The SEO Devil’s Gentleman and Maybe Some Marketing Misconceptions
by Brian on Nov.05, 2008, under More SEOMatrix
client: “My web designer is at fault for making my website inhospitable to search engine spiders.”
devilish gentleman 1: ”It’s 2008, your designer should have set your website up for fundamental and scalable SEO success.”
devilish gentleman 2: ”Your web designer is paid to create a beautiful site and nothing more — how could he or she possibly invest their time in creating unique title tags and a zillion other attributes and elements for every page.”
client: “search engine submissions are critical
devilish gentleman 1: “Google will come around eventually (a la The Thin Red Line effect) and find, recognize, and index my site.”
devilish gentleman 2: “You do need to submit your sites to sentient run directories like dmoz and yahoo.”
client:”seo is expensive”
devilish gentleman 1: “depends on who your hiring”
devilish gentleman 2: “depends on what they are doing”
devilish gentleman 3: “depends on the industry you are in”
devilish gentleman 4: “depends on the current state of affairs of your website”
devilish gentleman 5: “depends on the keywords you are going after”
devilish gentleman 6: “depends on your goals”
devilish gentleman 7: “depends on the results your going to hold them to”
devilish gentleman 8: “depends on the popularity of the SEO firms blog”
client: “seo is cheap”
devilish gentleman: “can you say help in spanish”
client: “seo is hard”
devilish gentleman: “the fundamentals of SEO don’t change, only the emphasis on certain facors in Google’s algorithm do”
client: “silly rabbit, youtube is for kids”
devilish gentleman: “according to marketingvox.com 50% of youtube viewers are within the ages of 35-64. So now we know what granny has been up to.”
client: “My website is doing swell. I am capturing a huge part of my Internet market share”
devilish gentleman: “I can show you a tri color synopsis of what Compete, Alexa, and Spyfu have to say about that.”
client: “PPC is better than organic SEO”
devilish gentleman: “wait for Google to mandate mesothelioma like minimum CPC bids of $85″
client: “Organic SEO is better than PPC”
devilish gentleman: “yes, it will take over 3000 man-hours to get you on the first page of Google for “shingle” — at $400 an hour that would be well, pretty expensive.”
client: “seo takes time”
devilish gentleman: “have you ever heard of a blog”
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