Comments on: Static Sites And SEO Are Dead: Please Make A Note Of It

By: The Social Experiment » Blog Archive » 6 marketing ideas that will increase your profits 565% overnight.

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:15:12 +0000

[...] Its unfortunate that many webmasters and new business owners are still following the “Old Standard” of serch engine marketing and SEO. [...]

By: The Ultimate Publishing

The Ultimate Publishing — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:13:19 +0000

To hell with SEO! Aren’t you sick of the “latest” SEO software, page builder, etc!

Optimize for visitors & build incoming links (power linking strategies), in that way, your natural search engine rankings will go up.

Conclusion – if you wanna be ranked well in the natural search engines, focus on visitor optimization & linking strategies.

We want traffic, subscribers, sales, profits, etc, rather than getting ranked high without getting enough sales.

By: Douglas Reynolds | Experience » Blog Archive » SEO is Dead

Douglas Reynolds | Experience » Blog Archive » SEO is Dead — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:22:13 +0000

[...] Though I’ve read it before and I figured this was just a provocative statement to attract Google traffic, I still clicked on Static Sites and SEO Are Dead: Please Make a Note Of It. I was pleasantly surprised to find some useful tips in this particular blog posting – something actionable and based on experience. I also discovered something about my own perceptions online. My understanding is that Jack Humphrey coined the phrase “Authority Site” and runs Content Desk. While reading his site I felt a disonnance that took me a while to resolve. The blog he writes is well written and feels pretty authentic. Once you go to his main site, however, the design immediately screams “SCAM”. Oversized red text, declarations of doom, and an aesthetically barren design…the site is focused on content publishers that are trying to make money with their sites – affiliate marketers mostly. There’s nothing wrong with that. At the risk of sounding elitist, it felt like I had crossed to the wrong side of the tracks. On my side of the tracks, clients are typically using their site to sell very expensive, complicated products – B-to-B – and the sites we design telegraph a more sophisticated stance. Jack Humphrey’s “authentic” approach to SEO made me wonder if we had some common interests and point of views. The notion of an “Authority Site” does intersect with a lot of what we do. We usually call it “Thought Leadership”. New high tech companies often struggle to gain awareness in the marketplace. No matter how great their product or offering is, it’s often difficult to improve awareness without spending a lot of money. We know that awareness frequently begins when a B-to-B buyer needs to solve a problem. We also know that the first place these buyers look is online. The first stop is either a search engine or another trusted online resource. Eventually, however, they go to the search engines to see what else is out there and build their initial list of vendors. Attracting the attention of the search engines is vitally important to the sellers. [...]

By: Emergence Media :: SEO is Dead, Long Live SEO! - Social Media, Search Marketing, SEM, SEO

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:49:39 +0000

[...] Jack Humphrey’s “Static Sites And SEO Are Dead: Please Make A Note Of It” has been making its rounds on online marketing blogs recently. Here’s an excerpt: [...]

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:46:24 +0000

Yes, we talk but not as often as we’d like. Running our respective “shops” is a lot of work!

The answer to your question is yes and no. Brad and Andy do very similar things and some different things.

You will notice we both talk a lot about natural search, blogging, good content, white hat search, etc.

Those guys made their names with shopping sites – and in a BIG way as you probably saw in the videos.

The biggest difference I can see is we focus on revenue models that don’t require physical stock – content is our stock and affiliate revenue, PPC, e-products and services are our monetization.

Not that Brad and Andy’s methods won’t work across the board for any kind of site – they do.

What it comes down to and what I am so proud of is that the people who are “getting” the new internet and how marketing, content, linking, and SEO work TODAY are in a very small group.

Not many people in our circles know the first thing about how to prosper and market with the methods we talk about which means lots and lots (most) people don’t know what’s about to hit them.

The other difference between us is I think they are closed to new members now, which almost makes this a moot point, but still a very good question a lot of peole have been asking this week.

So thanks!

Jack

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:05:32 +0000

Today I am getting a blietzkreig of emails for stompernet.com. It is the future of natural search and full of top secret test results that I should be salivating for. OK, because I have high regard for Brad and Andy (plus Keith B., Jack H. and John R.) as internet experts I would believe they are telling the truth.

However I have come to respect contentdesk.com as innovators in natural search and believe they also have an inside tested advantage.

So, the question would be, who to go with?

Seems Jack and Brad and Andy are friends and probably belong to each others group. If so, I wonder then if the information is eventually exchanged and then incorporated within each others programs. If so, then CD and Stompernet are very similar.

Jack…how about a thought or two. Are there some major similarities?…. and do you guys learn and exchange with each other?

Just curious.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:31:13 +0000

Static Sites And SEO Are Dead: Please Make A Note Of It

Note to reader: Never declare the death of something even if it is a foregone conclusion and 100% true unless you are ready for some grief from the peanut gallery.