It seems a lot of commotion has been created due to a post that Muhammad did on Why Socially Driven Sites Hate SEOs. Jason Calacanis picked up the story and did a whole rant on why he thinks SEO is bullshit…

90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman. These are guys in really bad suits trying to get really naive people to sign ong-term contracts. These clients typically make horrible products and don’t deserve traffic–that’s why they’re not getting it organically so they hire the slimebuckets to game the system for them.

So to you Jason, I offer the following challenge: I can take your blog and increase your daily search traffic by a minimum of 10 to 20% after 30 days of putting my changes into effect. I will NOT be doing anything “shady” or unethical and will even point out all the changes that will be made to your blog. You can even have your own designer/programmer make the changes to your blog; I will even layout everything for them using step-by-step instructions.

As well as increasing your traffic I would like to educate you about SEO and what it is really about. There are tons of great and ethical SEOs that help companies increase their traffic without doing anything against the guidelines of search engines.

Hopefully through this challenge I can get you to change your perspective about SEO. If you don’t trust me and think I will do funny little things check with some of the bloggers you read on a regular basis, some of them link to Pronet Advertising and will tell you first hand that I am not a slime bucket.

If you win, I can post about the fact that SEO is really an over-rated science and actually have proof to back it up. If I win, you post that SEO is awesome, and again with the proof to back it up.

**Update: Jason Calacanis has accepted.

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