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That's just a name you know
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Maybe, but it is misleading and gets the SEO community more of a poor reputation.
When people find questions such as;
"How do i promote my site"
"What is a backlink"
"How can I find Google"
from people purporting to be SEOs, with SEO in their forum nickname and / or a site in their signature SELLING SEO "services" ( which probably amount to signature spamming in forums ) it does the whole community a disservice.
It's akin to call centres in India and Pakistan being staffed by local labour and they have to answer the call with "Hello, My name is Helen \ Lucy \ Andrew \ Brian how may I help you".
I always consider this as demeaning to the operator to pretend they have a western name and insulting to the caller to expect them to believe it.
BE HONEST!!
If you haven't a clue about this SEO stuff then don't pretend! We all started at that point.
Back in the days of comment stuffing optimising for AltaVista there were no forums to ask questions, no one else willing to share their experience and certainly no Google to look things up on  So it was a case of experiment and learn.
Tell your prospective clients "I don't know, but I'll find out". Every chance you'll get more respect and leeway with that, than giving them the big speech and them finding out that you are slightly better than clueless when nothing is going right 6 months down the line.
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