Comments on: Jason Calacanis Is The Devil & SEOs are Children

By: Scott Bannon

Scott Bannon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:39:57 +0000

Great read, Lisa. I sometimes think the biggest problem with the SEO community is that it’s full of SEOs… oops, did I just scrape the Braveheart script pages?

By: Trisha

Trisha — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:15:53 +0000

Sounds like something I find myself saying again and again – forgive him, he’s still learning.
As early technology adopters, we tend to forget that older does not necessarily mean wiser in this industry. I’ve run across many 40 and 50-somethings in social media or new media with barely a clue, but a lot of business savvy.
Let’s not expect too much of someone just because they appear to be more for their age.

By: Scott Fillmer

Scott Fillmer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:44:56 +0000

Well said… I spend a lot of time researching and writing my content and the scraping drives me nuts. Thanks for the non-scraped, well written article

By: Marc Beharry

Marc Beharry — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:19:05 +0000

Good points Lisa,
mahalo is a massive undertaking and even if the only reason for it was to give google competition that would be enough
i seriously find many of the top pages useful and the visual change of pace from bland google results is nice

By: TriExpert

TriExpert — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:21:23 +0000

Lisa, you’re outing yourself as sane and humane

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:41:08 +0000

I totally hear you, Jason. I’ve had the same “scraping” arguments thrown at me, and we’re definitely not in the game of copying content. It’s absurd.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:33:54 +0000

Great post.

The funny part is we don't "scrape" any content. All of our pages have original guide notes. The most we'll ever do is quote someone, but that's not scraping. Very confused by that claim.

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