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Went Hot: November 19, 2007 - 7:34 am
Posted By: ViperChill 595 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://forums.digitalpoint.com)
Category: SEO
Guess we all need to look for a new job?
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This character's great with the soft sell...
"I have secrets NOBODY else will tell you, but I just haven't decided whether or not I should offer them for sale... hm......"
Someone (with Napoleon complex) is re-entering America ;)
I bet the 1st chapter of the book is "Everything you need to know about the Meta Keywords tag" !
OMG! Thanks for that. It's worth it to read the entire thread, about every third page there's an absolute gem of a post by that guy.
The SEO book bashing was a bit unwarranted though. I guess it fits in with the theme of the thread though.
He should be a politician he contradicts himself so much.
I knew all you guys were holding out all the important info on SEO!
You Bastards!
I don't get it. This is not funny, just pathetic and kind of sad really.
Maybe if you act now, you'll also get a 2nd book and a one of those give yourself a haircut things :)
I'm still waiting for his list of bonuses (a $83,573 value, or something) to sign up at 3:21 AM (only 235 slots left), yadda yadda.
@Kalena: You're actually right - it ain't very funny because it actually only reflects the overall level of sophistication (ok: lack thereof) on DP and similar joints...
This kind of reflects the level of SEO knowledge at DP recently that the guy hasn't been laughed out of there already.
I used to post on DP a hell of a lot, but it's become frustrating competing the 'noise' that the forum generates.
Kalena, it's not funny when someone's caught naked. But it's OK to laugh at them when they come out proudly displaying the Emporer's new clothes :).
I would have been more impressed if he'd alluded to the golden ratio or the Fibonacci sequence - he could have got another 10 pages of traction out of that ;)
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/1452
Yes though - sad for DP that didn't get laughed out of the site on page 1.
I personally loved the kid who cracked the Google Algorithm several years ago on WMW and was going to reveal it to the world at a science fair or something. In the end I think he just had a big poster board with the equation out of Sergey and Larry's Anatomy of a Search Engine. Gotta love it!
Well must admit this was good for a laugh. I wish I had the time to read the whole thread lol
'm now in a good mood, thanks!
Actually, what's really pertinent about this thread is that this is what quality SEO folks are competing against. I don't take on SEO clients but I certainly get enough of my (nonSEO) clients calling me to evaluate spectacular deals and outrageous claims made by some seo folks. I'd hate to have to compete against someone else where it boils down to bluster.
I generally tell folks to go back to the SEO company and ask for a list of search terms in their industry where they have clients and are ranking. Then look at the terms they've ranked for. That weeds out the players quick - the big folks can provide proof they've ranked on competitive terms. The small folks are pushing top rankings for 'boca raton florida snow shovel dealers'.
Loved this quote:
"but did you know that there is a special keyword density that Google absolutely loves, that you can't go wrong with? That is the magical density that nobody, and i mean NOBODY is teaching you. Not Aaron, not Sullivan, Not SEoMoz. I reveal the secrets of keyword density that nobody has told in public before. Just changing your density can have a great effect on your rankings."
hehe
Jim, are you a foolish SEO-BOOK reader too? ;) That manchesterguy is frigging entertaining ...
"That is the magical density that nobody, and i mean NOBODY is teaching you"
perhaps we can algorithmically determine it.
kwd=42%
I forgot the question.
I believe the poster believes they have a good document, however, and so the question is valid.
Suppose you did what this poster professes to have done – and while we’re imagining, give yourself the benefit of the doubt and imagine you did a bang-up job - spent hours trying to generalize the impetus (ummm, impeti? I have no idea what the plural of impetus is, which is throwing off this whole sentence, an already horrific run-on completely ruined now by this asinine aside) which guides your SEO decisions, massaging the sentences until they are perfect step-by-step instructions for implementing the basis of a general SEO campaign.
What now? You sit there staring at the document, realizing that it is an encapsulation of a large portion of the specific personal knowledge that allows you to earn a living each day - envision the profit potential of such an offering in light of the wildly successful seobook example that appears to have constant attention - and as an SEO try to weigh that profit potential against the simple truth that if you have explained your processes well in a document, your clients should no longer need you. A pure affiliate SEO would quickly decide to never sell the document. A client-centric one, however, might see it as an escape from client-hell.
I think I'll stick with fiction.
hey, sphinn stripped out my deep thought tags!
those are my favourite tags!@!
This, my friends, is why I go on digitalpoint. It's a truly unlimited source of entertainment.
LOL@'boca raton florida snow shovel dealers' - thanks for the chuckle wheel
Unless there's a cheesy scanned signature at the bottom, the secrets can't be that great.
Wow! talk of endless falderal. Slight surprise though, considering Search marketers often get the privilege to answer such questions:
1. "why does this tool say that my page needs more keyword density?"
2. "the percentage of SEO shown on this tool is less. Why?"
3. "why do we need to take off our keyword-stuffed auto-generated doorway pages? we don't want to loose content"
4. and pushy ones like, " I need to quickly get on top in Google. Tell me which SEO tool can do it fast."
5. And easy-to-please ones like, "Hey great; I see my site ranking number 1 for my name"
6. And hard-to-please ones like, "Why does my site not rank No. 1 for 'Google' on Google?"
7. And enlightened ones like, "oh ok, I am kinda getting it now; we need to make auto generated 'content' pages with a SEO tool"
Pannu wrote: """6. And hard-to-please ones like, "Why does my site not rank No. 1 for 'Google' on Google?""
That's funny! I just checked Google, and Yahoo is the first non-google result for a search on 'Google'. Now there's an SEO contest that would be cool. Who can rank highest for the search term 'Google' on Google.