Comments on: SourceTool.com could use some SEO http://www.bluefountainmedia.com/blog/sourcetoolcom-could-use-some-seo/ Get the latest web design, development and marketing news from New York City website design company Blue Fountain Media. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Gray http://www.bluefountainmedia.com/blog/sourcetoolcom-could-use-some-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-9955 Tim Gray Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:03:23 +0000 http://www.bluefountainmedia.com/blog/?p=27#comment-9955 Thank you for your comment, Mr. Mihalic. You are correct, it is a pretty old post. However, it appears to be in response to a much publicized incident covered by publications such as the NYTimes, and the author (BFM- consider this representative of our company) was merely pointing out better ways to use SEO to reduce costs. Best, BFM Thank you for your comment, Mr. Mihalic. You are correct, it is a pretty old post. However, it appears to be in response to a much publicized incident covered by publications such as the NYTimes, and the author (BFM- consider this representative of our company) was merely pointing out better ways to use SEO to reduce costs.

Best,
BFM

]]> By: AJ Mihalic http://www.bluefountainmedia.com/blog/sourcetoolcom-could-use-some-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-9953 AJ Mihalic Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:47:02 +0000 http://www.bluefountainmedia.com/blog/?p=27#comment-9953 This is a pretty old article, but I happen to know Dan fairly well, so I feel obligated to comment here. These are good recommendations, and you make a decent pure "SEO-no-matter-what" case. However, I think you've missed that Dan WAS doing SEO. In fact, that is actually one of the reasons his site was doing so well and his case holds so much weight. His listings etc were way better than similar competitors, like Business.com, yet they didn't receive the same "penalty". I imagine there are two major factors you're blatantly ignoring so you can qualify your point with terms like "no-brainer recommendations". 1. Having your business model broken by a 10-20x P/L margin shift overnight, with no even acknowledgment that an answer is necessary is pretty demotivating. 2. Google rather suddenly upped prices by 10-20x. That probably answers your question about why Mr. Savage isn't doing the SEO you would be doing (for free I presume?). I also know for a fact that Mr. Savage would not respect the fact that this was published anonymously. I'm sure he'd like to know the author. Perhaps you can ask Dan if he would like to return the favor and have your personal projects and/or any online businesses SEO audited. AJ This is a pretty old article, but I happen to know Dan fairly well, so I feel obligated to comment here. These are good recommendations, and you make a decent pure “SEO-no-matter-what” case. However, I think you’ve missed that Dan WAS doing SEO. In fact, that is actually one of the reasons his site was doing so well and his case holds so much weight. His listings etc were way better than similar competitors, like Business.com, yet they didn’t receive the same “penalty”. I imagine there are two major factors you’re blatantly ignoring so you can qualify your point with terms like “no-brainer recommendations”.

1. Having your business model broken by a 10-20x P/L margin shift overnight, with no even acknowledgment that an answer is necessary is pretty demotivating.
2. Google rather suddenly upped prices by 10-20x.

That probably answers your question about why Mr. Savage isn’t doing the SEO you would be doing (for free I presume?). I also know for a fact that Mr. Savage would not respect the fact that this was published anonymously. I’m sure he’d like to know the author. Perhaps you can ask Dan if he would like to return the favor and have your personal projects and/or any online businesses SEO audited.

AJ

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