conferences
Minneapolis Locals: SEO Event 7/11
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007MIMA’s hosting a search event in Minneapolis. Let’s all go.
Go, Peeps, Go!
Monday, June 18th, 2007A few shout-outs:
1. To Sarah Bernier, aka Sarita, for her debut at Search Engine Strategies Latino Edition. Her session was blogged over at Search Engine Roundtable.
2. To the legend known as David Temple, who has accepted a position as Region Head of Search, Asia Pacific Region, at Neo@Ogilvy. It seems like only yesterday when [...]
On Self-Defeating Business Models
Monday, June 18th, 2007One of the interesting things to watch over the coming year will be what happens to a fairly common SEO business model, that of the ‘guaranteed top rankings!!!!’
With Google’s move to Universal Search and personalization, and the various manuevers of Yahoo, it’s hard to say where the people who promise rankings will land. It’s certain [...]
Out at SMX
Monday, June 4th, 2007I’m at SMX in Seattle this week, experiencing the magic of the Seattle weather and the oddities of my laptop’s battery. A few things I will expound on during my free time later:
why this conference’s food is currently winning the ‘conference prize’ for the recent past, excepting that of the MIMA Summit
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Character Traits of SEO Pros
Monday, April 2nd, 2007It’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 [...]





