Comments on: Stepping on SEO experts toes

By: SEO is Dead � techipedia | tamar weinberg

SEO is Dead � techipedia | tamar weinberg — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:19:01 +0000

[...] about the SEO industry, which prompted a lot of questions, many of whom are wondering if Daniel is on the money, or at least close, but others who have tried to invalidate the claim. I give Rand another thumbs up in terms of his [...]

By: CultureFeast Dallas Culture Blog | Dallas Copywriter Blog

CultureFeast Dallas Culture Blog | Dallas Copywriter Blog — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:38:55 +0000

[...] It surprised me to hear that one or two people found and responded to my article, “Breaking SEO Myths Part One: The SEO Expert. You can imagine my surprise when, after ten months of having published this, I suddenly receive several email and blog responses on the topic.? [...]

By: SEO Egghead by Jaimie Sirovich » The Special Olympics of Link Bait

SEO Egghead by Jaimie Sirovich » The Special Olympics of Link Bait — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:01:47 +0000

[...] Is this the tale of a copywriter who can't even rank for his name artfully link baiting some of the most widely read SEO blogs? Who is in the 15-yard dash — us or him? I deconstructed his arguments regardless, but you decide … [...]

By: Link Roll 10/16/2006 | Macalua.com

Link Roll 10/16/2006 | Macalua.com — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:07:03 +0000

[...] SEO Scoop picks up Breaking SEO Myths Part One: The SEO Expert, a loaded commentary on the SEO industry in general. Rand responds and gives the I’ll-rank-for-your-name penalty to the author of the article – via BruceClay.com [...]

By: DanielthePoet

DanielthePoet — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:32:12 +0000

Donna, thanks for weighing in on my article. It’s been a solid 10 months since that article was originally published. I’ve received a lot of response on this topic over the past few days.

I have written a response to several people’s comments on my CultureFeast blog at http://www.culturefeast.com. The title is “Breaking SEO Myths 1.5: The SEO Expert Revisited.”

I appreciate that although you might not have preferred the style of my presentation, you based your judgments of the content on the content alone.

I don’t know why, but I am reminded my favorite phrase from the Randy Galloway show: “fair and biased news.”

Thanks again.

By: gabs - seohome blog :D

gabs - seohome blog :D — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:52:56 +0000

Its interesting..

It does assume that all Seo experts are part of a community.. And that communities have the most popular “girl/boy” like at school.. And the quiet one’s have no idea..

I does take you into the debate of “what is a seo” .. Just a consulant.. ?

Are webmaster/seo allowed to say i’m and seo because I know html / php / asp C++ or if you know that you MUST be a spammer ?

Time to network

By: rmccarley

rmccarley — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:59:15 +0000

Interesting read. He does make some god points but he sounds like the kid that wasn’t quite accepted by the “in” crowd and is now puffing up his own chest out of spite and misery.

I might have missed it if he didn’t claim his own SEO credentials (as an expert no less!) at the end.

Kinda threw the whole thing away there, didn’t he?

By: techipedia: anything tech. » Blog Archive » Will SEO ever die?

techipedia: anything tech. » Blog Archive » Will SEO ever die? — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:49:52 +0000

[...] There has been a lot of controversy in terms of SEO lately. First, there’s this scathing article by Daniel Dessinger about the SEO industry, which prompted a lot of questions, many of whom are wondering if Daniel is on the money, or at least close, but others who have tried to invalidate the claim. I give Rand another thumbs up in terms of his excellent refutation, but I can’t help but wonder from the standpoint of a SEO newbie (if I’ve even made it there yet): with more people like me who have the interest in SEO, will the market get oversaturated? [...]

By: wilreynolds

wilreynolds — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:16:17 +0000

I won’t repeat what has already been said, but I feel compelled to say that I don’t think any SEO who touts SEO as rocket science is being honest. However smart companies realize that there is an opportunity cost to trying it yourself and base their decisions off of that.

There is also value to working on 10+ sites at once, if you know your methodology is working well for 9 of 10 clients then you as an SEO know to hold tight. As a newbie you may jump the gun and start re-tweaking a perfectly fine methodology when you don’t need to.

By: mvandemar

mvandemar — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:50:49 +0000

While I do agree with Daniel D. on the fact that the industry is rife with misinformation, and not all that difficult to learn, there is something he seems to have missed.

While it may indeed only take a reasonable amount of intelligence to be a successful SEO, it takes more knowledge to do that than it does to be a webmaster. Even someone fairly non-technical these days can learn how to build a webpage, connect to a database, or install a custom script. The more people there are out there that know how to do this, then the more people there are to ask how. With something like building webpages, or programming, expanding the user base makes it easier to do. The exact opposite is true for SEO. The more people there are out there doing it, the harder it gets. So yes, while the basics are indeed easy to learn, the things that give you an edge are not. They require thought and creativity, something which if you can purchase are indeed valuable commodities.

It is unfortunate that a large portion of the SEO’s in the field today are indeed unscrupulous, and do rely on a clients lack of knowledge, rather than just providing quality work. It does give honest SEO’s a bad name.