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Originally Posted by epitome
You're all snake oil salesman, though. If you were actually any good at it you'd be too busy making money by ranking your own campaigns. Selling what you do to any ol' schmo for $XX/hr. would be insulting.
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I don't mind a lot of things in the this biz. I get all the lying and stealing and cutthroat tactics. But personally, i've always felt that SEO guys are the worst in that they exist only to prey on ignorant and naive people. They offer no guarantees. They don't risk anything up front. They make tons of promises which always go unfulfilled and eventually the relationship dies with the "consultant" blaming algo updates.
And as you've said, if he was capable of doing anything beyond creating a blog and crafting page titles, headlines and articles with the keywords he wanted, he'd be taking up 5 of the top 10 results for "adult seo", instead of being nowhere to be found. I mean that phrase isn't even going to make him money and he can't get it - in spite of being VERY low competition. But he'll have others believe he can get them in top spots for competitive phrases.... for a price of course. He's such a fucking moron, it hasn't even occurred to him to do what others are doing and then start ranking parasite pages, facebook pages, other profile pages etc etc etc etc. If my business depended on ranking for nonsense phrases with low competition, i'd be focused on owning all top 10 results before spouting off about the tactics of others who out-rank him.