Business Management Consultant - Stuntdubl Search and Marketing Consulting

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Most people are taught that the first rule of SEO club is that you don’t talk about SEO club (some learn this rule harder than others.) This is an important question as far as most people in the SEO community are concerned. Based on the system that information is knowledge, power, and ultimately money, you can see how people often have a vested interest in outing other peoples techniques, or keeping them secret. You also learn very quickly that who you can trust is extremely important. Everyone has their own code. Mine personally is started with - ""their are no hats, only goals". With the essence of that being that only illegal techniques are truly crossing the line, but everyone has to determine their ultimate level of risk and reward (similar to investing or anything else). Hats are bullshit. Techniques and code should be determined by one’s career choice and goals.

Just a quick note to everyone to check out Shoemoney’s new Tools. I’m very proud to announce I’ll be on Jeremy’s Board to help out with the tools. They’ve got some great stuff in there already, and you can bet that Mr. Dillsmack will be coming up with some sick new stuff as well. Looking forward to seeing their arsenal expand.

I did a couple of interviews at SMX Advanced in Seattle that have recently been published. Thanks to Tom Schmitz, the Seattle SEO, for the interview on Voices of Search - You can check it out here We talked about professional career progression, industry history, and other internet marketing tips. The second interview is with Rhea Drysdale, of Less Everything (who does some awesome Ruby on Rails Development). Rhea’s interview with me is at Search Engine Journal - You can read the interview with Rhea here. Since I’m being shameless today, I also redesigned ToddMalicoat.com recently - which archives all interviews, mentions, etc. Wow - if my head gets any bigger, I’m not going to fit into my house soon.

I spent about 45 minutes talking with David Flowers about a variety of topics including seo consulting, linkbaiting, social media marketing, and a variety of other SEM topics. I think it came out pretty nicely, and David had some great questions. You can listen to the interview here.

My good buddies Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis must be working overtime these days. They’ve just recently become “evangelists” for Text Link Ads, and are also doing a new show called “Rush Hour” on webmasterradio.fm - tune in for the first show which will be held weekly Wednesdays at 4:00 pm. I’m honored to say that I’ll also be their first guest on the show, if there’s anything social media related that you’d like to hear covered, feel free to post it here, and we’ll see about putting it on. My only worry for them is that they cover too much of the REALLY good stuff that is working well these days. These guys are sharp, and it should be a great show to listen to for all you webheads out there. Be sure to tune in!

If you haven’t seen the videos on Webpronews, now is a good time to check them out. The fellas over at WPN have done a real nice job creating some very professional looking videos. I did a video with Mike McDonald, and Neil Patel of ProNet Advertising on the do’s and don’ts of Digg, future of social media, and some tips on how to choose an SEO company or consultant. It even almost looks like I know what I’m talking about! Check out the video here.

I have 18 posts listed - which means I’m good for about 1.5 GOOD posts per month. To all the bloggers out there - it’s really not about quantity - it’s about quality. Each one of these posts took MANY hours, but the links that they garnished were fairly exceptional. The moral of the story is to put in the extra work it takes to make something GREAT instead of just something decent.