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7/21/2008 Competitive Webmaster Tools Presentation Tomorrow

Last chance to signup for the MarketMotive/ Search Engine Strategies Webcast tomorrow at 9am PST. You can read more about it here. Should be a doozy. Related PostsSES Toronto and MarketMotive - Competitive Webmaster Tools SeminarI"ve spent the last three weeks compiling the master list of competitive webmaster tools. I don"t t...Upcoming Speaking [...]

7/15/2008 Recent Interviews - Search Engine Journal and Voices of Search

I did a couple of interviews at SMX Advanced in Seattle that have recently been published. Thanks to Tom Schmitz, the Seattle SEO, for the interview on Voices of Search - You can check it out here We talked about professional career progression, industry history, and other internet marketing tips. The second interview [...]

6/11/2008 SES Toronto and MarketMotive - Competitive Webmaster Tools Seminar

I’ve spent the last three weeks compiling the master list of competitive webmaster tools. I don’t think I’ve worked this hard on something in quite some time, and it’s definitely the best presentation I’ve ever done. Currently at over 300 screenshot slides - It will likely go over 400. You won’t be let [...]

5/30/2008 Upcoming Speaking Engagements - SMX Advanced in Seattle & SES Toronto Training

Just a quick note - if you’ll be in Seattle, I’ll be speaking on Buying Old Sites for SEO. I’ll also be doing an SES Training session on SEO Tools in Toronto. It’s a 4 hour presentation, and it’s taken me about 2 solid weeks to put together the presentation (over 300 slides!). [...]

5/22/2008 Contest - Help Redesign Weird Asia News - Win a Playstation 3 (and Guitar Hero!)

My buddy Brent over at Weird Asia News REALLY needs a redesign for his awesome content rich (yet amazingly fugly wordpress default edited) site. WAN has amazing stories, and gets tons of traffic, but frankly, it looks a bit like something your cat might cough up after a pretty gnarly hairball gagging spell. [...]

5/21/2008 Interview About Link Baiting and SEO Consulting with David Flowers

I spent about 45 minutes talking with David Flowers about a variety of topics including seo consulting, linkbaiting, social media marketing, and a variety of other SEM topics. I think it came out pretty nicely, and David had some great questions. You can listen to the interview here.

4/26/2008 Why I Think People Like Twitter - and Me on Twitter

I originally knocked twitter - and in my mind, the jury is still out - but I AM using it - Click here if you feel like following my twitter nonsense. Twitter is the opportunity for bloggers and nerds to chat WHEN they want to - I can chat on aim, or yim, or msn or [...]

4/26/2008 Book Review Break: Introducing NLP

Book: Introducing NLP by: Joseph O’Connor & John Seymour Subtitle: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People Interpreted Thesis: "NLP is the art and science of excellence, derived from studying how top people in different fields obtain their outstanding results." "The purpose of NLP is to increase human choice and freedom." "The development of a rich awareness [...]

4/13/2008 Quick Update - Moved to San Francisco and Interview

It’s been quite a while since I wrote much of value - but Gab Goldberg did an interview with a few of us at SMX Santa Clara (or more was invited to listen to Me, Rae, and Michael BS’ing in the bar having a few beers.) Gab has really done some nice work [...]

3/13/2008 Eliot Spitzer’s Call Girl - Ashley Alexandra Dupré Youmans aka Kristen of the Emperor’s Club VIP Escort Service in NYC - 7 Things You Can Learn

Okay, I’ll be honest - it’s like a train wreck that you can’t look away from, and I’m curious how much traffic there is for something like this. It’s basically all over google trends for the last few days. This is about as trashy of a post as they come, but figured I’d [...]

3/7/2008 15 Ways to Be a SEO Conference Douchebag

I love SEO conferences and meetups. I’ve met most of my favorite people on the planet at them. There’s also lots of douchebags, who really don’t get what an incredible community of people it is most of the time. I sat down with Mike McDonald and talked a little bit about what to [...]

2/22/2008 IM-NY / BOTW SES Charity Party

I am a proud - card carrying member of IM-NY, and the group is a gathering of some of my most favorite people on the planet. Mr. GoodROI does a fine job of planning monthly events to entertain this group of wiley search vets. As with last year’s SES party - the boys [...]

2/22/2008 San Francisco SEO Meetup Part II - Friday Feb. 29th

A little Pre SMX West warmup to get your liver (oh and your search questions) ready. You can RSVP on facebook.6PM drinks (and food if you’re hungry) on the rooftop at Medjool if its nice enough out (otherwise inside). I’m planning a little on the early side because it can get packed on Fridays. Medjool: [...]

2/8/2008 Your Brand Size Matters with Big Site SEO - Why Big is the new Blackhat - Intent, Extent, and Semantics

Found this post in the archives, and thought it was worth tossing up since I’ve been MIA quite a while. BMW was out of the index for less than a week. Colgate has pushed the envelope hard. Wordpress made a boatload of cash on MFA’s and was back in the index in days while [...]

1/15/2008 Not Just Link Ninjas…Internet Marketing Ninjas Training- Why YOU should pay the $3k for SEO SEM Training

I’ve been procrastinating far too long on this post - and unfortunately, it’s going to come out a bit rushed. Part of the reason for that, it’s hard to justify the ROI on blogging now because I actually WORK on projects that make me money, instead of just writing about how smart I am. [...]

1/15/2008 SEMMYS Awards - Best Posts in Search Engine Marketing

Matt McGee has spent a lot of time and effort to build a pretty cool awards program for the best posts in search engine marketing - the SEMMY’s. I’m honored to be a part of it, and can only hope that one day we’ll have an awesome black tie, red carpet event to commemorate the [...]

11/29/2007 Joining Client Side SEM with Scott Smith aka Caveman and Aaron Wall aka SEObook

I’ve been procrastinating a bit on an official announcement about joining up with Scott and Aaron for a little while now, but am happy to make it official with a blog post (okay, I really just didn’t want to explain a thousand times at pubcon). Scott and Aaron are two of the sharpest SEO/ [...]

11/8/2007 Job Opening - Link Ninja/ Link Baiter

Please see below for resume submission details - if you can’t follow directions, you are automatically disqualified. This position is working directly with me and a partner. Required skills * Basic HTML/CSS skills * Excellent writing skills * Sense of humor * Understanding [...]

11/8/2007 Special Thanks to our Guides in Asia

I’m now back to a lovely fall day in Albany, after 3+ weeks overseas, and some time in Chicago, and back in Michigan. It’s been quite a ride, with more than a few air miles. I’m not going to archive the whole trip here, but I will have some posts over at Todd.Malicoat.org. Mostly, I [...]

9/29/2007 Speaking at SEMCon and Out of the Country a While

Sitting at Werty’s house in Chicago, then off on Monday for a trip through Asia (Manila, Hong Kong, Bejing, and Tokyo). I’ll also be speaking in Manila at SEMCon. Lookin’ forward to meeting lots of cool new people, be sure to let me know if you’re in any of the areas, and wanna [...]

9/14/2007 What is Optimization? When are You Optimized? There’s No Such Thing as Half way Optimal.

Just a quick rant for those who would rather debate than execute and implement. Optimal is the best case scenario in any given set of circumstances. Optimized is creating a site that gives users and bots what they are looking for realtime, and IS an ongoing process (show me a site that has too much content or [...]

9/4/2007 Post Your Web Jobs for FREE for the next 30 days - Job Board for SEO, SEM, PPC, Design, Development, and other Web Marketing Jobs

Meta Web Jobs is launching here on stuntdubl.com as a place to post all your web related job ads to find people who actually know what the hell they’re doing. We’re hoping to find you the best job hunters, since this is a great place for them to learn. Check out the brand spankin’ new [...]

9/4/2007 Werty and Stuntdubl’s Wild World Tour - Manila, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Tokyo Meetups Anyone?

So my buddy Aaron and his beautiful bride Giovanna are making it official in the Phillipines in October, and George is the best man. What a great reason to do some world travel eh?!? The itinerary is posted below, but Werty and I would love to catch up with some SEO folks accross [...]

8/29/2007 Quick SES Roundown - Paid Links Presentation

Another SES San Jose is in the books, and what a doozy it was. I usually try to do a complete rundown of all the great folks I got to meet and friends I got to spend time with, but life has been a bit hectic, and the blog is the first to be [...]

8/18/2007 SF Bay SEO Meetup Part II

If you’re in the SF neighborhood this evening, and interested in coming - drop me a line, and I’ll get you directions and information on where we’re at. For more info - check out the facebook group.

8/16/2007 Market Motive - Internet Marketing Knowledge You Can Trust

While visiting San Francisco, I was e-mailed by Michael Stebbins and John Marshall the artists formerly of Clicktracks to discuss their new venture. When I asked why they both weren’t out touring the world, surfing, or entertaining some other favorite hobby, the unanimous answer was “because we love this”. This passion, and insane [...]

8/7/2007 San Francisco SEO Meetup Part II - Gordon Biersch - Friday August, 10th 6:00 pm

6:00 pm - Friday August the 10th at Gordon Biersch 2 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA. If you’re planning to attend - it would be real helpful if you can drop me an e-mail, hit me through the contact form, or post on facebook so we can get a semi accurate head count. (comments [...]

8/3/2007 San Francisco SEO Meetup

So I’m hanging out in the San Francisco Bay area for a bit, and planning to put together a couple of SEO meetups with some friends in the area. If you’re available, drop me a line on e-mail, or just rsvp on facebook (my comments are currently borked - or I’d say leave a [...]

7/13/2007 Friday Favorites 7/13/07

Danny launches Sphinn - cool new social app for SEM/SEO’s - More links below Tamar has an awesome list of Digg api tools Shimon has some cool ideas on rep management Everett has some ideas ideas about using affiliate marketing for reputation management The SEO Chicks rock - terrible things to do on social media sites, SEO so easy [...]

7/12/2007 Reputation Management Emancipation Proclamation - 10 Ways to “Own Yourself” Online

After having a nice recent conversation with Jeff Liebert lately, I read his fantastic post in the WMW supporter’s forum about Are Businesses and People Adapting to the WWW Publicity Machine? As a brief aside, he had a note about declaring his emancipation proclamation for owning his own name online, so I thought I’d give [...]

7/10/2007 Domain Roundtable Domainer Conference in Seattle - Aug. 13 - 15th

I had the pleasure of meeting Jay Westerdal at SMX Seattle, and got to chat a bit about the great idea of SEO’s and domainers being internet superfriends by combining their super powers. So here’s your first chance. If you’re here often, you’ll know I don’t often hawk people’s wares, unless I really [...]

7/6/2007 Friday Favorites 7/06/07

The DNSscoop domain value tool is pretty cool - found via Dotsauce. Danny on Domaining More links below Signup for the DomainRoundtable Domain Auction Domainers are starting to pay more attention to SEO (and vice versa) - We really should be superfriends. How to SEO your site in under 60 minutes Bill has some patented goodness with info on google [...]

6/26/2007 8 Simple Rules For Social Media Marketing in Business to Business Markets

B2B folks tend to struggle with social media marketing. After repeatedly being asked the question of how b2b folks can use social media marketing, I’ve come up with a handful of rules that apply. If you’re not willing to comply, chances are you should stick to direct marketing and cold calling people. 1. Get on the [...]

6/25/2007 Friday Favorites 6/22/07

Yes - I realize it’s monday, but hey - it’s summer and I like to relax a bit. I’ve missed the last few weeks, so I thought I’d get this up here now. Scott gives some great warning signs for your web project Presidential search marketing faceoff at 1020e How I became a professional blogger found via [...]

6/13/2007 Confessions of an Advertising Man by: David Ogilvy of Ogilvy Advertising

Book: Confessions of an Advertising Man by: David Ogilvy Here’s the scoop: A good friend of mine, and fellow search marketer who spent many years on Madison Avenue has convinced me to educate myself further about "old school" advertising, and has provided me with a great reading list, which I’m now one book through. [...]

6/12/2007 SEO Class Rides Again - Now with More Webmasterworld Pubcon and a Bullpen

In case you missed the official announcement, SEO Class will now be partnering with WebmasterWorld, Inc. to create SEO Class hosted by Pubcon. The first of several dates to be announced is July 30th and 31st in Manhattan. We’re proud to have Brett Tabke and Joe Laratro joining as speakers to up the [...]

6/12/2007 SMX Seattle Roundup and Shout Outs

As usual, I’m quite a bit behind, but I figured it’d give me a chance to showcase the best roundups of the show, and give my shoutout list the proper attention that it deserves, now that I’m almost done wading through email. I’m pretty laid back at the conferences, and generally just go to see [...]

6/1/2007 Friday Favorites 6/1/07

Bill Slawski is a genius, and he takes a lot of time to write great stuff (mainly derived from actual patents) like these on user query intent, personalized re-rankings, large scale machine learning, historical data followup, and mindmapping for keyword development. Fantastic stuff. More links below Check out the new SEO Chicks site - these are [...]

6/1/2007 SMX Seattle Next Week - SEO Meet SMM

I’m getting into Seattle Sunday afternoon, and leaving Wednesday. I’ll be speaking with Neil, Rand, and Cindy Crum on SEO meet SMM. Looking forward to an interesting panel. Here’s my conference tips and tricks post for those just getting acclimated. Dustin has some nice tips on the conference as well. It should [...]

5/31/2007 How Sequoia Venture Capital Will Pop the Bubble of Web 2.0 - Mahalo or MFAhollow?

Starting the ridiculous round of investment in such a terrible idea. Continue doing this, and the end will definitely be near. This is so bad I will even give them a link (though I’ve decided it should contain the anchor text “squidoo crackbaby”). Seriously - if you guys are GIVING away money [...]

5/25/2007 Friday Favorites 5/25/07

Got a chance to have some beers with Neil and Cameron monday night - brilliant down to earth guys, and they’re rockstars for a reason, checkout some of the recent brilliance from Pronet - A petition for a transparent digg, as well as an article from Neil on landing pages for social media visitors - [...]

5/18/2007 Friday Favorites 5/18/07

Andy tells us why the world should love SEO’s, and about the lies domainers tell themselves - more links below Brian P. talks about internet marketing opportunity and scalability and the new internet superfriends Brian C. wonders if your metaphors rock Dave has a 3 step plan for paid linking Justilien goes on link safari The Mozzer’s built a team [...]

5/17/2007 Search Engine Optimization Warfare - The Competitive Webmaster’s Guide to Understanding the Dynamics of Top Rankings

Search engine optimization is misunderstood and despised by those who have had consistently failed at using it, or have been repeatedly beaten by those who were successful with it. These failures often stem from not understanding the dynamics of the behind the scenes battles that go on for search positioning. It is also a shame [...]

5/14/2007 Re-Upping Your Google Adwords Certification - Tips, Tricks, and Tools

If you earned your Google Adwords certification close to when the program was launched, it’s about time to re-take your test, and prove you’re still qualified. If you’re like, me, and don’t do a whole lot of PPC, this could be tough. (I mainly do basic audits as a value add to SEO consulting). [...]

5/11/2007 Cool New Widget from RateItAll.com

Lawrence Coburn, of SexyWidget.com, sent me over an invite to try out their new widget for Rateitall. It’s probably the coolest looking widget I’ve seen to date, and there’s already some pretty slick functionality in it. Drop a review or two down on the bottom right of my site if you get a [...]

5/8/2007 10 Ways Competive Webmastering is Like the 2007 NBA Champion Detroit Pistons

1. Launching a successful site is like hitting a clutch game winning 3 pointer to beat the buzzer. Finish practice, finish plays, finish quarters, and finish games. 2. Strong teamwork skills makes a team better. Learning to pass, delegate, and share responsibilities lets everyone demonstrate and improve their strengths. A balanced attack will lead [...]

5/4/2007 Friday Favorites 5/4/07

The Prequel to the SEO Playbook Natural vs. unnatural patterns with Digg, 10 tips for content creation, and What the Cluetrain means to your business - checkout more links below Warren Buffet SEO advice, and the Austin Powers guide to websites - what it really takes to make a million dollar website. Cool non-profit SEO contest - win [...]

5/1/2007 New Ways to Buy Text Links and Reviews

The fine folks over at Text Link Ads, have out done themselves again offering new services from both ReviewMe, and the mothership. ReviewMe now offers a service that gives more control to the advertiser while still giving the blogger 100% control over what review offers they accept. TLA is now offering post level [...]

4/26/2007 Register for the SEO Class - Search Engine Marketing Training in NYC

The SEO Class is in full swing for spring. Come join us at the New York Helmsley Hotel Midtown Manhattan in mid-May for an information packed 2 day seminar on how to make it happen online. The cost is $2999 (less $500 until next friday if you mention stuntdubl in the notes upon registration) Who: [...]

4/20/2007 Friday Favorites 4/20/07

Are SEO’s early adopters - or just plain the pornographers of the web? - read more favorites below. Counterpoint to paid linking fud - from graywolf at seoclass, on his site, scoreboardmedia, aaron, and threadwatch. Aaron’s power of observation astounds me sometimes - How global link popularity will lose relevancy to subscription data Marshall Clark gives us [...]

4/19/2007 The SEO Playbook - Welcome to the Rabbit Hole Alice

SEO is about more than meta tags, title tags, and targeted anchor text. Call it "competitive webmastering", "SEO", or any one of a slew of other titles - it is the thought process of lateral thinking and understanding of website creation and marketing combined that matters most. It is a line of thinking that [...]

4/18/2007 Stephen Colbert - Greatest Living American

Probably the coolest thing I heard at SES NYC was Jonah Stein’s story of informing the folks at the Colbert Nation that Stephen could be the Greatest Living American according to Google. Jonah is truly the most patriotic SEO for doing this service to his country. As a former resident to the home of the Saginaw [...]

4/17/2007 Ask Your SEO Questions to the SEO Class’rs

We’ve decided to step things up over at the SEO Class Blog - and we’ll be answering weekly search engine marketing questions submitted by folks. Graywolf, SugarRae, GoodROI, will be debating the finer points of SEO on a weekly basis. Notes won’t be compared, and believe me - we all have no issues with some [...]

4/16/2007 I am not a Link Communist Revisited: Perspectives on Buying Links

I like to buy links. In fact, I love to buy links. As powerful and relevant as possible. The more they are such, the more they will help search engine rankings. Search engine rankings help sales. I love to buy sales even more than I like to buy links. I love to scale this process [...]

4/16/2007 10 Reasons Why I Don’t Blog Sometimes

Jim tagged me - helping to spread the “why do I blog” meme. There are plenty of great reasons why I choose to blog, most of which have been covered by Jim, and several of the other great responses. There are plenty of reasons I don’t as well. Since blogging has been light lately, [...]

4/2/2007 It’s Deductible - Rap Video to Remind You Tax Season is Coming Up.

A buddy of mine (and fellow seo’r) Dan, aka Danny Funk has had me cracking up, and singing the hook of his great entry into the turbo tax rap contest on youtube for several days now. I promise it is worth the 2:00 for this one. He missed his calling as the 4th [...]

3/30/2007 Friday Favorites 3/30/07

I missed last week while we put on the SEO Class, which went very well. We had a nice turnout of non-profit organizations, and were able to cover some excellent material that should help with driving more targeted, relevant traffic to their sites. Plenty of folks had nice things to say, and I’m [...]

3/29/2007 IMNY Charity Party at SES NYC

Monday April 9th 7-10pm Town Tavern 134 W 3rd St & 6th Ave. 3 Hour Open Bar Party for $40 donation at the door All money goes to Ronald McDonald House Charity Charity Party is open to everybody Big thanks to BOTW & TLA for covering the cost http://www.im-ny.org/events.html Thanks to Greg for putting this together. More stuntdubl goodness: Master Link [...]

3/26/2007 Neil Patel Bitch Slaps Calacanis on Behalf of SEO’s Everywhere

It actually pains me to put Jason C’s name in a title after all the attention he gleans with the attack hook. This time he actually managed to get himself free SEO consulting as well. I just don’t bother to argue with the haterz like this anymore (at a certain point the skin [...]

3/22/2007 SEM Scholarship Part II Launches

Andy Beal started a really cool scholarship last year, and has brought it back this year. With an esteemed group of judges and then me - he’ll be giving away a bunch of great SEM prizes worth upwards of 10k to the lucky winner. There was some really excellent entries last year - [...]

3/21/2007 How to be an Idiot Blogger that No One Likes

Michael Gray ranted a bit recently about how most SEO bloggers should step away from the keyboard. I disagree with him totally. I think there should be MANY MORE SEO bloggers because it helps keep people that may know what they’re doing away from search results that may compete with mine (and it’s [...]

3/19/2007 Breaking Up with Bad Clients: It’s Not You…It’s Me.

As any type of company or consultant, the WRONG clients can destroy your success. It is often very tempting to keep clients, since the money seems nice, but when you drill down to the nitty gritty, they are often not very profitable at best, and a complete resource drain that can damage your pocket book [...]

3/19/2007 Social Media Panel at EcomExpo with Kris Jones, Neil Patel, and Jeremy Schoemaker

Kris, Jeremy, Neil, and I will be chatting about social media stuff this week, and doing a live Q and A session. Check it out if you can make it: PANEL TITLE: “Buzz Marketing Secrets: Build Your Business using Social Media” DATE & TIME: 4:15pm, Wednesday, March 22, 2007 LOCATION: Online - Sign-up at eComXpo.com TICKET PRICE: Free More [...]

3/17/2007 Friday Favorites 3/16/07

Where do the weeks go? Barely got this one in this week - but here’s some goodies in case you missed them: Kris lets us know how to piss off bloggers Rebecca discusses stupid web 2.0 names (Matt shows us the star wars vs. web 2.0 name quiz) and Rand illustrates duplicate content Justin tells us 8 things [...]

3/15/2007 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Links (and then some)

Rae had a great idea for a “round robin” of link development questions to a great bunch that does quite a bit of it. I’m still reading through it all, since no one got to see one another’s answer’s until it was posted.Eric Ward, of URL Wire, Rand Fishkin - The wizard of Moz, Roger [...]

3/15/2007 SEO Class Welcomes Brad Geddes aka eWhisper

Very excited to have Brad Geddes of Local Launch joining up with us for the SEO Class. I’ve never met anyone more versed on paid search than Brad (including folks working for the PPC providers themselve), and can’t wait to ask him some questions of my own. Really a guru in paid search, [...]

3/12/2007 Negotiations and Client Sales for SEO Consultants

I asked Calum Coburn, who is an expert in negotiation training and business leadership to do a piece for the site on helping SEO consultants to be better at sales and negotiation. After all, we are naturally GEEKS, and generally only forced into sales by default. Big thanks to Calum for taking the [...]

3/9/2007 Friday Favorites 3/9/07

In case you didn’t notice, we’re blogging over at SEO Class (subscribe here)- Michael gives rep management tips using social media Brad tells us why PPC is the OLD SEO - Quality score has really made it a science eh? Have you heard about gadgets in Windows Vista? Now’s the time to build your Vista gadgets (or [...]

3/2/2007 SEO Class Internet Marketing Training Launch

The SEO Class has been in the works for several months now, and we’re finally in launch mode. We’ll be holding all the SEO Classes in Manhattan, NY. I think this will turn into a great opportunity for people to get some time to develop new strategies for their internet marketing from myself, [...]

3/2/2007 Friday Favorites 3/2/07

Duane’s great list of 20 reasons you shouldn’t take on SEO clients The SEOMoz cartoons are a thing of legend - the SES London Cartoon made my day. Jeremy provides some random tips on being a successful marketer Andy interviews Muhammed Saleem, but needs to quiet down about giving away the good social stuff (seriously Hagans - shut [...]

3/1/2007 Another Reason Search Reputation Management is Important - The “Search Engine Father In Law Syndrome”

Over the past two days, I’ve been working with a very sharp gent by the name of Andres Galdames towards earning a certification from Clicktracks analytics. I will spare the usual soapbox shouting for clicktracks and just tell you that they rock and you’re a fool if you’re using other analytics. During the [...]

2/23/2007 Friday Favorites 2/23/07

The Search Engine Marketer’s of Portland have a cool event coming up March 7th - Rebecca has a bit more commentary on it. If you’re in the area, I’m sure it’s worth checking out. SoloSEO has launched a new competitive report - very cool stuff. If you’re a solo shop, this is a really handy tool [...]

2/22/2007 7 Opportunities for “New School” SEO

The “SEO being bad” debate is almost as tired as the blackhat/whitehat debate now. I’m not real excited about defending the virtues of SEO - I know how fantastic it can be, and to explain it properly, it would require a proper understanding of the history of search, and mainly unwritten history of the [...]

2/16/2007 Friday Favorites 1/16/07

I missed last week (My laptop started with the “laptop death rattle” - so it was a scramble to do data backups, find and migrate to a new machine). One of the worst parts of being a solo shop is being your own IT guy. Excuses aside - here’s twice the friday favorite [...]

2/8/2007 10 Reasons Diggers are like SEO’s (really - don’t digg my blog)

Neil, Cameron, and I discussed this a bit today on their new show “Rush Hour”, which will hopefully bridge a gap in the two likeminded online communities. 10 Things Diggers have in Common with SEO’s 1. The run websites 2. Many have blogs 3. Willing to forego anonymity to participate in a discussion 4. Enjoyment of tech 5. Enjoying cool ideas 6. [...]

2/6/2007 The Master Link Baiter Strikes Again

If you can’t figure things out with Andy’s guide to linkbaiting, then you’re probably not gonna catch on. Notice it is not a guide - it is an ULTIMATE guide. The only thing I would argue in the article is that his link baiting service is probably 2nd best. Just to be fair - [...]

2/5/2007 Rush Hour - Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis on WebmasterRadio

My good buddies Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis must be working overtime these days. They’ve just recently become “evangelists” for Text Link Ads, and are also doing a new show called “Rush Hour” on webmasterradio.fm - tune in for the first show which will be held weekly Wednesdays at 4:00 pm. I’m honored [...]

2/3/2007 Friday Favorites 2/02/07

Neil and Cameron join Text Link Ads as evangelists, launch serph, and discuss the importance of digg titles I think Dustin is right - SEO *IS* like baking a cake - and Michael has given the best free advice I’ve seen in a long time I keep forgetting to link here, so ISOS is a great place [...]

1/29/2007 Yellow Page Optimization

How many AAA companies do you know of? AAA insurance did it most notably with insurance. Insurance is competitive. You need any angle you can get. I think the roots of search optimization can be traced to this. This is the mindset. This is the school of thought in action. Gaining an advantage in the [...]

1/27/2007 Friday Favorites 1/26/07

I missed last week - so I’m catching up on favorites - here’s the folks that earned a link with stundubl baiting - and yes Brian, I thoroughly condone the term link baiting - mainly because it is a different school of thought from those old school "branding wankers" Think lateral - says cygnus - who [...]

1/26/2007 Best Advice I’ve Ever Received

I thought about this over the past 24 hours, since I saw Scott’s post, and I really couldn’t pinpoint one piece of life (or even SEO) advice that stood out as the very best in that time period (I’m sure it will dawn on me shortly after posting). Lots of GOOD advice, lots of [...]

1/24/2007 Google Custom Search for Search Engine Marketing Sites

I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time now, but Lee’s fantastic list of sites made it all the easier. I thought it’d be useful for research for posts and such to have a custom search based on those SEO sites. You can check it out here. It’ll also be [...]

1/22/2007 Shameless Solicitation for MyBlogLog Community and MBL Security Issue

Yes - it’s shameless, but I’m not above it. Hell, most of you think I’d hack my own site for links (kidding, kidding) Please join mybloglog community. I can’t honestly say there is much in it for you except a sincere thank you:) The truth is, I just wanna see if [...]

1/20/2007 Content Manager/ Linkbait Writer Job Opening

Please see below for resume submission details - if you can’t follow directions, you are automatically disqualified. Required skills Basic HTML/CSS skills Excellent writing skills (we’re talking journalism majors here) Sense of humor Responsibilities: Creating A-grade content on research topics for a variety of site types (I’ll fill you in if you qualify) Posting articles to custom CMS system Managing content writers General webmastering [...]

1/16/2007 Always Upgrade to Latest Wordpress

Is my advice if you’d like to keep from getting hacked. Just wanted to say a quick thanks to all the folks who took the time to let me know there was a problem (and to Mike for helping me get up and running quickly - it probably would have taken me weeks). [...]

1/15/2007 SponsoredReviews to Launch Soon

Thought it worth mentioning that the gents of TextLinkBrokers are launching SponsoredReviews.com, the newest player in the pay for review space. This should be a great service to keep your eyes on, and supplement your SEO efforts. (*Note - this was not a paid review - Jarrod and Troy are just good guys [...]

1/13/2007 The Link Baiting Playbook: Hooks Revisited

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Linkbaiting is all about the bait. In the same way that you can’t catch a giant tuna with a bag of doritos - you’re not going to get the attention of important bloggers, journalists, or other folks with some garbage content or news. Do YOU really like reading press releases anymore? Wouldn’t [...]

1/12/2007 16 Tips to Successful Business on the Web

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These just popped to mind - and thought it’d make a good post. Most success on the web is not technical driven - it is still people driven. Here’s some rules I try to live by: 1. Always pay people on time (preferably immediately upon receiving invoice) 2. Be honest and transparent 3. Don’t backbite people 4. [...]

1/12/2007 Friday Favorites 1/12/07

Chacha gets funding - reported by Andy - Jeff Bezos is making a wise investment. Ironically enough I sat next to Brad Bostic on my plane ride to SES San Jose - and told him most the ways SEO’s would likely try to game his engine. They actually have a pretty cool idea - and [...]

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