Comments on: Greedy Superficial Bloggers Obsess Over SEO

By: The day of the 7.2 | Ed en Vadrouille

The day of the 7.2 | Ed en Vadrouille — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:48:18 +0000

[...] 4 minutes later, a 5.2 shook us, again. This time it felt like fun, we were laughing! Alike the owner of the OneManBandWith’ blog, if life was throwing shit at us, we would kick it in the face. [...]

By: fladave

fladave — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:34:06 +0000

New to this blog stuff, but it is cool to get crap off my chest, or just to share opinions..aint that what this thing i have stumbbled upon is for? (dont know where i am or what yall are talkin bout)its cool though.

By: range

range — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:12:41 +0000

Did you read his post, it isn’t nice… But what can you do?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:27:51 +0000

Lonnie, I thought everything was straightened out in comments 52 and 53. Are you having another “China day”?

By: Onemanbandwidth:An American Professor China Business Consultant SEO China Blog

Onemanbandwidth:An American Professor China Business Consultant SEO China Blog — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:53:34 +0000

[...] were emailed questions….And then there was the uproar created by the ass-hat at Toshio. [...]

By: Poagao’s Journal » X-CUP!

Poagao’s Journal » X-CUP! — Sun, 06 May 2007 04:14:25 +0000

[...] has recently stirred a hornet’s nest by daring to express his preference for content quality over deliberately massaging a site’s [...]

By: Edouard

Edouard — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:28:22 +0000

Lonnie,
I have no idea of who you actually are but i can only congratulate you for fighting back at life when it starts throwing you sh*t in the face.
Good Job, i am sure you are giving your existence a true meaning.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:10:42 +0000

My gosh. That does sound like a stressful situation that I can’t even begin to understand. I assure you again that the title of this wasn’t meant to be about you specifically. Heck, you don’t even keep adsense on your blog consistently!

As I said, the title was meant to be ironic in the fact that when I finally used a title designed to “hook” readers, it was one disparaging of just that practice. I had been getting pretty sick of the link trade offers, though. Not one of them was a site with any relevance to mine at all, and they were going on and on about increasing Google rankings.

I’ve actually started reading your blog more often, to be honest. I found out through that tool you linked to last time that this site actually has become blocked by the Great Firewall, ever since I put up a back-up of Poagao’s material. I may make a post about that.

By: lonniebhodge

lonniebhodge — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:15:59 +0000

MArk,

Your comments are always welcome.

J, like anyone, have my “China moments.” But it is not usual for me to get angry at anyone save the censors, history revisionists and their ilk in the PRC and Japan.

I have been a bit hyper-vigilant of late: You are not a regular reader of OMBW so you don’t know that my wife has stage 3A cancer nor that I have a rare auto-immune condition that has already cost me a gall bladder and will soon finish its work on my liver. It is the reason that I and another colleague are taking a charity trip across China to blog on all provinces to raise money for the other 5 women in my wife’s chemotherapy group who cannot afford care and will surely die soon without aid.

Long before tragedy struck my family I gave my services to groups like The Reading Tub (a literacy group in the US), other charities and newcomer blogs via SEO. a, I THAT that part of it seriously. But, if you were to peruse OMBW you’d find that I really do take all but human rights issues with a grain of salt. And no, I don’t need any cheese with the whine: I am teacher who ELECTED to teach rural Chinese kids, stuck in a third-tier school, English and marketing skills for 700 USD a month and someone who gives away the revenue on his site to women and students who need it. My school of primarily farm kids had 5 students diagnosed with cancer this year. One of my students, one of my favorites, lost a leg to bone cancer and I have been giving her money for a new leg from the site and from my pocket.

A, I took issue with being labeled as Greedy. I am sure it would have pissed you off too.

I am no model of pedagogy, charity, SEO prowess or humanitarian action, but greedy and superficial don’t fit. They were fighting words and I opted out of the fight so I could concentrate on the trip and less inflammatory issues.

LON

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:53:29 +0000

Ed, I agree. There’s definitely a big difference between white hat and black hat SEO. Google probably doesn’t care that much about the former. They probably still want to minimize its effects, since their goal is to rank information based on relevance. However, I’d bet that 99% of the sites that get condemned to “Google Hell” are doing something deceptive. It’s Google’s job to make sure that link farms and that sort of thing don’t work too well. Now, if only all the random bloggers emailing me offers to do 3-way link trades would just realize this…