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Understanding People's Aversion To SEOs

By: Todd Malicoat
2006-12-20

I tend to take it a bit personal when people hate on SEO - I guess I do understand sometimes - I suppose it's like being a lawyer or something, and I should probably just get used to it.

Link: being a lawyer

I just enjoy search and optimization so much it just bugs me at times. It makes me wonder about the reasons WHY anyhow, so like usual - I thought I'd make a list. I TRIED to give a compliment and some constructive criticism for Digg today - and managed to get hated off the homepage. We're really not all out to get you, nor bad people.

Top 15 Reasons People Hate SEO's
  1. They don't understand it
  2. They think it's black magic
  3. Link valuation and buying is highly convoluted
  4. They still buy submission services
  5. Doug
  6. There's only 10 spots
  7. They lost their FREE traffic to an SEO
  8. Blogspam
  9. Irrelevant search results suck
  10. They use MSN
  11. They think SEO's are always up to something
  12. Like Mom says - they're just jealous
  13. SEO's can't agree on anything *
  14. Bad SEO's overpromise and underdeliver to get your business, and good SEO's won't take your business *
  15. The attack hook
* Thanks Andy

Do you have any theories on why people hate SEO's so much?

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About the Author:
Todd Malicoat aka Stuntdubl made his first horrible looking website full of animated .gifs in 1997, and after fours years of failure and experimentation ended up in the world of SEO and internet marketing in early 2001. He is currently an independent marketing consultant from the SEO school of thought. Todd earned a bachelors of business adminstration from Northwood University in 2003 while running an web design and consulting firm Meta4creations, LLC. Todd is a speaker at both Webmasterworld and Search Engine Strategies conferences.


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