Sitting at Werty’s house in Chicago, then off on Monday for a trip through Asia (Manila, Hong Kong, Bejing, and Tokyo). I’ll also be speaking in Manila at SEMCon. Lookin’ forward to meeting lots of cool new people, be sure to let me know if you’re in any of the areas, and wanna catch up for a chat or somethin’. I would say posting will be light, but 1. I’m not wanker enough to think your life revolves around my site, and 2. I’ve been pretty crappy about posting anyhow. I will, however, be pretty crappy at responding to email now too, since I likely will have very limited internet access.
Just a quick rant for those who would rather debate than execute and implement.
Optimal is the best case scenario in any given set of circumstances.
Optimized is creating a site that gives users and bots what they are looking for realtime, and IS an ongoing process (show me a site that has too much content or too many links…I dare you.)
The process of someone that practices GOOD SEO (an optimizer) is balancing optimal solutions (which are generally the “ideal solution” within a vacuum of no variables) with all the other variables that impact the web, business, and marketing decisions that form the strategy of how a company website is operated and budgeted for in real time.
SEO is not voodoo - it is making informed decisions based rules and experience and applying them to complicated sets of variables to create a process and strategy that has the highest likelihood of success, and adjusting the strategy quickly and effectively as new information becomes available.
SEO’s don’t work within a vaccuum - which is why it is important to let your SEO know about your strategies and implementation. Optimal solutions aren’t always IDEAL solutions based on things like budget, risk, and ROI. Please understand that proper SEO is about more than meta tags and anchor text:)
OPTIMIZATION: The search for the best solution among alternatives, or the extreme value of a variable or a function. -easu.edu
What’s your definition of optimal, optimized, and an optimizer?
Meta Web Jobs is launching here on stuntdubl.com as a place to post all your web related job ads to find people who actually know what the hell they’re doing. We’re hoping to find you the best job hunters, since this is a great place for them to learn. Check out the brand spankin’ new Job board that includes all jobs web. To launch the job board, we will be offering free listings for the next 30 days. Those that help out, and give feedback and such, will be given preferential treatment:) Post your Jobs - anything web or marketing related will be accepted. If you have feedback - please send it to jobs /-\t stuntdubl.com. The price for listings will start at $30 for 30 days once the soft launch concludes, and will likely be raised again later to keep the quality of the listings high. There are some smart folks that read this site, and I’ve got lots of response from some really intelligent folks that were hunting for SEO / SEM jobs in the past few months.
Jobs that will be accepted include, but are not limited to: Web development, web design, search engine optimization, paid search marketing (PPC), Affiliate marketing, online marketing, link development, web programming, and nearly anything else web or marketing related.
So my buddy Aaron and his beautiful bride Giovanna are making it official in the Phillipines in October, and George is the best man. What a great reason to do some world travel eh?!? The itinerary is posted below, but Werty and I would love to catch up with some SEO folks accross the other side of the globe. If you’re in any of these cities, and want to catch up please drop me a line. If you’ve got some insights on cool places to visit, please drop them below.
Oct 2nd - 22:45 (10:45pm) Manila
Oct 8th - 18:40 (6:40pm) Hong Kong
Oct 12th - 11:25 (11:25am) Beijing
Oct 18th - 13:50 (1:50pm) Tokyo
Oct 25th - back to the US.
