Polite SEO - A Rant About SEO Warrior Special Offers

Polite SEO, what the heck?  Anyway, I want to use this post to rant on something I have noticed lately.  There is a widespread problem of people selling magic SEO (search engine optimization guides) promising to get you on page 1 of Google in very little time.  This has always been a pet peeve of mine, as many of these guides completely misrepresent their accomplishments and SEO in general.

You will often find a guide that claims to teach you how to rank #1 in Google for a competitive term in less than 48 hours or some other outlandish claim.  Those who have been doing this for a while spot the issue with these guides immedialy, but people new to SEO are less fortunate.  The author typically shows examples of terms they rank for and normally includes proof.  For example, they may show that they rank #1 for the term widgets sale, which when searching Google shows over 18 million competing pages.  What they don’t tell you is that the exact search results (search in quotes) for this term returns less than 2,000 competing pages, and more importantly than that no one is searching for their term.

I have seen countless “guides” sold at the warrior forum claiming to offer you a magic formula for ranking for terms like this and it boggles my mine why the authors aren’t called out on it.

Anyway, in my opinion this isn’t Polite SEO (whatever that is ;)  Sorry for the rant…

Chris