Hundred Dollar SEO

A couple of months ago I had a wonderful day — I was the undisputed 2nd Sexiest Man in SEO. Not only that I was the first result for Sexiest Man in Search, which is more of an accomplishment considering that there are 29 times the number of results and the search for the sexiest [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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, [...]

An excerpt from comments at Cornwall SEO March 7 - 11, 2008:
Carlos Del Rio:
The major weight of links and references are to things that are accessible, not exceptional. Pages that amass large amounts of links are often remarkable (comment worthy) content that is not on the high end of the value spectrum.
Lyndoman:
Carlos if something is [...]

I have recently been using StumbleUpon more frequently, and for a wide number of topics, and I have found some interesting sites. I also notice that I see certain people that I know from search marketing communities are very active. I might say extremely active. I have to wonder how many of the sites that [...]

I just read an article that make me happy ( a response to this). Rand Fishkin disputes the thoughts of Micheal Martinez. The quick recap: Rand loves links, Micheal hates them. Both men have accomplished commendable things on the web. I worked with Micheal for close to a year and I have seen the things [...]

Checking my links today I discovered two strange looking links. Apparently someone republished my review of Zappos (note: I they actually took the internal linking post) as theirs, which was subsequently scraped and attributed to the first person.
This left me confused and a bit derailed from my original blog idea, I forget what I was [...]

Today I started my daily blog reading with SlightlyShady’s primer for black hat networks and decided to travel through the blogroll and comment links. Every once in a while it is good to stretch into the corners of the business that I don’t read often. I found that many of these people frequent SEO-Theory. I [...]

I am going to make a round-up of a few of my favorite bloggers:

The highly popular SEOmoz – SEOmoz SEO Quiz
The beautiful and talented Vanessa Fox, who I would gladly drinkbait – Critique of SEOmoz SEO Quiz
The very opinionated Michael Martinez – SEO Visibility

The quiz has created a bit of a buzz. Largely around people [...]