Comments on: 7 Rules of Ethical SEO You Ignore Probably as a White Hat

By: Ruri

Ruri — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:01:39 +0000

I agree so much with number 3. It really irritate when saw people sell this kind of service. such as search engine submission. People don’t need it anymore. However as business owner, I can understand that people don’t change what they sold for a long time. Online business is always change. Some service go down, some service go up. We depend on search engine company anyway..

By: Ravinder Garg

Ravinder Garg — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:51:11 +0000

There was a time when I was grossly overweight. At that time, I had no clue about the acai berry. I was fat, ugly, sloppy and laden with a negative attitude. This is when I saw Dr. Oz explaining about the acai berry on CNN. I was impressed and decided to try the acai berry myself. This is what it did to me.

By: Abdulrehman

Abdulrehman — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:56:37 +0000

“Don’t offer blog commenting as a link building measure”, I’ll just hop onto your other post as to why you are saying this.

By: Donavan

Donavan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:14:56 +0000

Completely agree with your idea about laws and religions that prevent us from inflicting the most obvious harms on others. And the deeper underlying ethics of civilization make us what we are, humans. That’s why thank you for your 7 rules of SEO.

By: Allen

Allen — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:40:55 +0000

White hat 7 rules, thats a good one.

Allen

By: anon

anon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:56:33 +0000

I completely agree with these rules. My business isnt SEO, but the rules can be changed a bit to fit every business!

By: Asher

Asher — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:47:21 +0000

Yes, I agree with that sometimes we don’t use these simple rules or simply we forget about them. You know how many times I heard from my ancient boss some of them but I ignored them. Yes, you are right that the harmful businesses is not a businesses.

By: Tony Stocco

Tony Stocco — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:06:16 +0000

I agree with #3: providing better ROI.

It’s the only measurable improvement that matters because it’s the best result for your client.

Plus, smart clients & business owners are driven by numbers and dollars – NOT rankings.

When they ask for SEO work, they DON’T want to be number 1 on Google (no matter how many times they tell you that.) And spitting a bunch of SEO industry jargon at them won’t help.

The truth is, clients want to make more money! Stake holders don’t care where they rank – they want to know how much money they’ll make when you’re finished.

If you’re talking about ROI when trying to secure a new client, they’ll know you mean business.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:17:19 +0000

“Don’t keep on selling services that do not work anymore or are insufficient by now e.g. search engine submission, meta tag optimization, link exchange, rankings (instead of ROI)”

I like that line, most of today’s SEO wannabe don’t care for the ROI just the ranking, hit the keyword and gone.

By: Eskil

Eskil — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:26:57 +0000

You could short it down to “don’t be evil”.
I also think that there is a difference between working for a weapons company and doing some blog commenting. As long as you take the time to actually read the blog posts and write something more than “grat post” I think it is ok.