I understand your comments. I just don’t want you to get rubbed the wrong way by a genuine sports fan even if they happen to quote the morning sportscenter and act like its their own statement. I guess I can see where you were coming from in that respect cause sometimes it might get a little bit annoying. Anyways I’m just sharing my thoughts.

BTW, I do enjoy your SEO blog and I understand how hard it is to be in that field. I’ve had several websites and SEO is the number one problem with most websites. SEO = money.

You missed the point of the post, so I feel I should respond.

First, I work as an SEO. I blog for the hell of it, it is not my profession. I’d have a pretty sad income if it was my profession.

Second, I am not saying that people cannot have opinions. When I write about something like bad URL management on 2p2, I am stating my opinion along with a reason for my opinion (read the page if you’d like to see why I feel that way). On the other hand, if I never did any research on 2p2, someone told me “oh yea, 2p2 has bad SEO” and then I repeated it as if I was an expert on 2p2’s SEO… well, that’s a different scenario altogether. I actively avoid doing the latter.

Do you understand the difference now?

“whole other thing to repeat bullshit heard somewhere else as if it was your own opinion”

I mean in cases where people repeat it because they think it’s the popular thing to say, not because it’s actually right or because they actually know a single thing about it.

I wish I didn’t feel that way that I do about this, but I do. Can’t help the way that I feel I guess, for better or for worse. It tilts me.

My solution, albeit juvenile, is to stay away from these types of people so I never hear their “expertise”. Keep in mind that it’s one thing to offer an opinion on a subject and it’s a whole other thing to repeat bullshit heard somewhere else as if it was your own opinion. I have no problem with the former, but the latter bothers me.