Typical Ignorant, Lying Telephone Solicitor I don’t do telephone cold calling but if I did and you got a call from me you wouldn’t get a telephone solicitor who claims to have four years of internet marketing experience but doesn’t know the difference between organic
Canadian culture isn’t much different than ours. I mean when was the last time you heard anyone say, “Let’s stay home and order some Canadian food”? If you’ve watched the comedy movie Canadian Bacon, however, you might agree with some of the stereotypes
If a company is offering a 90 day guarantee on their SEO services they really aught to know what it is they are guaranteeing, don’t you think? I got a call from verifiedbusinesslistings.com and it took me a half hour of grilling a sales rep and her manager to get an answer to th
This company is a scam. I got an email from them regarding one of my clients saying they had received a new query on their millionads listing. I was naturally curious since I don’t remember registering my client with a company called millionads and an actual query from one of t
Rank India emailed me offering SEO services starting at $99 per month. That’s about as much as I would like to pay for a wholesale rate – if they are any good. Or have any honesty. Rank India Taking Money and Not Giving Anything in Return My first question to them was,
The SEO industry has long been taking advantage of the ignorance of business owners about SEO to continue pricing SEO in ways that just don’t make sense and further reinforce the image of SEO as an illegitimate stepchild of the marketing industry. It wasn’t that long ago
This will be the second post in our Truth In Marketing series about Wordtracker. They have some fine tools and an informative website but they sure don’t mind twisting the facts to try to motivate their potential buyers to use their SEO tools. In an article published today on t
In the building industry standard practice is to collect 50% of the cost of the job up front and the other half when the job is completed to the customer’s satisfaction. That’s basically the contractor saying if the customer wants to be a (insert favorite pejorative term)
At least that’s what the “Google Places Specialist” phone recording I just listened to said, and I don’t doubt it. Why do people spend so much money on Yellow Pages advertising anyway? If you’re still doing that, STOP! Should you then hire a “Goog
Misleading stats seems to be Standard Operating Procedure for internet marketing companies. I just got a call today from someone representing our local TV news station, KEPR, asking if I wanted to advertise my painting business on the TV station’s website for $150 per month.
This bears repeating because I got another call from CityGrid (Citysearch) regarding a listing for one of my clients. I told the gentleman I was an SEO company just trying to get backlinks to my client’s website and he told me that since Google’s Panda update it doesn̵
I went into All Automotive on Clearwater Ave. the other day to inquire about their U-Haul services and got to asking them about their website (typical for me, as you may have guessed). Just for fun I decided to do a little keyword research for them. I went home to do a Google search
Just got a call from CityGrid which is a company that feeds listing information to online directories. They informed me Google doesn’t count listings without content any more because of Google’s Penguin update. Furthermore the nice lady said I would only be able to get con
I wonder when Google is going to realize they have unleashed a monster. In the last few months they have been saying they are giving more weight to social media “likes” and “follows” and less to backlinks. Whole industries have been spawned to make social a mai
In an email sent out today Noble Samurai had this to say about the new Disavow Tool for webmasters put out by Google. In the email they said: “Yesterday Google dealt (what could be) the final devastating blow which brings SEO (and link-building) as we know it to its knees ̵
Great article re: web designers who “do SEO” (or say they do): Yeah… we do SEO, sort of (LINK NOT WORKING? – Click on the title at the top of this post or the “Read More” at the bottom to be taken to the single post page.)
In an email today sent from Wordtracker trying to promote their SEO tools they state that based on a 2008 report by Bill Tancer at Hitwise, that for any given topic the top 100 keywords account for just 5.7% of all website traffic – while long tail keywords account for the remaining 9
Got a sales call today from uswebsitebuilder.com, also doing business as fruitengine.com, saying they could guarantee top placement on Google search results. The girl on the phone said they were guaranteeing the number #1 spot for 20 keywords so they had my interest, and my grilling m