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John Dvorak Tells It Like It Is

Top Secret

Hold the phone! Revelations below.

Internet genius John Dvorak who writes for PC Magazine has written the things no other man dares to say. He alone is forging a path of enlightened truth through the eternal night of the internet.

Read on, if you dare…

Revelation #1
Search engines use tricks to rank websites, then SEOs reverse engineer these tricks to trick the search engines into ranking other sites which SEOs want to rank because they’re so tricky.
(source: Paragraph 2 of the mad ramblings of John Dvorak)

Revelation #2
There are no large SEO firms or agencies, the entire SEO industry is made up of shady individuals who consult for ‘a few’ companies and whisper (shadily) about their tricks in the background.
(source: Paragraph 3 of the mad ramblings of John Dvorak)

Revelation #3
All website selling something are controlled and/or influenced by SEOs. It could in no way, shape or form be an affiliate or genuine company. Fact.
(source: Paragraph 5 of the mad ramblings of John Dvorak)

Revelation #4
PC Magazine is one of the ‘few trusted’ sources for information on, well that doesn’t matter. anything. Coincidentally that is where this man writes – who would have thought?
(source: Paragraph 7 of the mad ramblings of John Dvorak)

Revelation #5
When you click a link and it takes you to another search engine results page you have been tricked. The number of instances of this event tell you how well ’search engine countermeasures’ are ‘doing’. Quite what they are doing and against whom is not specified.
(source: Paragraph 8 of the mad ramblings of John Dvorak)

Final Thought
SEOs are large and vague like fog – no one knows who they are but everyone is reading about SEO (somehow). So we need to er, get ready.

Still don’t believe that the internet is just one big tricksy lie made by search engines tricked by SEOs? Then you are what some people might call mentally retarded.

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  1. January 5th, 2010 at 16:46 | #1

    Damn, he’s found us out! Thank God there are men like Dvorack about to protect people from the icy grip of evil SEOs…..

    I’d advise him to stay away from writing about PPC, it might give him an aneurism.

  2. January 5th, 2010 at 17:44 | #2

    @Carla

    I know! Here I was thinking about having a career in SEO – I’ve seen the error of my ways – I’m going to go work for PC Magazine!

  3. January 6th, 2010 at 14:10 | #3

    I think he knows a lot more about SEO than he’s letting on. It’s linkbait, no? :)

  4. January 6th, 2010 at 14:22 | #4
  5. January 6th, 2010 at 14:22 | #5

    He’s got some serious ads on his blog that’s for sure…

  6. Matthew Oxley
    January 6th, 2010 at 23:50 | #6

    I should really read the other posts on this blog before publishing a new one :D

  7. January 7th, 2010 at 13:39 | #7

    Don’t worry Matt, they compliment eachother well ;)

  8. January 7th, 2010 at 14:12 | #8

    I knew there was something I’d forgotten to post…. your “SEOs are large and vague like fog” made me chuckle.
    J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr fame has a new band called J Mascis and the Fog. Bassist Dave Schools (The Fog) is definitely like us SEOs.

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2713162078_c202a2e2ec.jpg

    Forevermore SEOs will be large and vague like fog to me…

  9. January 7th, 2010 at 14:52 | #9

    @searchpanda

    Ha! That is brilliant – I only hope to one day be manly enough to grow that much hair…

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