The SEO Class is in full swing for spring. Come join us at the New York Helmsley Hotel Midtown Manhattan in mid-May for an information packed 2 day seminar on how to make it happen online. The cost is $2999 (less $500 until next friday if you mention stuntdubl in the notes upon registration)
- Are SEO’s early adopters - or just plain the pornographers of the web? - read more favorites below.
SEO is about more than meta tags, title tags, and targeted anchor text. Call it "competitive webmastering", "SEO", or any one of a slew of other titles - it is the thought process of lateral thinking and understanding of website creation and marketing combined that matters most. It is a line of thinking that necessitates doing what is optimal: when to balance user experience with "bot experience" to create a site that will harvest any legitimate traffic without detriment to conversions, or without venturing into areas beyond the given risk threshhold for the project.
Probably the coolest thing I heard at SES NYC was Jonah Stein’s story of informing the folks at the Colbert Nation that Stephen could be the Greatest
Living American according to Google. Jonah is truly the most patriotic SEO for doing this service to his country. As a former resident to the home of the Saginaw Steagle Colbeagles, fan, and hater of most things politics, I blindly subscribe to anything Mr. Colbert says, and think most others should do the same. Stephen Colbert IS the World’s Greatest Living American - and assisting him in garnering more notoriety through the web is a duty befitting only to those SEO’s who normally lurk in the shadows of the political mayhem and pray that legislators don’t find any great ideas for further taxing the web. Love Your Country! Send your links!
We’ve decided to step things up over at the SEO Class Blog - and we’ll be answering weekly search engine marketing questions submitted by folks. Graywolf, SugarRae, GoodROI, will be debating the finer points of SEO on a weekly basis. Notes won’t be compared, and believe me - we all have no issues with some spirited debate:) We’ll be selecting the questions at random - if you’d like to participate, please send your questions to: QUESTIONS [{AT}] SEOCLASS.COM - the sooner you submit them, the better the chance they’ll get answered, since we’ll be building a pool to pull from. If you’re feelin’ lucky, and want to submit a PPC question, we may get Brad to answer some of those while the rest of us nod in agreement;)
I like to buy links. In fact, I love to buy links. As powerful and relevant as possible. The more they are such, the more they will help search engine rankings. Search engine rankings help sales. I love to buy sales even more than I like to buy links. I love to scale this process too. I am a capitalist. Capitalist theory may have it’s downfalls, but overall it has served our country pretty well. I think a case could be made for just about any link on the web being purchased in one way or another. You can read my thoughts on not being a link communist here.
Jim tagged me - helping to spread the “why do I blog” meme. There are plenty of great reasons why I choose to blog, most of which have been covered by Jim, and several of the other great responses. There are plenty of reasons I don’t as well. Since blogging has been light lately, I figured I’d give some of the reasons I don’t blog, instead of going right along with the meme (it’s fun to be the counterpoint sometimes).
