Hundred Dollar SEO

How do search queries come into existence?
For anyone following Eliot Spitzer a new phrase appeared this morning Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Ms. Dupre is the second most searched term for March 13th on Google. She is the intended result of 6 out of the top twenty searches. Think about that for a minute, a significant portion [...]

Michael Martinez paints an admittedly arrogant picture of Advanced SEO tactics. Certainly he has gotten his hands dirty in the search optimization business, but his advice is more like Zen gardening than in the trenches warfare.
Mr. Martinez’s guide to Advanced SEO:

Advanced SEO plans for a minimum of 12 months (or 4 seasons)
No problem there [...]

On Friday I made the claim that SEO is by definition antagonistic to search engines. That the work that search marketers, including me, do takes advantage of any current state in search technologies to improve the search traffic of our clients.
“We as an industry are 100% counter productive to the goal of the search engines. [...]

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 [...]

Carlos Makes Kim Krause Berg Laugh
Apparently Kim and I both share a warm spot for water avian in ball gowns:
I laughed when I read SEO and Usability: Don’t Beat a Dead Horse, which is a response to my SEO and Usability: Be That Stallion and Round Up The Herd. He has a point [...]

One resource on the Internet that I appreciate, but don’t participate in anymore, is Cre8asiteForum.com. I recommend it to a lot of people, but I think it has been almost 2 years since I have left a comment there. Some very bright people with a variety of skills discuss the issues that you probably run [...]

To thank Randy Ray for his many comments I am going to tackle video and news search today.
Optimizing for video searches.
Videos search should be approached in a very similar manner to searches for images.

Use standard coding — for videos that is <object>. Include size parameters for the object and <title> attribute, <name> attribute, and <standby>.
Surround [...]

Originally I was going to do another site review like the one for Zappos, but I have a friend coming in from out of state so I decided to spend some extra time cleaning.
So I am revisiting the original inspiration for this site, my answer to the question of Cheap SEO.
You get what you pay [...]

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 [...]

Recently I receive the Yahoo PPC Guide Smart Start it is 82 pages with plenty of pictures and simple instructions. I would feel comfortable showing it to a client who wanted to know more about buying online advertising, I would not recommend it for a beginner trying to learn how to use the system. A [...]