Comments on: SEO Predators: Willing to Decieve For Business

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:07:29 +0000

@Andres Garcia: Yup, the only real wealth is the creation of value. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Andres Garcia

Andres Garcia — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:00:08 +0000

It is these businesses that will survive. Greed will no longer be tolerated… but there is nothing wrong with fair profit.

By: Andres Garcia

Andres Garcia — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:57:01 +0000

This is a good post. People allow greed to control them. It is unbelievable the things people can do and still be able to sleep at night. In the “new economy”, as I like to call it, we shall be profitable by taking a selfless approach towards doing business.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:37:34 +0000

I totally agree! I hate to watch good clients go to these “experts” and than return to me to fix all the errors! It is insane, it doesn’t make sense to pay these guys, they don’t care about clients and they cost us money & time! Thank you for another wonderful post!

By: Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:46:42 +0000

Aptly put, Marty. This isn’t kindergarten. One of the points that bothers me most is the HTML validation trick. Anyone can bulk up a “report card” with finger-pointing blame about factors that have little to do with SEO, and – as important as compliant code is in general – are pretty typical across even well-coded websites.

And the funny thing is, you see that HTML validation critique traded all around the web and thrown in companies’ faces as if they should be all red-faced about something a validator tool came up with that was minutely out of keeping with some supposed ideal standard.

Code assessment is definitely important, but this is not kindergarten and it would be nice if these predators weren’t so cynical in their efforts to shout “boo!” in relation to phantom problems. There are more than enough *real* website and SEO problems to fix, after all!

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By: SEO Aware

SEO Aware — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:46:56 +0000

I love you even more for this, Marty.

By: arnie00717

arnie00717 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:57:34 +0000

Yeah such kind of things are happening in market. I don’t wanna name a big company that did to my client. Well Written post.

By: Barry Hurd

Barry Hurd — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:45:33 +0000

It is amazing that this stuff happens, but the real reason it happens is less laughable. The reason the boiler room sales force is hitting every business is because most business decision makers have no idea what the truth really is… and they believe the best “visual” or “pitch”

If you get really geeky and start quoting metrics and statistics, a less knowledgeable soul may just concede that you “must be right”

The education in many medium to large business units is years (or decades) behind the impact this is having. I wrote up a post a week or two ago on “top CMO quotes” that I had heard in the past six months from veteran marketers at enterprise corporations.

We can all get a little chuckle out of stuff like this, but as long as big business turns a blind eye to eduction in this realm, the snake oil salesman are going to be banging on every door asking for a check.

~Barry Hurd

By: Terry Harmon

Terry Harmon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:34:18 +0000

The fact of the matter is, a lot of so called “SEO” companies pray on the fact that people are seeking their services because they don’t know anything about search engine optimization. There needs to be some sort of checks and balances system…maybe hire another consultant to check the work of SEO’s!!!