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It is with anticipation and a bit of sadness that I will be leaving We Build Pages to pursue a new career. Unfortunately, the direction of the business is not inline with my personal and professional goals at this time, and therefore I feel I must move on. Now before you hooligans get all uppity and looking for some drama, I would like to let you know that I still hold the highest regard for Jim Boykin and the We Build Pages team, but don’t see our future growth going in the same directions. I have had a great time here in upstate NY working with great people that really know how to do SEO. I’m very dedicated to branching out in marketing areas beyond SEO, however, and have decided it is time to explore new opportunities.

If you’ve been lollygagging around like me, not reading up on all the new up and comers, Rand and Kat of SEOMoz have just saved you a helluva lotta time through the creation of their web 2.0 awards. Not only did they roundup 300 websites in 38 different categories, they also interviewed with the founders of 22 of the winning sites. This is a pretty amazing piece of research, that has obviously taken a lot of time and dedication to put together. Do yourself a favor, and soak up all the knowledge they’ve collected with the Web 2.0 Awards.

10. You can say you know Aaron Wall and Rand.
9. Because most people will never “get it” and that’s a good thing.
8. Everybody’s an expert because even the most experienced have only done it about 10 years.
7. You get to read Matt’s “seo blog”
6. You’ve experienced a “google dance”
5. Top 10 listings
4. You travel on a national or world tour “for work”.
3. This is not a bubble.
2. Everyone loves web 2.0 and it’s impossible to not make money with even a little SEO knowledge

1. It’s fun to be the hero!

1. It doesn’t exist outside it’s own sphere
2. Forum drama and valid paranoia (sometimes they ARE watching)
3. Incompetent creative teams, illiterate content writers, and bad coders
4. Too much back biting blogger bullshit and snake oil peddaling.
5. Unreasonable expectations
6. When no one knows or understands the strategy.
7. Poor communication and organization
8. Rodney Dangerfield gets more respect
9. Rougue bots
10. Web hosts

From some recent discussions, I’ve learned that it’s good to have a sense of humor and be able to handle a little self deprecation, constructive criticism, and even the occassional excessive sensationalism.

Since I basically suck at coding, I keep borking my wordpress template breaking comments. For all those kind enough to comment, they are now back. Gonna try not to experiment without backups or knowledge from now on. Thanks to a very good developer discussion is back in action again.

Download the new free beta Performancing Metrics here.