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Photos: Holland

Westerkerk Originally uploaded by Days Between Stations.

I have uploaded the whole set of Holland photos.

May 19th, 2007 | Category: !, :), alcohol, meta-post, vacation | Comments are closed

Things that are true:

1. I went a full 10 days without omnipresent wireless Internet.
2. I went a full 8 days without checking any of my e-mail.
3. I went 10 days without checking my work e-mail. (ha ha ha!)
4. I haven’t read any of my RSS feeds in 10 days. So if anything has happened in the world, I [...]

May 15th, 2007 | Category: RSS, alcohol, day job, e-mail | Comments are closed

SEO 12 Step Program: Rank-Checkers Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over search engine rankings–that our obsession with Googling ourselves had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to high rankings.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines as we understood Them.
4. Made a searching and [...]

May 2nd, 2007 | Category: SEO, advertising, alcohol, content strategy, dumb techniques, google, link building, link-bait, marketing, search results, spam | Comments are closed

Paid Link Crackdown

It’s all over the place: Google is looking at ways to get bitchy about paid links and hidden links.

I hate hidden links, simply because playing games with CSS to hide links from users is a clear sign of some form of dumbassery occurring.

But paid links are a really messy area. There’s a billion comments in [...]

April 17th, 2007 | Category: SEM, SEO, advertising, alcohol, cats, comment spam, directories, dumb techniques, link building, link-bait, marketing, nofollow, search results, spam, tinfoil hats | Comments are closed

Character Traits of SEO Pros

It’s hiring time again. Interviewing candidates always gets me thinking about what traits make for a top SEO practitioner, or someone who could become a top SEO practitioner, given several hundred sites to work on.

This is a really brief list, relative to what’s in my head:

Ability to understand human behavior and psychology — both from [...]

April 2nd, 2007 | Category: SEO, alcohol, conferences, content strategy, day job, domains, education, marketing, online branding | Comments are closed