The Minority Report

Well it seems as if that sneaky ol’ John Dvorak^W riled someone up again. When will he learn that controversy just doesn’t sell pageviews (PCMag is all ‘net now…)?

SEO Scoop tees off on Dvorak first:

Don’t you just hate it when someone bashes your industry – and calls you names – based on faulty information, inadequate testing and no education?

and…

Hey John! Shut up. Come back and call us names when you have any idea at all about what you are talking about, ok?

Dvorak Has Nerve To Bash SEO As If He Had A Clue | SEO Scoop

Next up to bat, we have SEOAly with her much more thoughtful analysis (read less snarky). This is actually long and thought out and I found the article because I was going to tag her (plus she’s smart and hot and I’d probably bone her) in my fun little blog tag thing with David Leonhardt’s bloggy, taggy thingy. This one is worth the read, the first one is pretty much quoted there.

I do, however, take exception to virtually every word of Mr. Dvorak’s rant, which is based entirely upon his own ignorance – without a shred of fact or truth.

Do-It-Yourself SEO Fiascoes: The Real Trouble With Search Engine Optimization | SEOAly SEO Book is a freaking wealth of SEO information and here is their take (go back and browse their site after you bookmark this fine clip job).

How did John come to these results? Well he changed his URLs based on “free” advice, and he got what he paid for. People who expect the world handed to them for free are always disappointed with the results, and expect a steady paycheck for bitching about and externalizing their own character flaws & ignorance.

John Dvorak – a Good Example of Why Many Media Companies Deserve to go Bankrupt : SEO Book.com

I totally agree with the headline of Econsultancy, “John Dvorak doesn’t get SEO, but knows how to linkbait“. That’s for damned sure. John Dvorak
has
been linkbaiting
long before linkbaiting
was even
a termJohn Dvorak has been linkbaiting long before linkbaiting was even a term.  The dude is older then dirt and has been around writing about the computer industry long before many of us (my other reader is 12) have been born.  Screw whether he’s right or wrong on the topic of SEO…copy what works for him! Damned good writing and controversy.

Writing that “SEO works great” and “Google is great” just doesn’t light up the ol’ electrons, ya know??

All the bloggers that actually get traffic are talking about him and how many ads on PCmag.com just got clicked?

And frankly, here is a little p.s. to this post. He’s mostly right. SEO is a bunch of bullshit that changes everytime Google changes the algo. Putting up content, good content is the key. We all know it.

p.p.s. SEOAly is Alysson Fergison not Stacy Ferguson… ;)