Interview on SEOMOZ

Posted on: October 23rd, 2006 by Jeremy Schoemaker

I did a interview last week with Geoffrey (G-Man) from SEOMOZ. Check it out here . He asks some great off the wall questions I dont think I had ever been asked in a interview before. Anyway I think its one of the better interviews I have done.

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Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.

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20 Comments. What Say You?

  1. Matt
    October 25, 2006 at 12:05 am

    Nah, I think he wrote them all on paper, then typed them up. ;)

  2. Chris
    October 24, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    Ha…scripts =)

  3. Brian Mark
    October 24, 2006 at 7:18 pm

    Very nice interview. Makes me want to listen to the rest of your webmasterradio programs… I just need a better MP3 player. BTW, when will you be in Omaha so we can do lunch?

  4. Matt
    October 24, 2006 at 5:44 pm

    It’s easy. Just own sites that require very little or no maintenance.

  5. Matt
    October 24, 2006 at 5:42 pm

    He probably has moderators do it.

  6. Pibefision
    October 24, 2006 at 1:45 pm

    Very nice interview shoe. You are the man.

  7. yustme
    October 24, 2006 at 6:08 am

    Even if the advice would be worthless, the inspiration alone is priceless :)

  8. Jack
    October 24, 2006 at 4:53 am

    20mil keywords ? damn did u write all of em?

  9. John Loch
    October 23, 2006 at 11:59 pm

    Nice, but you more or less contradicted yourself. You don\’t outsource yet you spend a tiny percentage of your time managing all that ?

    The diversity of what you say you\’re into describes a very demanding role. Sorry dude, but either the story is incomplete or you\’re stretching the truth a tad :)

  10. Luke
    October 23, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    Nice read. Very informative :)

  11. blazed
    October 23, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Good to see someone pushing quality sites as opposed to shitty scraper/arbi sites.

  12. Yuri
    October 23, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    BigJ, well, maybe he doesn’t make it easy for the ‘rug rats’ take his time :)

    I’ll agree that building quality sites is the only way to make serious money, too :)

  13. Chris Sandberg
    October 23, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    Shoedog,

    Great interview. It was an interesting and worthwhile read. Thanks.

  14. LurksterAZ
    October 23, 2006 at 2:55 pm

    Shoedog, you are the man. Very good interview without giving away too much using solid answers. I love that you’re still able to spend time with your daughter. I hope to be there soon to do the same.

  15. JB4375
    October 23, 2006 at 2:28 pm

    Nice interview.

    Thanks for sharing,

    JB

  16. ShoeMoney
    October 23, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    I think the accountants choose llc because there are some partnerships in place there.

  17. BigJ
    October 23, 2006 at 1:58 pm

    Wow, one of the best and most candid interviews I have seen. No fluff, all good stuff. See what happens when you let a black hat ask the questions. ;)

    I do have one question. In one sentence you say

    “I try to build websites / communities that people like to use and I brand them.”

    and then in another you say

    “I spend maybe 2-5% of my time maintaining what I have and the rest of the time trying to grow.”

    That seems a little a contradiction to me. How do you spend so little time maintaining community sites. Watching after the little rug rats on a site has always been something that takes me forever.

  18. Tracy
    October 23, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    You are absolutely right, that actually was a really good interview. Too bad about the transcript thing, I would say to keep riding Webmasterradio because some of the stuff you say is gold and should be in written form as well.

    I noticed for Spacelook you did your paypal as Spacelook LLC, do you branch off most of your businesses as individual LLCs?

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