Published: Nov 30, 2007 - 11:19 am
Story Found By: northrock 2002 Days ago
Category: SEO
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This being from the same person that asked for a mourning period over a torrent site going dead. http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/10/another-one-bites-the-dust-demonoid-is-dead/Not that Im saying Im against file sharing, but what kind of idiot praises torrents and can logically diss SEO...
good point brian.
thats just plain funny I dont care who you are.I especially like this quote:"To us, the type of SEO attacks revealed this week are only a few steps away from what tons of bloggers/websites do every day: purposely try to game search engines just so they can get more hits to their site, and by extension, maybe make a few extra dollars."if youll kindly redirect some of that AOL traffic I will be happy to stop attempting to "game" the system.when will people finally realize that essentially SEO= Online Marketingbut I guess it matters not because SE0> marketing>sales... and we all know selling things is bad.laughable.
<sarcasm>She is obviously well-educated and takes her work seriously.</sarcasm>This probably stems from a deep bitterness she feels at being technically incompitent and unable to understand even the most basic of SEO concepts. Oh well, good for a laugh...
Im about to call out Yaro Starak... not about SEO but about something else. Stay tuned.
"Clueless idiot": can you say Google-bomb? LOL! Nice expose Michael.
"inserting back-door code that is aimed at getting higher page ranks and more page views, regardless if the targets are actually correct, is another. To us, the type of SEO attacks revealed this week"Wolf is correct - not only is she clueless but shes way behind the times which is outdated cluelessness, ugh.Inserting back-door code has been going on for a couple of years now that Im aware of and the people that do these things arent your garden variety SEOs. Besides, I was tracking some activity along these lines about a year ago that appeared to be linked to some form of organized crime so its most likely not an operation she wants to mess with.
Inflamatory headline, closed comments and request to link to the post instead. Kudos to him for doing such a good job on the link bait.
OMG - did you see that one of her blog tags is "seo poisoning"? What a light-weight. I couldnt help but leave a comment.
I realize Im a little late to the conversation, but I feel like I should comment. Yeah, she might have been a bit harsh, but she specifically did not lump the entire SEO industry into one group here. I read down in the comments of her post and found this from her:I certainly dont mean to "slam an entire industry;" as I stated in the original post: "Techniques to make sure your relevant content shows up in corresponding searches is one thing -- inserting back-door code that is aimed at getting higher page ranks and more page views, regardless if the targets are actually correct, is another."I understand that most of us in the online marketing industry tend to get lumped in with spammers pretty frequently. Its the first thing I have to say when I tell a friend that Im in that line of work (no, Im not a spammer). But we should also be careful to not have such knee-jerk reactions.