Comments on: 10 Resources: SEO Going Underground Again

By: 20 SEO New Year’s Resolutions for 2010 | SEOptimise

20 SEO New Year’s Resolutions for 2010 | SEOptimise — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:50:44 +0000

[...] will stop “doing SEO” and will make my websites succeed on the Web instead, whatever it takes and no matter how you call [...]

By: Samuel Montreal

Samuel Montreal — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:10:50 +0000

So true, the bad apples are make us all SEOs looking bad in the web dev, designers and other web workers even users, look bad and evil. As I do SEO for clients, I still need to promote myself as so. But in 2010, will focus on the common sense approach which is something I’m a big fan anyway; blending Usability, Accessbility, Technical SEO and Online marketing together… :-)
keep it up Ted, always good to read your stuff

By: Joe F

Joe F — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:08:37 +0000

So true, the SEO rules are extremely unfair. I had my carpet cleaning site deindexed by Google. I still don’t know what happened exactly, but it sucks when I come across sites that have spam plastered all over them. But like you said that’s the state of SEO and we must learn to work within the walls.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:32:36 +0000

Great article, which I agree with. Whilst at work I am an SEO Consultant, as that is the service we offer but when working for myself its a totally different story.

By: Damian Doman

Damian Doman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:14:47 +0000

Great! Take care of your business and stop educating. You’ll be calmer and happier:-) Anyway, it’s a really good article!

By: imavex

imavex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:36:56 +0000

Very interesting insight and thank you for sharing your experience. I especially like your quote, “Why should you victimize yourself by calling yourself an SEO?”. Very funny.

By: Weekly Search & Social Coverage: 11/24/09 | Search Engine Journal

Weekly Search & Social Coverage: 11/24/09 | Search Engine Journal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:13:23 +0000

[...] 10 Resources: SEO Going Underground Again – is a bit of a rant from Tad on the joys of being pegged as an SEO out in the online world. He relates his experiences and the venom faced by many of us in social circles. [...]

By: DevonK

DevonK — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:02:21 +0000

Man is that ever true. People are so entrenched in their own ideas of what everything is and how it “should” be done there is no room for movement. I find like business in general, people don’t want to know the “real” risks involved, they want to think whatever they want to and expect the world to revolve around it. Then when they get dropped in the search results they blame everyone else for the situation they asked for or created themselves.

Great Post!

By: Juiceelinks

Juiceelinks — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:46:07 +0000

It is completely a case of a few bad apples… I just had an article dumped from a directory because they considered it to be spam. When I never even wrote the article with the intent of even link building. It was completely PSA (public service announcement).

And yet, other SEO-enabled articles still remain.

Let the witch-hunt begin!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:53:51 +0000

I agree, when work as a SEO consultant that is who and what I am – when working on my own sites I use different user names to keep it all separate, though I sometimes mix them up…

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:50:46 +0000

Great artilce. I really like the last section about ’seo experts’