It’s beginning to seem that way. As soon as anyone says anyone negative about search engine optimizing, the SEO community (or, to be fair, one faction of it) jumps all over that person and tries to inflict punishment by driving down the offender’s pages in the SERPs.<\/p>\n
First there was the unfortunate Kimberly Williams<\/a> — a case more of scraping than SEO per se, but the response came from the SEOs when she tried to prevent her content from being scraped. Next came Ted Leonsis, whose mild comments about being his own SEO made him the object of an SEO contest<\/a> with a $500 cash prize. Now Jason Calacanis is the latest to have offended the SEOs<\/a>.<\/p>\n I find search engine optimization interesting. I subscribe to a number of SEO feeds, and several of the people in the industry are clever and creative. But some are starting to seem like bullies.<\/p>\n I think I might be rooting for Ted Leonsis<\/a> to win the Ted Leonsis SEO contest.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n