Wonder Woman and the SEO Killer
Last week a remarkable thing happened… Rhea Drysdale (aka Wonder Woman), a twenty-something entrepreneur, managed to hold off an attempt to secure the trademark for the term ‘SEO’ by one Jason Gambert. Thing is, while Gambert may be the ‘bad guy’ in some people’s eyes, he isn’t the SEO Killer in this story. Let me explain…
Business Breakfast SEO
Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to present Smartacus to local area business folks at this month’s Tarrant County Business Breakfast. The experience taught me a few things about business networking, and those lessons surprisingly parallel SEO principles.
Robert Scoble is a Big Baby
Last week Internet industry pundit Robert Scoble started (yet another) firestorm with his blog post about how SEO won’t matter any more in 2010. Naturally, the very headline caused a knee-jerk reaction of condemnation in the SEO industry — we have enough trouble explaining to clients why what we do is important to them (and it is important) without some wag confusing them.
Mad SEO Scientists
In a recent post I talked about some dumb job posting terminology found on job sites. It occurred to me that SEO specialists aren’t “rock stars” or “gurus” at all. The more accurate descriptor of an SEO consultant is “Mad Scientist.”
Top Nine SEO Twitter Folks to Follow
In Twitter-land there’s a weekly event called Follow Friday; you point out folks you enjoy reading tweets from, helping your followers find new useful accounts to follow. Here are my top nine favorite search engine optimization tweeters for your enjoyment.
