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The Beginners Guide To The Rockstar SEO is really to understand there are no rockstar SEOs.
Aye, sir.
Rand or Danny frequently won't tweet back (which can be interpreted as them being dicks) because when you get that big and have that many responsibilities, they would get absolutely nothing done if they did that all day. I know for one that Rand is one of the helpful if not the most helpful SEOs in the industry, and to give him a "rockstar" monkier as if that makes him smug would be a huge, not justified descriptor. There definitely are people who probably are dicks who won't respond purely because they ARE thinking they're too cool, but the reality is that it's frequently the randomness of trying to contact someone who simply doesn't have the time to address every single @ mention.
I do tweet back to lots of people, but yep, it's not all that I do. I also get a lot of things tweeted at me, which people might not realize. I'm not glued to my tweet stream trying to keep up on each and every reply. So it's easy for things to get lost. Sometimes, it's also helpful to see what's tweeted at me, because I might find a way to take that feedback and write something to answer everyone. Hope that helps explain more on my end.
One of my (small) points in this article was to not care if you get a tweet back from Danny or Rand, because (big point) there's others - like you, Ross - who are equally skilled and might just have more bandwidth to help more people individually. We should be thankful to this industry for being one that shares and collaborates, and not think so much about labels. There probably are people who get butt hurt when someone won't respond to them, but that's another issue that I don't have an opinion on. If anyone read into this and thought I was trying to make anyone look smug, they misinterpreted my intent (not that I thought you were accusing me of that); I think you make a good point, and I'll add this chat to my post.