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Photos: Holland

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Westerkerk Originally uploaded by Days Between Stations.
I have uploaded the whole set of Holland photos.

Things that are true:

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

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 [...]

SEO 12 Step Program: Rank-Checkers Anonymous

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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 [...]

Paid Link Crackdown

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

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 [...]

Character Traits of SEO Pros

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

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 [...]