Jay - I know you didn't direct that at me, just thought it's make you smile :)

Alphawolf - nice rant - (and you're right of course).

DD - crying seo's - lol - what's an seo? (oh yeah I remember... one of those people who puts up a Britney Spears site etc etc) :)

..... how to deal with it? That's the question :)

Actually, the entire thing is a plot by terr-ists to make us go crazy, and turn on ourselves and our leaders. Google has actually been taken over by bin hiding, and this is the result.

That enough specualtion, DD?

Alex
|jester|

DangerDave,

Not sure how the quotes under our nicknames are picked (# of posts or just random?) but for that post you got a good one.

:)

This is the search engine section. Look at the thread title. It's a place to rant.

It's not easy and actually impossible for any curious SEO'er to 'get over it'.

Entire industries have been wiped out during this update. OK- over dramatic...they switched to all Overture/AdWords- but that cannot be sustained for long.

Probably worse than that- is the fact a couple years of knowledge is down the tubes. Maybe not the core parts, but most of it. That's a hard pill to swallow, but it's starting to digest now.

It *is* a formula and eventually a few people will get into the meat of it.

But, for sure there are only so many hours in a day and it's probably best suited to building websites.

adding: Also, if you've done work strictly as SEO, clients want a game plan. They don't get over it. ;) The saving grace is that all their competitors was knocked off the index as well.

RawAlex- Plot to make us go crazy? Sign me up.

i really feel for the SEO people who have to explain to cranky businesspeople why they took money to get a site well ranked and now it's gone from the listings.

thank goodness i only have to answer to myself.

eatapeach,

Luckily, I wised up quickly regarding web design and SEO. Why be a chef in the kitchen when you can own the restaurants?

;)

I think this is a trend as per some other boards SEO related.

The adult site will actually be my first baby that is all my own.

Thing is- with no client limitations like timeline or budget, I go off on tangents design wise. And the artwork/color combos that looked killer at 3:40AM somehow tranform after sleeping into just plain "What the FUCK was I thinking with THIS SHIT???"

6+ hours down the drain. Oh, well- the PNG's will come in handy for other projects. :)

I barely take outside clients anymore myself. When I do I ask for an outragous amount and explain up front that anything (such as this) can happen.