Been scammed by an SEO company? Post at SEO Rip Off

I was browsing through a few forums and I came across this site - SEORipOff.com. Reminds me a little bit about RipOffReport.com, but towards the SEO community.

I hope more and more people post here. It doesn't look like there are any reports yet - which I know there are a ton of people who could post there. I hear about it all the time, companies and individuals who've been scammed with SEO services, paying $XXXX every month and never received any type of ROI.

New Story at SEM Blog

I posted a new blog about Word of Mouth Marketing. If you'd like to Sphinn it, that would be very nice of you. :)

Secrets revealed in Matt Cutts Interview

This was an excellent interview by Eric Enge. Lots of in-depth answers about outbound linking, redirects, indexing, hidden text and signals of quality.

Here's a quote for Matt Cutts that I thought was interesting about reputation and analysis of quality signals:

I would convey Google's basic position as that we are open to any signals that could potentially improve quality. If someone walked up to me and said, the phase of the moon correlates very well with the site being high quality, I wouldn't rule it out, I wouldn't take it off the table, I would do the analysis and look at it.

The interview of Matt Cutts is located at Stone Temple Consulting.

Subvert and Profit Founder has Passed Away

That was a little bit of a shocker this morning as I was going through emails:

With deep sadness, the subvertandprofit.com team brings you news of a tragic accident last month that took the life of a subvertprofit.com founder. The past weeks have been very difficult for family, friends and fellow crowdsourcing marketers. The sudden sense of personal shock and grief contrasted so starkly with the euphoria and vibrance associated with the innovative expansion that has been underway here at subvertandprofit.com

Nonetheless, we must apologize for the resultant affects that, until now, have given us pause in accepting your content and votes. As we have celebrated the life of one of our brilliant undercover marketing pioneers, we are uplifted to know of your support and are at your service to assist you in high-rank placements and content voting assignments.

My regards and wishes pass to their family.