Website Design

I’ve spent a couple minutes today playing around on some forums and I’ve found that there are two types of SEO’s.

There are the ones that call themselves experts because they’ve read every single patent, email, article and have hung out at or spoken at SEO conferences. These people have studied the search engine papers and understand how they feel the search engines should work. They have their understanding of what is to come and spend a lot of time on forums and blogs debating how they feel the future will play out.

They are good to have around because they keep the rest of us from having to do what they are doing. However the more I’ve gotten to know these people the more I’ve learned that most of them get their clients from the forums or conferences. They rank their sites for obscured terms and point, yell and jump up and down at their rankings.

Then there is the other group. The doers. They’re not much interested in doing SEO work on your site because they’ve already built their own site that is ranked in the search engines and bringing in affiliate money. They’ve got sites making them $50 to $100.00 per day. No client to deal with, no deadlines to meet, no employees to hire and no phones to answer. They hang out on the forums and blogs but are not seen as the experts. They have their network of sites that they would rather not talk about.