The SEO, formally known as Detlev Johnson, who now chooses to live life as a woman (Disa Johnson) is scorn and very upset with me… still. And is now rallying all the ShoeMoney haters on Twitter (which are not hard to find the in the SEO industry).
He/She is demanding that I remove this post which ranks for Disa Johnson in Google.
So what’s the real beef here? Well, according to its “tweets”, it’s because my post ranks for Disa Johnson’s name and after many failed attempts she can’t seem to rank for my name or for ShoeMoney. Now Disa vows that.. well to put it in her words:
“I have way more energy to defend my good name than you have to sully it.”
Now keep in mind I completely changed the original post to everything he/she wanted done, have apologized in this post, on several radio shows, and even in last night’s Webinar.
I also pleaded with Disa to just give me a call so we could work this all out. But it’s clear… she only cares about being a “expert” on SEO and Reputation Management. Which… it looks like she is a total failure at (so far).
Disa did thank me for editing the original post:
But then she started going nuts and calling me names and what not when she saw that my post was starting to rank in Google…
Then she started this massive campaign on Twitter (among other mediums) to try to get me to delete my apology post.
Disa says she has enlisted link master, Eric Ward, to start building her links to her new site and improve her reputation. I am still stunned that Disa doesn’t truly understand how rankings work! Oh well, bringing in the Link Moses can’t hurt, right?
Now I know what lots of you are thinking… I am “falling” for her PR stunt. Fine – I will fall for it. I feel bad about the whole thing. Obviously switching your gender can be an easy thing and I am trying to move on. I hope Disa Johnson can move on also.
I will not be removing my apology post. If Disa and Heather want to take more legal action, that is their choice.
What Disa Johnson does not understand is that true reputation management doesn’t have crap to do with search engine results. I have built my reputation from meeting and working with people over the past years and as much as she tries, she can’t mess with my solid relationships just by trying to game Google (which I am sure she will continue to try).
I have never held back and tried to take the higher road on anything else that I can think of. I am sure we will see a wave of attacks on Twitter from Disa as I refuse to take down my apology post…. whatever…. I am moving on. I got shit to do.
P.S. Just before this post went to the front page on sphinn, the moderators deleted it… go figure.
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June 5, 2009 at 2:44 am
Interesting article, Disa Johnson Fails no doubt
April 14, 2009 at 10:00 am
Webpages from trusted domains such as this one, usually rank easily on Google for practically anything. Not surprised you managed to rank well for ‘Disa Johnson’ and created all this buzz. Interesting article indeed.
March 17, 2009 at 3:59 am
He/she also talks about herself in the third person on her blog. Repeatedly. On many posts.
Disa, if you read this, that might not be the best idea, on your blog AND in your head.
Good luck.
March 16, 2009 at 5:21 pm
This is actually a funny story. I was just checking back to see if there were any new additions to it or comments…lol
March 16, 2009 at 12:25 am
SEO Experts, here’s something very interesting and helpful
http://thedotcomlifestyle.com/
March 15, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Hello shoemoney, wanted to mention that I think your blog is great because you are a successful web entrepreneur that brings tons of traffic to your site. My question is how come you don’t make more posts about how to make money online? I would love to hear your thoughts on how to make money with Adsense. How about it ? Can I get someone to second this comment? I write ebooks and mainly they are about Adsense, Traffic, SEO, and Blogging for money I would like to add your blog to a list of website to my readers but don’t feel there is much info maybe we could see change on your part since Obama isnt doing anything he says he was going to do.
March 15, 2009 at 7:44 pm
This reminds me of a story a client of mine just told me. Someone owns his business name dot com. He called the owner and asked politely if he’d sell the name. The owner declined, so my client countered with an offer to buy an ad on his home page. Turns out the domain owner has had numerous people send him cease and desist letters and he was actually impressed with someone kindly asking to purchase the domain, then an ad instead of the hard line legal approach. . He ended up giving my client a free text link in return for not being a dick. Whats the moral of the story? Just because you don’t want your dick anymore, doesn’t mean you have to be one. Sometimes being cordial pays dividends. Wonder what would have happened if he would have called you and said hey bro, would you mind cleaning that post up a bit and throw some Disa Johnson anchor text in there linking to my site? That’s a better play on the SERPs if you ask me. Now he has two shoemoney posts an page one ranking for his name.
March 15, 2009 at 12:27 pm
somthing is cooking. It’s really complicated story i think
@ sean what harracment u talkin abt
March 15, 2009 at 7:23 am
So hows he/she now ? Still doing such bitchy act or learned a lesson.
March 15, 2009 at 4:58 am
Surely she has got to realise that this is only gonna end up counter productive in her SEO battle for her name???
March 14, 2009 at 9:27 pm
waoh, great post shoe i almost fell off my laptop reading this post. it’s really funny.
it’s a kind of a dissing between u and disa.
March 13, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Sounds like she’s really milking the link bait
March 13, 2009 at 9:58 am
Well, you can’t please everyone…….
March 13, 2009 at 9:41 am
What real legal actions does she have? If she ever sends you papers you should tell us. She is pissed at the readers more than anything in my opinion because we always talk trash about her… choice.
But way to go Shoe by taking the higher road and moving on.
March 12, 2009 at 5:35 pm
There has to be a reality TV show or new porn niche hidden somewhere in these gems. I wonder if trannyseo.com is available. You think people would pay to watch trannys do bad SEO?
Oh well, more bad heterosexual SEO for me before bed.
March 12, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Hey Shoe, do a post on how a good online fight is good for web traffic.
March 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm
…and then, just a few months after getting a sex change, Disa got raped ^H^H^H^H^H pwned.
Seriously. Reputation management is not about Google. Shoe nailed it.
March 12, 2009 at 3:35 pm
fuckin trannys…
March 12, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Let the SEO war begin
March 12, 2009 at 1:39 pm
This is without a doubt one of the most funny series of events I have heard about on the web… I think Disa has issues!
March 12, 2009 at 10:52 am
Dude I just went a looked at Eric Ward’s site, he’s good, but aren’t his prices a little high to hire just so make you “LOOK BAD” when it really won’t matter anyway.
That’s just stupid.
March 12, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I appreciate the compliment but there’s no way I would offer services just to push down a page in the serps, nor would I be able to deliver that result. It’s not what I do. When people ask me for that specific thing, I refer them to people who know far more about it than I.
March 12, 2009 at 10:44 am
Shoe’s showing off his fighting.com skills
LOL… It’s all good Shoe.
March 16, 2009 at 12:59 pm
LoL … Remind me to stay on his good side!
March 12, 2009 at 10:34 am
Now he is having the perfect feelings and act of a woman by doing these acts. Seems to me that very soon he will be full woman, if he kept doing such kind of act … lollzz
March 12, 2009 at 9:35 am
Definitely a couple of master-baiters
March 12, 2009 at 9:14 am
Good idea
March 12, 2009 at 9:12 am
I don’t understand why this topic of conversation even started.
People are people and everyone should just be a nice as you can.
What good does it do to go around throwing mud, the only outcome is you all come out looking dirty!
March 12, 2009 at 7:29 am
One small editing suggestion:
“Obviously switching your gender can be a easy thing and I am trying to move on.”
I think you mean “your gender can’t be….”
I could be wrong though.
March 12, 2009 at 2:49 am
Fail:
“Disa Johnson on Google. I started a Disa Johnson Google profile March 11, well, to rank with Google for search on my name. Should work great in Google.”
From Airdisa.com
March 12, 2009 at 2:45 am
This is all really kind of funny.. it reminds me of a funny beef in one of the niches I’m in for one of my friends got deleted from a message board… suing someone is usually the worst way to repair your reputation.. I wonder if this thing will go any further with legal action.. kind of funny though.
March 12, 2009 at 1:18 am
Nice post.. you rank well in Google for that keyphrase.
Don’t remove the post.
March 12, 2009 at 12:40 am
Seo is crazy, disa johnson vs shoemoney.. i wonder how long is this gonna go for..
March 11, 2009 at 11:13 pm
I think it’s a good idea!
Maybe i will try it!
March 11, 2009 at 11:03 pm
My bet is that this is just some elaborate pre planned scheme between Jeremy and her to cook up some press and traffic for the both of them. As he has said before, there is no such thing as bad press. Otherwise I can’t imagine the two of you acting like such immature idiots.
March 19, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I don’t think this is all made up. But there is still some serious Mud Slinging Gone on in the SEO world!
March 11, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Now both articles at no 3 position. But this kind of act making this business more and more dirty.
We are missing some ethics here …
March 11, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Pretty impressive… you got the 3rd spot for disa johnson on google.
March 11, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Disa has been destroyed in google. SEO fail.
March 11, 2009 at 7:52 pm
shoe – i met you before at a conference – you seemed like a good dude, were nothing but nice to me.
it’s one thing to embarrass this man/lady personally, but another to attack his/her ability to perform his/her skill is not cool. every person who wishes to hire him/her for seo and sees this post will question his/her abilities. you are hurting disa’s seo consulting business with these posts and that’s not cool. one thing to make fun of someone, another to strip their ability to make a living. do the right thing and change the title at least.
March 11, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Hey Bud, all this chick (huh?) had to do was personally call or e-mail him and I don’t know about Shoe, but that’s about all it would have taken for me. Once she got the lawyers involved and started up on Twitter – now she has a good old-fashioned throw down on her hands.
Hope she can still fight and hasn’t started taking estrogen shots yet. She’s gonna’ need some testosterone for this one.
I know it’s not proper to ever strike a woman (see Chris Brown), but in this case, a bitch slap might do her (him, huh?) some good.
L2
March 11, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Well it is obvious that her/his abilities are limited if he/she can’t beat a blog post for her own name.
It just blows my mind how Disa thought nothing like this would happen when he publicly wacked it off. Lol
He sent herself to the chopping block (quite literally) not anybody else.
March 11, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I say that airdisa shouldn’t be putting up pictures of herself anywhere online with a face like that. She looks like she came straight from the grave.
March 11, 2009 at 7:56 pm
LOL KILLED!!
Its honestly pretty stupid – someone wants to change their gender, but then cant deal with people talking about it ?? WTF
March 11, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I feel sorry for everyone who can’t find anything better to do but attacking/arguing with others…
March 19, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Right on Daria!
March 11, 2009 at 6:36 pm
i think she want’s to outranked you on serps and get her / his page on the top, hehe
March 11, 2009 at 5:50 pm
This post is ranking #8 currently, so I imagine this will only add fuel to the fire.
March 11, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I think her action is doing such job … or may be he want to establish himself as her by doing such kind of bitchy act. lollzz
March 11, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I love how Jeremy can’t decide whether to call Disa a him or a her. He goes back in forth throughout the entire post…lol.
March 11, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Wow, way to make yourself look like a douche/bitch! Good job there he/she, strong interpersonal skills!
March 11, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Hi Jeremy – While Disa a long time friend, I am not working on any sort of link building or rep mgmt on her behalf or for any of her sites. I’d fail at such a thing because it isn’t my specific area of expertise. At all. She gave me a testimonial, I posted it on my site, with link, and that somehow bumped him up above your original post. I have no illusions that this will be permanent. You know far more about this type of thing than I do. I know how link works -in my very specific niche, which is for content heavy non-ecom sites in deep verts, so I’ll be staying on the sidelines on this one.
Eric, the link builder formerly known as LinkMoses
March 11, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Probably a good idea
March 19, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I agree!
March 11, 2009 at 3:51 pm
After reading the keyword sat on these comments… not only will he/she rank @ shoemoney, he/she is also going to rank for the phrase “he/she”
Just count the times its in these comments! LOL
March 12, 2009 at 5:57 am
LOL! I wonder how many times he/she is searched on a daily basis. Man, Disa should have known better.
March 11, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Funny that an SEO can’t rank for their own name.
March 11, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Drama bring traffic too.
March 11, 2009 at 3:08 pm
He/she needs to grow some balls and make the call – make it all nice.
lol
March 11, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Well…you can’t regrow them.
March 11, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I’m sure if he/she looked hard enough – they have to be somewhere.
ROTFLMAO
March 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Shoemoney vs Diza Johnson
I lost the Party.
How much money I can make?
By the way: she or he.
Please help me!
March 11, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Lol. Shoemoney says both in the post!
March 11, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Jeremy,
I commend you for taking the high road, we have more pressing business at hand, like turning this economy around.
Buy my acai berry tea anyone?
Respectfully,
Nicholas Chase
http://www.twitter.com/nachase
March 11, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Can it really help me lose 30 pounds in 30 days
?
March 11, 2009 at 2:00 pm
this is hilarious. sort of like dean hunt’s first big buzz about a company threatening to sue him for ranking for their top key phrase or something like that. lol
March 11, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Seriously, Shoemoney if he/she really were an expert at reputation management and seo, I seriously doubt that he/she would be choosing this approach. it’s the absolute last course of action I would take if I were him/her.
By the way, great webinar last night. Very informative. You rock, man.
March 11, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I agree. Great webinar shoe…or should I say…Google Ninja.
March 11, 2009 at 1:08 pm
hmm lol, what was the point in the campaign.
March 11, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I noticed some comments above that poke fun at the gender change. As easy as that may be to poke at, the real issue is Disa’s handling of what she feels is inappropriate use of her name. From your apology post, I gathered that this whole mess could have been averted long ago with a friendly request to you rather than threats of legal action. Whether she’s just shouting to be heard or just didn’t think it through, it sad that someone you were previously OK with has created an ugly scene over all this. It’s worse that she’s recruiting people she knows to join in on her personal problems. If she were rallying people to fight cancer, that’s one thing, but this is her personal battle. I hope she finds a way to live with the idea that she can’t win ‘em all and moves on to damage control.
March 11, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Haha, I find it funny that this post now ranks along with your legal post as the top results for ‘disa johnson’. Shoemoney is da bomb
March 11, 2009 at 12:40 pm
That *dude* needs to take a chill pill. Seriously.
March 11, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Someone should have told her you dont need to actually become a woman to act like a giant vagina.
March 11, 2009 at 1:25 pm
My thoughts exactly, I love women don’t get me wrong, but shehe is showing some brilliantly feminine behaviour.
March 11, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Some people just have to be the victim of everything. These victims are usually confused about the reality of the situations they find themselves being victimized in.
Nuff said.
March 11, 2009 at 11:47 am
He/she is complaining about her reputation??!! LoL. You would link he/she would have stopped caring about that around the moment he had his willy chopped off. I would say she just needs to grow a pair and deal with it, but hey that would be counterproductive wouldn’t it??
March 11, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I completely fell out of my chair laughing so hard at this comment!
March 14, 2009 at 3:02 pm
awesome comment…but yeah..if he/she grew a pair it would become a waste of money unfortunately.
March 11, 2009 at 11:26 am
I agree with you!! Absolutely. Disa Johnson doesn’t even know if he/she is a guy/girl.
March 11, 2009 at 11:12 am
I sat in a session at a SMX conference recently. Disa Johnson was a mod. I’d never seen or heard of Disa before but I could not shake the idea that she had transgendered.
I really don’t care what a person does sexually. Why should I? I’ve got other issues.
Somehow this whole episode makes me think it is continued to get more publicity. There is no such thing as bad publicity, right?
Ya can’t fool a fooler!
March 11, 2009 at 11:11 am
This is crazy. I think this is just done for publicity and nothing else
March 11, 2009 at 11:09 am
Sean, that’s what I was thinking. Shoe, it looks like he/she is baiting you. What can you really do… you said your piece, he/she is desperate. He/she’s absolutely tarnishing whatever reputation that’s left.
March 11, 2009 at 10:57 am
Can’t believe war can emerge in seo like this. what has reputation got to do with your ranking.
Oh, the name in question? I guess Jeremy needs to neglect this side, it hurts your own reputation.
You dont have to exchange words with he/she, since you’ve apologised for the little mistake you did, then neglect that side, you’ve your best and what’required of you. it’s now left for he/she to accept or not which does not concern you anymore.
Let he/she continue shouting, only the empty container sounds louder, if he/she’s got stuffs, then he/she needs not to shout.
March 11, 2009 at 10:54 am
I mean seriously… Are you expecting logic, stability of mind and reason from someone that did a sex change…
March 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm
hahaha…I don’t think they touch the brain during a sex change though.
March 11, 2009 at 10:54 am
She/he/it is clearly baiting you…
BUT, you are such a master, that I suspect that you may be using it to your advantage to bait back.
All in all, one giant ball of bait.
Arrggghhh, my head hurts.
Keep up the good work.
Dean
March 11, 2009 at 10:49 am
It seems like Disa Johnson got her ranking back.
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8272/disajohnson.png
Currently #4
March 11, 2009 at 10:32 am
Web 2.0 has not become Soap Opera 2.0 lol…If a person cannot understand what an apology is, nor can understand the editing of a post, then really there is not much you can do Shoe…I’m sure you can be using your energy elsewhere rather than wasting it with this issue.
March 11, 2009 at 10:26 am
I don’t think you should be responsible for your ranking in Google. That’s not within your control. You apologized and that should be enough.
Its a shame that continuing this PR stunt is more valuable to her than just doing the right thing and moving on.
March 11, 2009 at 10:25 am
Seems like he, she or whatever would have learned by now that, if you stir the pot, the smell only gets stronger.
March 11, 2009 at 10:25 am
why doesn’t he/she change his/her name again…she/he already did it once this month, it’ll be a heck of a lot cheaper and less time consuming than knocking you out off page 1, if possible. it’ll take more than a “link moses” to get the job done, he/she needs a “link jesus”. good luck disa!
March 11, 2009 at 10:24 am
shoe seriously how long until detlev calls in favors with Matt Cutts?
http://img17.imageshack.us/my.php?image=disajohnsonfail.jpg
March 11, 2009 at 10:33 am
Matt just posted last week that G will not pull a site from the index, unless it has some super-special reasons that are harmful to users… or something like that!
March 11, 2009 at 10:12 am
Shoe, this is a waste of energy and appears to may of us as pointless harassment. It has nothing to do with marketing or SEO, it’s hurtful and saddening. Please have some respect for Disa and stop. This isn’t what people should be subscribing to your feed or visiting your site to see.
- Em
March 11, 2009 at 10:12 am
I think that you have done anything that you could have.. just leave it be, and perhaps like mentioned above find out with twitter when it turns into more than just a campaign…
March 11, 2009 at 10:10 am
Another post with Disa Johnson in the header that will rank higher than his website. Damn you Shoemoney!
March 11, 2009 at 10:10 am
What’s so funny about his/her tweets is the fact that they constantly talk about how you’re this new upstart trying to milk this for exposure.
Well I’ve got news for Disa, someone is milking it, but it sure isn’t Shoemoney. If you have to constantly tell people that you’re an expert and should be revered in a field, then you’re probably not and you probably shouldn’t be.
March 11, 2009 at 1:14 pm
This is exactly correct. At first, Shoemoney referred to Disa as a reputable search engine marketer. I’ve lost respect for what little respect I had for Disa to begin with.
March 11, 2009 at 10:08 am
I was watching this go down in Twitter this morning… rather entertaining actually!! Seems to me the baiting may have worked better than my last post about you exposing yourself in public! LOL
March 11, 2009 at 10:07 am
Enhhh..You know, Shoe, sometimes people just cant leave shit alone. You can tell some people sorry a million times but it will never be enough because they desire one million and one apologies. I think you have done all that you could do in this case. Your attitude is the right one – Time To Move On.
Sounds like she is a bitter person that is trying to do damage control by attacking you….whatever.
Brushin Haters Off Since 1996,
Preston Taylor
PS – Thanks for answering my questions last night on the webinar. That was awesome. Feel sorry for the folks who passed that webinar up – they missed out.
March 11, 2009 at 10:05 am
at what point does the twitter campaign etc. turn into harassment
March 11, 2009 at 3:32 pm
5 miles back, I believe.