Comments on: Reader Poll: What’s Bugging You About Search Marketing?

By: Bill Arnovich

Bill Arnovich — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:55:12 +0000

You get more results that have nothing to do with what you are searching for.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:48:08 +0000

BTW Dave, congrats on the Ogilvy position.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:43:28 +0000

I think it’s pretty easy to see that “Joel T” is not a real person and the things he’s associating with SEOmoz are flat out not true.

By: David Temple

David Temple — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:55:06 +0000

I voted for the “Disinformation, Rumors, Divisions, That Sort of Thing”. Just look at the comment above and I think you’ll see what I mean.

By: Joel T

Joel T — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:53:02 +0000

I found these guys on the web and they are a scam and big rip off http://www.seomoz.org/ They try to lock you into a life long contract longer than my mortgage payment and said that it would take at least a few years for my website to get up to speed with there SEO Search Engine Optimization. It was longer than 3 years. They said that they have control over the PPC ads in Google and could do click Fraud to my site if I don’t go with them. I said I do too. I know this is BS and so does my webmaster. We came to the conclusion that they link your site using a program that you can buy at Best Buy and do it your self for around $40.00. They call them selves an SEO company Search Engine Optimization located somewhere around Microsoft in Seattle. Don’t do business with seomoz.org and the dot org is supposed to be for non profits jerks and liars.

By: Charlotte Web Design

Charlotte Web Design — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:19:02 +0000

The constant “re” education to clients that SEO actually takes more than 48 hours to implement. I guess that would fall into the “personalization” category.

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:17:32 +0000

Hi Lee. I voted for click fraud, but I’m really more concerned about distribution fraud. Take the case of Google AdWords. Let’s say you’re running PPC ads and have opted out of the content network. Your expectation is that your ads are pure search engine advertising. That’s simply not the case since Google’s “AdSense for Domains” traffic is
distributed on *both* the search and content networks. That’s distribution fraud, an important distinction from click fraud. I’d like to see Google create a “domain network” option.

Not all parked domain traffic is bad traffic – it’s just that is shouldn’t be classified as search network traffic. Besides – wouldn’t it just make sense to have “AdSense for Content” traffic on the AdWords content network and “AdSense for Domains” traffic on a domain network?

By: Jacie

Jacie — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:54:55 +0000

This is a very interesting poll, and surprise to see that “Google Getting Too Big” only voted 10% as of today. Doesn’t anyone concerns that Google to growing too big to an extend that making online marketing work harder and harder.

By: Jamdo

Jamdo — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:43:21 +0000

That’s actually a good question, because I really enjoy my job and nothing particularly “bugs” me.

Will be interested to see how the poll turns out.

By: Randy Duermyer

Randy Duermyer — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:26:51 +0000

Interesting poll, Lee. I probably could have made several choices that would have run neck and neck. And maybe another choice (?):

What effect mobile search will have on my practice and the industry

Randy

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:49:48 +0000

JGar, I think it might be the nature of the poll and only being able to select one item. In the absence of time to stay current, web analytics would be the next best thing to rely on because it’s real-world data.

By: JGar

JGar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:10:04 +0000

I voted for the leveraging of social media, but am really curious as to the lack of votes for staying current with search marketing and better analytics. Do you think it is because we are happy with the way we research and analyze metrics, or is it that we don’t take the time to stay current and give too much trust to our analytics without question?

By: Glen

Glen — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:02:24 +0000

Nice list, will be interesting to see the results for the poll

By: Bill Arnovich

Bill Arnovich — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:54:02 +0000

I think the net has gotten too big, and it is becoming infested with so much traditional advertising and corporate looking sites and visuals that it just seems so commercial.

I would also vote for the spreading of misinformation. The notion that just because its online doesn’t mean its the truth. I have a feeling the first adopters of the internet are searching for new territory