Why I Love Blue Hat, Why I Hate Blue Hat

I think most of you know my colored-hat colleague, the Eli of Blue Hat fame. You know — that guy with obscenely large posts, cooler-than-thou attitude and vast array of ‘I know how to do it, but never tell while I’m alive’ quotes.

So, since I read him every day since times immemorial, I’ve decided to make sort of review of his blog, hopefully first in a series of ‘Why I love, why I hate’ posts.

Without further ranting:

  • I love Eli because he is smart. Lot of SEOs are knowledgeable, insightful, curious, quickwitted or brainy. But Eli is one of very few smart SEOs.
  • I love Eli because he is, most likely, Jewish. Yeah, it’s very bad thing but I’m a Jewish supremacist. Not really supremacist, but you got my idea.
  • I love Eli because he uses dofollow and never screams about it. (BTW, I’ve only noticed it today. I always thought I left my nofollow highlighting turned off for some reason)
  • I love Eli because techniques he mention really can be used… I mean, used, like in real marketing activities.

And, why I hate Eli?

  • I hate Eli for awful design. Gosh, erasing CSS file altogether would still make it prettier. Blue font on that header image… yuck.
  • I hate Eli for his snobbish attitude. Perhaps, he’s not noticing it, but he acts like he is the best SEO in the world. This may or may not be the case, but if you blog for people — don’t act like you don’t.
  • I hate Eli for excessively long posts. Sometimes he has a lot to say, but sometimes he just rants and rants and rants… without end.
  • I hate Eli for being as evil as to charge $100/month for access to his personal collection of scripts, databases, SQUIRT (Super Quick Indexing and something Tool), etc. Either they aren’t the tools, scripts and databases he’s using (and he’s ripping us), or he is really selling his SEO soul. If you wrote a tool, you either use it yourself (if it’s good) or sell it (if it’s not).

Eli, I love you, I hate you. In any case, I respect you oh-so-much.

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6.9.07 / 4pm
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