Not everyone likes competition, which is fine, just as not everyone likes rain and not everyone likes growing pains, yet those things (like competition) are essential ingredients of life. Just because you don’t like them, you can’t safely ignore them. I wrote “Think Like A Dirty Bastard” to remind people that they need to assume a perspective of a competitor to “see” their weaknesses. Now that SEO has matured in this age of one search engine, we don’t need to imagine the Dirty Bastards anymore. They are hard at work attacking us, and we can see they are proud of it if we read Internet Marketing web sites comments like this one:
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Posted at John’s, reposting here mainly as a reminder of the downvoting hiding issue:"Do online marketers wish it werent true? Do they attempt to vote it out of existence, voting being some manifestation of denial?"Well, five people did 109 days ago. Not sure that this says anything about an entire community of internet marketers one way or the other.But it’s a good point that perhaps vote downs shouldn’t hide comments. I don’t recall offhand what the threshold is, but we could take it up. I think that’s more down to the defaults of Pligg software, where you’ve got the programmers figuring there will be link spam in comments, so hide a lot of down votes like they do at Digg.At Sphinn, if a comment is spam, the mods will axe it. We don’t need to have automatic hiding. I’ll look into it.