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that is cool. our company started allowing 1-2 work from home days to help out too. it's been great.
the only thing missing was information regarding using the base tag. i'd like to know if that would be the equivalent of using absolute links?
so, is using the base tag the same as using absolute? would that still comply with matt cutts comment that rae referenced?
@khilley - isn't mahalo a closed group of people deciding what they think people might like as opposed to stumbleupon being average real people voting on what they really like? i don't think it's the same.
great post melanie! now if only i had the time to manually request some links.
you cracked me up: "If you’d like to see people’s butts pucker up tighter than a snare drum though, then by all means use the word “link” in your email address."
so although the linkbait aspect helped the monkey.co.uk site with backlinks but were they ultimately happy with the results? From their response:
"The contractors responsible for this mistake are no longer associated with monkey.co.uk in any way."
i'm not bashing lyndoman. i still think this is a great story, but apparently his client did not.
haha. i just noticed that i typed monkey.co.uk twice in my comment above. i think jill may have been ROFL about that. i simply have a thing for monkeys and let my fingers get ahead of me.
that's fun. but i'm not so sure that weed is a brand. haven't seen weed available at my local store yet anyway.
most of our clients are somewhat small so we almost always do the implimentation. i have a few right now that i am providing recommendations to and i feel like it is taking more work to provide clear instructions on what needs to be done.
i totally prefer to impliment the changes myself and skip the detailed explanations that usually result in confusing the client having numerous questions to answer. it's definitely more time and work for me to only provide the recommendations and not the implimentation.
plus, i love the implimentation part of SEO, so doing it makes me happy.
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SpostareDuro - i'd venture to guess that bush would be the life of the party, most especially with aliens in vegas. cont me in.
i think the linkbait was great. it's hysterical to me that legitmate news ran with story. before reading lyndon's entire post i checked out the link to the story and immediatly new it was fake. i always look for an author and a reference to some trusted news source. i always want to trace any kind of news i find back to the original source. in this case there was no original source to track back to leading me to believe this was fictional straight away. and with no author the article screamed "don't trust me!" now i'm a bit obsessive but find it unbelieveable that so many including news sources fell for it blindly.
i do see the struggle with right or wrong here. not because people were dumb enough to believe it. but just that although, yes the article was about credit cards it does seem to bring about credibilty issues for money.co.uk relating to relveance and honesty. but then they had to have known what it was they chose to publish on their site. But also it does somewhat bring into question the credibility of internet marketers as well. those snake oil salesmen will do anything for attention and a link!
i'll hang back and watch the fall out from the controversy unfold now. maybe you'll score an interview on fox news, not saying that'd be a good thing. ;-) good job lyndon, makes me smile!
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ummm...nice but i was expecting SECRETS. follow people, join conversations with @username, don't be a troll...where are the secrets? this seems like very basic stuff that anyone using the service can figure out. hmmm?
by far the best post on twitter that i've read. actually showing that it has some sort of usefulness. i was beginning to wonder myself, but i've only been on twitter for a few weeks now.
as footinmouthdisease says it's mostly voyeuristic for me at the moment. nice to see the usefulness in action!
sphunn for the pure sexiness that is in the video. ;)
great list. i do a lot of QA for new sites and was glad to see that i already check for most of the items listed. whew!
i got the email. i thought it was funny.
i would think if you know seomoz and scott, the "Four Star Newsletter General", that you'd understand that they were 'attempting' to be humorous and not 'threatening' as you say. a lot of the die-hard mozzers over there are all about the mozpoints so this probably got their attention.
i guess if i wasn't familiar with their style this may be a turn off, but i also think you may be being a bit too anal.
it's sad though isn't it? that rae's useful post only gets 12 sphinns while this little discussion gets 27?
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"Google search on this candidates name, (if you cannot find them, that's a red flag)."
seems like a no-brainer to me, but i'm glad to see it on your list. apparently it's not so much of a no-brainer to everyone hiring seos.
and i am extremely confused about seo not being technical. that's seems quite ridiculous. the majority of my daily seo tasks involve technical knowledge for sure. i'd hate to be the one to train a new seo hire with no technical experience / knowledge.
i love the idea of you doing these in areas where the big conferences don't already go. some of us don't work for big companies who can afford to send us out of town for a high dollar conference.
dalllas, dallas, dallas depserately needs this! i've never been to a conference and know many others who would love to have a conference here in town.
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