Thanks for stopping by Jay. You’re right. It’s easy to lump all unpleasant comments together. But ignoring the ones that might actually help improve your company or brand doesn’t make a lot of sense.

I have tried to deliver quality content… at least I have a product to show, if you look at the people who are ranking for managed account blog, you will see most of them are trying to show you how to trade or make you sign up for a news letter, they are not even offering managed accounts. I am just trying to give them actual managed accounts, with good managers, without making them jump through hoops. Anyway, I would take any suggestions to make my content better and any suggestions to make my site better. Thank you so much.

But still even if my content is miles above my competition… how will anyone know if I have 0 traffic, I am a networking retard.

I look forward to your post.

As for SEOs, I believe in ignoring 99% of them. I’ve met some decent ones through my work who I’ve learned a bit from. But in the end, I’ll tell you the same thing I’ve been telling people for years, and the only thing that’s held true consistently over those years:

Give people quality content.

It’s that simple. I know “quality” is subjective, but if you don’t feel like you’re giving 110%, it’s not enough. That can mean educational, informational, or just entertaining content. It can be text, audio, video, images, etc.

You’ll do some initial work spreading the word — I find good old networking is the best. It’s not a quick process, but it’s the only consistently sustainable one. That content is what makes you successful in social media (it’s the kind of thing people want to share), just like it’s the one thing making sites stable in the SEO game (especially with Google finally going after shallow content sites like mills, which some of us have been asking for for years now).

The biggest thing I would suggest is turning a basic site or blog into more of a resource site. I have a post scheduled to go up here tomorrow, so I’ll write more about that and a few other suggestions for improving content for better long-term traffic via sm and seo and post it tomorrow morning to give some more specific advice.

Thanks again for the link.

Damon

I usually keep comments that are true, regardless of how bad they are, I like communication that has a person behind it, if he is pissed about something so be it, if he doesn’t like me, awesome… now I have someone to talk to and a subject 🙂

For example; I think you are blunt, stubborn, generally agitated and fundamentally a c@#t. But that is why I read your blog. Stop being so entertaining and tell me how to get traffic to my site! I know you hate all ways to do that, but tell me what you do agree with so I CAN DO something to get some fricken traffic.

Or did I fail to find the “THIS IS WHAT I WOULD DO” POST?

Don’t stop the entertainment, great blog 🙂

Damon

In addition, I really like your blogging style. You tell it like it is, and I appreciate your honesty. People need to understand that you can’t take things personally, and you seem to really put that out there. Thanks for the post!