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You just took five minutes of my time telling me how bad something was and not one second offering an alternative. For all the bad things your critique basicall

You just took five minutes of my time telling me how bad something was and not one second offering an alternative. For all the bad things your critique basically just boiled down to "not it's not" without offering proof or links. Do you see something wrong with this picture? As a reader all I've got from your comment is angry guy doesn't like SEO and thinks all SEO blogging is for shit. I apologize for being so blunt, but this is not a very useful comment. Perhaps the goal here is to establish how much you know, but even then it really fails to convince the reader. It'd been great if it had been a bit more constructive. Obviously you believe you know what you're talking about.

toumhi 15y ago
I second that. Pointing out what a good SEO strategy is and how it opposes the points described in the article would have been helpful. If somebody interested in improving their SEO skills should not read well-known SEO blogs then what does the OP suggest? I personally follow SEOMOz and a few established SEO and link building blogs, but would be interested in hearing other suggestions.
- franze 15y ago
  i'm telling you the same thing i told the CEO of an international publishing house: read a book instead! Search Engine Marketing Incorporated http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/dp/0136068685/ref=dp_ob_title_bk http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/d... [not an affiliate link] sadly, nobody ever does.
  - paulhauggis 15y ago
    You're telling us to read a 4 year old book on technology that changes on a monthly basis? Lots of SEO involves guess work. Google changes its algorithm constantly. That's the reason nobody reads books on SEO. It's the same for web development.
    - franze 15y ago
      >You're telling us to read a 4 year old book yes >Lots of SEO involves guess work. no everything is measurable, if you can't measure it, don't do it. >on technology that changes on a monthly basis? if you don't have a model of how SEO works, you can not improve on this model, even with new information. that books provides a - sustainable, working, applicable, employable - model. >That's the reason nobody reads books on SEO. It's the same for web development. ... (words fail me)

toumhi 15y ago

I second that. Pointing out what a good SEO strategy is and how it opposes the points described in the article would have been helpful. If somebody interested in improving their SEO skills should not read well-known SEO blogs then what does the OP suggest? I personally follow SEOMOz and a few established SEO and link building blogs, but would be interested in hearing other suggestions.

franze 15y ago
i'm telling you the same thing i told the CEO of an international publishing house: read a book instead! Search Engine Marketing Incorporated http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/dp/0136068685/ref=dp_ob_title_bk http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/d... [not an affiliate link] sadly, nobody ever does.
- paulhauggis 15y ago
  You're telling us to read a 4 year old book on technology that changes on a monthly basis? Lots of SEO involves guess work. Google changes its algorithm constantly. That's the reason nobody reads books on SEO. It's the same for web development.
  - franze 15y ago
    >You're telling us to read a 4 year old book yes >Lots of SEO involves guess work. no everything is measurable, if you can't measure it, don't do it. >on technology that changes on a monthly basis? if you don't have a model of how SEO works, you can not improve on this model, even with new information. that books provides a - sustainable, working, applicable, employable - model. >That's the reason nobody reads books on SEO. It's the same for web development. ... (words fail me)