Jason Calacanis Drinks More Hatorade and Calls SEO’s Crooks

9 Responses | February 8th, 2007

Jason Calacanis said SEO’s were Snake Oil Salesmen.  I don’t feel like getting into the whole “Content is King” debate again.  You have 2 options:  1) Good content without promotion or 2)  Good content with promotion.  #2 wins every single time.  As long as there is a profit motive for good content, there is a profit motive for promoting it.  SEO is one tool.  SMO is another.  But you need to be proactive.

So, I’m more of a picture guy and I get the hunch that Jason might be, too.  Just to be helpful, I made a visual representation of the Snake Oil Salesmen Community. 

The Competitive Internet Guys in the Snake Oil Salesmen Neighborhood

Get the point?  Keep on hating.

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  1. Commented by Natasha Robinson at 8th February 2007, 7:00 pm

    Scoreboard,

    Thanks for the laughs today. That’s a good one - best SEO joke I’ve seen in a while.

  2. Commented by » Why people hate Venture Capitalists… (and why Private Equity is bulls$%t) » Darren Dalasta .com at 8th February 2007, 7:00 pm

    [...] PS…it’s not & neither is Search Marketing [...]

  3. Commented by Rebecca Kelley at 8th February 2007, 7:58 pm

    I don’t know why, but every time I see or hear the word “hatorade/haterade,” I think it’s funny.

  4. Commented by Neil Patel at 8th February 2007, 8:51 pm

    Nice pic!

  5. Commented by Matt McGee at 9th February 2007, 1:53 am

    LOL! Freakin’ hilarious, Brian!

  6. Commented by f-lops-y at 9th February 2007, 11:58 am

    *snort* !! at least I’m in the neighbourhood with the dude who won the lottery - so there’s hope :)

  7. Commented by Chris Bennett at 9th February 2007, 3:34 pm

    That is freaking sick, I agree it is freaking enough already. If anything should be pointed out is that Calcanis is smart for getting links from search engine land and all the rest of em. Maybe I need to re-think my strategy to hatorade.

  8. Commented by Passenger 57 at 19th April 2007, 5:03 am

    Hey I am dude that won lottery but also doing SEO

  9. Commented by Paul at 27th June 2007, 7:08 am

    Just landed on your page. You just made my day excellent. Keep them coming :)

    PS: Despite being a Competitive Internet Guy (aka SEO) I don’t have a house that big :)

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