Interview on SEOMOZ

by Jeremy Schoemaker on October 23, 2006 · 20 comments

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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1 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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2 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.

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3 ShoeMoney October 23, 2006 at 2:27 pm

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

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4 JB4375 October 23, 2006 at 2:28 pm

Nice interview.

Thanks for sharing,

JB

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5 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.

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6 Chris Sandberg October 23, 2006 at 5:07 pm

Shoedog,

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

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7 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 :)

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8 blazed October 23, 2006 at 7:23 pm

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

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9 Luke October 23, 2006 at 8:46 pm

Nice read. Very informative :)

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10 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 :)

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11 Jack October 24, 2006 at 4:53 am

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

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12 yustme October 24, 2006 at 6:08 am

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

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13 Pibefision October 24, 2006 at 1:45 pm

Very nice interview shoe. You are the man.

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14 Matt October 24, 2006 at 5:42 pm

He probably has moderators do it.

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15 Matt October 24, 2006 at 5:44 pm

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

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16 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?

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17 Chris October 24, 2006 at 9:21 pm

Ha…scripts =)

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18 Matt October 25, 2006 at 12:05 am

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

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