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Julie Joyce Vomits on Banal SEO Blogging
Social Media News Source: http://www.seo-chicks.com
Published: Jul 31, 2008 - 06:49 am
Story Found By: Lyndon 1757 Days ago
Category: Social Media
"I’m not bored with what I DO every day, actually, nor am I bored with the industry in general. I am simply bored with writing about it, because the online space is becoming incredibly cluttered with people who seem to know absolutely nothing about anything; they just want to create disturbance."
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from Lyndon 1757 Days ago #
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"Disturbance" according to Mr Roget; distraction, interference, bother, trouble, inconvenience, upset, annoyance, irritation, intrusion.Oh yeah, there is a lot of that going on, which is mostly why I don’t hang out in Sphinn much and spending less time looking at RSS reader at low rent, feeble minded seo blogging. I really should clear it out.I’m reading Steve Krug’s "Don’t make me Think", about web usability, and I feel a lot of bloggers have taken that phrase and applied it to blogging.My take on blogging is, "Make People Think". Even if they disagree with you. I’m saving further comments for a blog post ;)

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from QualityNonsense 1757 Days ago #
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I’m with Julie. 99% of industry blogs sound like an echo chamber.

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from JulieJoyce 1757 Days ago #
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I DO vomit on it! By god.

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from JohnHGohde 1757 Days ago #
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"Sphinn from becoming even more of a suburban high school drama."Nah!  I am just trying to figure out.Why there are so many non-news stories that go hot?Why there is so much duplication of news stories?

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from seowriter 1757 Days ago #
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i’m absolutely agree with you, there is most part of so called "seo blogs" are young people who know nothing about it, but only disturb industry)

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from debram 1757 Days ago #
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..."Why there are so many non-news stories that go hot?"Because in the big scheme of things we share experiences, we don’t make "news" IMO.I consider new tool and site launches, visible SE changes, new policies etc - news.  Those are changes that affect us.  But they don’t happen that often so we write about what we know or think we see.  We share.  Personally I did an air-punch reading Julie’s piece, totally agree although the reguritating thing gave me the icks :) 

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from Jill 1755 Days ago #
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Yep, while I didn’t vomit, the same situation is what caused me to write my rant a few weeks ago on why most SEO blogs suck.

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from MikeDammann 1755 Days ago #
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Most SEO blogs suck because the whole "You need lots of content" strategy gets shoved down newcomers’ throats to where they start writing more than they actually understand. You don’t see lameness in other industries unless the blog is owned by an SEO as well. ;)

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from Jill 1754 Days ago #
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100% agree, Mike!

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from soniyashrma4 1753 Days ago #
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Thanks for saying all of that Julie, I wrote a scarily similar post yesterday declaring that I don’t blog anymore. I am so incredibly bored with this industry, but I still love SEO. Everybody is saying the same thing, over and over and over again. I hardly ever go to Sphinn these days.

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