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glengara

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« on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
I think being no.99 on G for his main KW has depressed and disillusioned him ;-)
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french dread

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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
What stupid article, this guy miss something...SEO and PPC belong to SEM but are different things, PPC cannot replace SEO.

It is perfectly possible to rank well on in many areas for free, even if paying for inclusion can speed or make thing go more easily


We tried an adwords campaign for a big client ( for mother\'s day), after we studied the results figures my client and me concluded that trafic brought by PPC was so little and so expensive compared to organic SEO. If one have a minimum of content one need SEO. PPC is just an addition for competitive keywords or evenemential SEM such a mother\'s day, christmas etc.
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« Reply #2 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
David is not an SEO - he is (I think) an accountant by profession, although he is a shareholder/investor in Receptional (I am led to believe). I have met him for dinner once and he is a nice chap but not exactly tuned in to the day to day activities out there.

I rather think that this is his own reflection on the market rather than the philosophy of the Company.

Certainly, when I come up against them in competition I might use this gem
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« Reply #3 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
What an embarrassing article.

Just because they cant do SEO they say it\'s dead.



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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
Yep. I think that is the only good and true statement in the article.

I\'d rather focus on it overall though.
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
quote:Maybe SEO is just getting tough for the tricksters, thank goodness! Absolutely!  

Not saying that the company from the article is a spammer, but I\'d sure love to know how many spammers who can no longer get results are now PPC \"SEMs.\"  Bet there\'s a lot!

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« Reply #6 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
Hmmm, sounds like Receptional is going to be a purely SEM company! If I was a client and I read this I would head straight to the letterhead to make out the request to terminate the contract. They must be getting out of the SEO business or are so busy that they can afford to loose and not get new clients!

Reverse engineering SE has **never** worked very well, just ask the users of WPG page critique! Only amateurs and SEOs who think it is blackmagic ever thought reverse engineering worked. You reverse engineer your competition not the whole friggin\' engine! No wonder they are seeing falling returns.
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« Reply #7 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
probably has something to do with btclickandbuy.com, pretty unique but I highly doubt it would be the next big thing.
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« Reply #8 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
Welcome to the forums Dixon quote:Originally posted by receptional
Isn\'t the WPG thing a bit off topic? Yes, I\'ve split it out into another thread here.
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Kal

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« Reply #9 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
Source: Search Engine Guide

Article Link: http://www.netimperative.com/cmn/vi...ture_0000053583

I couldn\'t help chuckling as I read this article. Below are some comments I made in my blog:

Optimising web pages to make them attractive to search engines doesn\'t achieve much these days. It is sad but true

Maybe it\'s true for you David, but thousands of successful SEOs would disagree with you.

Unless you\'re prepared to type in your credit card details, your site isn\'t going to appear in the top placings on most search engines and directories.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. I\'d be out of business if this was true.

But if you think that simply optimising a page and submitting it for free will bring you a bonanza of online sales, you\'re very much mistaken.

Uh huh. Tell that to my client who just won a multi-million dollar project via being found in the organic search engine listings.

We have found ourselves at Receptional.com moving gradually into a world where position is dependent upon the client\'s budget.

Well I pity your clients then.

Personally, I think our friend Dr David has been hitting the purple koolaid too hard!   But what do the rest of you think?
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ihelpyou

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« Reply #10 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
What in that article is even a good read? Is any of it true? I\'ve heard of receptional but I can\'t remember how.

That is one depressed and down on his luck SEO.

Oh, I know; He could hire one of us to help him.
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Matt B

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« Reply #11 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
Wow!  What a disheartening analysis.  
I\'m glad I\'m not in the same business as him
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ihelpyou

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« Reply #12 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
Yeah, I have some clients that average 1000 referrals per day from Google alone, and that is from \"organic\" and \"FREE\" listings. He says it\'s required to \'pay\' in competitive fields. Me thinks over 1000 is a fairly damn competitive field. LOL

If he is not a major part of receptional, I\'d be kind of pissed with that article if I was also a part of Receptional.
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« Reply #13 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
quote:Just because they cant do SEO they say it\'s dead. As Barry implied, it\'s a strange article as Receptional CAN certainly do SEO in the sense that you mean it. I think the article was just badly written and the point he was trying to get across was lost. I find it hard to believe that this is what Receptional think. Maybe Barry - who knows them, I believe - can get Dixon or one of the other SEOs there to comment.
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« Reply #14 on: January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 am »
Seems to me that he\'s making a public play at moving Receptional more towards PPC management than SEO. Almost as though he\'s trying to make a public case for getting clients to fork over a monthly PPC advertising budget...

The flavor of the article, though, sounds more like a conversation over martinis; him lamenting the \"good ol\' days\".

Gosh, I have the opposite opinion. PPC is saturated, expensive, and becoming less effective (lower conversion rates).

Maybe SEO is just getting tough for the tricksters, thank goodness!
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