The infamous Googleguy makes an appearance at SEW today.. Clearly a shameless link but there's a good question here: My personal feeling is that SE reps at SEO forums is not a bad thing, but it can be on occaision - Particularly when the point of their participation appears to be the manipulation of public opinion on their own failings. Spam reporting (snitching) on your competitors is a trend that just leaves me cold, and sometimes official forum reps actively encourage this... Opinions, flames, abuse and discussion all welcome
We have Bush agents here at Digital Point, so what is the difference if a SE has agents on forums? I have invited Google representatives on to argue for their side on issues, did any show up? Maybe they did through proxies on the forums. Do they need agents live on forums or are they already on all of the forums? Does it make any difference to them what folks say? Are they going to change their business plan or tactics if we raise hell with them? I have some answers to these questions but will not give them out to anyone.
Any search emgine company who does not have a dedicated team surfing via anon proxy on all the knowledgable search engine optimisation /SEM forums, would have to be insane. The first rule of battle is know and understand your enemy and the threat he poses. Of course there are search engine reps on all the forums.
To all the SE reps that visit here, my competitors I swear are cloaking please remove them and place me at the number 1 position. If this is a google rep..I love google..If this is a MSN rep boy google stinks and you are number 1..If this is a Yahoo rep..well need I say more.
I wonder if the Search Engine Intelligence agents have to knock on the door of Shawn's office to get on the forum or if they can get on the forum from their offices I bet most of them have to drive to San Diego, knock on Shawn's door, wake him up, kick the beer bottles on the floor around so they do not trip on them, pull up the covers, tap on his back, wake him up and fix him breakfast in bed to gain access to these threads. What a bitch it must be for those guys