Comments on: Ten reasons developers should embrace search marketers

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:15:25 +0000

Pay marketingwhizz no heed. It’s probably some upstart trying to take a stab at someone successful.

haha @Christopher! I think “icanliketogoogle” would be more appropriate.

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By: Christine da Silva

Christine da Silva — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:09:20 +0000

Thanks @Christopher and @Carla.
Those terms are quite vague…but I think that @marketingwhizz was just trying to stir…

On capacity - I prefer to focus on client service, providing all our clients with personal attention.

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By: Christopher Mills

Christopher Mills — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:46:56 +0000

How about ‘icangoogle’, that’s a nice alias

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By: carla

carla — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:44:51 +0000

@marketingwhizz – I’m intrigued by your comment. Firstly, what kind of person leaves a comment that question the credibility of the contributor? You’re hiding behind a screen name – if you had any guts you would have contacted Christine directly.

Secondly, I did a few of those searches too (including online marketing and online marketing services) and Christine’s company, AlterSage, came up on the first page of the search results. Did you even read her bio to see who she is and what she does?

PS: Maybe choose another screen name

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By: Christopher Mills

Christopher Mills — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:28:21 +0000

@marketingwhizz - Do you feel that it’s important for AlterSage to spend a great deal of time optimizing search terms which 90% of people are optimizing, when AlterSage has plenty of work and happy clients?

There comes a point, where a company has plenty of clients and these clients tell people and so the word of mouth marketing tactic spreads. I see no point in AlterSage spending huge amounts of time fighting over popular keywords and keyphrases to land business which could be potentially turned away due to capacity being reached..

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By: Christine da Silva

Christine da Silva — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:15:37 +0000

oh, and @marketingwhizz if you want to find out how real keyword research and allocation is done - please email me and I’ll give you a few lessons…

Tip one: start with segmentation and geo targeting.

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By: Christine da Silva

Christine da Silva — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:11:19 +0000

lol @marketingwhizz I think you are mistaken. It’s a good thing that I am too busy ensuring that my clients are succeeding online rather than faffing with my own website…

Which is why all my clients are super happy and we lead by reputation, testimonials and proven case studies.

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By: marketingwhizz

marketingwhizz — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:47:49 +0000

Just did searches for the following (in Google SA):

online marketing services
seo
sem
search marketing
email marketing
marketing online

and a few more permutations of the above.

Altersage didn’t appear in the top fifty results of any of these. So if Christine can’t market herself, what can she do for you?

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By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:34:36 +0000

@Craig,

Too true. I have dealt with a fair share of paranoid developers.

I think if your CMS is solid enough and versatile for an SEO to change what needs to be changed without breaking db connections or any code semantics, then there should be no worries.

Possibly developers that get paranoid about this is due to their systems not being capable of more free use.

This is why admin privileges were invented

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By: Christine da Silva

Christine da Silva — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:18:14 +0000

@Craig - lol, Brit sense of humour too

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