Comments on: If you pay peanuts – you get monkeys http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/2009/12/21/if-you-pay-peanuts-you-get-monkeys/ A holistic overview of Search Marketing | SEO | PPC Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:25:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: BT Offering SEO – BT SearchSmart Any Good? | AUKSEO - Blog from a Search Engine Optimiser based the UK http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/2009/12/21/if-you-pay-peanuts-you-get-monkeys/comment-page-1/#comment-4243 BT Offering SEO – BT SearchSmart Any Good? | AUKSEO - Blog from a Search Engine Optimiser based the UK Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:08:17 +0000 http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/?p=881#comment-4243 [...] been a few posts recently about how you get what you pay for with SEO services, so it doesn’t look great for BT’s new SEO service know as SearchSmart which starts at [...] [...] been a few posts recently about how you get what you pay for with SEO services, so it doesn’t look great for BT’s new SEO service know as SearchSmart which starts at [...]

]]> By: Matt Davies http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/2009/12/21/if-you-pay-peanuts-you-get-monkeys/comment-page-1/#comment-3656 Matt Davies Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:11:02 +0000 http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/?p=881#comment-3656 Hmmm... the tone of the article really suggests to me that Colin Bell instigated this story and Mindy was brought in for a second opinion, but I see what you mean. Hmmm… the tone of the article really suggests to me that Colin Bell instigated this story and Mindy was brought in for a second opinion, but I see what you mean.

]]> By: Peter Young http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/2009/12/21/if-you-pay-peanuts-you-get-monkeys/comment-page-1/#comment-3654 Peter Young Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:05:37 +0000 http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/?p=881#comment-3654 To be honest - it doesnt actually state his organisation actually carried the work out, and he may just have been brought in to comment on the subject - as Mindy Gofton from I-Com was. To be honest – it doesnt actually state his organisation actually carried the work out, and he may just have been brought in to comment on the subject – as Mindy Gofton from I-Com was.

]]> By: rishil http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/2009/12/21/if-you-pay-peanuts-you-get-monkeys/comment-page-1/#comment-3653 rishil Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:00:46 +0000 http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/?p=881#comment-3653 Its a bloody shame that people who dont know shit about SEO end up writing for magazines . newspapers which really undermines the authority of REAL SEOs in the UK. Its a bloody shame that people who dont know shit about SEO end up writing for magazines . newspapers which really undermines the authority of REAL SEOs in the UK.

]]> By: Matt Davies http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/2009/12/21/if-you-pay-peanuts-you-get-monkeys/comment-page-1/#comment-3652 Matt Davies Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:00:07 +0000 http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/?p=881#comment-3652 No surprise he doesn't actually name the client in question, if the SEO they've done is the same level as they've implemented on their own site (http://www.modernworldmedia.com/) we'd be able to tear it to shreds in seconds. £850 for that level of work would be a huge waste of money. I'm also very surprised at Crains for publishing what is clearly an advertorial. He doesn't back up his sources at all so the information is useless other than to promote his own service. No surprise he doesn’t actually name the client in question, if the SEO they’ve done is the same level as they’ve implemented on their own site (http://www.modernworldmedia.com/) we’d be able to tear it to shreds in seconds. £850 for that level of work would be a huge waste of money.

I’m also very surprised at Crains for publishing what is clearly an advertorial. He doesn’t back up his sources at all so the information is useless other than to promote his own service.

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