I agree, Realicity. I feel really bad, but we are stuck without it being changed.

Many things!

• Unqualified people selling services
• People offering SEO/Internet marketing advice when they have no clue
• Disrespectful clients who don't care about your time
• Rude clients that don't appreciate our work because they went to dumb a seminar and they now know more than us
• Horrible websites that have no shot
• Having to tell people with terrible websites that they need new sites, especially after they just paid for it
• Telling people that they have wasted money on stupid and unqualified people
• Dumb people who think they know social media just because they have a lot of followers on Facebook
• People that come up to me and brag about their 20,000 Twitter followers while they follow 21,000 people
• Every moron that starts a social media company because they like Facebook
• Newspapers and magazine that interview people that have NO clue about anything related to SEO, Internet Marketing, websites, Wordpress, Social Media etc,
• I could do this all day!

Turn off TweetDeck :-) That is the best way to avoid getting distracted.

Something else I try to do is check the social media discussions the last 10 minutes of an hour...however, you must walk away after ten minutes and not keep discussing. I do let the TweetDeck notification stay on without sand just to keep an eye on important articles and news.

You have to remember that you are not making money from social media, but from your work you have to get done. I know some do work in social media all day and that is there money, but the tasks to make money are not discussion based with a lot of friends (typically).

I think automated tweets can be very irritating and I don't like those that are obvious about it. I know there are ways to do it effectively and save time, but I can tell you all the people I follow that use automated tweets. I don't follow many people so automated tweets are easy to spot.

If I am going to spend time on Twitter I want to speak to real people. I have quit following people that use automated tweets because I wasn't getting great info, but the same thing over and over.

Love this - "Until the search engines stop rewarding spammy SEO it will be the way to go, and it will be what reporters believe it to be because of that"

I think it can be very helpful if done right. You need to research, have goals, plan and be creative. I have personally been so spammed with Facebook messages that I don't use it often at all.

I do think it is important to have a Facebook presence (especially with the Bing/Facebook love). It is so important to do it right. Once you have ticked me off on Facebook you are done. I know this applies to many.

I am excited to be here. :-)

Matt, I think if things continue as they are and google continues down this path of "everything is about the money and screw the people" there will be a google backlash from hell.

If they do move forward with the SEO services they will destroy the validity of their own search engine.

Danny, I don't know what to think. I love SearchCap and always have. I am thrilled when I am on it. I also like the new, "recently hot at sphinn" articles.

We know people Sphinn their friends and there are times that the articles aren't that great. Why not do something slightly different, like if an editor Sphinns an article it counts for 5-10 sphinns. If there is more value in the editor vote you still keep to keep voting, but you get to let the "experts" influence the front page and the best articles.

I disagree with Onreact and Emmadavis when dealing with authoritative clients. It is not cost-effective for me to write content for most of the businesses we work with. If I am writing for an ice cream shop that would be simple, but when you are dealing with brain surgery, TBI recovery in detail, legal information, chemical info in vitamins, etc. You cannot write with authority unless you spend a lot of time researching and learning about the subject, This is where people lose money.

However, if a client gives you their content you can then edit it and optimize it and it still sounds as though the company does in fact know what they are doing. People need to trust the business they are looking at. If I looked at a site that says "We do brain surgery" vs. a site that explained the ins and outs of what I needed to know for myself or my loved one which do you think I would choose?

Copywriting isn't difficult, but there are clients that need to give you the basic content for their site to sound valid and trustworthy.

Thanks KristyPage! and RichClubGirl!

Thanks Sebastian and nickfb76!

Thanks for the Sphinns!

Thanks so much! Will you be there?

Thank you Danny. You made my day! :-)

All we can do is present the information. I can tell by stats that the article is too long for some, but I think they support one another so I stuck them all together!

Thanks!

OK, i don't want to get an argument in any way, but John, you said

@pageoneresults last thing I want to do is argue with you all over the web. Isn't it the web big enough for people to have different opinions?

Isn't this entire thread a collection of opinions? Does it have to be an attack or mob mentality?

I got an email from this guy last week. Want his email? Check out the "SEO" on his own site, he doesn't know what he is doing.