Comments on: Being an SEO Pisses People Off – FACT!

By: Aa

Aa — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:40:00 +0000

Sounds like YOU’RE part of the problem, more than the web developers.

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Recruitment Agencies: Superheroes Apply Within — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:04:44 +0000

[...] It’s the avenue I took when I first started out as an SEO and it has come in handy when liaising with web developers. However, they are simply two different disciplines and unless you are an in-house web developer [...]

By: Brett Pringle

Brett Pringle — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:09:00 +0000

Oh wait, isn’t there a plugin for that? ;)

One thing I’ve learnt from my years in the industry, if you have these issues at the get go for client side changes from developers, the client is clearly working with the wrong development agency (no disrespect intended to those that GET it). The are many developers and agencies that are clued up enough that make working with them an absolute pleasure. The up and down emails, and having to justify changes is a complete waste of time. Cut your losses and move on, unless the returns are worth it. Account management time on this type of thing will kill you slowly

By: Etienne Beneke

Etienne Beneke — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Don’t we know this all too well, *sigh*…great post.

By: Socialicious_Sadie

Socialicious_Sadie — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:54:00 +0000

LOL!!! I was told and I quote” We could exclude
those pages using RewriteCond, but that will be a bit “hacky”. i.e. not very
elegant.” I mean WTF???

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Why You Need A Personal Blog | Goosh — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:32:12 +0000

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By: Robert Cerff

Robert Cerff — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:51:00 +0000

I can’t help but point out that if you’re quoting Wikipedia, SEO, design, conversions and usability are the least of your concerns.

I’m just sayin’

By: davide corradi

davide corradi — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:32:18 +0000

classic! “I’m Not Doing This For Fun – It Actually Needs Done” is my motto!!!!

By: Design Blogger Dude

Design Blogger Dude — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:48:55 +0000

Awesome rant. I feel your pain. For me though it's the opposite. I develop websites but I know SEO like nobody's business. So all my websites are built from the ground up with SEO performance as a primary goal. So I occasionally have to beat down some cut-and-run SEO sweatshop who's convinced my client that their website is not optimized. Worse yet are the “legit” companies who give a false report. I had one client who was told that their website was not indexed (not true, whole site was indexed), couldn't be spidered (totally not true), was not ranking for its most important keywords (we were top ten for all) and my images were missing alt tags ( not true). I was so fucking furious I demanded a conference call with the CEO of the company and the marketing firm that hired them. His answer? “I'm not going to get into an argument about the validity of the report…my team generated it and I stand by it” WTF? Stand by what? A bunch of lies? So that's my two cents on the matter. I have to deal with both clueless territorial web designers (when I'm hired for SEO) and scumbag SEO's (when I'm hired to build a site).

By: seo for home builders

seo for home builders — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:22:23 +0000

no matter what you did, it wouldn't be good enough … You won't piss people off – and your site conversions will show it. …