From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Sk-rt Sometimes You are Pathetic

April 30, 2008

Hard to say which is more embarrassing or pathetic, the fact that their image hosting is over it’s bandwidth or the cheezy dating adsense banner. Sk-rt you make it hard for me to take you seriously.

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SMX Social Media 2008 Recap

April 28, 2008

Last week I attended the SMX Social Media Conference in Long Beach California, here are some of my thoughts about the event.

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Get Paid Links from the US Olympic Team

April 16, 2008

So hey Google care to explain why this isn’t a paid link page? Any reason you haven’t dinged the page rank of this known link seller or cut off their ability to pass page rank or anchor text? Now I’m not daft enough to believe that any of those companies gave money with the primary [...]

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Interview with SEOROI Gab Goldberg, Sugarrae, and Stuntdubl

April 14, 2008

If you’ve ever wondered hey why should I go an SEO conference what the heck am I going to get out of it check out this interview with Gab Goldenberg, Sugarrae, Stuntdubl and myself from SMX West.
I had never met Gab before that afternoon, but he came across as nice guy, he didnt violate [...]

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Why You Need to Be Concerned About Sloppy CSS

April 13, 2008

If you follow me on twitter chances are you seen more than one rant on bad web design, bad CSS, and bad/sloppy coding. Sure I’m a reformed CSS Zealot who used write XHTML 1.1 valid code for kicks. I may have returned to slightly more normal life, but I still believe there’s value in writing [...]

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Why SEO Can’t Be Your Only Value Add

April 10, 2008

In my early days I played a bit more in the darker side of the game. I fully admit that I built and ran more than 1 or 2 scrapers, aggregators, and MFA style sites, but as a business model those type of sites are really on the decline, and not something I’d ever recommend [...]

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Are You More Entertaining than a Sock Puppet

April 9, 2008

So my buddy Loren Feldman over at 1938 media has been having grand old time giving a parody of Shel Israel lately. While it’s all been pretty funny I think there are a few points to learn from this.

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How Seth Godin Keeps Pissing me the F*%$ OFF

April 8, 2008

Dear Seth Godin,
I read your blog and I buy your books I like your stuff so much I gave them as Christmas presents to my clients, but when you write this kind of stuff it pisses me off
A quick glimpse at just about any profession shows you that the vast majority of people who succeed [...]

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No Optimizer Left Behind

April 8, 2008

While I was off doing some work Jill and Lisa engaged in a debate over whether or not we need SEO standards. Even though I’m a day late and a dollar short I’m still going to throw my 2 cents in.

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Evel Knievel and Social Media Promotion

April 7, 2008

As a young American boy growing up in the 70’s Evel Knievel was one of my role models. Aside from being a daredevil Evel possessed a strong understanding of marketing and engaged in a level of shameless self promotion that would have made PT Barnum proud.

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