SEO Alert : Who Will John Scott & v7n Flame Next?
After a big falling out with Mike Grehan, Greg Boser and other SEO’s which led to an all out flaming war at ThreadWatch and the launch of SEO Fight Club - v7n is looking for someone new to pick on.
You’d think that Mr. Scott and company have had their fill of bad publicity and hurt feelings, but no.. they’ve now published their hit list of potential search engine gurus to go after (including yours truly) and are actually putting their sick plans to a vote on v7n forums.
Here are the people they have targeted and reasons why:
Aaron Wall - Awesome guy, Great guy, but he is on the political Left
Randfish - Another great guy, but needs picking on because he is way too successful
Barry Schwartz - Needs picking on because he removed my link from his site
Jim Boykin - Just an all around fun guy, needs moderate picking on.
Loren Baker - Needs picking on for charging me an arm and a leg for my ad.
Brett Tabke - Just popular guy to pick on, can’t think of anything evil he’s done lately
Doug Heil - #1 punching bag of the SEO industry
Matt Cutts - Google employee, and let’s not forget the evil Google vistied upon Bluefind
Andy Hagans - sells text links, so he must be evil, right?
Ammon Johns - Because he hasn’t joined my forum yet.
How can the search community put a stop to Mr. Scott’s madness?
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10 responses so far ↓
NevDull on Feb 7, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that in order to be effective, picking on someone requires being bigger or stronger than the victim.
Sebastian on Feb 7, 2006 at 5:27 pm
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David on Feb 7, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Doug Heil? Isn’t that the clever plonker that takes subscription money to join his exclusive forum and then gets childish if someone doesn’t hero worship him….
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Aaron Pratt on Feb 8, 2006 at 7:11 am
if you read my blog you would see that the issue has been resolved in SEO Fight Club, I also saw that list and I think John did it as comic relief. SEO Fight club was also a joke with a purpose and it looks like things have resolved themselves on their own. You got something to bitch about, I am making the club a no follow area so you don’t worry about hurting your image, just another service from seobuzzbox.com ha!
Vladimir A. Toman on Feb 8, 2006 at 7:45 am
Optimization of search engines (Larry Page’s job) and optimizion of web pages (WPOSE’s job), together, is very serious business for us small business owners (your potential clients) who are interested in professional relevant search information. Thus far, both SEO and WPOSE have demonstrated themselves and their industry as nothing more than a ’sandbox’ of kids who need a 100 bucks an hour to accomplish much of nothing. The most relevant and best information available on SEO through search engines is Google’s RED FLAG WARNING - SEO AHEAD page. More amazing is the content ‘behind’ this page, then on the page itself. Over 90% of “SEO” websites visited don’t validate, blow up in certain browsers at certain resolutions, and offer nothing for the value of a dollar. Nice. I have yet to hear from small businesses, self proclaimed comments, on their “SEO” experience (have seen plenty of testimonials on “SEO” sites, ho-hum). Google search returns the most irrelvant information of any/all search engines (the meat is found on pages 15-22). No. We’ll do our own “SEO”, thank you. You ‘kids’ in the “SEO” industry can therefore continue to do your own flamin’ thing. Simply as an observation from a potential client.
John Scott on Feb 8, 2006 at 9:11 am
Vladimir, flaming occurs in every industry. In every industry, there are people, and in people there are those that will flame one another. It’s a sad fact of life, but it has more to do with the nature of humans than it does the nature of SEO.
Then again, SEO’s are an acrimonious bunch. ;)
Jess on Feb 8, 2006 at 9:17 am
Hmm Vladimir, by joining this thread your SEO service (why the hell are you using a .ws domain anyway?) joins the SEO kids’ sandbox. Hope you brought your shovel and look out for the cat tirds.
Aaron Pratt on Feb 8, 2006 at 12:18 pm
no problem loren, i just wanted to point you to a few things.
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