Comments on: Forbes article about SEO for small businesses, is it 1999?

By: pyrmont

pyrmont — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:18:21 +0000

Not Sure about you Guys, as for Me, I have just discovered my new SEO Guru.
Patrick you are sacked

By: Vinay

Vinay — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:09:42 +0000

Thanks Rand.. for the update! @Patrick.. I guess Rand gave us a good overview of what went in the interview..! .. Did you try contacting her.. any success? Let us know. May be she should subscribe to BlogStorm to know SEO better ?

By: Kenneth Dreyer

Kenneth Dreyer — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:28:08 +0000

She looks good, so I’m going to let here get away with this one!

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:47:21 +0000

She’s a naughty girl, Patrick, for writing a misguided piece like that. I would go over there and spank her for that.

By: John Wesley

John Wesley — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:40:03 +0000

Good find. Gives me hope that the beginner oriented online marketing site I’m working might be useful to a few people.

By: il maistro - tecnologia

il maistro - tecnologia — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:54:51 +0000

Incredible! She is beautiful but please! please! remember that is better to keep your mouth shut rather than trying to explain something that you don’t have a clue about!

By: randfish

randfish — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:44:49 +0000

I actually spent a good part of the interview explaining CSS vs. HTML and talking about how websites function – we never got into any depth of detail on any topic, and she never even asked me any SEO questions. I’ve talked to a lot of reporters for a lot of stories, I think is just a case where the intent was to present a very simple, beginner level article, but I really wish journalists would start the practice of sending stories through editors who could critique the accuracy and quality of the facts being presented. It is disappointing to see the misinformation about keywords so blatantly wrong.

By: Rosenstand

Rosenstand — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:41:36 +0000

Well… We have numerous “SEO Experts” in Denmark preaching the same B.S. over and over again – and too many companies buy their crap. Also Danish newspapers tend to print the same crap. I really don’t know what to do about it other than keep blogging, educating and so on.

And… I’ll be happy to invite Melanie Lindner to a silent island resort where I can educate her during a couple of weeks

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:56:44 +0000

Vinay she took the time to interview Rand about SEO so why not spend an extra few minutes asking him to read it through before publishing? I’m sure Rand wouldn’t want his name attaching to any misleading information.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:26:35 +0000

Melanie Lindner looks Beautiful but doesn’t sound the same on SEO! And Patrick, not all reporters know the technical side of SEO or an expert themself. I bet she must have few of her colleagues (who have no clue about SEO /who think SEO is all about stuffing keywords!!) if they knew somthing about SEO just to add up to the content and also shows poor research over the term!

Is she aware of Google & Wikipedia.. she could have done few search to spice up the article! We can’t blame her.. she got the whole idea of SEO wrong..and let’s excuse her!

And yea.. she looks gorgeous .. Searching for her name on Google brings up FaceBook & LinkedIn profile… if someone is interested in !! Oops