Thanks, I was always in too minds whether to publish a response or not, partly because I value my time and partly because I didn’t want to give him the benefit of the traffic and link . There are so many people with this opinion of SEO whoever never really delved into the industry. It made me laugh when he said “I now rank nineth for SEO, just by writing an article people enjoy and telling a few friends on facebook” no that didn’t rank you the insane amount of links you got did, SEO right?

Anyway glad to see Google has updated the SERPS and dropped the page, getting a site there is one thing, sustaining it is quite another.

Thanks for the comment.

I found it funny/ironic that Derek didn’t even use the proper term for what he was describing – “blackhat” practices. Most likely because he doesn’t know what blackhat or whitehat tactics are, let alone the difference between them.

Again, thank you Tim!

The truuth is these rants are pretty regular, this one particularly ignorant. I don’t know anyone who has practised SEO and found it to be a scam or swindle, in fact I know web developers that have come to discover and appreciate SEO as a valid marketing strategy.