George, I agree with you as well.

Wynne, I listed #1 as a client misconception, because they have been fed this info before. I am not blaming the client, but stating that these are misconceptions because they have been wrongly informed. I also mentioned educating the clients for this reason.

In terms of targeting content at our client vs content for other seos – that’s why I am creating another blog specifically aiming terms at potential clients and talking in their language and on their level.

There’s no way that they know the difference between someone who will generate 1000 backlinks for $50, and the legitimate one who charges them substantially more to get them real profitable results that they can bank, until they have worked with a few people.

In the end I think it comes down to networking. The best way to find leads is not through ppc or seo or other online methods. In my opinion it is through networking with business clients that you’ve met in person.

The main thing that we need to get rid of this situation is to properly educate the clients about this..

It all goes back to the best thing I learned in college: KISS – Keep it simple stupid!

Excellent post, I’ve bookmarked it already.

It might be worth noting that you use the Feed output for Google Alerts as an input to your RSS aggregation plugin.

And another way to only post quality content is to first subscribe to your feeds through Google Reader, use the Share button as you read through them and then use your Shared feed as the input to Wp-O-Matic. I know it’s an extra step but I prefer Google Reader to the Wordpress interface, I can get through a lot more posts that way (and make notes along the way with the Notes feature).

Cheers!