A study has found that cats sort of domesticated themselves because human granaries became a source of food, followed by the humans themselves encouraging the cats to stick around (because the cats ate the rats in the granaries).
The same is true of in-house SEOs, in my opinion. The magic of a lot of in-house positions, [...]
I’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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I give you David Temple, lord of the SEO/SEM Certification Blog, studying hard for his Google AdWords exam:
SEOing is hard. Good thing he’s a professional.
Paul Jahn, who I like to call the Pope of Search Marketing, is playing blog tag on the subject of ‘5 reasons why I blog.’
So.
Because blogs amuse me from a perspective of history. There’s some extent to which blog comment streams remind me of dial-up text BBSes. And the server this is on generally reminds [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes, the E in SEO equals ‘entertainment.’
My friend and colleague David Temple found the following posting about top in-house SEOs, mentioning his name, my name, and our manager’s name.
Multiple sources of amusement follow:
We aren’t really ‘in-house’ SEO. We provide agency-like services within a specific vertical segment. With 6,000 clients, we can’t argue that we’re in-house [...]
