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| iAcquire Thinks They Are Way More Important Than They Really Are Posted: 31 Jul 2012 07:16 AM PDT So whether you were at MozCon or not, you probably heard that Michael King timed the big news perfectly that iAcquire has been blessed by Google and is now back in the index. Ho hum. Sure, they got banned by Google for buying links for clients, but so did a lot of other people. And sure, it was noteworthy they were back in and it probably warrants an addition to some of those original news stories and blog posts that they got back in, and there were some people tweeting about it. But apparently Michael King didn’t feel enough SEOs were paying enough attention to him and blogging about their reinclusion (talk about poor reputation management much?). Well news flash, the main reason is because it’s not really news. But Michael and iAcquire obviously thought it was. So what’s a now-Google-blessed company to do when no one cares that they paid their dues for getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar? Well, if you are going by the handle @ipullrank and with the very immature name MyCool King (seriously, that is the name he uses on Twitter, representing a company and speaking for them, when it really belongs on MySpace with glitter pony graphics), the obvious answer is start bitching that no one is covering the amazing news story that they cleaned their shit up and are back in the index. Seriously. Cry me a river much? Well I hate to break it to you, but getting into the index isn’t news, especially when you aren’t detailing HOW you got back in (like all those “How I got back into Google after Panda/Penguin”). And when whining without tagging people didn’t work, he started complaining to @DannySullivan instead. I don’t know about you, but my opinion of iAcquire and Michael King has dropped significantly with this latest temper tantrum. Skitzzo also jumped in with the primary reason a lot of people were looking at this as “Hey, Iacquire wants you to write this great story about how we are awesome at SEO again!” Which is true, when you look at their blog post titled “Thanks Google – Glad to Be Home“. Talk about spin doctors! Be sure to read the circular comments made by Joe Griffin as well. Then Michael King decides to jump on Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com who called out that the fact Iacquire cleaned up and got back in the index as being a non-story. I get that people have Michael’s back, judging from the mob mentality of SEO I wrote about earlier with certain members of the SEO community defending him vigorously (most of which were pretty silent about promoing his reinclusion into the index), but seriously, how does he think that attacking a well known industy celebrity will make things BETTER? Can anyone else just picture him stomping his feet and saying “But Moooommmmm, it’s not fair, how come I don’t get a story written up about my site getting back into Google the way J.C. Penney did?” Well for starters, Iacquire is no where near the same brand power as J.C. Penney, even in their dreams. Then he has the nerve to call out industry people for not writing about it the instant he made his big announcement as SeoMoz – not to mention the fact he was hanging out with Moz’ers and going to the movies, yet he expected others to drop what they were doing on a Friday night to blog about it. And the funny thing is that iAcquire had been back in the index for 2 days, but he chose to make a big deal out of it getting back in at MozCon instead, for the biggest bang – on a Friday afternoon (and evening for East coasters). Danny did do his article about it, and you can’t help but wonder if he amped up the degree of snarkiness a bit because of Michael’s self deserving attitude (although I probably would have written it with a little more SEOBitch to it, or the ever eloquent says-it-like-it-is @Skitzzo. In other words, don’t piss off the people you want to say nice things about you, because you catch more flies with honey. Although Danny does say he will do another post about Joe Griffin’s comments that they are still cleaning up some items (but please, someone find out what they are really trying to hide, no I mean clean up). After this latest spectacle, I am kind of hoping that iAcquire gets busted for something else. But I assume that because Aaron Wall was one of his rant targets, that people are going to start going over things with a finetooth comb to call out Iacquire on more dirty SEO practices. And I can’t imagine they will get away with a mere 2 month penalty next time around. #SEOBitch Looking for an SEO service that won’t get you banned?       |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:47 PM PDT I know 99% of my audience is not interested in Mixed Martial Arts like I am… but that is not really what this is about. Its another great lesson in psychology and… marketing psychology (albiet unintentional). Invicta Fighting Championships is really awesome if you are a mixed martial arts fan. It is the first 100% female fighting organization. First let me say I really hope they succeed… This is not about bashing them. I am a huge fan of everything mixed martial arts. I have sponsored over 20 fighters this year a long (5 on major cards) and I love to support the smaller local fighting organizations. Anyway I missed the live stream unfortunately last saturday. But I heard it was a great card. The card was streamed live on the internet and was 100% free. Awesome. Here is where it gets interesting. On my favorite MMA Forum, The Underground, every thread about the Invicta Fighting Championship had the same couple people spam it with how it got hundreds of thousands of views (which later turned out to be associated with the event (*shocker*) …. Now keep in mind this is their second ever show… I ask a couple of them if they have any source for these numbers… nadda… Then on the best MMA personalities out there – Bloody Elbow’s Stephanie Daniels – @CrooklynMMA, Gets an exclusive interview with Shannon Knapp in which she discloses that the first show did over 233K views and the 2nd one (last saturdays) was better. Now look I TOTALLY get the whole fake it till you make it. C’mon you all know me =P. She should have said close to 1 million =P (close is very subjective LOL). So anyway after being totally annoyed to death with the constant threads about how this show got hundreds of thousands of views I made one about how I will offer FREE video streaming using our media servers (10k value AT LEAST on 300k simultaneous users) if they would let me fully disclose the numbers. Response? – Well the one shill said I could not possible know whats involved with that. REALLY?!?!? UMM we use Akamai streaming server which can support easily 1 million users at once (not that we have ever used that). But whatever you all know my credentials so I am not even gonna digress into that. So this morning a Tweet from Shannon: At 10:40 this morning Sharon updated her twitter saying they will not be releasing their numbers… gee wonder why ? (sounds like someone might have gotten a talking to). Ok but here is the best part. After I made that thread on the underground… not mentioning anything about me other than my company would stream the event for free, I came under total character assassination. People posted how I was trying to get attention to my blog… (which is not linked anywhere… but they linked it). Then people started posting pictures of me with the Adsense Check from 2005… then people started making references to the 5 companies I have sold in the last 5 years for over 10m, how I have over 170k twitter followers, 20k facebook fans, and on and on… Now I know these people had bad intentions… And its fine if bashing me gives them a reason to live… But in the end I got a huge spike in traffic and exposure to a enourmous new audience. Our contact form was ABSOLUTELY flooded with people saying not to pay attention to the haters on the UG and how they were all retards and what not… Plus we had a record number (about 10x whats normal) signups to our newsletter. Now in the past I have got into arguments with a lot of high profile people… Mark Cuban probably being one of the biggest but this UG crowd is amazing to bait… I didn’t even mean to… I can see why SO many trolls roll there. Here are some of my favorite responses: Authority Figure:
OMFG that is loltastic. No really… my business model is to post on high traffic websites (without linking to my site) to get my name “shoe money” into Google. Holy balls these shills… RyannVonDoom:
Seriously I can’t make this shit up… Even Dana White’s personal forum monkey (CindyO) joined in:
Winning ? I am done posting in the thread… So Shannon – lesson here is if your going to make shit up and have shills post it everywhere don’t be annoying… or at least be believable. Also stick to your guns. Its so obvious when all of a sudden you retract… Trying to increase your Google rank that is like no other?     |
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