Good thread at Cre8asite on changing the habits of customers from phone use to email. I'm someone who prides myself on being available by phone - I actually have the number here at SEOmoz go to my person...
Steve Friedl, the man behind UnixWiz.net, has an older article on consulting that's worth reading. I pulled out some of the "maxims" that he writes about that stu...
As I look across the SEO industry and identify the most competent, capable, successful firms and people, I find that the common thread between them is not their capability in search engine optimization, but in website optmization. This continues a lon...
Todd has some good references on operating your SEO business and I thought, in the spirit of teamwork, I'd address the same topic today with some recommendations of my own. Below is my own list of suggestions, based on experience (in both failure and success): Don't Underestimate your Value...
Chris Heilman runs a neat little blog on web standards and design. But, about a month ago, Chris ran into a major hurdle because one of his clients hired... an SEO consultant. The consultant ruined the beauty of the site and made outrageous demands about the markup, tags and layout of information and links. Chris was particularly ...
The Return of Design site (which is run by the folks from Forty Media, who'd prefer to be linked to with the anchor text "phoenix web design") have an interesting post about what they consider ethical and unethical in the SEO...
The SEO/SEM industry has very little coverage in the major publications of the tech world or the business sphere. Understandably, we're a small industry and a curious one at that. Characterizations among those who are semi-familiar with search engine optimization range from low-tech marketers to high-grade spammers. As Rodney Dangerfield would most certainly note, "we don't get no respect"....
With this latest update from Google, we've been noticing some very odd things in the SERPs. Despite our best instincts and measurements of link quality, quantity and optimization, sites seem to be ranking in very strange orders. In the hopes of making greater sense of things, we wondered if you'd like to list your top search results that make no sense. No need to point out your site or those of...
Following Nick's lovely recommendations for community building, I'll be doing a bit of link baiting in this thread. Actually, that's a lie; I'm just ticked off about this article from SEO News' Rob Sullivan about a conference call he had with some Google employees. I'll just refute...
At SEW, Orion points out a great service called Boardtracker that Chris Sherman mentioned earlier. Th...
It's hard to believe that Threadwatch is only a year old (today). In that time, Nick has taken the site from obscurity to infamy. They've been Slashdotted, added to major blogrolls all around the search and technology industries and created a hotbed for SEO/M and search politics. Congratulations, Nick. I hope SEOmoz can do half as well in a yea...
Kim Krause Berg posted a hilarious topic over at Cre8asite on the subject of a forum thread on light bulb changing. Naturally, her fellow SEO forum members chipped in with their own personal takes on the post and ma...
My friend Bob Mutch, who runs the well respected seocompany.ca site, has a new plan for a server-side application (as I understand it) which will display a site's rankings delivered via RSS through a graphical interafce. It sounds like an awesome tool and I'm excited to see it. Bob has coverage through a ...
Search Engine Optimization has been described as an art, a science, a practice, an abomination and a career by those in and around the industry. But, to most outsiders learning about the practice for the first time, SEO is primarily seen as a service that professionals provide to clients. Although I'm often in the professional seat, I have become a client of many well known SEOs and secondary p...