Comments on: Why people hate SEO… (and why SMO is bulls$%t)

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:53:02 +0000

SEO can be a binder, there are lots of tools out there, some
good, some bad and some that need putting down:) but like it
or lump FREE SEO Tools often do the job better than paid ones:)

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:51:16 +0000

I honestly believe the main reason people hate SEO is that they are so frustrated. I actually feel for you.

If you don’t believe you can rank for the good stuff (the big keywords) of course you’ll hate it. Because you’re fighting over the scraps. And the majority of people fighting for the scraps aren’t even going to come up with a result.

That’s the nature of search. You have an incredible number of people competing for just a few spots. So unless you are among the top few in your industry of course you will get disgruntled especially if you’re paying someone to deliver that result. But you have to realize that you MUST hire the absolute best people because there are just a handful of spots available that count.

If these SEO haters KNEW beyond the shadow of a doubt that they had the skills or the people to outrank the big boys for the big money terms, would they still be shouting about how evil SEO is?

…probably not.

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By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:10:26 +0000

web developers constantly feel threatened by SEOs. It’s their own resentment and insecurities because we make you look bad. Boohoo crybabies.

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Derek Powazek - links for 2009-10-15 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:01:38 +0000

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By: Mapuc

Mapuc — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:55:28 +0000

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By: What’s wrong with SEO?

What’s wrong with SEO? — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:43:05 +0000

[...] Jason Calacanis clearly hates SEO but that doesn’t carry much weight with me as it is just one person’s opinion. He puts his pants on one leg at a time, or so I’m told. Furthermore, Mahalo and Weblogs inc have done little to alter how I personally use the internet in anyway. I would take it much more seriously if Sergey Brin had a blog post on his dislike of SEO. But I question whether Google cares at all. In fact, I think Google encourages SEO provided you’re doing it right and not trying to pull one over on them. Bruce Clay had an interesting post called: Does Google Hate Search Engine Optimization? Bruce makes the case that “…if Google hated SEO, we’d know it. Google isn’t just tolerating SEOs; they’re going out of their way to help them and give them access to more information.” From my interactions with our SEO firm it seems like that really is the case. [...]

By: SEO Solutions

SEO Solutions — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:42:46 +0000

I agree with 15 because we work together. The problem with
SEO today are the Black Hatters messing it up for not only
SEO companies but for the end users of the internet and
business owners end up paying for it. It gets more
difficult to provide a valuable service and acquire well
deserved visibility when there are so many “cheaters” out
there disregarding guidelines. True White Hat SEO is
valuable and it is a shame the name is starting to go bad.
Lets rally to find a new name for the “White Hat” industry.