Why people hate SEO... (and why SMO is bulls$%t)
This video is so cheesy you have to think it's a fake... but I don't think
it is. ( Hat Tip
<www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/why-socially-driven-sites-hate-se
os.html>)
The SEO folks got really pissed off at me for saying "SEO is bulls@#t." last
year, but the truth is that 90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil
salesman. These are guys in really bad suits trying to get really naive
people to sign long-term contracts. These clients typically make horrible
products and don't deserve traffic--that's why they're not getting it
organically so they hire the slimebuckets to game the system for them.
Note: There are some whitehat SEO firms out there I know, but frankly the
whitehat SEO companies are simply doing solid web design so I don't consider
them SEO at all. SEO is a tainted term and it means "gaming the system" to
90% of us.
Now, if you make great content, keep your page design clean, and stick with
it you're gonna do just fine in the rankings. Don't smoke the SEO-crack...
you'll just wind up chasing your tail as digg and Google closes
<searchengineland.com/070125-230048.php> the tiny SEO loopholes and
put your domain on the black list.
PS - And to the SEO idiots trying to "take over my SeRP" on Google you're
proving my point exactly. Grow up.. the only thing you're ever going to
prove by trying to game my SeRP is that you're low-class idiots.
PSS - This whole gaming of digg/Netscape/MySpace is being called SMO--social
media optimization. That's the worst thing I've ever heard of. Anyone who
hires an SMO firm is an idiot. The whole point of social media is TO BE REAL
NOT FAKE!!! Just be yourself and participate... that's all it takes (and
note, participation is not just putting in your own links, it's
voting/commenting on/submitting other people's content too!).
source:
www.calacanis.com/2007/02/07/why-people-hate-seo-and-why-smo-is-bulls
-t/