Doug Heil the Don Quixote of search. Forever ranting about whats not ethical in search optimization. He also happens to be a SEO professional providing services via his site ihelpyou.com
Lets see what he ranks for….
- doug heil
- ihelpyou
- 301 redirect penalty manual
- persuasive online copywriting pdf
- spam-whackers.com
Would you trust advice an SEO firm that didn’t rankfor anything relevent?
Yeah me neither.
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To be fair, he does rank second for his own name with his own site, with his Wikipedia entry ranking first - that however seems to be flagged as an article for deletion now ;)
I am not sure how much weight I would give the Compete keyword analysis - I haven’t tried their paid version, and I do rank for the keywords they list for me, but those are not all the highest traffic keywords, or the best for revenue.
You would have thought Doug would rank highly for White Hat SEO, but is nowhere in sight (I seem to rank ~#21 without even trying, thus it is not exactly hard)
One thing about Doug you have to admire… he is consistant
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