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?€? And you know, he’s the devil?€? He’s everything that I ain’t?€? Hiding intentions of evil, Under the smile of a saint?€?.?€?  Kris Kristofferson I was going through my email inbox looking for ideas to write about when I came across some stuff I sent out recently.  Somebody asked me to review a blog post and after reading it, I responded: ?€?This post really doesn?€™t work for me.  Some of the grammatical constructs throughout the post are awkwardly done and I don?€™t feel that you?€™ve made any tangible connection between?€??€? Fortunately, I still have a good relationship with this person :.) Here?€™s another one where I was evaluating someone?€™s website: …I’m reasonably sure the poor format going on here (a code issue) is screwing up your site indexing in Google.  The design of your site is a huge mess and before you even think about search marketing, you really need a total SEO Friendly web design in place (and you need professional copywriting as well). I then went off on offered my opinion about a few other things not related to SEO.  I?€™ve yet to hear back from him?€?really nice guy, hope I didn?€™t hurt his feelings :.) Quite a bit of communication passes through my email inbox?€?some of it is the typical volume of professional / social correspondence for somebody who is somewhat visible in the search marketing industry and some of it involves people contacting me for reasons that might include my professional services. I get a lot of REALLY BAD LEADS?€?mostly from really good people.  These folks recognize they need search marketing services, which is positive but frequently have the toxic combination of limited budgets and unrealistic expectations Continue reading →