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In big news today Matt Cutts says that page rank is actualy good for something….getting your site crawled faster.  It seems that is the way the Google creepy, crawly spider goes about its business and here is the little graph he offers up in his slideshow.

Now the question is….I had a new post, maybe even this post crawled in 5-8 mintues and I am a little PR2, so how much faster would I get crawled if I was a PR4 or PR6.  I think I will still be able to sleep at night at my current page rank level.

FYI: This post was indexed within 4 minutes.

This article on an SEO blog is hacked, spun and regurgitated so badly that it made me laugh.

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Here is another exerpt from that blog and it amazes that someone actually took the time to post it.

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I have been wondering how SEO’s that don’t speak or write English are able to do a proper job optimizing for it?  I know you can pretty much learn most SEO skills in any language but since much of SEO is reading, writing and optimizing for the English language I just don’t see it being worthwhile regardless of how cheap the service is.  Here is an example of an obvious non-native English speaking SEO advertising on DigitalPoint:

Im offer offsite optimization service for only $120

What includes on the package?
-Article writing + submission
-press release writing + submission
-directory submission
-rss submission
-forum post backlinks
-blog commenting

I have posted a reply asking who will be writing all this content, and I seriously doubt he has a native English speaker/writer on staff.  This same service might be two or three times as expensive from an English speaking/writing SEO but the value your website recieves from it will be tenfold or more.  I just don’t see the value in hiring an SEO that does not speak/write the langauge your site is developed in.

I have seen this quite often and just can’t figure it out….if you are a real ‘SEO’ why would you advertise other SEO competitors right on your own site.  I mean even if you get a click for the $1 or $2 isn’t it better to maybe get a long-term client instead?  Personally I would be very wary of buying a service from any site that advertises its’ direct competition.

So I have been looking around to buy some good quality advertising spots to promote this blog and here is an example of what someone was trying to sell me.

“high quality SEO blog”

and his private message to me:

“This is a very exclusive deal and only you and one or two more person will be getting it. The blog is total quality and I am sure you too are aware that its impossible to find good seo ads.  The ad from the blog may also give you natural traffic”

and now for the pay-off pitch, here is an exerpt from the first blog post I read on this ‘high’ quality SEO blog:

This is my first post in last 10 days and I felt to write it to tell current subscribers and readers why I am writing so less on the blog.

“The reason is, this blog was started as a blog which can share my SEO knowledge with others as well as to establish nBridges Media as SEO Brand. Now I did got decent success in both but the growth was very slow and because I wasn’t make any money from this blog, it don’t make any sense to spend hours writing content for it. I can ofcourse spend more effort into the site now and make it a premium SEO blog as I have already done the hard work but I feels somehow it don’t align with what I am doing currently and planning to do next in coming 6 months.”

All I can say to this is WoW!

Here we go again…besides the fact that 5000 directory submissions will probably get you banned it seems there is no shortage of folks offering this SEO (Stupid Egghead Option) on DP and we are supposed to believe they are working for $0.50 an hour.  I understand that there are some countries around the world where the average hourly salary is quite low but I seriously doubt you are getting many folks using computers for the $0.50 an hour range.

and they are offering this with up to 5 titles, etc…the length of each manual submission is probably close to a minute a site but when I called them out in the post I said the following:

“Your prices seem quite low but I am curious, if a manual submission takes at least 30 seconds and you do 5,000 of them it will take over 41 hours of work, and you charge $38, so I am to believe you pay your workers less than $1 an hour and there is still money for profit? Please explain and I might give your service a try.”

The reply I got is great, not sure what it means but I know it is GREAT!

“yes, you are right. I am offering dedicated link builders to work on your projects. so they can work efficiently and take care to Google spam penalty. I have sent you PM. Plz check and waiting for your reply.”

I think I will be passing on this service but I can promise you that many fellow DP’ers will be using it.

Here is more reason to be very wary of anyone guaranteeing results.

I found an interesting trend chart at Odesk.com, it shows a huge increase in postings for SEO work over the past year.

I think this is a bit of a double edge sword though; on one hand it is always good to see your chosen career path have an increase in interest but at the same time I know the quality of the overseas SEO’s that are biding on these projects.  My hope is that most of the buyers of these SEO services have educated themselves a bit so they know the difference between a good SEO and one that is trying to take advantage of an industry buzz.  While I am pleasantly pleased with the apparent surge in interest in SEO, especially in the US and UK (I hope it spreads to Canada) I am concerned with the number of SEO pretenders offering guaranteed results and search engine submisions along with other flakey services, including blog commenting in poor English and a gazillion automated directory submissions.  These strategies are close to useless and can actually harm a website in the long-term.

Besides the above I am also worried that decision makers will have one bad experience in SEO and it will ruin the opportunity for the industry in the future.

There was an interesting post over at SEO Book titled:  Buying Links vs Buying Rankings vs Stealing Content vs Selling Scams

It focuses on the hypocrisy that is present when it comes to link building, buying rank and the morality of it all.  Personally I have a problem with Google passing judgement on any site that sells advertising links, saying they are attempting to game the search results but then they go ahead and sell top sponsor ad space to the highest bidder.  So how exactly is that providing their searchers with the most relevant results?

I will briefly touch on one of the most important things to look for when hiring an SEO company.  Look for a company that includes a portfolio or case study section on their site.  It is important to have at least a glimpse into the type of work the firm has done in the past.

Here is a perfect example of a company that is probably a complete waste of money.  Besides their obviously poor English skills and the fact that they offer search engine submission as part of their service.   The portfolio page, http://www.bluedelightconsultant.com/portfolio.html is just a collection of barely recognizable images with no live links and no mention of what terms they achieved ranking for.