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Why I’m Kind of Over Search Conferences

November 15, 2010
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Not too long ago, Shoe wrote a post explaining why he quit going to SEO events. Around the same time that post was published, I made a brief appearance at SMX Advanced to wander around the Expo Hall and sneak into a couple of sessions. That was the last conference I’ve gone to, and it was the first one I’d been to since the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas last winter. Even though Pubcon wrapped up last week, I was sitting comfortably at home working instead of drenching my red eyes with Visine and coughing the dry Nevada air out of my lungs. I still travel about once a month (I fly to Denver for work), but my schedule has been SEO-event free since Advanced, and I gotta say that I don’t really miss them.

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SEO’s Need To Adapt Or Die

September 3, 2009

Companies have an unlimited budget for items that give them a positive return. Even in a recession this is true. Unfortunately for SEO’s (Search Engine Optimization Experts) companies are considering their work one of these unmeasurable and many of theme are now out of work. About everyone I know who attended (and was not a [...]

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Website Magazine At Blogworld

October 6, 2008

Website Magazine is a great industry rag that I am happy to say I will be writing a article called “Anything But Adsense” for the next issue. We had a chance to talk to them at blogworld:

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Performancingads Blog Ad Network Launches – But Who Is It For?

July 28, 2008

PerformancingAds launched on Saturday and was well covered in the blogosphere. When I initially heard they revenue split was 40/60 with 60% going to the publishers I was really turned off. I currently use Google Ad Manager and it costs me nothing. It did not make sense why we should give someone 40% for no [...]

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Google Doesn’t Dig Digg After All

July 26, 2008

The Google/Digg acquisition negotiations were in full swing as of last Tuesday, had passed the term sheet stage and the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 million range. But sometime this last week Google decided to walk from the deal. Digg was notified on late Thursday or Friday. Google was in the [...]

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What Is The Definition Of SEO?

May 14, 2008

I emailed a bunch of people in the industry and asked “What is your definition of SEO?”. I promised to keep my commentary out. Almost everyone responded except employees of search engines. Here are their answers: Danny Sullivan AKA godfather of SEO: An SEO is someone who understands how people search for information (on the [...]

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Blizzard Internet Marketing doesn’t get WordPress SEO

February 18, 2008

Mary Bowling and Carrie Hill over at Blizzard Internet Marketing invested quite a bit of time into writing a white-paper about SEO for WordPress blogs, which hit the front page of Sphinn yesterday. I think they would have been better of if they had invested a bit more time into researching the real tricks about [...]

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Seo Discussion With Danny Sullivan Now Available

January 23, 2008

Webmaster Radio Dislike Of Seo People Show: Shoemoney Show People that are looking for a all out disrespectful brawl do not even bother listening. Also there was a lot of hype leading up to this people saying I said SEO was worthless and all this which is not what i said… I said 95% of [...]

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Danny Sullivan Stepping Up To Defend Expert SEO’s

January 22, 2008

UPDATE: the show has been posted here… but it doesnt appear to be working =( After my post last week on how I dislike 95% of “SEO Experts” many people talked but few stepped up to my challenge of coming on the radio show and talking about the issues. Well the godfather of SEO doesn’t [...]

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Seo Is So Easy – Oh Wait No Its Not

February 8, 2007

Today was the day I was subpoenaed and had to give testimony. It was really interesting. I have never done that before. I had to answer a lot of questions about how search engine rankings work and Google… Eventually it led into quesitons about my blog and how long I retain comments, how addresses of [...]

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OnPage SEO Is Garbage Clarification On Rockstars

January 10, 2007

After finishing my show I wanted to get the writeup done cause I had a video editor coming to do some work on the elite retreat san fransisco promo video so I was in a hurry then oilman messaged me and asked me what I said about onpage seo and if I said it was [...]

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Webguerrilla Bitch Slaps SEMPO and DidIT

December 25, 2006

When I speak in public or talk about SEM I always stress the 2 sides…. SEO and PPC. My company’s story is pretty easy. We found success with SEO, made some decent checks with contextual advertising, then negotiated direct deals with affiliate programs that allowed us to leverage a higher payout for playing with PPC. [...]

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Ok… I Was Trying To Play It Off…

June 1, 2006

This mini shoemoney contest was probably the STUPIDEST idea I ever had… You can trust this will be the last contest I ever do seo/sem. Sorry to everyone getting spammed from random proxies with shoemoney as the username and using www.imyourhuckleberry.info as the link that redirects to this site. Just so you know complaining me [...]

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Can you outrank me for shoemoney ? I got 1000$ that says you can’t

May 21, 2006

For the next Month (until June 22nd) every sunday at midnight CST I will check the Google results for the keyword “shoemoney” on Yahoo Google and MSN. You can call it a seo competition or whatever. This IS NOT and has nothing to do with the upcoming SEM 25,000$ competition. The first person to outrank [...]

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Search Engine Bot followup – True Searchbot ROI

May 3, 2006

I did a post a while back here in which I talk about how much traffic search engines are sending me vs how much they are indexing me. It was a fun and interesting stat (to me) but as people commented it really doesn’t meant that much. Going from the last 5 months data (Jan-April) [...]

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