seorefugee.com— Finally someone said it. And said it well. The new rulers of the web are Digg, delicious, MySpace, and other social media sites. Good bye Google, Yahoo, and MSN!
Mar 30, 2007View in Crawl 4
Sure it's "plain old marketing" but what the hell does that mean? Besides whatever it is you do, the term could also cover door-to-door salesmen and traveling medicine shows. So fine, call yourself and SEO or a plain old marketer, but it tells me (and you) nothing about what you really do.
The SEO industry is more marketing than web development. It is just the way things have evolved, however the core of SEO is unchanged and will remain so as long as there is automatic scoring and ranking of content. I have posted a longer comment over at the blog in question.
OK, so you're all marketers. Marketing according to Wikipedia is "is one of the terms in academia that does not have one commonly agreed upon definition. Even after a better part of a century the debate continues."So basically you're replacing a worn out and misleading term, "Search Engine Optimizer," with a vague and non-descriptive one, "marketer." I guess that's progress. But wouldn't it be helpful if you had a job description that actually told people (including yourselves) what you did.
@ Bigdoug...Netscape? Is that some new gadget to help fish escape the nets? ha haSeriously, I thought the article was well-written, provided high quality analysis, offered worthwhile insight, and develops an innovated way to perceive the SEO field.
jimbocookMar 30, 2007
Sure it's "plain old marketing" but what the hell does that mean? Besides whatever it is you do, the term could also cover door-to-door salesmen and traveling medicine shows. So fine, call yourself and SEO or a plain old marketer, but it tells me (and you) nothing about what you really do.
sorvojaMar 30, 2007
The SEO industry is more marketing than web development. It is just the way things have evolved, however the core of SEO is unchanged and will remain so as long as there is automatic scoring and ranking of content. I have posted a longer comment over at the blog in question.
skitzzoMar 30, 2007
Whether SEO is dead or not remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure... any SEO story submitted to Digg is DOA.
jimbocookMar 30, 2007
OK, so you're all marketers. Marketing according to Wikipedia is "is one of the terms in academia that does not have one commonly agreed upon definition. Even after a better part of a century the debate continues."So basically you're replacing a worn out and misleading term, "Search Engine Optimizer," with a vague and non-descriptive one, "marketer." I guess that's progress. But wouldn't it be helpful if you had a job description that actually told people (including yourselves) what you did.
trghpyMar 30, 2007
Descriptive titles is dead.RIP.
bigdougMar 30, 2007
Remember Netscape?
jrothraMar 31, 2007
@ Bigdoug...Netscape? Is that some new gadget to help fish escape the nets? ha haSeriously, I thought the article was well-written, provided high quality analysis, offered worthwhile insight, and develops an innovated way to perceive the SEO field.
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