Comments on: The Internet Marketers Manifesto http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/04/20/the-internet-marketers-manifesto/ SEO insiders share all on SEO news, tips and theories. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:51:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: massa http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/04/20/the-internet-marketers-manifesto/#comment-1061 massa Tue, 01 May 2007 12:36:24 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/04/20/the-internet-marketers-manifesto/#comment-1061 >My top competitors can easily spend $10k or much more a month on paid links and I can not. Then THAT is your problem. Not what google does about links. If they can afford it and you can't, you need to make more money. Maybe that means raising prices. Maybe it means raising more captial or maybe it means cutting expenses to be able to increase your ad budget, but it certainly does not mean it is because Google does or does not change their algorithms. Google can do whatever they like about links and it doesn't level anyting. Still, the site that does the best job of marketing will win. Do you honestly think if someone went and told Google your competitors were buying links and their sites were gone tomorrow, that those competitors would just accept it and let you have those spots they had before? Or do you think it is more likely that if links didn't help them make more sales, then it would be some other marketing techinique you were complaining about because your competitors would probably be spending $10,000 or more a month on that? You can argue all you like, but try to visualize that while you are arguing, those nasty competitors are making sales. >My top competitors can easily spend $10k or much more a month on paid links and I can not. Then THAT is your problem. Not what google does about links. If they can afford it and you can’t, you need to make more money. Maybe that means raising prices. Maybe it means raising more captial or maybe it means cutting expenses to be able to increase your ad budget, but it certainly does not mean it is because Google does or does not change their algorithms.

Google can do whatever they like about links and it doesn’t level anyting. Still, the site that does the best job of marketing will win. Do you honestly think if someone went and told Google your competitors were buying links and their sites were gone tomorrow, that those competitors would just accept it and let you have those spots they had before? Or do you think it is more likely that if links didn’t help them make more sales, then it would be some other marketing techinique you were complaining about because your competitors would probably be spending $10,000 or more a month on that?

You can argue all you like, but try to visualize that while you are arguing, those nasty competitors are making sales.

]]> By: Matt http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/04/20/the-internet-marketers-manifesto/#comment-1044 Matt Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:19:37 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/04/20/the-internet-marketers-manifesto/#comment-1044 Paid links will always be a big player in SEO regardless of what Google does with this. Since I've been in the linking business there has always been a looming anxiety about "what if Google changes things" so by now all I can do is grin and enjoy the attention. http://mattstoddart.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-report-paid-links-i-just-vomit.html We have thousands of advertisers who buy links and I was half-expecting to see some unhealthy attrition as a result of this when I returned from SES NYC. Guess what? Our numbers are UP....not down. BRING IT!! Any pub is good pub... Paid links will always be a big player in SEO regardless of what Google does with this. Since I’ve been in the linking business there has always been a looming anxiety about “what if Google changes things” so by now all I can do is grin and enjoy the attention. http://mattstoddart.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-report-paid-links-i-just-vomit.html

We have thousands of advertisers who buy links and I was half-expecting to see some unhealthy attrition as a result of this when I returned from SES NYC. Guess what? Our numbers are UP….not down.

BRING IT!! Any pub is good pub…

]]> By: drum http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/04/20/the-internet-marketers-manifesto/#comment-1043 drum Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:42:57 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/04/20/the-internet-marketers-manifesto/#comment-1043 Bob, Nice writeup. I am a little guy in my industry so I have to side with Matt Cutts on the paid link issue for only one reason - it levels the playing field for me. My top competitors can easily spend $10k or much more a month on paid links and I can not. I have a blog post about this subject where me and my top competitor are having a cat fight in the comment section of the blog here: http://www.rentvine.com/blog/index.php/how-narpm-can-comply-with-googles-guidelines/ Bob,

Nice writeup. I am a little guy in my industry so I have to side with Matt Cutts on the paid link issue for only one reason – it levels the playing field for me. My top competitors can easily spend $10k or much more a month on paid links and I can not.

I have a blog post about this subject where me and my top competitor are having a cat fight in the comment section of the blog here:
http://www.rentvine.com/blog/index.php/how-narpm-can-comply-with-googles-guidelines/

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