Comments on: Wal-Mart is Trying to Put Us Out of Business With Their New SEO Services http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:18:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Steve Pancoast http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2985 Steve Pancoast Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:21:16 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2985 My one and only question to you is this. Are you still shopping at Wal-Mart? I know that Wal-Mart was destroying America a few years back and I go out of my way to not shop there. I'd rather pay a few more bucks somewhere else and help keep others in business. Like the one poster said, you complain when it hits you personally but not when you were, inadvertantly, putting other companies out of business. My one and only question to you is this. Are you still shopping at Wal-Mart?

I know that Wal-Mart was destroying America a few years back and I go out of my way to not shop there. I’d rather pay a few more bucks somewhere else and help keep others in business.

Like the one poster said, you complain when it hits you personally but not when you were, inadvertantly, putting other companies out of business.

]]> By: Lisabeth Scuncio http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2843 Lisabeth Scuncio Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:25:32 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2843 I WILL NOT EVER BUY ANYTHING FROM WALMART!!! THEY CHEAT THEIR EMPLOYEES. THEY MAKE THEIR EMPLOYEES WORK OVER TIME WITH OUT PAY, IF THEY REFUSE THEY LOSE THEIR JOBS. THEIR EMPLOYEES HAVE TO GET WELFARE INSURANCE TO COVER THEIR FAMILY. THEIR CHEAP PRICES ARE THERE BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN FACTORIES OVER SEAS, WITH CHEAP LABOR. THEY OWE SO MUCH TAXES THAT THEY COULD LOWER THE UNITED STATES DEFICIT. THEIR FACTORIES ARE NOT ECO-FRIENDLY. MANY PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR THEM, NOW HAVE CANCER, LUNG DESEASES, CHILDREN BORN WITH MANY BIRTH DEFECTS AND MUCH MORE. IN THE KNOW I WILL NOT EVER BUY ANYTHING FROM WALMART!!!

THEY CHEAT THEIR EMPLOYEES. THEY MAKE THEIR EMPLOYEES WORK OVER TIME WITH OUT PAY, IF THEY REFUSE THEY LOSE THEIR JOBS. THEIR EMPLOYEES HAVE TO GET WELFARE INSURANCE TO COVER THEIR FAMILY. THEIR CHEAP PRICES ARE THERE BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN FACTORIES OVER SEAS, WITH CHEAP LABOR. THEY OWE SO MUCH TAXES THAT THEY COULD
LOWER THE UNITED STATES DEFICIT. THEIR FACTORIES
ARE NOT ECO-FRIENDLY. MANY PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR THEM, NOW HAVE CANCER, LUNG DESEASES, CHILDREN
BORN WITH MANY BIRTH DEFECTS AND MUCH MORE.

IN THE KNOW

]]> By: Papa Georgio http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2356 Papa Georgio Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:23:22 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2356 To SEO tester... Ignorance is bliss isn’t it? Making money of business owners for a task that takes 10 minutes to do and then calling it seo is a joke. First of all Local listings are FREE!!!! Second you don't know anything about the web, most sites like yellow pages and other use google/yahoo data repositories through web Services/Api's to get there new data onto their own databases so is submitting to all the other directories a little redundant? "Yes any one can do this on their own.. duh! But not everyone knows how to do it. We all wouldn’t be here if everyone magically know how to do SEO, SEM, and local marketing." this is exactly what is wrong with the market, companies like yours who practice such business ethics like to exploit peoples understanding on a subject they have no clue about. I am sure your company has its own secret sauce too... lol the fact of the matter is that everything local listing companies offer is a rip-off. TRUE SEO like Mr. Scott implies takes a lot more than just filling a form and submitting to a couple of search engines. You can't optimize a site via a form, seo is a process that never ends, and because of that most companies don't want to do seo as it doesn’t yield profits like local listing scams. Companies that offer seo services most of the time are scams where local listings are interpreted as seo. 3-4 Months later when your client cancels you have made your money, so let’s move onto lurking for the next victim. Real SEO will never be automated; local listings will never be SEO get over it. TRUE SEO is a science very few can afford. To SEO tester…
Ignorance is bliss isn’t it? Making money of business owners for a task that takes 10 minutes to do and then calling it seo is a joke. First of all Local listings are FREE!!!! Second you don’t know anything about the web, most sites like yellow pages and other use google/yahoo data repositories through web Services/Api’s to get there new data onto their own databases so is submitting to all the other directories a little redundant? “Yes any one can do this on their own.. duh! But not everyone knows how to do it. We all wouldn’t be here if everyone magically know how to do SEO, SEM, and local marketing.” this is exactly what is wrong with the market, companies like yours who practice such business ethics like to exploit peoples understanding on a subject they have no clue about. I am sure your company has its own secret sauce too… lol the fact of the matter is that everything local listing companies offer is a rip-off. TRUE SEO like Mr. Scott implies takes a lot more than just filling a form and submitting to a couple of search engines. You can’t optimize a site via a form, seo is a process that never ends, and because of that most companies don’t want to do seo as it doesn’t yield profits like local listing scams. Companies that offer seo services most of the time are scams where local listings are interpreted as seo. 3-4 Months later when your client cancels you have made your money, so let’s move onto lurking for the next victim.
Real SEO will never be automated; local listings will never be SEO get over it. TRUE SEO is a science very few can afford.

]]> By: Jeremy Scott http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2343 Jeremy Scott Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:26:47 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2343 SEO Tester, you're kind of a liar. The link you placed in your comment--on your name--goes to http://leadconnect.innuity.com, where I can read about how you offer the same useless service for "local business profiles" that Wal-Mart is offering (via Sam's Club). And when I click the link in my original article, it takes me to the Sam's Club page. And what's in the upper right-hand corner? Oh, a mention that these "SEO" services are "provided by Innuity." So you do work for them. And you left a comment on my company's blog outright saying you don't. And bashing me for not doing research. Allow me to bash you right back for hypocrisy. Not only did you not disclose your company's relationship with Wal-Mart and Sam's, you flat out lied about it. Answer me this, though... why the heck would you put that link in your comment name to your own site? It completely blows your cover. SEO Tester, you’re kind of a liar.

The link you placed in your comment–on your name–goes to http://leadconnect.innuity.com, where I can read about how you offer the same useless service for “local business profiles” that Wal-Mart is offering (via Sam’s Club).

And when I click the link in my original article, it takes me to the Sam’s Club page. And what’s in the upper right-hand corner? Oh, a mention that these “SEO” services are “provided by Innuity.”

So you do work for them. And you left a comment on my company’s blog outright saying you don’t. And bashing me for not doing research. Allow me to bash you right back for hypocrisy. Not only did you not disclose your company’s relationship with Wal-Mart and Sam’s, you flat out lied about it.

Answer me this, though… why the heck would you put that link in your comment name to your own site? It completely blows your cover.

]]> By: SEO Tester http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2342 SEO Tester Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:45:51 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2342 Jeremy Scott you really don't get it do you? This is Local Marketing this has very little to do with SEO. Helping people submit their business information to Google Maps, Yahoo Local, etc... is a waste of time? Have you read the the news on how Local results is one of Google top priorities. So again, I ask you.. do you really thing this is a waste of time. Yes any one can do this on their own.. duh! But not everyone knows how to do it. We all wouldn't be here if every one magically know how to do SEO, SEM, and local marketing. People are more focused on running their business then trying to build a business profiles on business directories and local search engine. I hate how people start bashing on something and not having a clue what they are talking about. No I don't work there. I just did my research. Something you clearly do not know how to do. Jeremy Scott you really don’t get it do you? This is Local Marketing this has very little to do with SEO. Helping people submit their business information to Google Maps, Yahoo Local, etc… is a waste of time? Have you read the the news on how Local results is one of Google top priorities. So again, I ask you.. do you really thing this is a waste of time. Yes any one can do this on their own.. duh! But not everyone knows how to do it. We all wouldn’t be here if every one magically know how to do SEO, SEM, and local marketing. People are more focused on running their business then trying to build a business profiles on business directories and local search engine. I hate how people start bashing on something and not having a clue what they are talking about. No I don’t work there. I just did my research. Something you clearly do not know how to do.

]]> By: dan smith http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2288 dan smith Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:24:43 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2288 Wal-mart is now in SEO? With their deep pockets, it won't be long before poor little business owners come out of the wood work to serve up a nice dose of litigation against wal-mart for ruining their small company. It's one thing to be in litigation with a disgruntled former employee. It's a whole new world when you are blamed for the ruin of mom and pop's business. Right or wrong, wal-mart will soon find settling out of court just to avoid bad press is a lot more expensive. Wal-mart is now in SEO? With their deep pockets, it won’t be long before poor little business owners come out of the wood work to serve up a nice dose of litigation against wal-mart for ruining their small company. It’s one thing to be in litigation with a disgruntled former employee. It’s a whole new world when you are blamed for the ruin of mom and pop’s business. Right or wrong, wal-mart will soon find settling out of court just to avoid bad press is a lot more expensive.

]]> By: GallatinDork http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2199 GallatinDork Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:18:55 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2199 "They want me to pay $30 a month to use a proprietary “profile builder” that will then submit my profile to directories and yellow pages. This is something people can do themselves, and is fairly useless to begin with. Wal-Mart will also, for my $30, submit my URL to search engines–something that is universally considered by SEOs to be no longer necessary. It’s also free and takes 10 seconds for people to do. " I could not agree more. “They want me to pay $30 a month to use a proprietary “profile builder” that will then submit my profile to directories and yellow pages. This is something people can do themselves, and is fairly useless to begin with. Wal-Mart will also, for my $30, submit my URL to search engines–something that is universally considered by SEOs to be no longer necessary. It’s also free and takes 10 seconds for people to do. ”

I could not agree more.

]]> By: Jeremy Scott http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2180 Jeremy Scott Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:52:14 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2180 Good. Another Wal-Mart supporter comes by to judge us. Let me tell you how this works. When Wal-Mart brands something and puts it on their website, whether it comes from a third party company or not, it is still a Wal-Mart product. So the fact that they've partnered with an SEO firm you respect (and probably work for) means nothing. It is a service being provided and sold by Wal-Mart. And I think that while there are wide-ranging opinions across the country about Wal-Mart... it's undeniable that they have earned a bit of skepticism whenever they roll out a new service they hadn't previously offered. And what they're offering isn't SEO. Anyone who leaves blog comments about SEO with the name "SEO Tester" should know that SEO is more than submitting profiles and URLs to search engines. They want me to pay $30 a month to use a proprietary "profile builder" that will then submit my profile to directories and yellow pages. This is something people can do themselves, and is fairly useless to begin with. Wal-Mart will also, for my $30, submit my URL to search engines--something that is universally considered by SEOs to be no longer necessary. It's also free and takes 10 seconds for people to do. So Wal-Mart, through this wonderful SEO firm you love (and probably work for) is charging $360 a year for unnecessary and unhelpful services that won't touch a customer's actual website code in the least. Sounds like a scam to me. Good. Another Wal-Mart supporter comes by to judge us.

Let me tell you how this works. When Wal-Mart brands something and puts it on their website, whether it comes from a third party company or not, it is still a Wal-Mart product.

So the fact that they’ve partnered with an SEO firm you respect (and probably work for) means nothing. It is a service being provided and sold by Wal-Mart. And I think that while there are wide-ranging opinions across the country about Wal-Mart… it’s undeniable that they have earned a bit of skepticism whenever they roll out a new service they hadn’t previously offered.

And what they’re offering isn’t SEO. Anyone who leaves blog comments about SEO with the name “SEO Tester” should know that SEO is more than submitting profiles and URLs to search engines.

They want me to pay $30 a month to use a proprietary “profile builder” that will then submit my profile to directories and yellow pages. This is something people can do themselves, and is fairly useless to begin with. Wal-Mart will also, for my $30, submit my URL to search engines–something that is universally considered by SEOs to be no longer necessary. It’s also free and takes 10 seconds for people to do.

So Wal-Mart, through this wonderful SEO firm you love (and probably work for) is charging $360 a year for unnecessary and unhelpful services that won’t touch a customer’s actual website code in the least. Sounds like a scam to me.

]]> By: SEO Tester http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2177 SEO Tester Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:51:48 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2177 You guys need to do your research before you jump the gun. Sam's Clubs uses a Redmond, WA (near Microsoft) based company called Innuity, Inc. (http://innuity.com/) to provide all of the services including Website Hosting. I've personally called their support team and they are for real. They are not outsourced and do know their stuff. I hate reading these post because it clearly show people are too lazy to do some real research. You guys need to do your research before you jump the gun. Sam’s Clubs uses a Redmond, WA (near Microsoft) based company called Innuity, Inc. (http://innuity.com/) to provide all of the services including Website Hosting. I’ve personally called their support team and they are for real. They are not outsourced and do know their stuff. I hate reading these post because it clearly show people are too lazy to do some real research.

]]> By: Gallatin Guy http://blog.kbsweb.com/wal-mart-is-trying-to-put-us-out-of-business-with-their-new-seo-services/comment-page-1/#comment-2130 Gallatin Guy Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:17:34 +0000 http://blog.kbsweb.com/?p=229#comment-2130 I would'nt trust the tech goons at wal-mart to install a network card and autorun a driver cd for me let alone search engine optimization for a commercial web site. alot of these big guys are a rip off waiting to happen. This monthly thing looks like a scam to me as just updating your webpage every month will get you a search engine bump even though temporarily. Not sure I'd trust them to pick my keywords, titles, reword my links, or even the most basic html modification. May as well pay the trusted local firms who'll actually do the research to get you the best rating possible specifically for your business and your area. I would’nt trust the tech goons at wal-mart to install a network card and autorun a driver cd for me let alone search engine optimization for a commercial web site. alot of these big guys are a rip off waiting to happen. This monthly thing looks like a scam to me as just updating your webpage every month will get you a search engine bump even though temporarily. Not sure I’d trust them to pick my keywords, titles, reword my links, or even the most basic html modification. May as well pay the trusted local firms who’ll actually do the research to get you the best rating possible specifically for your business and your area.

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