Vanessa Fox (Ex Google) Defends SEO

[peter_d]

Jason Calacanis thinks SEO is often associated with weaker sites. He may be right, but it is a curious thing to say, given that Mahalo appears optimized, to me.

http://sphinn.com/story/3986

Vanessa puts it well:

I dunno Jason. I've seen really high quality sites benefit immensely from SEO. When I was at Google, I was contacted all the time by site owners with great sites who could just not understand why they were having trouble being listed. With a little digging, I would find out that everything was in Flash, or they were accidentally blocking bots with a meta tag or some other thing that they just had no idea would hurt them with search engines.

There was only so much I could do to help these sites -- I couldn't troubleshoot specific details for every site on the web so I would often suggest that they get a good SEO consultation to help them pinpoint these types of things.