Comments on: Stepping Off the Drug-Fueled Animal Ledge

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 05 May 2011 05:24:26 +0000

I saw a few of my sites go hay wire in the rankings. It made no sense why we moved up or down for certain keywords.

Panda’s are so cute, the update should be Dragon!

By: Ana | Traffic Generation Cafe

Ana | Traffic Generation Cafe — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:50:54 +0000

I agree….

Just read your comment policy, Lisa. :)

I actually do agree that when it comes down to summing up SEO, Aaron Wall is it.

As far as panda update… Some sites deserved it, some not so much, many that did deserve it, didn’t make the “list” – unfortunately.

I am still getting just as many scraping trackbacks (at least I am getting the links, I suppose :), but still…

Ana

By: Scott Polk

Scott Polk — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:37:40 +0000

Michelle – completely agree .. this Black hat vs White Hat crap is old … really old. Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, and informed Clients/Websites are what it is all about. You take the risk and weigh it against the gains, then make a decision and go for it.

Google is Google and that’s how it will be honestly. If you want to swim in the pool you really need to understand the rules and know where the life guard is.

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:34:35 +0000

Is it the high street all over again? The small shop owner can’t keep up with the supermarkets and dissappears.

By: searchengineman

searchengineman — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:22:33 +0000

Aaron Wall seems to be upset and rightfully so (I bet you he see’s first hand how many people are hurting). Once Facebook finally comes out with a decent Search Engine, in the walled garden maybe Webmasters will have a choice to move content and ADS over the Wall, with an alternative to Adsense and relevant eyeballs. Right now what choice do you have, Google can do what it wants. They own the ball.

Searchengineman

By: Fazal Mayar

Fazal Mayar — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:29:43 +0000

Good points Lisa. I get mad easily to seo consultants but seo work isnt easy at all…. especially for competitive keywords!

By: Dave Hood

Dave Hood — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:56:35 +0000

Lisa nice analogy with the athlete and the SEO marathon we are all running. I’m a big Aaron Walls fan, he does it right, but that being said within every SEO strategy there is going to be White Hat and Gray Hat stuff going on.

I agree with Kris, I think you have to take it to the edge now. The rules are changes without any notice from Google. In the end for the business owner it’s not about PR it’s about ROI.

On Aaron SEObook.com there is a video showing how a backlink placed on a high PR site can drive traffic and provide link juice. At the end of the video Aaron discloses the he actually paid he buddy to write that article and it was well worth the money he spent. Is this White Hat? Is this Black Hat? What it is to me is a great ROI on investment, Aaron got what he wanted traffic and link juice.

By: Jim Rudnick

Jim Rudnick — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:20:43 +0000

@Lisa….yup, I’d have to agree that Aaron is a great blogger on all things SEO…but would also note that you ain’t too dang bad yourownself, eh!

great post here. I love the rationale and the notes that in reality, only dang hard work works….all else is futile…and I’d add that for our own Canuck clients, the same is true, eh!

:-)

Jim

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:53:40 +0000

Hi Lisa,

The problem with is that it cannot determine the original source and flags sites (which are the original) are duplicates and scrapers.

One could argue that this will encourage MORE black hat seo rather than less, which is very unfortunate.

Anna

By: Paul L'Acosta

Paul L'Acosta — Mon, 02 May 2011 23:39:57 +0000

All good points Lisa. Risking to be categorized as a “smarty Alec”, your post boils down to one simple thing we should all strive to find in life: balance. See you soon! ~Paul