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Marty brings it home with an email forward of some cold call place stuck in 1998. Altavista + Lycos + Infospace = win.
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from swags2804 1556 Days ago #
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Great title, Marty!

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from planetc1 1556 Days ago #
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It’s even funnier when sales representatives from yellow page companies make these claims. Totally clueless.

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from g1smd 1556 Days ago #
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Some of those companies eventually get what they deserve:  http://sphinn.com/story/13109

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from aimClear 1556 Days ago #
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g1smd. Thanks for the nice URL grab. Good job...and it’s nice to know there is justice.

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from mpilatow 1556 Days ago #
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planetc1, you’re not kidding with the yellow pages companies. My uncle was solicited by one of their sales guys who told him that SEO in not necessary anymore. He said that Google wants to spread their traffic around so that every site ends up ranking well from time to time. Even if you optimize your site you get the same time on the front page as an unoptimized site.

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from aimClear 1556 Days ago #
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I’ve had conversations with Yellow Pages salesman that would blow your mind. They had NO idea what they were talking about and threw terms/promises around that were crazy.

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from nowsourcing 1555 Days ago #
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I recently had a conversation with one of those Yellow Pages type places.  They were showing me Google trends of their company vs. some other Yellow Pages.  Still, he didn’t know what PageRank was, lol.

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