Selling search advice or snake oil?

When the emperor has no clothes, you can just make stuff up.  SEO is still a haven for unemployed corporate bureaucrats, peddling their wares to the unsuspecting– like a fat person trying to tell you how to lose weight.  Let’s look at one recent example– we are not making this up!

Exposing these self proclaimed “internet [...]

I was contacted the other night on Facebook by a supposed ‘SEO Expert’ looking for work. After a moment of talking with this individual (who will remain anonymous), they immediately began to set off alarms. I asked for a sample of their work, and after a long spiel about everything they’ve done, finally delivered a [...]

Last week, I was approached by a snake oil SEO vendor, who shall remain unnamed. For the low, low price of $49 a month, you can dominate the search engines and directories. And then there’s a premium tier at $100 a month and a top tier at $200 a month. At the [...]

A colleague contacted me the other day, ranting about a lady that was pushing SEO and how she was a total scam.  Her presentation was focused on DAO– something she made up.  From her slides, DAO is the next step– the successor to SEO. But if your own site sucks from a SEO standpoint, [...]