[johnegood]

Here's the posting quoted a bit more in its entirety:

Whats the difference between a "SEO Consultant" and a used car salesman?

Answer: The used car salesman knows when he's lying.

First, let me apologize to those of you have have taken offense at that seo joke. Many used car salesman have been calling to complain ..... (ba da ding!)

Yes, that second seo joke was bad. Sadly, the seo industry includes many bad jokes.... (be da ding! be da ding!)

Seriously folks, I've receive alot of calls from SEO sales people and frankly, it would be hard to find a more-misguided group of people. And it's not that they mean to lie, its' just that they "get confused" and carried away and don't seem to really understand much.

My impression is that many of them were part of a SEO effort that resulted in some site coming out number one on some search engine for some keyphrase at some time.

At the time, they might have just been the secretary at the advertising agency that worked with the client.

But, in the course of time, these details got lost. Through the course of exaggeration and confusion, they lost track of what their actual role was and what was actually accomplished. Many of them are now boasting: "My last client used this technique and got to number 1 in 3 days!!!!" When they explain to me what they are planning to do, it seems to me to be very unlikely.

They believe that they really do know how to do SEO cost-effectively (or that they understand what that means), that they really can take any site and bring it to the top of the search engines, and that we should be gratified that they "prepared a customer analysis for you for free" (ie ran a few keyphrases thru some sort of analysis).

This is a true story, I found myself at a lunch with the firm president (saleguy) pushing for a signature on a contract for $5,000 month with no cancellation clause and no "level of effort" commitment nor reporting by the contractor?" If you think I'm exaggerating, I'll show you such a contract. The SEO company that I was meeting with was the one promoted by my hosting firm at the time (Webstream) and they were promoting them when I asked for advice as well as having their advertising across their site. The company pushed the contract to me repeatedly and really expected me to sign.
yick....

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In reality, there are really only two people who actually understand how the search engines work. Of course, they disagree....(yes, thats part of the routine....)

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(OK. That one was a subtle. Did you miss the keyphrase threepeat? Are you paying attention?)

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