Simple SEO Tips for Local Businesses
August 14th, 2009Yesterday I had an opportunity to sit in on a local search panel with Stoney deGeyter, Matt Van Wagner, and David Mihm at SES San Jose. The three panelists provided a great overview of some of the local search basics and provided numerous simple actionable items small business owners can use to build a solid [...]
If You Can’t Think of Anything Original, Don’t Start a Blog
April 23rd, 2009Seriously, there’s enough clutter already without people starting up blogs to just cut and paste other people’s material. It’s kind of like asking someone to watch your cam copy of a movie when they’ve already got their own copy of the DVD. Today I was alerted by someone that one of the articles I published [...]
Removing Ambiguity from Your Contracts
March 26th, 2009This may seem like a no-brainer, but when it comes to doing contract work, a huge amount of headaches can be avoided if you make sure both you and the client are completely clear up front about who is responsible for what. It’s not entirely uncommon for the client and the consultant to have two [...]
Why Hire a Consultant and Then Change Nothing?
March 4th, 2009If someone gave you the winning lottery numbers, would you go buy a ticket? Personally, I might not. It would depend on a number of factors, the greatest one being whether I believed the person who was passing along this million dollar piece of information. Even if they are telling me something that could make [...]
Now That’s Some Dedication to Spam
February 25th, 2009Alright, this was going to be a different post entirely, but it looks like I’ll have to just save that for another day. Because, as I was killing time by perusing Digg’s upcoming entertainment section, I spotted this article sitting at the top: Web Designer Battles Hollywood Cookie Cutting It didn’t sound particularly interesting, but [...]
Interview with Rebecca Kelley (of SEOmoz)
February 18th, 2009We finally pinned down the elusive Rebecca Kelley and had an opportunity to get her perspective on internet marketing, current trends, and where she sees the industry heading over the next couple years. What attracted you to Internet marketing? Well, I wasn’t immediately attracted to “internet marketing” so much as the job description that SEOmoz [...]
