"you are attacking me for mistakes two companies ago! funny."
Well I am still in the same company I was back when you call my industry scum (while you were selling links to shady casinos). As far as I am concerned your opportunistic jumps between companies are all part of the same general trend / strategy. You still have not changed as a person.
"i was wrong when i said it was bullshit and I have said that it was an off the cuff, uninformed statement many times."
Yes but the difference is you stand on a podium at conferences and yell to the press when you slag it off.
When you say it has value you do it on a twitter post or a quick blog post that does not even hit your homepage. You are not quite as loud in this case.
I would say to make it right you should probably need to (at a minimum)...
- Direct link out to the sites you are scraping content from. FIX THE ISSUE.
- Make an in-depth post on your blog highlighting how important SEO is to all web based businesses. Describe how you gamed social media sites and worked media and nepotistic angles to build links for Mahalo. Also describe the bait and switch public relations and attack bait angles you used to build links. Better yet...make this an in-depth case study!
- Make sure a copy of that post lands in the inboxes of your media email list and your Jason email list.
- Issue a press release announcing the above blog post.
If you do all of those then there is a pretty strong chance I will think your apology is sincere. Anything less and I will realize that this is once more another round of posturing.
Well I am still in the same company I was back when you call my industry scum (while you were selling links to shady casinos). As far as I am concerned your opportunistic jumps between companies are all part of the same general trend / strategy. You still have not changed as a person.
I'll probably get voted down for this, but I think you're crossing a line here. I agree with some of your opinions, but these kind of rants against a person in particular and some kind of personal dislike you have for them really hurts your case. It's just petty bullshit and it reveals personal bias that really clouds the issue.
OK, I will get started this week on these issues Aaron. I really have no ill-will toward you or SEOs.
I made a simple, uninformed comment five years ago during a Q&A session when someone asked me about SEO. Back then when we were doing Engadget and Joystiq and HAckADay we didn't do ANY SEO and our opinion of SEO was it was a waste of time.
I've personally learned from great SEOs like you and Michael Grey how to do white hat stuff, and what the best practices are.
Our goal at Mahalo is to produce great content, and yes, rank for that content when we have a GREAT page in search engines.
We don't want to rank for lower quality pages or pages that are being built out. Your anger towards me is misplaced I think... i was joking saying SEO is bullshit and it's not my fault that everyone takes my one-liners and turns them into gospel.
I will make a concerted effort to rehabilitate the damage I've done with my flippant comments. Honestly, I will. Even willing to do a joint press release with you and have you on This Week in Startups to discuss...
... provided you keep giving me all this great free advice! :-p
Well I am still in the same company I was back when you call my industry scum (while you were selling links to shady casinos). As far as I am concerned your opportunistic jumps between companies are all part of the same general trend / strategy. You still have not changed as a person.
"i was wrong when i said it was bullshit and I have said that it was an off the cuff, uninformed statement many times."
Yes but the difference is you stand on a podium at conferences and yell to the press when you slag it off.
When you say it has value you do it on a twitter post or a quick blog post that does not even hit your homepage. You are not quite as loud in this case.
I would say to make it right you should probably need to (at a minimum)...
- Direct link out to the sites you are scraping content from. FIX THE ISSUE.
- Make an in-depth post on your blog highlighting how important SEO is to all web based businesses. Describe how you gamed social media sites and worked media and nepotistic angles to build links for Mahalo. Also describe the bait and switch public relations and attack bait angles you used to build links. Better yet...make this an in-depth case study!
- Make sure a copy of that post lands in the inboxes of your media email list and your Jason email list.
- Issue a press release announcing the above blog post.
If you do all of those then there is a pretty strong chance I will think your apology is sincere. Anything less and I will realize that this is once more another round of posturing.