SEO and SEM Quotes

I like to read a lot online. And as a professional search engine optimizer, I often read the blogs of others that are involved with both SEO and SEM. During the course of all of this reading, I often come across comments from people that are interesting because of the insight they provide in to the people making the comments. Here are 5 direct quotes from people around the web.

First up we have someone that is clearly enthusiastic about his company's services. I like to see this sort of passion from a company stakeholder as long as it's sincere.
"In fact, I'm about, oh, 100% sure that EF's approach is the single most sophisticated one on the market."
-- comment by Chris Zaharias, SVP of Efficient Frontier

Confidence is good. This might be a little too much confidence.
"Now, anyone who searches for my name and does a little reading knows that I am probably the brightest white-hat on the planet."
-- comment by Shari Thurow

Ooops. Not sure I would admit to having spam sites.
"I'll group all of my tech sites together, all my fitness sites together, all of my spam sites together, etc."
-- comment by Mark William Wielgus

Misconceptions in the SEO world aren't so bad. In fact, I'd argue that they're good for business.
"That's because Wikipedia is full of links to other Web sites and the number of links on a Web site is one factor that Google's search engine uses to rank the popularity of a site."
-- comment from the Washington Post, and noted by Jordan McCollum

And I'll end with this head-scratcher.
"Even if you don't grasp any of the math and only have a half a clue of what it's all about, don't worry. At least by reading it, you may never understand what it is or what it does: But Garcia certainly emphasizes what it isn't."
-- comment by Mike Grehan

OK, I'm off to do some more reading!

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