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By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:04:30 +0000

Somebody think about the poor SEOs!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:55:33 +0000

Clients!!! they think it’s ok to ring you up & talk about your work. Get Skype…

The worst ones are those that ring you up with new products they’ve launched that will cure famine & AIDs & shit and need me to help get the news out, but half the time they forget I’m busy A/B testing if a picture of a kitten in a pink hat will convert better than a kitten in Purple hat… Or rickrolling German dental workers.

By: Alessio Madeyski

Alessio Madeyski — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:53:52 +0000

AHAH. great post here Sean!
I work in house so I don’t have problems with client. But I tried to HELP FOR FREE some other companies just to improve my skills and teach them what I’m learning about SEO.
The boss said to me: “well, I think it’s not important optimize the page right now, nor even metas…because we have other things to do first, like increase the number of clients buying other services”. YEAH! you are an online company, how could you increase your customers if they don’t find you in the web if not for searching the company name (that’s not our goal, right?). And I said…I’m working for free, it’s an opportunity for me to increase my knowledge as SEO for a small company different from mine, let’s try and then we can talk over the results we get.
NOTHING! they don’t understand, and I decided to stop helping them out. I mean, OK being good and calm, but that’s not the way.

Another thing that happens all the time is:
“Hey, I’ve read on SEOmoz this thing…could you please try to see if it’s ok for us to do it? ”
“No”
“why not?”
“because 5 years ago when we started, they taught us how to do it, and so let’s keep it in this way”
“yeah…but SEO evolves, and so should we. If we don’t try, we’ll never know…aren’t you curious to get your hands dirty?”
” [ weird silence and face staring at nothing]”

so, there are two examples!