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AndyBeard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:50:03 -0000

I have no idea what other SEOs charge, I rarely do any SEO for others, and when I do it is normally based upon some kind of equity stake - more partnerships than anything else though effectively it is an extreme version of "pay for performance"

Would you work on the basis of spending months programming an app for me, and only expecting a payoff in 2-4 years? Thought not.

I have been learning SEO for over 4 years, and can make some SEO experts heads spin on certain topics. There are also a number of SEOs I know extremely well who make me look like a newbie in topics I just don't have the time/education to focus on.

With SEO it is often a case that the solution is knowing "Where to tap" (research tons of articles on mechanics and plumbers)
Seemingly small changes can make significant differences when sites have 100k+ pages of content and 10k+ visits/day (to start with)

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Inka — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:02:48 -0000

People consider themselves to be experts because it doesn't take two years to learn SEO. You can literally pickup enough knowledge in half an hour.

The people who make a big deal about SEO are the "SEO Experts" who tell you that to survive online you need to have that company charge you 250 big ones to check a few lines of code and keyword density.

SEO is the single biggest rip-off on the internet today

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New spring trend — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:30:49 -0000

I personally do not believe it is going to be thrown out, because ePerks is after Vlad nail and tooth! They want to ride and squeeze him as much as possible, and not for the money but for publicity. They are using Gorrila marketing to promote their company.

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New spring trend — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:30:49 -0000

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:59:52 -0000

I think the majority of SEO experts still don't fully understand it or make mistakes with it.

Whilst I could rip the ePerks site apart from an SEO perspective, as with most sites, I don't do consulting and I don't particularly feel inclined to help them.

Trace placed the decline in traffic as a result in reduced advertising spend, and to a large part I am inclined to believe that. Large changes can happen - both up and down, but the ad spend fits - the paid reviews are less likely though possible.

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:59:52 -0000

I think the majority of SEO experts still don't fully understand it or make mistakes with it.

Whilst I could rip the ePerks site apart from an SEO perspective, as with most sites, I don't do consulting and I don't particularly feel inclined to help them.

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:38:49 -0000

Interesting Andy,

Thats the first I have heard about that. Thats the thing about SEO you can learn something new every day and still never get it all and once you get close the rules change.

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:38:49 -0000

Interesting Andy,

Thats the first I have heard about that. Thats the thing about SEO you can learn something new every day and still never get it all and once you get close the rules change.

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:13:55 -0000

Look up hanging or dangling pages - I certainly look on dealing with duplicate content using robots.txt as a matter purely when there is no other alternative.

Lots of problems occur in SEO - for instance they have a very clear linking profile of paid blog reviews, all of which are likely detected and slapped.

It isn't a problem of the robots.txt

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:13:55 -0000

Look up hanging or dangling pages - I certainly look on dealing with duplicate content using robots.txt as a matter purely when there is no other alternative.

Lots of problems occur in SEO - for instance they have a very clear linking profile of paid blog reviews, all of which are likely detected and slapped.

It isn't a problem of the robots.txt

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:07:28 -0000

If you look around they used to have a significantly larger base of keywords inbound they no longer have and timeline wise it falls in line with what looks like a design change on the website. Its not the worst thing they could have put in their robots.txt but its certainly not helping their site.

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:07:28 -0000

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:16:54 -0000

It isn't doing any damage the whole site is indexed

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:16:54 -0000

It isn't doing any damage the whole site is indexed

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:14:23 -0000

I agree the suit is about negative blog comments.

However if ePerks tries to say their website and traffic was greatly diminished by the blog I would beg to differ because the robots.txt entry is doing more damage to their website than any negative post on a blog would.

Makes you wonder if ePerks did the robots.txt file on purpose or if its out of incompetence on the webmasters behalf.

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:14:23 -0000

I agree the suit is about negative blog comments.

Makes you wonder if ePerks did the robots.txt file on purpose or if its out of incompetence on the webmasters behalf.

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:00:29 -0000

Hi Mitchell

ePerks don't have a problem being indexed

They have a problem with all the other blogs being indexed which contain unfavourable comments.

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AndyBeard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:00:29 -0000

Hi Mitchell

ePerks don't have a problem being indexed

They have a problem with all the other blogs being indexed which contain unfavourable comments.

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:51:36 -0000

If VLAD wants to end this just send the attorneys this link. - Look at the areas I boxed in Red.
http://www.interiorliving.c...

For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/fa...

How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server

I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.

Now ejerks go fire your webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit its your webmasters fault not anyone elses.

Mitchell
InteriorLiving.Com

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Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:51:36 -0000

If VLAD wants to end this just send the attorneys this link. - Look at the areas I boxed in Red.
http://www.interiorliving.c...

For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/fa...

How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server

I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.

Now ejerks go fire your webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit its your webmasters fault not anyone elses.

Mitchell
InteriorLiving.Com

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Suz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:49:17 -0000

Thanks for your work on this! I'll look forward to hearing how it comes out!

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Suz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:49:17 -0000

Thanks for your work on this! I'll look forward to hearing how it comes out!

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Chris — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:02:23 -0000

Blogged, donated, tagged, and I'm passing it around to some SEO folks I work with.

Andy, thanks for helping Vlad out with this!

http://www.chrisdavies.ca/2...

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Chris — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:02:23 -0000

Blogged, donated, tagged, and I'm passing it around to some SEO folks I work with.

Andy, thanks for helping Vlad out with this!

http://www.chrisdavies.ca/2...

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igorthetroll — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:54:50 -0000

Andy, time to do an investigation on Brabus Ventures owners of ePerks brabusventures.com Who are these people? There is no press release, no Wikipedia article, are they a legally registered company? Do they have a tax id? Are they a legally registered Angel capital fund with SEC?

The more I look into this thing the more fishy it smells. Is this another Spoof?

It sort of reminds me of that movie "The New Republican" I think this is the title.

Anyway, some serious investigation should be done of these purported companies. Are they even an America entity or some foreign soil based individuals? Vlad's lawyer needs to do some investigation.

I checked with Hoovers.com and came up with some records for Brabus companies kevin@brabusonline.com

http://www.hoovers.com/free...

I am sorry guys, there is no Real Estate license no Mortgage Broker license for lending money. Are these some Shell companies?

Maybe I should stop here and let professionals look at this.