Over the years I have met many of the good and great seo’s in the world and they all have one common theme….they are mad.
Seriously they all seem to have some strange but similar characteristics:
- large number of dyslexics
- large number of left handers
- all are obsessive
- most can’t finish a task
- most did not do well in academia
- most are hopeless at being employees
- they all like to work at night
- most are heavy drinkers
- most are over weight
- they are all odd
- most have bad diets
Just look at some well known mad people and then check if they are a seo’s
Dave Naylor - www.davidnaylor.co.uk
Dave is no longer drinking
Aaron Wall - www.aaronwall.com
Aaron is no longer playing football or looking like this
Jason Duke - www.strangelogic.com
Jason is now a corporate teaboy
Jeremy Schoemaker - www.shoemoney.com
Jeremy is no longer sleeping with Paris Hilton
Barry Lloyd - www.makemetop.com
Barry looks nothing like this
Dixon Jones - www.dixonjones.com
Dixon still looks the same - ugh
Just a small selection here of mad people, why do they all have the same traits?
Doug messing about
March 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
You missed out smoking, sleep problems and extreme bouts of paranoia especially when looking at rankings ;o)
March 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I’ll second this! One thing I’d add is bad memory :)
March 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
That counts me out then, i have a well well balanced diet - burger in one hand, cake in the other
March 10th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Im not left handed
Im not unbalanced
I do finish stuff
I have been a good employee
I am drunk quite often
I am a tad overweight
Obviously a crap seo then …. but we suspected that all along didnt we ;)
March 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Luckily over here at Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning the only things we can claim are bad diets (there are always Miss Vicki’s Salt and Vinegar chips around), and we’re obsessive about checking the SERPs ;)
March 10th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Anyone for a cuppa ?
March 11th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Leigh - That depends on what you’re smoking, surely.
It’s not surprising we can’t get proper jobs and have to seo looking at these skills.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:02 am
WTF? this post is scary you have got me to a t on #1,3,4,5,6,7,9 &10
March 11th, 2008 at 9:29 am
You and your tea jason ;)
March 11th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Dixon does look like he just escaped from a loony bin in that photo
Doug - do you have many interesting thoughs?
March 11th, 2008 at 10:46 am
My answers are:
* large number of dyslexics no
* large number of left handers no
* all are obsessive yes
* most can’t finish a task yes
* most did not do well in academia yes
* most are hopeless at being employees yes
* they all like to work at night yes
* most are heavy drinkers yes
* most are over weight no
* they are all odd yes
* most have bad diets yes
Score 8/11 72.7% SEO Freak
You left out:
* They all think john reese and stompernet sucks
* They have alot of cash
March 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I’m not mad, I’m just passionate ;)
March 12th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
I don’t think that most good SEOs are mad - but then again I use myself as the benchmark :)
March 14th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Pretty sad I am all of them
March 15th, 2008 at 5:16 am
I guess I should start drinking more, maybe it will help prevent me from getting banned from adsense.
March 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
and the rest.
I must have the worst employment record of any seo.
March 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
If this is meant to be a joke it is a bit frightining for myself
March 27th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
At first I thought you meant mad as in angry. But you mean mad as in crazy. Huh. I think your assertion makes me mad.
Oh, and if you ever want to meet a quirky bunch, hang out with some linguists. And, if you have the need for more punishment, limit your company to quantitative linguists. And then return to the SEO community for respite.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
/duplicated for any non-sphinners reading…
dyslexics - dyspraxic. close enough?
left handed - yep
obsessive - only about the important stuff. it is just that others often disagree about what is important ;)
can’t finish a task - it isn’t that I can’t finish, its just many projects are still mid-analysis. they’ll get one day. probably. hopefully
school sucked - yep. Uni wasn’t a lot better. Stopped when I realised my Psychology and Computing degree was really a PSYCHOLOGY (& little bit of computing) degree.
gladly let bosses know exactly how and why they suck - yep
night owls - daytime planning, night time working, dawn sleeping
heavy drinkers - I don’t touch beer, cider, whiskey, lager, gin etc. I’m assuming vodka, water, juice, vodka, coke and vodka are ok? ;)
over weight - I certainly don’t feel the cold, come winter time…
odd - ?
bad diets - only if I’m cooking. My wife cooks good meals, I only cook when the food comes in a nice box telling me how long to cook at what temperature. I can co-ordinate 5/6 items to all finish at the same time, with correct tweaking of original minutes & temperatures; however I don’t know how long to boil pasta, fry meat or bake potatoes…
Final score - 8 or 9/10, with a ? on odd…
April 13th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
So for me it will be better not to get a SEO-Man *g*
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
My answers:
dyslexic - yes
left hander - no
obsessive - yes
can’t finish a task - yes
did not do well in academia - yes
hopeless at being employees - yes
like to work at night - yes
heavy drinkers - yes
over weight - no
odd - yes
bad diets - yes
These should be definitely included:
bad at design - no
bad at programming - yes