I didn’t say that you didn’t form a complete sentence.

I was talking shop with my peers. I was talking about the ability to create natural, authentic, search engine-friendly content. I was talking about whether or not the value was real or not.

I was jumping into a discussion among people I respected, something I don’t do often.

My “or is that picky” was sincere–I was curious about what people think about writing for robots, not for people. Writing for search terms, not for readability.

My first thought was to privately advise on the typo, but then realized, it’s not that big a deal. I thought it was more fun to appeal to your readership about whether or not typos or natural English-speaking were even important to Google’s indexing and algorithms.

I’m sort of hoping you’ll delete my comments because the whole thing looks petty.

I’m actually mad at myself for taking this much time away from work–I was researching some SEO tactics as part of a job I’m doing right now and came across your really helpful blog–and so yes, I didn’t get around to approving your comments. Unfortunately, I’m usually too busy to bother with my own blog.

That’s why I don’t switch between “we” and “I.” I’m just an “I.” I work alone and don’t see the point of having a staff on hand to argue with people.

Argggh. I’m going back to work.

Now I have to use my fingers to figure out what 6+8 equals.

Bottom line, if you are going to publicly criticize (even in a polite tone), be prepared for a public answer. I often find typos in blog posts from well known bloggers. I ping them in private so they can fix it. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind public engagement regarding such things. However the commenter better make sure they have their ducks in a row before. Dude, if I went to someone’s blog to point out typos in public, I’d make pretty sure I did not have such errors on my own blog.

Engagement means dialog and I took no offense when (in a somewhat passive aggressive way) you were critical of Manny’s writing. Dude, I engaged back regarding your question: the ability to form a complete sentence. That’s what your comment was about. I had a smile on my face the whole time, the same way you did. (See ).

You engaged us in a dialog regarding the importance of sentence construct and I responded immediately with respect for your position. I changed the typo you specifically mentioned on my the post. I went to your blog to continue the conversation. The tone of my comment was similar to yours. Why was yours OK but mine “petty?” Really now…

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