The Wall Street Journal is covering John Scott's V7ndotcom contest today on the front page of the Marketplace section. You can also see a link to the story on their technology page (but a membership is required to read). There's a screen capture here (via ...
UPDATE: I've updated this post on November 13, 2007 to add a link to this PC World story detailing additional reported complaints against Internet Advancement by their customers here in Washington State. The original post is below: I...
I'm a bit stressed for time, having several presentations to put together this week as well as a few contracts that need my attention. So, sadly, I'll be stealing content from everyone else to make this post: Nick on risk aversion killing creativity at Performancing Aaron has co...
Not every website, company or project needs an SEO. I know this seems blasphemous, but it's very true. There are a few critical elements you need to secure before you can be confident that an SEO firm or link building staff is uneccessary: Offer Something AmazingIf you have content, products or services that are so fascinatingly cool that they demand ...
Michael Nguyen, who works for SEO, Inc. and runs the Social Patterns Blog needs some feedback on how readers feel about the performance and service of large SEO firms. Michael's already gleaned some feelings from what I wrote about my lunch with Dana and Jim's ...
The self-congratulatory titled thread at Cre8asite - When cre8asiteforums rhymes with generosity... - is producing some interesting material. Many folks, myself included, note that they use Cre8asite as a place to send potential clients who have more time than budget to take on their SEO or webdev project. ...
Honestly, what the heck is this? 10 Secret Ways Of Getting Your Website Listed on Google (link condom attached) And how did it make del.icio.us/popular? I don't...
I know it's late, but this post from Todd is inspiring - 21 Tips for Better Online Credibility. My favorite is #21: 21. Have a freakin’ sense of humor...Take time to laugh, poke fun at yourself, and make others laugh as well. Show people that y...
Just a quick not to point out Elizabeth's (AbleReach on Cre8asite) excellent blog post on comment karma and how small things can keep conversations going in positive directions and prevent flaming through anonymous comment systems: A few months ago ...
I noticed via my tracking this week that 15 people have found the SEOmoz blog by typing in $19 SEO at Google. I have to assume it's folks who've heard the pun and are curious about how this long running joke began, so I figured I'd provide an explanation (I've got another, cooler reason for bringing it up, but we'll save that for later on). The $19 joke began in this ...
I loved this post from Laura at High Rankings yesterday. Brilliant stuff: How to talk SEO to a CEOTalk numbers, money, traffic. Show pretty graphs. Steer clear of tech talk.Attire: suitSay: “Looking at last years’ numbers, if we implem...
I've been providing consulting work for a company in the business services field for about 5 months now, e-mailing back and forth, occassionally speaking on the phone, etc. This morning, Gillian and I were running through all of the contracts we have and, mysteriously, couldn't find this particular client's contract. So, I dug back through my emails, found the ones where we had initially d...
Mike's conversation on push vs. pull SEO continues at Clickz today. He's specifically seeking input on how Mom & Pop sized businesses can utlilize the services of SEO with a very limi...
The v7n...etc. contest is in full swing, with Google and Yahoo! reporting respectable numbers of results in 5 figures. Sadly, the linkdomain searches to the new domains that are ranking aren't quite accurate (I hope). Either that or domain names really do carry a lot of weight in helping to rank. Note some of the leaders: www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem ...