be categorized in short term (low value) and long term (high value) methods.
So the people, who are pressed for results, may strand for the short term ones, narrowing their view of the picture and allowing minute interests spoil the overall endeavour.