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« Previous EntriesThe Gift and the Curse of Top Rankings
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
So, expert SEO, you’ve done it. You’ve done the research. You’ve found the niche. You’re pretty much first on the scene. You’ve built the site, the content. You’ve got the inbound links. You’ve crushed everyone and are the dominant website result domain for nearly all related keywords in that niche. You’re at the top for [...]
SEO Village Idiot; The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
This week someone sent me a SEO site audit report written by a UK online marketing company for a big UK retail brand. I enjoy taking a peek in the competition’s kitchen now and then, so I dug in straight away. Seven pages in to this 66-page report I realised that these guys weren’t really [...]
Dear Google, I am an idiot
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Please show me the way As I sat here reading an article (on WSJ) interviewing, (Google CEO) Eric Schmidt, I was sort of struck stupid by a few of the statements. Are we, the general public, just a bunch of idiots shitheads looking for guidance from Google? Is it true that we really can’t think [...]
You are a Certified Sucker
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Oh internet… where to begin. We SEO professionals see bullshit every single day so admittedly the most surprising thing to me is that I’m capable of still being surprised at all with the sheer level of stupidity run rampant in our industry. I’ve bumped into this one a few times but it still gets me [...]
Googles New Search Engine – WTF?
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Okay so I’ve been in this game quite a few 24×7′s. And I’ve seen a lot of craptastic nonsense over the years. Anyone who’s in this business has seen it all. Or at least we all THINK we have. Until the next over the top bullshit comes along. And we’re so stunned by the shear [...]
Spam Is as Spam Does: A Vomit Email Rant
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Greetings, SEO Bullshit readers! So my pet peeve is receiving unsolicited emails, especially when our marketing brethren take it upon themselves to add my email address to a list of marketers. I hate it even more when there is no unsubscribe and the sender claims it’s somehow “personal” or that I’m not on a “list.” [...]
VERIFIED SEO and Charles Preston- An Open Challenge
Friday, March 26th, 2010
*Final Update* Shutting down a site as soon as the community questions is a sign of a scam. The same way search engine submission is a scam, in our industry at the moment, SEO Verification is a scam. There is no real body or authority that is geared to give you that stamp. For a [...]
SEO Practitioners who sell MY Knowledge suck!
Monday, March 15th, 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 [...]
How You Know When Your Client Isn’t Really Interested In SEO
Monday, March 15th, 2010Everybody 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 [...]
The Hit & Run Snakeoil Salesmen Are Back
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010I 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 [...]
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