Comments on: ePerks & iHype – Legal Kneejerk – Sues Blogger

By: AndyBeard

AndyBeard — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:50:03 +0000

I have no idea what other SEOs charge, I rarely do any SEO for others, and when I do it is normally based upon some kind of equity stake - more partnerships than anything else though effectively it is an extreme version of "pay for performance"

Would you work on the basis of spending months programming an app for me, and only expecting a payoff in 2-4 years? Thought not.

I have been learning SEO for over 4 years, and can make some SEO experts heads spin on certain topics. There are also a number of SEOs I know extremely well who make me look like a newbie in topics I just don't have the time/education to focus on.

With SEO it is often a case that the solution is knowing "Where to tap" (research tons of articles on mechanics and plumbers)
Seemingly small changes can make significant differences when sites have 100k+ pages of content and 10k+ visits/day (to start with)

By: Inka

Inka — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:02:48 +0000

People consider themselves to be experts because it doesn't take two years to learn SEO. You can literally pickup enough knowledge in half an hour.

The people who make a big deal about SEO are the "SEO Experts" who tell you that to survive online you need to have that company charge you 250 big ones to check a few lines of code and keyword density.

SEO is the single biggest rip-off on the internet today

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By: New spring trend

New spring trend — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:30:49 +0000

I personally do not believe it is going to be thrown out, because ePerks is after Vlad nail and tooth! They want to ride and squeeze him as much as possible, and not for the money but for publicity. They are using Gorrila marketing to promote their company.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:59:52 +0000

I think the majority of SEO experts still don’t fully understand it or make mistakes with it.

Whilst I could rip the ePerks site apart from an SEO perspective, as with most sites, I don’t do consulting and I don’t particularly feel inclined to help them.

Trace placed the decline in traffic as a result in reduced advertising spend, and to a large part I am inclined to believe that. Large changes can happen – both up and down, but the ad spend fits – the paid reviews are less likely though possible.

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:38:49 +0000

Interesting Andy,

Thats the first I have heard about that. Thats the thing about SEO you can learn something new every day and still never get it all and once you get close the rules change.