@Professor 165091 wrote:
Sorry about that John.
Nice warm welcome to our volunteer’s alex. :plain: And yes it was dickish.
Where did I get them? They stepped up when we asked for help.
Can we count on you to join the team so we have your input to help members?
meh, the intention wasn’t to be dickish or to disrespect these guys for coming forward to help the community here (in fact I commend it).. Given what I was going to say it was going to sound that way to some people..
I expected (given the hype intro you gave) that if I glanced at the source of the sites mentioned I could get an instant feel for how good these guys are in the SEO department (there are so many self professed “seo pro’s” out there who are so bad, one has to oust the charatans ya know..)
I just found it strange that both of the sites mentioned were not optimal, that’s all.. (I work as a SEO consulant, so I wasn’t talking rubbish – I can substantiate my claims anytime fwiw)..
Regardless, welcome to both, and It’s definitely nice to see people sharing any SEO savvy in this competitive gambling area. It’s obviously easy just to chuckle at how bad the SEO is on the competitions sites, but it’s good to share some knowledge too imo.
As for your last Q prof, sure – bring it on.. I have managed some nice rankings in my time (e.g .page 1 on google for “gambling”, ah those were the days), and I know I can contribute a lot if I put half the effort in as I do when I go on a rant on the forums 
As a possible starting point to get things going, how about a sticky in this forum where members can post a link to their sites and the “seo gurus” give them one piece of golden advice each? obviusly ther rest of the community can add their thoughts and build up a nice repertoire of methods and advice for the ultimate SEO strategy..