I’ve had an awful day – Herein follows a little rant.

I don’t mind viagra spammers or phram or casino spammers. I can filter them out. I have a little math thing that blocks them its useful and sometimes its even mildly amusing.

Self promo spammers, I don’t like them. Especially the kind who think Im some kind of thick fucking idiot who doesn’t recognise a link drop at 600 paces. I am not thick!

If you have built something that you like, then great I’m really pleased for you.

Please though, before you comment on one of my posts, please please please make sure that your comment is at the very least germane to the topic. Where it isn’t then please, just don’t bother, I will not post it, i will not promote you. Its fuckin rude, don’t do it.

I’m really not interested in posts that just self promote. Sure, i get that you are proud of what you’ve done and think its the best thing since sliced bread, but trust me, real gems are rare. They don’t pop up all over the shop, kick arse cool takes hard work and effort. Don’t think that a mere recreation of what’s already been done is going to cut it and make me, or anybody else for that matter, think wow, a same ol same ol tool that offers nothing, how cool – it aint gonna happen.

It’s just not good etiquette. Don’t waste your time ever, not ever please. Cos, here is what I’m going to do. I’m going to place a link to this very post at the end of each blog post, you know the part; where the comments section begins.

If anyone doesn’t take the time to read it and subsequently has the temerity to link drop and discuss their 3rd rate I’ve seen it all before offers nothing, absolutely nothing at all to the mix type tool or url, then be advised that I might (note the might word here, I do have better things to do too), just might blog about you. I’ll provide your email address, no link or reference to your site or moody tool/url and basically lambast your arse to kingdom come.

Thanks, sincerely

p.s If I think you are just after a link evident by anchor text and you happen to be a 1st time commenter who isn’t saying very much then I’ll remove the link to your URL. Don’t be offended mind, if you stick around enough and contribute a little I might decide that you are a nice so and so and allow subsequent links to stand. IOW, don’t blatantly game me

He says a few things about so called ‘Dangerous Mistakes’ and the ‘Killing of Pagerank’ and well, you’ve probably read similar stuff in a form somewhere or other. His central claim is that a PR5 site had 15 Errors and a PR3 had 83, ergo the greater number of errors is the cause of the lower PR. Did you get that nugget? If you have low pagerank, its because you have html errors and need to validate your code.
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.PR5 Site Had 15 Errors and PR3 Site Had 84 Errors

..Don’t You Think You Killed Your Pagerank. Html Causes Trouble With the Google Bot.Hence They Cannot Read Your Html Completely and They Abandon Your Site HalfWay.Giving You Only Half of the Pagerank…

Yup, there ya go.

This Googlebot, you know – the one that is part of that big old do no evil organisation apparently has issues with bad html and does things like half pagerank when it encounters it.

Well Mr ProBuzz, sorry but that is not true. Might be at some point in the future, but today, simply not true. You are misinforming your readers and should add a big portion of IMHO at the bottom of stuff like that.

Ok, I’m being a teeny bit ugly perhaps. Maybe its this show Ugly Betty, everyone is kinda mean to her too, but come on please; where do people get these ideas from?

The reason I’m a little gnarled (just a small bit) is that there are people who are reading his stuff and thanking him for his valuable info. People who obviously know no better, people who are taken in by a few words that seem to be ok yet when put under any spotlight of observation and scrutiny suddenly fall to pieces.

Its not a huge leap away from my pet peeve of those people who say, ‘give us just 100 dollars a month and we will submit your site to 20 million search engines’. Cos what happens subsequently, is that after they’ve spammed businesses with a zillion and one emails, is this.The companies who have been spammed/suckered/taken in/mugged off, subsequently view all things SEO related as laden in snake oil. When they subsequently contact people like me, I’m left with this huge job of work explaining to them that it takes a hell of a lot more to succeed on line than a directory link in a few spammy FFA’s. Once bitten twice shy, one is left having to restore confidence to a person who is looking at you through squinted eyesand all because its too easy for some arse to rip joe bloggs off.

IMHO, of course

Anyways, I’m an SEO expert, no really I am, trust me, you have my word…