Business Management Consultant - Stuntdubl Search and Marketing Consulting

• The Prequel to the SEO Playbook
• Natural vs. unnatural patterns with Digg, 10 tips for content creation, and What the Cluetrain means to your business - checkout more links below
• Warren Buffet SEO advice, and the Austin Powers guide to websites - what it really takes to make a million dollar website.
• Cool non-profit SEO contest - win tickets to SMX Seattle and more
• Simple tips for intelligent linkbuying
• Playing fanboys for traffic
• SEO + .org = .com
• How to stop Digg cheating forever
• What makes an ideal SEO client
• Pagerank, linkpatterns, and the flow of link juice
• Social media optimization tutorial
• More entries the Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship - An SEM sidekick that would make batman jealous and the Internet marketing 4 p’s 2.0
• The power of contrast to be more persuasive
• Some nice link baiting example
• In case you’d like more, Matt has a monthly roundup

• Are SEO’s early adopters - or just plain the pornographers of the web? - read more favorites below.
• Counterpoint to paid linking fud - from graywolf at seoclass, on his site, scoreboardmedia, aaron, and threadwatch.
• Aaron’s power of observation astounds me sometimes - How global link popularity will lose relevancy to subscription data
• Marshall Clark gives us some SEO Art of War style - reminds me of Art of Blog as well.
• Crowdsourcing this way cometh from Lee Odden buy your diggatron
• Only Brad could demystify Adwords quality score
• Oilman explained the hard 5% of SEO
• Shimon talks on ratios of SEO
• Danielle has clients figured out
• Unsavory linkbait - calling it linkbait doesn’t make you less of a jerk - good stuff.
• SEO / Celebrity look alike day.
• There are some really great submissions for the SEM Scholarship contest. CK Chung (anything that starts with a entourage reference ranks high in my book), Eric Hebert, Ahmed Bilal, Simon Heseltine, Jeff Horsager, Todd Mintz, and Dustin Woodard, are among the favorites I’ve read so far.

I missed last week while we put on the SEO Class, which went very well. We had a nice turnout of non-profit organizations, and were able to cover some excellent material that should help with driving more targeted, relevant traffic to their sites. Plenty of folks had nice things to say, and I’m sure we’ll have their testimonials up in the near future. Without further ado - here’s this week (and some of last weeks) favorites:

• Treatise on the Art of Blog
• Muhammad Saleem gives more goodies on optimizing firefox for netscape, and Pronet offers up the search engine smackdown.
• Brian Provost explains the lifecycles of SEO consultants, sparks a great debate SEOmoz, and responds.
• Brian Clark explains how the disovery channel can help your links, and uses one of my favorite books, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence" to illustrate Zen and the art of remarkable blogging
• Matt gives us a nice update on canonicalization issues
• PMac sent me a great rap song about being a super affiliate
• Lee tells us 10 great tips for keeping spam off your blog
• Brad defends the virtues of search arbitrage
• From the master of linkbait title ideas - Top 12 ways to win friends and write magnetic titles
• Brandon Hopkins on trackback traffic and 66 ways to build links in 2007
• Dave Davis has a nice piece on SEO and PPC being complementary to one another
• Hugh on Advertising 2.0 doesn’t exist - Though I disagree with one point - "Live by SEO, die by SEO" - let’s change that to "Learn SEO, and eat those that don’t" - Good SEO types know it’s only a piece of the puzzle that "links first" is a mindset. Link equity is the new brand building
• Markus won’t be upgrading to Vista - for many of the same reasons I reverted.

Where do the weeks go? Barely got this one in this week - but here’s some goodies in case you missed them:

• Kris lets us know how to piss off bloggers
• Rebecca discusses stupid web 2.0 names (Matt shows us the star wars vs. web 2.0 name quiz) and Rand illustrates duplicate content
• Justin tells us 8 things geeks need to be happy as employees
• Terry starts a blog fight
• Michael shows us what the presidential candidates are using for analytics
• Barry shows how to fix badware problems with Google listings
• Shimon responds to Calum’s SEO negotiation article
• Aaron talks about performance SEO, interesting auction models, common internal site structure issues, filters, and mashups, widgets, and such.
• Big congrats to Chris Winfield - whose crew is likely holding it down just fine, and runs a great blog
• Learn about writing great titles from Brian’s content remixes
• Muhammad on Optimizing firefox for digg
• Who killed the webmaster?

• In case you didn’t notice, we’re blogging over at SEO Class (subscribe here)- Michael gives rep management tips using social media
• Brad tells us why PPC is the OLD SEO - Quality score has really made it a science eh?
• Have you heard about gadgets in Windows Vista? Now’s the time to build your Vista gadgets (or have them built)
• IngredientX is pretty hilarious - rediscovered via Hugh
• Rand tells us why blogging in an oversaturated marketplace is a bad idea (Pick a niche!) as well as a cool post on solving keyword cannibalization
• SEO Speedwagon discusses the MCCC Part II (the manna of eight (8) words brilliantly crafted into an iambic pentameter gift)
• Things to say when you’re losing a technical arguement
• Internet celebrity look-a-likes - Aaron Wall is Matt Hughes twin
• Brian is remixing headlines
• Jason has a nice piece on getting links and hiring people
• Chris Winfield has a great article on becoming a top digg user without being shady
• Lee gives us 5 tips for content distribution
• Live what happens now and innovate - and check out Justin’s awesome artwork for some inspiration
• Bill has a nice accurate ping list for promoting your blog.
• JohnON why seo sucks, when is it seo, the real money in seo, I also like the 2-2-2 idea for personal improvement (note to self: stay more up to date on John’s site)
• I like the term "competitive webmastering", but "adversarial information retrieval guy" sounds even cooler
• The economics of online advertising - calculate the cpm you need to make $50million

• Duane’s great list of 20 reasons you shouldn’t take on SEO clients
• The SEOMoz cartoons are a thing of legend - the SES London Cartoon made my day.
• Jeremy provides some random tips on being a successful marketer
• Andy interviews Muhammed Saleem, but needs to quiet down about giving away the good social stuff (seriously Hagans - shut up already:)
• Brian gives the guide to rep management
• Brant discussess valuation of a startup at the Angel blog (one of my new favorites)
• Neil is finding his inner Zen, and searching for the perfect ad
• Aaron gives gold about domain names and defensible traffic
• Rand on what makes SEO hard
• Dave, Jen, and Greg are doing SEO days - I may be bias - but I think these small conferences will be really great for people.

Didn’t have much time for blog reading this week - what else did I miss?

• The Search Engine Marketer’s of Portland have a cool event coming up March 7th - Rebecca has a bit more commentary on it. If you’re in the area, I’m sure it’s worth checking out.
• SoloSEO has launched a new competitive report - very cool stuff. If you’re a solo shop, this is a really handy tool (and I didn’t even get paid to say this:)
• Brad gives more great insight on Adwords quality score
• Jim tells us why humans do it better
• Jason shows us the ABC’s of SEM (Always be converting - inspiration provided by Glengarry Glenross)
• Greg tells us why we shouldn’t pick on Dave Pasternack (He has a point, but I’m only linking because I want to go to Esca)
• Brian gives a great interview with VC Jeremy Liew
• Clicktracks (who is probably the coolest analytics company on the planet) - has a bet running with Avinash Kaushik of Occam’s Razor, about whether they should add some of the better features to their free product "appetizer". It’s stuff like this, why I’ve always been a huge fan of their company and product. Be sure to check out the webcast with Avinash, and get the free software that right now has the site overview features enabled (it’s really great USABLE info).
• Problogger is having an NYC meetup which should be pretty cool - Catchup with Darren, and the fine gents of TLA
• Aaron tells us why hiring people for $20/ hr to create your marketing ideas is not a great idea
• Shoemoney got the boot from Mybloglog - I can’t blame them on some level, but I’ll be pulling MBL too (Yes, I’m a lemming, but I think Andy has the right idea - and the $20M fad is over for the SEO savvy - there’s still the myspace crowd now that the early adopters see that there’s little real value - it was fun while it lasted) The only value I saw, was putting a face with names, though I’m sure there are, and will be other better options for this shortly.
• Neil (who has a cool new design) - announces a social media conference in conjunction with SMX/ SearchEngineLand - cool.
• I really like Skittzo’s letter, and Michael fuels the fire a bit, but I learned myself, it’s better to just have thick skin to the haterz most the time, and focus on commonality - or just stay focused on things that really matter. Defending SEO to the unconverted is the new blackhat/whitehat debate (*tinfoilhat - perhaps it’s concocted by a brilliant mind at google to keep us from actually WORKING /tinfoilhat:)
• RC is a cool guy, and understands seo history better than most - if you don’t know what directhit is, read up on the history folks
• Brian asks, What is Google getting out of Checkout? - you don’t think it’s a completely humanitarian effort to help business everywhere Brian? Such a skeptic;)