Comments on: Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO

By: piyush wadhwa

piyush wadhwa — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:17:13 +0000

Ads are really annoying but they are also the source of information for new products.
if relevant ads on a post are used they may not feel annoying

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:01:57 +0000

I hate advertising so much, that I canceled Geico insurance, because of their annoying gecko and foreign accent.
I never buy, what is forced in my face and don’t understand why would all those lies convince anyone to do so. Why do they push all those drugs and more than half of the message is the negative effect, what the drug can do to you? Are people that dumb?
I also canceled paid TV and watch mostly PBS.
On the web, when you search for something, unless you close cookies, ads will follow you to all other websites. Pointless, since I already researched that particular item.

By: Kaitlin Randolph

Kaitlin Randolph — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:11:19 +0000

Great article! It really explains the difference between ads and SEO and how SEO actually does help get the good sites get on the first pages of google, yahoo, etc.

By: onreact

onreact — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:19:32 +0000

David: Exactly! Likewise most people don’t love the streets they drive on and they take their car for granted. Still they apreciate to get quickly to the place they want by car. So without knowing they depend on the men who actually build the roads and the ones who fix them.

Of course I exaggerate here to get the point across. Most people don’t know what SEO is at all.

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:15:22 +0000

I am having troubles catching your drift with the love/hate good/bad thing. I am also having troubles understanding your point that “people love SEO”. I think people end up loving the result of SEO – I doubt that the shopper finding what she wants at the top of Google search even knows what SEO is! On the point about advertising, many things would not exist without advertising – free network TV, (mostly) free Google services, free Google search. Give people the options 1) you can pay for cable programs without advertising or 2) you can watch free TV with commercials.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:41:26 +0000

There is no accountability with advertising either. Every business can blatantly say they have the lowest prices, best quality, or the notoriously famous quote “World Famous Wings”! I find it very interesting.

By: Mike Glover

Mike Glover — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:59:15 +0000

I agree with Jim, Carl and Adrian. what it boils down to is people hate poor work efforts and therefore the poor work that is utimately delivered to us as content (or PPC or SEO). Most people I think take “some” level of pride in what they do and when they get home and are trying to relax the last thing they want to see or deal with is BAD content, bad PPC and bad SEO. Fortunately, there are still a few out there that actually care about those things and are working to make it better for everyone…

By: Adrian Grossett

Adrian Grossett — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:18:43 +0000

Have to agree with Carl Barlett after working in SEO for 18 months with over 300 clients – GOOD SEO is extremely labor intensive (and repetitive ). With out a dedicated team (including someone researching search engines algorithms ) – monitoring results anything else will result in BAD SEO – there’s no in between…organic or PPC – other wise you will be simply chasing your own tail and delivering Clients the best service.

By: keane07

keane07 — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:04:23 +0000

i love seo but I’m still learning because seo proved to be more difficult than advertising.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:36:12 +0000

This is so true. I love this blog. Personally I also hate those ads that keeps on popping when I am attempting to open different websites.