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5 Great (Painful) Quotes This Month

Ian Lurie

This YouMoz entry was submitted by one of our community members. The author’s views are entirely their own (excluding an unlikely case of hypnosis) and may not reflect the views of Moz.

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Ian Lurie

5 Great (Painful) Quotes This Month

This YouMoz entry was submitted by one of our community members. The author’s views are entirely their own (excluding an unlikely case of hypnosis) and may not reflect the views of Moz.

There have been lots of people drinking from the stupid fountain this month, and since YOUmoz is becoming my favorite place to vent, I thought I'd post some of my favorites:

"We're in a holding pattern." - From a potential client in the travel industry who's been internally debating whether to conduct any internet marketing for eight months now. I'm now listening for the crash when they run out of fuel.

"I think that's open to debate..." - From a developer at another firm when I pointed out that doing client-side redirects on every product link on their site was a bad thing, SEO-wise.

"We didn't see any sales from those links. Please take them down." - From a client regarding 2 links they received from high-profile sites in their industry. And yes, we did explain the SEO ramifications. And no, they didn't pay for the links. And no, I can't really go to those sites and say "Take down these links."

"Either We Kill Click Fraud or Click Fraud is Going to Kill the Online Ad Business." - Ken Miller regarding his new click fraud tool, which will probably cost 10x the cost of click fraud itself. Quick hint: Design a decent PPC campaign and chances are you won't be exposed to click fraud. Regardless, 'kill the online ad business'? Come on, man.

"It needs more babies, because women like babies." - OK, that's actually from a long time ago, but it deserves inclusion in any list of really silly statements.

OK, I'm done.  

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Ian Lurie
Ian Lurie is CEO at Portent, an internet marketing agency he started in 1995 on the honest belief that great marketing can save the world. At Portent, he leads and trains a team that covers SEO, PPC, social media and marketing strategy. Ian writes on the Portent Blog and speaks at various conferences, including MozCon, SMX, SES, Ad::Tech and Pubcon. He recently co-authored the 2nd Edition of the Web Marketing All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies.

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