SEO Practitioners who sell MY Knowledge suck!
By JVRudnick | March 15, 2010
We still do the “forum” thingy, eh! You know where you go to a forum for years and work hard at establishing both credibility and reputation as you pass along what you know for free. Programming forums, SEO forums – whatever…you work hard at trying to help newbies and juniors to climb the ranks of [...]
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How You Know When Your Client Isn’t Really Interested In SEO
By Nickfb76 | March 15, 2010
Everybody loves the idea of search engine optimization. Who wouldn’t want to rank number one for niche related keywords in Bing, Yahoo, and the grand daddy of them all Google!? It’s an easy concept to understand, rank at the top and rake in all the money. Yes it’s a very simplified analogy but this is [...]
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The Hit & Run Snakeoil Salesmen Are Back
By Goosh | March 3, 2010
I thought this tactic had long since died but it has reared its ugly head again – the “SEO” Cold Call Lie.
You know how it goes:
Salesman: Hi Sir, I’m calling today about your website
Owner: Oh, yes?
Salesman: How would you like to put your website in front of thousands of potential visitors every day?
Owner: Why, that [...]
Topics: Business Bullshit, Snake Oil | Comments
SEO myths & crap; LSI and Google
By theGypsy | February 24, 2010
Hiya kids… today we’re talking some bullshit of the highest order; a situation that almost epitomizes the misinformation that hounds the SEO world. This one is a long standing oddity that I’ve personally gone off on in the past. (most recently here)
To make a long and redundant story short (I [...]
Topics: Myths and Crap, Snake Oil | Comments
Being an SEO Pisses People Off – FACT!
By Goosh | February 22, 2010
On many occasions when I take on a new client I have to introduce myself to the other specialists involved in the contract: the web developers. We don’t build websites ourselves as we like to specialise on the SEO and results. Unfortunately, due to this stance, the introduction can go either one of two ways…
As [...]
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Thank you nurse but I’ll take over from here
By thehodge | February 18, 2010
Update, Web Creation UK have commented on the post and said they will be removing the blog and apologised,
Wow… Am quite shocked / pleased to have found this! Darren is simply an employee at WebCreationUK and no idea how he managed to get his link on the foot of our site and we are most [...]
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Facebook Surpasses Google… But Really?
By EricWerner | February 17, 2010
There has been a significant amount of activity around this article citing compete.com’s research suggesting that Facebook has surpassed Google in terms of their very scientific “Directs more users to online hubs like Yahoo and MSN” metric.
Really?
The way that info was framed in these articles seems pretty fishy, “top source for traffic to major portals [...]
Topics: Non-SEO BS | Comments
Google’s Epic Losing Streak
By SEO Mofo | February 15, 2010
Hey Google…
Can I ask you something?
What. the fuck. are you. DOING?
Seriously…you are releasing so many SHITTY products in such rapid succession, I don’t even have time to wrap my head around them before you’re already blowing my mind with your next epic failure. Look at this:
9/23/2009 – Google Sidewiki: Great news, everyone! Now ANYBODY can [...]
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SEO myths and crap; submitting to search engines
By theGypsy | February 11, 2010
A few week’s ago I put a shout out on Twitter for a Poll; What SEO myth’s/crap pisses you of the most? And as often can happen with Twitter I received more responses than I could actually use. Now? I have a good list of SEO myths and crap.
So why not get out the guns, [...]
Topics: Myths and Crap | Comments
Webmaster Radio Bullshit!
By theGypsy | February 10, 2010
Hey gang… how are we now?
I wanted to drop a quick note to let ya’ll know we’ve been invited to drop in with our bullshit to Webcology on Webmaster Radio tomorrow. Why in the world a top notch show would want to have SEOBS on there is beyond me… but I decided to oblige.
It has [...]
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