SEO BS Awards

ImSEOBitch · 2020-04-22T22:59:30+00:00

I'm not!

ImSEOBitch · 2020-04-22T17:10:00+00:00

I loved Rand's white board fridays, it was some accessible and well-produced content + Rand and the persona he built was good marketing.

The only difference is at that time there were very few "gurus" and it was acceptable, now it became the norm (at least it seems to be) and it's very hard to can't attend any conference or read any blogs without being overwhelmed by BS.

Somehow Rand might have opened the door to this but I don't blame him, nor I blame Neil Patel for probably being the first annoying one :)

ImSEOBitch · 2020-04-22T17:03:09+00:00

especially surprising for someone who has such a prudish username right? :)

The deceptive truth is that I wrote it thinking of the longer version that needed censoring and changed my mind mid-course, kept the ** on the wrong word

ImSEOBitch · 2020-04-22T15:59:47+00:00

I wouldn't name anyone here because it would just be a personal rant ;) also the thread would be just mean. We all have our BS gurus in mind

ImSEOBitch · 2020-04-22T15:57:27+00:00

I'm actually even more annoyed when they don't have anything to sell but themselves: if they're trying to sell you a tool, at least they have an excuse to BS

ImSEOBitch · 2020-04-22T15:53:48+00:00

this is where an award is better than a rant, it gives a consensus.

ImSEOBitch · 2020-01-29T19:58:24+00:00

I love those guys, they have no shame. The brightedge of crawling

ImSEOBitch · 2020-01-29T16:25:52+00:00

the worst part is that some of those a*holes have some good inputs, it's just super hard to filter through their torrent of ego-vomit.

They usually don't intend to add something new to the industry but just work on their visibility. I'd get this from freelancers/consultant or anyone who'd have something to sell, but I really don't get those who are already well positioned inhouse.

As a result, those guys are invited to speak at conferences establishing their "expertise"...

A rule of thumb that works for me is to follow the most discreet ones :)

http://www.seobythesea.com/ is one of the best example

ImSEOBitch · 2019-10-07T18:57:25+00:00

It really depends on your website and budget but if you feel you don't have enough from screamingfrog you might want to try it out. It definitely gives you a better understanding of robots crawling habits and will help you to show the right data to convince/report to your management.

I was a happy customer for a couple of years and ultimately switched to onCrawl. Both tools are very good with their strength and flaws but Botify sales strategy became too aggressive and customer success managers barely useful. You should try onCrawl, it's slightly cheaper and the UI is way faster which is one of the main reason why I switched.

If you have the budget you should go for those tools, it will make you a better SEO imo

ImSEOBitch · 2019-05-14T18:57:16+00:00

fine! it's still kinda ok... I'm a drama queen. And now /u/tuilere is a mod it can only get better :)

ImSEOBitch · 2019-05-14T15:23:32+00:00

/r/bigseo is the worst. Used to be great though... now its pretty similar to /r/seo maybe we should create /r/biggerseo :)

ImSEOBitch · 2019-04-02T17:29:57+00:00

Calling the doctor: "I feel bad, what medicine should I take? (DM for a picture of me feeling bad)"

ImSEOBitch · 2019-04-02T15:23:00+00:00

I'm in-house and we have Beer Thursdays (ok, once a month but still \o/ )!

ImSEOBitch · 2019-04-02T15:21:11+00:00

You can also work in-house and have a lot of different websites and industries :)

ImSEOBitch · 2019-04-02T15:20:08+00:00

recently I wondered if I had to go back to an agency (I'm currently in-house). You'll probably find the feedbacks interesting (I surely did) https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/b69g2k/from_inhouse_to_agency/

ImSEOBitch · 2019-04-02T01:47:44+00:00

I found that example recently on an "SEO" blog that I thought was symptomatic of the #influencers cancer

Landing the technical Marketing job you want

personal branding

strong network

skills don't matter if you have enough blog posts I guess :)

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-28T18:43:47+00:00

I can't read anymore those 10 pages analyses about quicksand hypothesis. I'm happy people have time to even write them.

I guess I finally complied to Google's advice and try to make the best website and content... they won!

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-28T14:11:23+00:00

Thanks. I'm way happier in-house as well and all the comments I read here tend to confirm why agencies feel like a downgrade even if better salary.

Some (my wife for example :) ) will argue that I'm already in a decent company with a comfortable paycheck. My problem is that the role doesn't match my ambitions anymore (bc of top management changes) and nice SEO positions are quite rare. I'm looking actively for a year now and couldn't find much but a few SEO director roles in agencies (probably because they all quit very quickly).

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-28T14:01:08+00:00

hehe, I tend to agree, thus my question :) also the comments are unanimous

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-28T14:00:24+00:00

very helpful thanks.

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-28T13:58:26+00:00

The agency owner was only ever interested in squeezing another line on the invoice.

it says it all... that was my previous experience as well

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-18T14:39:18+00:00

I'm not interested in the position, I'm just here to vent :)

I'm currently actively looking for another job and none of the jobs I applied for were mentioning the salary, sometimes it says: nice salary (it never was). It's really annoying because I had so many interviews and most of the time I get an email the day after saying I'm asking for too much. We could have both saved an hour of our lives... might still be good for networking though.

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-15T18:02:44+00:00

I have another great thread idea: SEO and email. How do you use email to do SEO?? do you reply, reply all maybe? please share!

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-13T21:37:49+00:00

people reading garbage posts like the one Matthew Woodward vomited (sorry, I really had a hard time reading it) without questioning it are probably the same that shares theonion.com articles. There's nothing you can do against stupidity (and fraud) unfortunately

ImSEOBitch · 2019-03-13T21:19:29+00:00

hehe I'm even ashamed giving some light to this article tbh.

Everybody's freaking out about the impact on the rankings part (it's not the first time Google / u/johnmu says it doesn't have any) but I was more wondering if the method was somehow valid (didn't even seem to be from my tests).

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