Does SEO spell ‘doom’?
The crimes against language committed in the name of SEO continue unabated. At this rate, the English language will be extinct inside a year.
A deeper circle of hell is even now being fired for so-called editors who commit SEO crimes. Thus does a certain editing site – winner of (and, one suspects, sole contestant for) the Best Editing Services Award 2006-8 – offer its services in the following turgid terms:
If you are reading this page, you are in need of professional dissertation writing services or dissertation editing services. Some of you may seek thesis editing services or proofreading thesis services.
And so on, and on, and on. Among the dense undergrowth of search words we may find especial lexicographic turds, thus: “we are available 24/7, at any time of day and night”; and:
Editors providing our service assume know that the dissertation writer, even if he or she is not professional and has not enough dissertation writing experience, has studied the topic thoroughly, thought over the way of material statement and decided on the format and style.
Check out – if you dare, these bogus editors for yourself.
It’s so sad really, glad you are highlighting it, I am now trying hard to ignore these type of scam businesses. If you offer quality then in the long term you will be more successful and generate a good customer base, word of mouth marketing and an excellent reputation. I love the keyword link, I might just do the same on my blog at some point hehe 🙂 I suggest you make it a nofollow link though or you are just passing page rank to them to do even better!
wow. I’ve just taken a look through their site and I’m shocked at the low quality of written content.
Hi Joe — thanks for dropping by. Yes, it’s shocking. Our award-winning friends seem to be playing a numbers game, counting that their SEO-heavy text will bring them enough clients whose English is not at a level to spot the errors. It may well be that a sucker is born every minute; but someone looking for language support is by no means a sucker. Such sites are a virus of globalization, I guess; but a minor one for all that. I wonder if they ever made back the costs of their SEO consultant.
On a different topic, I note that your site is very well structured, and extremely clear and professional: but that you also provide proofreading for undergraduate students. Of course, you are completely clear — and admirably so — that you do not check the content of the essays, just the form; but are you sure that working for undergrads is defensible? Several universities I know of have it absolutely banned, for instance (UCL, for one).