John Andrews Somehow Makes Sense Of Jason Calcanis

So I was minding my own business today reading through the 100’s of SEO posts I comb through on a daily basis and found my daily gem. I read so much on SEO that most of the content I sift through is garbage, but every once-in-a-while I find a gem. I found mine today on Sphinn post below:



Official - Mahalo is Spam, According to Google’s Internal Spam Documents

The Sphinn thread refers to post at Aaron Wall’s SEO Book blog:

Official - Mahalo is Spam, According to Google’s Internal Spam Documents

And Aaron’s blog post refers to a video of Jason on WPN located here:

SES New York: Jason Calacanis

Well you will find my comments on some of the threads, but basically I am not a big fan of Jason or his projects. I don’t know him or care to. I have just watched and read enough of his comments to form this opinion. Whether it was his trashing of SEOs over a year ago or his recent project that is basically a bunch of Human Powered SPAM.

Any way back to John’s comments. I have listed them below in full detail:

Everyone just copy Jason Calcanis and Mahaloo, ok? That sounds like a GREAT idea.

Jason dissed SEOs in public, at a keynote, on purpose, and then learned a bit so he wasn’t quite so ignorant of SEO any more, and is now working the SERPs as a black hat SEO. Jason dissed affiliates in public, at a keynore, on purpose, and then learned a bit so he’s not as ignorant of affiliate marketing as he was before, and now Mahaoloo has embedded (inline) affiliate links (take a look.. added since Affiliate Summit).

I think every “Learn how to Make Money Fast on the Internets” web site should simply point to Mahaoulo and say “copy them.. they are riding the black edge of gray hat SEO” and be done with it. So simple… just copy them. As they add pages, add splogs on those same topics because those are money terms. Every time they link to some resource, link to it from that blog. Scan technorati for Jason’s comments, and add one of your own right into that thread.. every time. Let Jason pave the way to profits…. each time he justifies his spam, he’s justified YOUR spam as well. Every time he explains how he’s not a spammer, he’s explaining why YOUR not a spammer either. Best of all, he’s being your spokesperson for FREE! And remember, Jason Calcanis will never, ever, ever say that YOU are doing anything wrong or stupid or (gasp) unethical because, well, he CAN’T. It’s not within him to do so.

I won’t bother highlighting how bidness is bidness and the SEO world is easily abused that way, but at least those junior SEM opportunity seekers out there should recognize this one as golden, even if perhaps fleeting.

Disclaimer: I don’t know Jason Calcanis personally so I could be completely wrong in my assumptions. I have merely based my opinion on his words and actions over the past few years, and even then only the irritating, insulting ones that were broadcast purposefully to a large, public audience. If the real Jason Calacanes is not the one I see at SES, Affiliate Summit, etc. well, then, dang it you fooled me!

WOW. Could not have said it better. Now I fully understand Jason. Thanks John!

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Written by incrediblehelp on March 24th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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