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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Some of you have probably noticed that StumbleUpon users are somewhat antagonistic toward people who are suspected of trying to game the system. Today I saw an amazing example of seeing what one can get away with.
While stumbling this evening I landed on a Sphinn posting for a MLM blog that is […]

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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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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, […]

While attending a birthday party I overheard an interesting conversation between two of the participants. A man was telling, or trying to tell, a woman that you should avoid making things complicated. But in an attempt to say Eschew Obfuscation gave me my headline. He proved his point to me but confused the woman.
Keeping things […]

Baby ducks are amazing! They are cute, fluffy, and — I assume — crunchy. According to Taco Bell commercials a duckling could only be better if it were covered in cheese.
Beyond tasteless jokes ducklings have an amazing ability, imprinting. Ducks will literally attach themselves to the first large object they see. If you wear white […]

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 […]

What about a bus? Would you welcome traffic by bus?
Recently I have been slow in blogging in favor of a trip to Mexico, specifically Puerto Vallarta. Even in a poor country I was welcomed by a familiar sight, web addresses. Everything had a web address on it from corner breakfast places to the giant billboards […]