Could you have gotten the same point across with, I don’t know, something like: “Raygoza is a con artist -- a 21st century snake oil salesman who uses the internet to stalk his prey. Now, I might argue that the big banks and shady mortgage lenders...
SEO often has a voodoo magic reputation and SEO’s characterized as “snake oil salesman”, so it is imperative that SEO be transparent with their processes and methods. Leaders can inspire people and motivate them to rise like a phoenix.
Though RedZone itself is gone from the grid, other systems that claim to do "not quite" what RZ did are still available, under the guise of being security systems that are not much more than snake oil.
Issues of snake oil (products being sold claiming to do something they can't- something that RedZone was, in spades) are only the tip of the iceberg. Not necessarily about this particular case (though I'm sure people will have those, and seriously...
Signs of an SEO Snake Oil Salesman - Yahoo Advertising Blog Five signs your new SEO client may suck - Search Engine People First spotted at Webmasterworld, BingBot arrived yesterday, and Bing later confirmed a staged rollout is underway a couple...
In fact, these face-value definitions are so pervasive that people still dismiss SEO professionals as snake-oil salesmen or people who game the search engines to get top positions. The term "search-engine friendly design" has always been...
He decided to call search engine optimizers, "goat sacrificers and snake oil salesmen. By the way, I'd provide the same kind of response if he'd called public relations people flacks and spin doctors.
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An article in a major publication last week disparaged SEO, calling it "snake oil" once again. How did the columnist decide SEO doesn't work, and that its practitioners are a bunch of snake oil salesmen?
In today's organic search engine optimization column, "Ignorance: The Trouble with People Who Claim SEO is Snake Oil," Mark Jackson asks if writing an "interesting" and "provocative" column about SEO means facts are optional.
As it is, many businesses turn up an eyebrow at the purveyors of search engine services as though we're wearing a top hat, fake moustache, and trying to sell them snake oil tonic. While many people want to create respectable standards for the...
Now, I'm not naÔï¿Â½Ã”¯ve to the snake oil salesmen within SEO, and I've written on how to tell these fast-talkers apart from truly ethical shops. As SEO is extremely volatile, people are often gun-shy about making assertions on search gains.
Some people sell snake oil in our industry. This is my first post to the OPEN Forum, so I'm pretty sure that most people reading this will not know who the heck I am. There are Web design firms that "say" they do SEO, but have no clue what it...
Don't buy lines about "guaranteed number one rankings" or other agency snake oil. This seems simple enough, but some people still decide on SEO services rather hastily. It can happen to anyone. With so many so-called search professionals on the...
Small Business Ideas Forum "It's pretty apparent that a lot of people think SEO = snake oil, and that it's mostly a big con. Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in our own Search Engine Watch Forums, and...
Pasternack weighs in at Calacanis' site, to give support to a kindred soul, but also to question the statistics behind his comment that "90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman. SEO, like any other industry, is going to have people...
Some of these sources are valuable and useful; others, sadly, are created by people who either don't know what they're talking about or worse, are intent on peddling the online equivalent of snake oil and making a buck off the gullible and clueless.
You won't find any snake oil or flaky discussions of algorithms du jour in this book, unlike (sadly) some other similar books or websites that I've seen. Back in the early days of the web, simply getting online was quite a challenge for most people.
