Comments on: How NOT to SEO. (In which I receive a crappy pitch from a John.)

By: Charlotte | inspirIT

Charlotte | inspirIT — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:23:22 +0000

@ Nathalie – Eww! Those people are the definition of “SEO Asshat”

@ Jason – Thanks! I’ve put the link inline.

@ Mike – Totally. I’d love for these guys to finally get a taste of their own medicine. Like bacteria, however, they were on the net before we were – and they’ll probably be here after. Which means we’re in the penicillin business.

@ William – Yeah. The sad thing is that John must know how little he has to offer, or else he would want a collaboration, as you say. Which begs the question of why John sees this and does it anyway.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:57:18 +0000

Yup, that’s about the size of it…
John: the place where you go poopy
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By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:23:16 +0000

I love this… “Your website should be readable by humans first, machines second.”
So simple, yet so commonly forgotten…

By: William @ DIY Video Marketing

William @ DIY Video Marketing — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:21 +0000

The thing I love about this technique is not just how little value it offers, is how much value it leaves on the table. I mean, if you’re doing it right, he shouldn’t want a link– he should want a relationship of collaboration and mutual success. Like, where you share lists and promote each other and offer one another’s customers true value in context?

aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Also, by “love” I mean “not love.” My therapist says I should work on this.

I don’t have a therapist.
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By: Mike Stankavich

Mike Stankavich — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:22:27 +0000

The sad thing about this type of lowlife behavior is that just like Viagra offers, it only has to work .001% of the time for them to get enough results to keep doing it. I’ve often fantasized about unleashing a tsunami of DDOS on the lowlife spammer assholes of the world, but they are like cockroaches – they will just keep showing up. It’s up to the rest of us to keep fighting the good fight by continuing to educate the less knowledgeable so that they can learn to ignore this sort of trash as we do, and hopefully eventually starve them out.
Mike Stankavich´s last blog ..Home Networking Versus Voluntary Simplicity

By: Jason McLaughlin

Jason McLaughlin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:13:31 +0000

Great post. The tweeter who made the SEO joke last night is Merlin.

I love it when I get these for highly underdeveloped domains I own, like starts of blogs that haven’t gone anywhere yet. Like: Really? You were impressed by the WordPress template post? Wow. You know web, sir.

By: Nathalie Lussier

Nathalie Lussier — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:45 +0000

Gah I get these types of emails a lot too. I think I’ve even been added to a list where they constantly have “reps” sending me email reminders. But that’s not all.. they also have a fake web site where you can unsubscribe. Yikes!
Nathalie Lussier´s last blog ..What is The Master Cleanse?