HonestSEO Web Site

[Brad]

MODERATOR NOTE: NEW THREAD BEGINS AFTER BEING SPLIT FROM Improving The Reputation Of The SEM Industry (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?p=6644#post6644)

Looks like somebody beat us to it.
http://www.honestseo.com/ :D

[DaveAtIFG]

Very nice work! I'm linked.

[Jeremy_Goodrich]

Now that is a heck of a website. Very nicely done!

I'll try to drop that one to everybody I can...though, I gotta wonder / who did it?

[JohnScott]

Looks like somebody beat us to it.
http://www.honestseo.com/ :D


Well done, despite having an oxymoron for a domain.

[Daria_Goetsch]

Looks like somebody beat us to it.
http://www.honestseo.com/ :D

Nice job, should be very helpful for consumers. I like the fact that the author is not known, in this way it is free information with nothing expected back from the author.

[Brad]

I thought the Creative Commons License was a nice touch too.

[Bernard]

The site contains a lot of opinion written as fact. While there are some good points made, it also presents some sloppy logic/conclusions IMO.

It's not hard to figure out who the author is. I did and posted the answer at IHY.

[Incubator]

I enjoyed reading through the site, well done, good job :)


Cheers

WC

[DaveAtIFG]

If your goal is to enhance your SEO business's reputation (and perhaps to help improve the industry's reputation as a side effect), a link to the site could be a big step toward that goal.

>who the author is

Making who created the site an issue (a "not invented here" mentality) simply further fragments the industry, helps undermine it's reputation, and promotes confusion for SEO/SEM consumers.

[rogerd]

...Making who created the site an issue (a "not invented here" mentality) simply further fragments the industry, helps undermine it's reputation, and promotes confusion for SEO/SEM consumers.

I guess this would only be an issue if after the site picks up a few hundred choice SEO links the owner decides to run SEO ads, link out to client sites, etc.

I applaud the content on the site, or at least most of it, but I'm a bit reluctant to promote the site in the absence of knowing what its long-term agenda is (or whether that agenda is subject to change).

[DaveAtIFG]

207 posts were made in the thread entitled Improving The Reputation Of The SEM Industry (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=566&page=1&pp=40) and this thread spun off from that one.

Seven months later, Yahoo shows 50 incoming links (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain%3Ahonestseo.com&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1) to a site that is still the best resource I've seen for SEO consumers.

I'm not a very sophisticated individual but it seems obvious to me that in order to improve the reputation of the industry, the industry needs to improve itself. And that starts "at home" with each of us. The volume of inbound links to the HonestSEO site suggests few share that view.

knowing what its long-term agenda is
I was pretty confident there was no "hidden agenda" associated with the site by the way it presented its information and, so far, that still seems to be the case.

The above suggests to me that improving the REPUTATION via a public relations campaign and continuing with "business as usual" is the preferred solution...

We've had various lengthy, often heated discussions about "ethical SEO," "what is spam" and "what is black hat." But "WHERE'S THE BEEF!?!"

In other words, BUMP! :)

[ferret77]

that is a good site

[Robert_Charlton]

I'm pleased to see this thread get bumped. It's a good site... very thoughtful and well written... and it deserves to be seen.