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The SEM Agency Crisis Won’t Be Solved Over Coffee and Crumb Cakes

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

This week, DMNews’ Sara Holoubek wrote an article entitled “SEMs are from Mars, clients are from Venus” which alludes to the fact that clients and SEM agencies very seldom have good long term relationships.
In my view, however, Ms. Holoubek’s evident belief that a solution lies in the application of “mutual respect, professionalism, intellectual curiosity […]

Ridiculous Statement of the Week: Jill Whelan on SEOs Committing Crimes Against Clients

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

SearchEngineLand.com’s Jill Whelan won our “Ridiculous Statement of the Week” award when she wrote the following absurd nugget in a rambling defense of the SEM industry’s complete failure to propose and implement meaningful codes of conduct for SEOers:
“One would think the threat of jail time or a court-ordered breach of contract settlement would be deterrent […]