Comments on: A day in the Life of an SEO Scam Artist http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Aaron Pratt http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-502 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:57:57 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-502 I am new at SEO but my plan is to never work for anyone and focus on my own projects. I wonder how many people who do SEO never touch anothers work for $? When I have worked for others I have used the barter system and meet all kinds of talented people online who can trade services. Launched two sites inspired by simple phrases that were in my head, do not even know what they will be for yet. Sat back and dreamed about all the seasonal traffic that can be had by simply offering something people can use. The internet is still in it's wild west days, there is so much land to obtain but which pieces do I want? Life is good. I am new at SEO but my plan is to never work for anyone and focus on my own projects. I wonder how many people who do SEO never touch anothers work for $? When I have worked for others I have used the barter system and meet all kinds of talented people online who can trade services. Launched two sites inspired by simple phrases that were in my head, do not even know what they will be for yet. Sat back and dreamed about all the seasonal traffic that can be had by simply offering something people can use. The internet is still in it’s wild west days, there is so much land to obtain but which pieces do I want? Life is good.

]]> by: Natasha Robinson http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-497 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:57:43 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-497 You just made me laugh out loud on the train. My day, well let's see: I got an email from someone declaring that we should start using certain keywords as if they just discovered this- and I think to myself "guess you didn't bother to go over the excel workbook I sent last week- funny it contains those magic keywords you discovered." Let's see what else: I got an email about reworking some stuff and I think to myself "gee, that sounds like the first proposal I created that you didn't like, but somehow beecause you wrote it, it is great." And that's just the stuff I can write about... Yeah, there's a glass of wine with my name on it as well. Have a better weekend. You just made me laugh out loud on the train.

My day, well let’s see: I got an email from someone declaring that we should start using certain keywords as if they just discovered this- and I think to myself “guess you didn’t bother to go over the excel workbook I sent last week- funny it contains those magic keywords you discovered.”

Let’s see what else: I got an email about reworking some stuff and I think to myself “gee, that sounds like the first proposal I created that you didn’t like, but somehow beecause you wrote it, it is great.”

And that’s just the stuff I can write about…

Yeah, there’s a glass of wine with my name on it as well.

Have a better weekend.

]]> by: IncrediBILL http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-496 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:34:15 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-496 John, you and I both know the customers are extremely vulnerable as anyone can hang an SEO shingle and there is nobody to refute his credentials. Nobody thinks all SEO's are SnakEOil, but you must admit there are a bunch of them out there peddling 1998 techniques to this very day. There's nobody with a certifcation program to even attempt to help the consumer know good from bad, so a few, OK, a BUNCH of bad apples ruin it for everyone in an unregulated space. Why are you surprised? It's programmers in the '90s all over again. John, you and I both know the customers are extremely vulnerable as anyone can hang an SEO shingle and there is nobody to refute his credentials. Nobody thinks all SEO’s are SnakEOil, but you must admit there are a bunch of them out there peddling 1998 techniques to this very day.

There’s nobody with a certifcation program to even attempt to help the consumer know good from bad, so a few, OK, a BUNCH of bad apples ruin it for everyone in an unregulated space.

Why are you surprised?

It’s programmers in the ’90s all over again.

]]> by: scoreboard http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-494 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:24:12 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/148/seo-scam-artists.html#comment-494 Epic. Just epic. That kind of corporate environment meltdown will get a link out of me everytime. Epic. Just epic. That kind of corporate environment meltdown will get a link out of me everytime.

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