Archive for June, 2012

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Viva La SEO Gifs!

Recently, I discovered two blogs that both feature search engine industry related humor GIFs, and they quickly became my favorite new blogs: Only in Search Marketing and Black Cat SEO. You see, I happen to be crazy about some GIFs (and they're pronounced "jiff" darnit!). Like irrationally so. I wish ...

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BBBS

Being A Big Sister

Growing up as an only child can be more difficult than most people realize. Yes I received just about everything I wanted as a kid, except the pony that I really wanted more than anything else. But I didn't have anybody to play with. My parents would tire too easily ...

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Wil Reynolds

Let’s All Be Good

I saw a tweet today that made me think about how little a lot of us know about what other people do in terms of "good deeds" through work. If I had to name five SEOs that are vocal about what they do in terms of charitable efforts, I could ...

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How to Keep Link Builders Creative

Link building... Sucks! It's tedious, mind numbing, and typically not very fulfilling. This makes it extremely difficult for link builders to stay motivated, which makes it especially difficult for them to care about the content they're pushing out. You'll end up seeing the same ideas recycled over and over, or just ...

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Nathan

Swimming Pools, Death, and Link Building

Since Julie has asked me to write about how my other job affects my link-building techniques, I guess I should first explain what else I do. Outside of the office, I partially own a small business with my father servicing and cleaning swimming pools.   My father It isn’t all rainbows and sunshine, ...

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Graffiti

Tagging The Web

This is a guest post by our link builder Charles Wood, who gave me an awesome funny bio that you'll see at the end. Charles has been with us longer than any other current link builder. He will also be leading our company pub crawl. Graffiti is defined as the illicit ...

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Moosa Hemani

Advice On Becoming A Better SEO Professional

Julie Joyce and Link Fish Media are one of my favorites and this was one of the reason why I took an advantage from the ground created by James Agate (Thanks for this James ;)) and seek the permission to write a post on her blog like James. (Editor's note: It's our ...

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What 24’s Jack Bauer Is Teaching Me About Linkbuilding

I am a huge fan of the TV series called 24. The main actor is Jack Bauer. And he is teaching me how to do better linkbuilding. You don’t believe me? Read this. Never trust others. Do your own shit. This is simple. And thanks Jack for suggesting me. It is simple ...

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James Agate

How To Motivate A Link Building Team

Motivating a team is difficult at the best of times and is undoubtedly what sets great leaders apart from mediocre managers but motivating a team of link builders has to be one of the greatest people challenges out there. Link building as a profession can be back-breaking, soul-destroying and tough. It ...

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