Comments on: Where Does SEO Responsibility End?

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:18:21 +0000

Melinda…a truly fantastic question it is that you’re asking. And my answer is yes, the amount of latitude that you’re given with a site definitely dictates your realm of responsibility. Some clients let you work freely, and in cases such as those I think that my responsibility is greater than it is when I’m working with a lot of constraints.

Excellent point!

By: Melinda Emerson

Melinda Emerson — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:14:48 +0000

Hi Julie,

I don’t know what is in a mai thai, but do have a thought about the ORIGINAL topic/question.

Would the setting or client not perhaps dictate your responsibility? For instance, if you were asked to do SEO for my relatively tiny organization you might be given a great deal of latitude, or even expected, to do a lot more than if you were working with a much larger organization that had dedicated staff for customer service, brand mgmt, and so on?

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:23:26 +0000

Julie, you know I am not the kind of guy to take advantage of an innocent lass like you, so no link milking here..:)

Yeah for sure, this field is very metamorphic. But very few understand it this way, most SEO people only see it from a static point of view.

I do not consider myself SEO, but I have been doing it for 7 years now. I get more links than I can shake a stick at and never look for them. The brand management is priority for me, as well as customer service.

But then I have been in sales since 6 years old, selling one thing or another!

I just see this as one aspect of being a well balanced business man.

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:08:46 +0000

You are milking some links…well done sir.

It’s interesting that so many people have advised us to ASK our audience questions in order to get them involved in a dialog about SEO, yet so few of them actually do get involved in a conversation in which I really do want an opinion.

It would be really nice to have a better idea of how our job responsibilities will evolve over the next 12 months. I couldn’t have foreseen brand management and reputation building as being anything that I’d ever have become involved with, if I’d been asked a year ago. Still, what an amazing field this is, with truly amazing people.

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:59:48 +0000

Begin, End, these words are not in my vocabulary!

I am always on the job, even when I am flirting with a Sexy Seo chick!

Think of all the links I am milking out of you for Igor The Troll..:)

I would deffinitly hire you, you ready to go the final mile for your client…

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:53:22 +0000

Ha! Not at all…I am always looking to expand my drink repertoire, however.

So Igor, what is YOUR idea of SEO responsibility? Seriously. Where does it begin, and where does it end?

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:50:12 +0000

But honestly I have no freaking idea, eventhough I lived in Thailand for 5 years!

But they sure taste good when you hanging out sitting in a beach chair listening to the waves hit the beach!

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:47:46 +0000

Julie, this is deffinetly not SEO..:)

You being a bad girl here!

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:21:50 +0000

I know this is pushing the limits of SEO responsibility but what exactly is IN a Mai Tai?

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:10:29 +0000

Interesting, interesting! Are we all in the business..:)

But work a side, I am into the real thing not substitutes. We can always meet up in Thailand.

Mai Thais are nice!