You’re right, there are a lot of scammers out there who make guarantees about their “SEO” services that no one can make – like a #1 ranking on Google, for example. Or they make claims that suggest these kinds of results, but these claims are worded in such a way that they can ineffectively be fulfilled and as far as the legal jargin in the contract is concerned, they’ve done their job.

But there are also a lot of SEO’s that know the industry inside and out, and even being someone who has earned the right to fir off their mouths, won’t do so out of respect. One of the efforts of my Internet marketing firm is educating potential clients on what to look for in a firm they hire, and how certain results cannot be guaranteed, only the services that are provided.

Fair enough, Google has algorithms and those who understand how they work can influence results – strange that this plain logic defies some people.

However, I would agree with a few points in his article that, a vast majority of SEOs are snake oil salesmen and have no clue what they are talking about and secondly, a lot of these types of SEO are polluting the web.

I’d like to see a proper response (such as MikeTek make a good start) pointing out about 301’ing old articles – sure he’s going to lose traffic if he doesn’t do that!

I’ve emailed him with some ideas and offered him an a response from my blog if he wishes to do so.

Still though.. Makes my teeth grind 🙂

Hmm, maybe try redirecting your pages before changing all their URLs…there’s an example of how a real SEO could have demonstrably helped you, Dvorak.

I almost pissed my pants when he mentioned “typing in the URL”, as if “http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=3100 ” is any easier to remember. Not to mention the fact that SEO aims to imrpove your ranking in results, not help people remember the exact URL for your latest blog post. Perhaps the reason his readers dropped is because he was weighing his creative efforts in on slandering SEOs instead of writing decent content for his blog.

I’m not even going to go into his bit about tags, but considering his idea of SEO, based on this article, is long URL’s and tags, he seriously needs to do more research before he fires off his mouth, or his “male parts”.