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.