Comments on: Ignore Robert Scoble, SEO Still Matters For SMBs

By: Ben Joven

Ben Joven — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:57:06 +0000

SEO is very relevant and more important than ever. Personalized search, real-time search and Google Buzz are things that are going to confuse more and more people and proficient strategist are needed more than ever to help navigate through the jungle and clear up the air for small business owners who may be scratching their heads.

By: Evee

Evee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:14:36 +0000

Whoopeedoo hahaha

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:21 +0000

>>which is another way of saying that SEO is dramatically less important..

All of that other stuff *is* seo. You just don’t know it.

Ignorance does not make you insightful, Robert. That’s what’s so comical about this.

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:53:57 +0000

>>Good bloggers have controversial titles.

Or talent.

By: Matches Malone

Matches Malone — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:29:09 +0000

Two things I don’t think anyone else has brought up yet, or, if they have, I missed it. In any case: 1) The Scobe was able to be the first to comment on this post, which is, well, a bit of paranoia if you ask me, and more importantly, B) Comments on the post in question on his site are closed, whereas here I can comment a month and a half later.

This to me says it all.

By: Rafael Marquez

Rafael Marquez — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:43:20 +0000

SEO is dead, long live SEO! Pretty much sums up my take on all this.

By: Anne Zinta

Anne Zinta — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:58:32 +0000

BTW iamspammer.com is not a site :)

Thanks for the Game “on” Lisa

By: Anne Zinta

Anne Zinta — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:55:25 +0000

WTF… some of the worst comments in response to the article (not including mine :) ..its very basic like 10% of them) because we are not having healthy debate here. Though Robert was somewhat right because no one can ignore emerging SEO (..oh SMO) techniques that complements with Internet marketing aka OM :) but he was thrashed rather badly. Just because he used phony title….uff Bad World this is LOL

By: Bob Stanke

Bob Stanke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:37:55 +0000

“consumer electronic stores in the 1980’s” – HA! Anyone can get a job at Best Buy or National Camera Exchange! That doesn’t impress me!

Why would you even admit to that!?!?!?

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:58:17 +0000

Okay, I’ve very late on this one. Thank goodness for a much deserved break…

Anyhow. I think a few have already noted that we’re all agreeing on the same thing, but I’ll disagree. I’m not sure exactly what traditional SEO is. So someone please point that out to me. If you’re talking keyword stuffing and hidden text, then okay, I’ll agree, traditional SEO doesn’t work ;)

Lets face it for as long as I can remember the search engines have been updating their algorithms, thankfully not set in stone (or should that be cement?), constantly trying to provide better answers to our questions. Traditional SEO pretty much has always included a social aspect, even it it required reading something written by someone else offline and giving your $0.02 worth on it. Well at least that’s how I’ve always seen it, then again I’ve tried to avoid the cesspool that is the internet ;)

I can’t help but agree that Robert Scoble puts SEO in a negative light by starting off the way he does. Sadly here in South Africa bandwidth is terrible (as it is in much of the world), nobody watches video longer than 5min. So, by my reckoning the damage has been done at this point. The point here is that we’ve moved past calling Online Marketing just SEO. This has been the case of quite some time. However, I’m not sure Robert puts gets this across and subsequently has the viewer asking the right questions. What are the right questions? Well that varies, on a good deal many things.

Lisa, I didn’t see this as a personal attack. But then again I’m pretty thick skinned and say a lot worse things, to people I actually like. I think the title is a fair enough response to the original title: “2010: the year SEO isn’t important anymore?” Don’t forget that this does fall under the Scobleizer banner. I can’t help but feel that the response “Ignore Robert Scoble, SEO Still Matters For SMBs” to be fair enough. Dunce image… comical and hardly the end of the world.

Many have called the death of SEO, Blogs… bad 80’s hairdo’s, but they continue to survive. But if there is anyone out there that really things that Search Engines and SEO doesn’t matter, I’ve got one thing to say. Here’s a dare:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

Use it don’t use it. (sorry for the ramble and waffle)