Comments on: SEO Industry: Ethical Valuable Service Industry

By: Lucia

Lucia — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:32:42 +0000

Well, I do see some odd hairdos at Sphinn….

By: Website Design

Website Design — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:35:25 +0000

“So, 90% of SEO’s are poorly dressed slime-buckets who are trying to get rank for lame sites.” – That totally cracked me up.

I’ve met many a SEO specialist and I have to say that, what general, is fairly accurate. Though there are a lot of us who are clean, well kempt, and altruistic

By: Terry Howard

Terry Howard — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:17:57 +0000

Coming from an industry outsider I found your post well put and a welcome and refreshing take. The fact is SEOs, search marketers, whatever you call them, work damn hard providing value and results for clients, and by clients I mean business owners who put food on their tables and the tables of their employees with help from the profits our efforts drive. Long term locked in contracts? Never seen them in the industry. Standards are usually month to month or purely performance based. No results, no customers.

Bottom line is, we work for a living, we do real things for real people. Jason takes gobs of VC money to build… DMOZ. If that’s what he wants to do, more power to him. But if he wants to do that whilst bashing how I feed my family, well quite frankly he can piss off.

Thanks for the support on behalf of the biz!

By: CyberCelt

CyberCelt — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:31:39 +0000

Great article! You have been busy with Mahalo. I cannot believe the money that is leaking from that site. AUGGHHHH!

I noticed the write up about the Alexa redirect on Lord Matt’s blog. I know y’all were working on this project. Could you share what you discovered? You can email me if you do not want to discuss it here.

Thanks!