Posts from — January 2008

Recently I was doing some internet research and I realized that some one had “lifted” one of my keyword phrases from a presentation that I had given at the South Florida ColdFusion Users Group Meetings back in Nov of 07′. Now, I know that some people are not too interested in having to actually work for a living … but these guys took my ideas and didn’t even attempt to disguise that they had scrapped my keyword phrases right off my other site, Florida Search Engine Optimization.

Is search engine optimization so difficult that some people can’t even do their own research? Is it really that hard for someone to actually perform some work to get their results? It sure seems that this is the case, because even though I gave an explicit step by step video with handouts on how to perform each task, there is a site that is now proclaiming that they rank in Google for the search term “SEO Fort Lauderdale“. Well, I don’t see why they are so impressed with those results. Is “SEO Fort Lauderdale” a highly searched keyword phrase? Is “SEO Fort Lauderdale” a valuable URL? And most of all, what good is it for them to rank for SEO Fort Lauderdale when they don’t own the domain? are they “stealing” my business? Hardly … At any rate … that’s my rant …. I suggest that if anyone get the bright idea to use keywords that are on a competitors site, to at least do their research and determine whether your efforts are going to actually generate some benefit from so doing …