Via Slashdot, I came across this entertaining article at ZDNet called "Do Former Black Hats Make Good Hires?" It asks the brain-busting question of whether black hats should be hired for legit positions. The article approaches the question as if it has the same moral weight of "Shuld We Treet Coloreds...
There have been a ton of excellent posts, articles and launches over the past week and a half that have gone largely unmentioned on the blog. Just in case SEOmoz is the only source you're reading (in which case you're really missing out), I thought it would be worthwhile to point out some of these great reads. SEW has an article on ...
Kudos to Matt McGee whose Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO gave me a few hearty guffaws. A couple of my personal favorites: When your son tells you he wants to go play in the sandbox, you fear you won’t see him again for eight months. You fe...
Although I've had my Bachelor's degree for less than a year, I've already begun considering going back to school for a Master's degree. Working in the SEO industry has sparked an interest in getting an MBA (a Master's in Business Administration for you initialism-inept readers). My desire to get an MBA doesn't stem from the notion that more degrees = better pay (though it does); rather, in this in...
Via Threadwatch, I came across MarketingSherpa's report on the SEM industry's growth over the past two years. While it appears that SEM is on the up and up--staffing for top SEM firms has increased 75% from 2005, and "six firms [reported] more than $10 million in SEM revenue...
What I'm about to reveal may shock you, so please... sit down.I don't use a feedreader. I tried using different ones a few times and gave it up in favor of visiting the actual websites themselves. That's right - 30-60 blogs/sites to visit every day (from this list), and I don't even know if most of them have been updated recent...
This morning I'm guest blogging for Manoj Jasra with an entertaining little piece called Push Marketing and Search Marketing - Two Great Tastes that Don't Taste Great Together. With a bit of luck, I'll be able to put in another entry by midday, but mostly I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get some...
Jupiter's sale of SEW & the SES conference series to Incisive Media last year for what many thought was a paltry $43 million is described in detail on the least readable blog on the web, Brett Tabke's. I'll excerpt the pieces I thought were most valuable, but to be honest, you should read the whole thing to have a full understanding of ...
Every industry has its own jargon, and SEO is no exception. Since there are no interviews scheduled today and I actually have some down time (shhhh, don't tell Rand, or he'll make me scrub his Pumas again), I thought I'd share my picks for SEO terms that make you go "Huh?" These are terms that almost always require some sort of explanation, since the words associated with the ideas or ph...
Barely had time to read it, but I have to share - Top 10 Business Mistakes Search Marketing Firms Make. Which ones am I guilty of? #3 - Their Business Doesn’t Scale #7 - They Rely On One “Expert” to Provi...
There's so much coverage of Danny's split from Incisive that it's almost hard to read anything else today. However, this piece from Joe Morin was, in my opinion, brave, insightful and deserving of some additional visibility (since Joe posts about 6X a year): ...
For nearly 10 years, Danny Sullivan has been a leader in the field of search and search marketing. Today, he's departing from SearchEngineWatch & the Search Engine Strategies conference series: I love both the site and the conference series. I hate to say goodbye to them. Th...
In conversation today at the office, we found ourselves mulling over the disproportionate number of search marketing folks who hail from or live in Canada (aka hockey-land). In trying to ascertain what environmental or cultural factors might account for the propensity of the maple-minded to seek employment in the search field, we came across a few ideas: Canadians are disturb...
I'm stealing this idea straight from these four guys (1, 2, 3 - and 4 - thanks Emil) and adapting it to the world of SEO/M....