Comments on: SEO Bashing

By: You want to sell me SEO? Really?

You want to sell me SEO? Really? — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:49:41 +0000

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By: Weekly Search & Social News: 12/15/09 | Technoinspire Blog

Weekly Search & Social News: 12/15/09 | Technoinspire Blog — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:07:19 +0000

[...] was nice to see Ann helping out with some suggestions for me… erm.. it was just for me right Ann?SEO Bashing – a long time friend of mine, Kay Dinsdale, started a blog after many years of harassing her. Of [...]

By: Weekly Search & Social News: 12/15/09 | Search Engine Journal

Weekly Search & Social News: 12/15/09 | Search Engine Journal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:51:02 +0000

[...] SEO Bashing – a long time friend of mine, Kay Dinsdale, started a blog after many years of harassing her. Of her starter action, this one was def my fav. Welcome to the madness Kay! [...]

By: JMorris

JMorris — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:11:54 +0000

Right On!

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:06:31 +0000

Thanks Donna! I think i need to go on a plug-in hunt

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:06:09 +0000

Thanks for your comments

I actually would defy any SEO to look at any strategy or website and not be able to come up with at least a handful of things that should have been done (regardless of why they weren’t). It’s very easy to criticise a competitors work and easy to put the frighteners on their clients to try and win the business. The best we can do is be honest, upfront, balanced and realistic when giving our advice or opinion. Over time that does count towards maintaining a good relationship and gaining your clients trust and faith.

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Tweets that mention SEO Bashing -- Topsy.com — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:40:34 +0000

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By: Andrew Angle

Andrew Angle — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:25:34 +0000

Bashing others’ work is so uncool regardless of the topic. As a designer turned SEO/SEM a few years back, I found myself on the receiving end of the bash from a client that I served for a decade. For eons the client rejected my recommendation to spend some extra money on SEO, instead opting to seize the instant gratification of paid search, which I handled. When they finally recognized the power of organic clicks they took my SEO proposal. Within just a few weeks after I got started they had another SEO firm in their office, bashing me to bits for an SEO project that was just getting started… and telling them how much money and market share had been sacrificed as a result of having a guy who failed to do SEO on their site for all those years. Meanwhile, I was thinking, “Duh! What do you think I’ve been trying to tell them for all these years? They told me they were so busy that they wouldn’t be able to handle more business if it came.” The moment I finished the overhaul and initialization of the link campaign, all logins were suddenly disabled and the checks stopped coming.

Two years after getting bashed and dumped, the phone rang. Now the client wants me back. When business slowed down, they found enough time to educate themselves on how SEO & SEM works, thereby realizing that I had been doing a better job than the bashers did. Even though I’m now too busy developing a new venture of doing expert paid reviews on existing PPC & SEO campaigns (AdAuditors.com), the call salvaged some pride. As for the bashers — FAIL!

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:51:51 +0000

I was looking for the Like button, LOL. I think I’ve been around the social networks a little too much lately. Anyway…”if” there had been a Like button, I would have clicked it. Since there’s not, I’ll go all old-school on ya, and say “me too”.