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Just starting to take this blogging seriously and “stumbled” (it seems alot of people in IM are clutzy across your blackbook and just started reading it today.

Just wanted to say, so far so good, and I look forward to the other gems that are sure to be buried inside.

I’ll be checking back here often to tell you of my progress.

Thanks a million!

Jeff “DRFitness” Lane

I’m a super-wet newbie regarding Blogs, but I heard you were the best.. Your Blackbook is awesome and I’m learning so much from it..

I’m just grateful since I want to learn about blogging, that you’re the teacher…

Cheers!

Jay Ortega

You are probably wondering why I let your comment through. After all you are talking smack about my product, lol.

It is to show people the extreme lack of understanding of what it is we do at ASC along with an even greater misunderstanding of WordPress, navigation systems, and what the search engines do when they hit a page.

1. I can get this page back out of supp results. It's an old post and hasn't been linked to much.

2. Search engines read content from left to right by nature of what's presented first in the code. Sidebar navigation on the right side is just that, and the links verify to other pages of original content, so Google is satisfied with that. Nothing on the right is for the sake of keyword loading – it is to get people around the site reading all the content that is provided.

3. If you click on the links above in time, before I update them, you'll see that they all lead to 404 page not found pages. This post is old enough that it is before I changed my permalink structure and the links are not leading to actual posts. That has more to do with this page not being in Google than anything else.

By the time you or anyone reads this I will have Web 2.0 posted this post, fixed the links, and be well on my way to having this page all over the SERPS.

4. Despite your finding that this post isn't ranked, I get 5000+ uniques to this site per day and get more Google traffic in a day than most sites get in 6 months. What does that say?

On the flip side, you include a link to your blog and it has no style, no ranking, no PR, a complete lack of history or content and obviously no traffic.  Is that what the alternative?  I would have posted a link to something that supported your argument if I were you, but I think you are trying out the “guru hater” approach to try to make your name.  I've been doing this for 10 years friend and my reputation is impeccable for providing quality services, information, and know how about marketing online and getting traffic.  You have a long way to go before you can spam a blog and make a name for yourself against our track record which is documented everywhere you go in this market.
5. Back to ASC

You are like a lot of people who judge ASC and what we offer from software alone. From a publishing system alone – as if nothing else we offer has any value to you.

If ASC were only about the actual software we use, what we do to WordPress to get more traffic than you, and nothing else, it would be worth $600 a month. Hell $1500 a month.

Yet we have coaching (800 freakin hours of small group coaching per year) we build the sites for you, which means a lot to people who know they don't know everything, as opposed to people who THINK they do, and more training resources than anyone could imagine from site building, SEO, content development, niche research, plugin usage, over 100 training videos on everything to do with internet marketing period…

And that's not even the 1/2 of it.

You are damn right about one thing. Our system isn't worth $97 a month. It's worth $1500+.

In fact, that's just what our high end customers pay for us to do it all for them. With the traffic they are pulling down, just try telling them it's not worth every penny and see how fast they laugh you out of the room.

Nice blog by the way…

I just downloaded the blackbook, thanks. It’s great, my only comment is some of the plugins look like they are not compatable with wp 2.7 but it really rocks. I have one quick question, assumung your still watching this post. There are so many plugins for tags and such. I installed headspace2, do I need the others like all in one, simple tags, etc….