How do you not care that you're a bunch of spammers?

I've been trying to be a part of this community for a couple of weeks now, and it's very frustrating. As a real SEO guy, it's appalling to me at how the people here have no respect for white hat techniques. And what's worse is that they give the impression that black hat techniques are somehow worthwhile or sustainable!

The most effective SEO technique: Produce quality content.

Instead of doing this, so many of you are engaging in link exchanges, dofollow blog spam, forum spam (just look at your signatures!), pointless directory submissions and splogging.

It's disappointing. You should be ashamed. I've seen maybe one or two people here that actually seem to know something about the Internet. So many others are just posting simply to spam the forum with their signatures. They have almost 0 intelligence, and this forum is worse off for it.

I don't know that I'll be able to keep this up for much longer. I want a community where I can converse with my peers. But I am not an ignorant spammer.

(Suggestions of better sites are welcome.)

 

I do understand what you are saying...I think most people do not seem to understand that it takes time to make money. Like you mentioned the best way is to produce quality content. The sad thing is there are those out there that produce crap and still make the same amount of money or more than those who actually take the time to make a website of high quality.

 

Just be patient, eventually you'll learn to completely gloss over the spammers and they won't bother you, keep looking for quality content and you will find it, there are a lot of friendly people on here who really care about each other.

 

eh lucky for the spammers, I have posted many times and I have 1 post

 

Leave DP and don't come back if you don't find this place 'suitable' to your expectations. Simple as that. If you want a community where you can converse with your peers then create your own forum.

While I don't deny the amount of noobs DP has, I also see no reason why I shouldn't do my part and help educate them with legitimate, white label SEO.

It is what it is.

 

^Looks like mostly black hat techniques being traded here, and not even useful black hat techniques. I'm sure there are some good Internet marketing forums/communities, and I would go to them if I find them. I like the subjects of these forums, but the community is frustrating. For instance, one thread was asking about why Google isn't reporting his backlinks. Everyone in SEO knows that Yahoo gives better, more accurate backlink data than Google. So, he got a couple responses saying, "Don't worry about it; use Yahoo" and "Google doesn't make all this data available." Rather than accept that, he responds a "thank you" to one of the several people who suggests he "waits it out" and that Google just takes longer to index.

As someone who knows SEO well, it is frustrating how backwoods this community seems to be.