Hundred Dollar SEO

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Over the last week I have seen a surprising rush of people in my life “getting” Twitter. It seems that every few weeks there is a little spike in the number of tweets that come in to me. I have a pocket of friends that sign up for everything, and don’t [...]

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Does a combined Yahoo! Microsoft make sense? No probably not. Both have structural issues that make integration likely to compromise both of them. Neither company is particularly search motivated these days. They make money from advertising through their portal aspects, news, mail, etc. and search is just one of the channels. If [...]

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Who is your customer? What do they want?
I want to think that my audience are people that are somewhat aware of marketing on the Internet. People that have a concept of longtail, social media, etc. I wonder what that person wants to see.
I think there is a lack of intermediate [...]

Yesterday I went in to moderate the comments on “SEO Standards Protect Site Owners” and I found the most amazingly stupid piece of comment spam. Someone had actually copied verbatim 3 sentences from the post and put a link in it to their site.
Generally I am all for furthering discussion, even if you are not [...]

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Today there is a lot of coverage of SEO Standards. If you want a list of some recent articles visit this post at SEOmoz and Slightly Shady. I think that most of the people talking about standards are coming from the wrong position. They are largely talking about it from [...]

April Fools day is an interesting day for observation on the Internet. Many Internet companies are run by people with good senses of humor. So there are a wide variety of jokes that propagate every year. Some people just “get it” in terms of what the the Internet is, and some don’t.
Digg made a damaging [...]

According to a young woman I met this weekend you are, or will be. Everyone eventually gives up the long hard road to their dreams for the comfort of immediate reward. The real question is how much have you sold?
Search has 3 major players makers, rankers, and searchers

Makers build content: Bloggers, web designers, game makers, [...]