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Story: 11 Evil Bloggers Who Rock
I always thought you were evil Lyndon, got to be the scowl and the red background ;)
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His quote out of SES Local was that "Local is a sh@tty business", he did say however that there were some SEOs he respected, such as Bruce Clay, and that he himself was an SEO because he'd got his dog walker well ranked
SES-NYC - I missed that session, but from what I was told, that was his "I'm going to stop being dismissive of the SEO community" presentation. People that I talked to said that it came off rather well.
Story: SEOs Fight Fat For Charity
No doubt you'll also be having a large slice of birthday cake too Rob ;)
Pardon us if we don't join in, and instead head to the treadmill...
Somehow I doubt our competition for charity will be as easy as this one ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iFKbtIpiVo&NR=1
But Lisa, you'll both be at the SEO-London event after SES... perfect opportunity :p
Yeah IP targeting is an issue to which there's no easy answer, but you're right... it is fun to draw on those maps ;)
Story: Begin Countdown
Gabbo is coming?
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4483/9f19gabbo13pd.jpg
:p
Story: This Title Really Sucks
...and you know I meant to do something with the title of the post before it went live, but forgot all about it... :)
...and yet Susan won't allow you to put pictures of him up on the BC blog...
Note to self: Including pictures of sphinners pets = +1 vote per pet... hmm, maybe my next post should be the '21 top pets of sphinners' ;)
I actually did practice what I preach there. Last night I sat down and wrote articles for my own site through mid-next week, and for EndlessPlain through this week. It can be a pain, but it prevents you from either rushing around like a headless chicken at the last minute trying to think of something, anything that will work, or just failing to post, and eventually disenfranchising your readers (assuming you have some in the first place).
Nice list of tips, that he's obviously taken to heart himself. :)
Boy you're right Shady, I didn't even think of that. Now we're all going to get spammed with U2 memorabilia emails ;)
So now if the Hollywood comedy writers go on strike we have a new double team that can cross the picket lines :)
@Qwerty I believe that Nan's point is that a lot of people are happy if the detractors are off the first and second pages, figuring that people won't see them if they're all the way down there. However, just because they aren't high in the SERPs doesn't mean that your audience isn't seeing them through other means i.e. a specialized site that targets a segment of your core customer base.
@CarrrieHill I absolutely agree with you. If I'm doing research on a product and I see an overwhelming positive response, I'll tend to ignore the negative, unless there's something substantive in their review that I may need to research further. If the ratio is a lot closer, then I'll side with the negatives and look elsewhere.
@Lani - Just to clarify, I'm not describing every IT person as a problem, just as I'm not describing every search marketer as the champion on the white steed. Every situation is different, and every person is different. These are just some of the personality types I've witnessed throughout my career.
I'm also not saying that you should tell IT how you want something to be implemented, I'm talking about the end result. As long as what I need shows up where I need it to in the format I want I could care less whether they used the MVC pattern in Java or the Factory pattern in Smalltalk. The issues I've had seen have been things like the IT department refusing to develop and implement 404 pages because "people shouldn't see them".
I agree with you on the topic of befriending IT, as with any department you most assuredly want to be on a good footing with them, as you never know when you'll need them in a pinch to get something done urgently. The challenges are when you hit extreme cases where they just won't listen.
As for the closed mind being 'dumb', I don't believe I said that, instead I tend to think of that as the person who has been with the organization for a long time, and has their way of doing things, and that's the only way they want things done. In some organizations that person is still there solely on tenure, as they haven't evolved with the position. That doesn't make them dumb, but it does make interactions with them difficult and frustrating.
Should I be facetious and ask why they're only targeting those of us in Virginia? :p
Nah, best not ;)
Looks like the magic Sphinn number has moved up again - 21 in 5 hours and not yet hot...
Story: Matt McGee Joins Our KeyRelevance Team