Be the Source. Not Just a Search Result.

I am delighted to announce that I will (once again — third time now) be judging this year’s US Search...

Content Marketing… what does it have to do with SEO? At PubCon Vegas 2014 (last week), I gave a talk...

Companies and individuals abandon domain names for a variety of reasons. For the record, there are not a whole lot...

First off, a big thanks to everyone who attended the Meetup… I had a great time presenting and enjoyed answering...

The September meeting of the Chicago Search Engine Optimization Meetup group is coming up, and the topic this month is...

When I converted my old, kloodgy Web site into WordPress last year, one of the reasons I did so was...

On the Monday, June 1st live broadcast of SEO 101, we will have four tickets to give away for the...

I just confirmed that I’ll be speaking in the St. Louis, Missouri area on Thursday, June 11th at the Market...

Brian Mark and Robert Garcia, hosts of Ecom Phenom on BlogTalkRadio, had me on as a guest this past Sunday...

On the show, we regularly discuss the value of attending search conferences in terms of education and networking opportunities, and...

Mike Moran, author of Do It Wrong Quickly and whom we have had the pleasure of interviewing previously, talks with...

Brian, David and I discuss two Google Webmaster Central Blog posts and the impact of those announcements on how we...

MSN Live Webmaster Tools’ very own Jeremiah Andrick joined David and Brian on SEO 101. Jeremiah gave advice on how...

We’re less than 3 weeks out from SES San Jose, Aug. 18-22. If you’re running low on business cards, or...

Based on the title, you probably thought this was going to be a long and academic blog entry, but HA!...

I’ve been spending all of my waking time lately getting a frankensteinishly complicated website all put into a single WordPress...

Could also be titled, “Dear FEMA, Is this what our tax dollars pay for?” I was checking my email yesterday...

Dave Conklin from ProspectMX joins Ne0 and me to discuss link building basics. Why did this guy get to be...

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Spine-health, a leader in online back pain and spine surgery information, announces the launch of their newly...

Received from my mom today, via email. A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced...

Special guests Rhea Drysdale and Steve Bristol from LessEverything.com join me, Brian and Ne0 on SEO 101 to discuss the...

Okay, this is a really coarse summary of this article because I’m not terribly familiar with the scandal in question…...

SEO 101 listener Paul Mycroft asked (via the SEO 101 forum on WebProWorld) what SEO services we think a web...

I want to say it was close to a year ago I posted a list of Firefox Plugins I couldn’t...

Silicon Prairie Social 2, the TechCocktail of the burbs, is slated for Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at the same place...

Someone using the nick “light” popped into the WMR chatroom the other day and asked if he could sue a...

I finally pulled myself away from a couple of the projects I was feverishly working on over xmas break and...

In this episode (#102 by our count) of SEO 101, Brian Mark, David Brown and I discuss competitive intelligence and...

Last Friday, Barry Schwartz posted his most popular photos from Flickr according to his Flickr Stats, and requested that other...

Brian Mark put together a clip show featuring all of our screw-ups, funny stories and miscellaneous other stuff from the...

What does this have to do with SEO? Well… nothing… but it is SUPER tasty and super easy to make,...

I’m absent from this episode of SEO 101 because I think I was stuck in Omaha working, so it’s just...

I forget where Neo (David Brown) was for this episode, I think he was still stuck helping his friend get...

David (NeO) is absent for this episode, so it’s just Brian Mark and me discussing a topic near and dear...

I had originally planned on being in Vegas from December 2 (Sunday) through December 8 (the following Saturday); however, my...

Ouch. Brian’s office had a cable cut or something, we’d occasionally lose Neo, and for once I was the one...

If you’re someone who is responsible for marketing a business website, but doesn’t actually work for an agency, or works...

Even if you’re not a greeting card type of person (or you usually count on your spousal unit to handle...

This is how SEO 101 rolls… Chuck E Cheese. 7:00pm. Two pizzas, cupcakes and $50 in tokens. Oh yeah.

I apologize (yet again) for my extended absence from blogging. I’ve been in Omaha for the past two weeks to...

Originally appeared on Tometa Software and posted on October 2, 2007. Just adding it to the blog to archive in...

We’ve had some internal debates (friendly, of course!) about which topics would be of the most interest to the SEO...

Because it’s been awhile since we spent an episode answering listener questions posted on the SEO 101 website, we (David...

I’m not even entirely sure what to say here. I mean, can you honestly say your business provides search engine...

The Silicon Prairie Social was puh-ACK-ed…. bursting at the seams packed. Turns out there’s a lot of technology geeks in...

I’m planning to be at the inaugural Silicon Prairie Social this Thursday (tomorrow, September 20th) at Mullen’s Bar and Grill...

I’m going to pick on a business here… not because I hate them (because I don’t) but just because I...

I was tagged by David Dalka to write 8 Random Things About Me from Paul Ruppert’s original meme. I’m fairly...

Brian Mark, Dave “NeO” Brown and I podcasted SEO 101 live from the Webmaster Radio booth on the exhibit floor...

There are seriously a metric TON of people here for the show. After SMX Advanced in Seattle (what like 500...

My roomie for SES San Jose, Rhea Drysdale, my friend (who is a SysAdmin for ATI and not an SEO,...

First off, I’d like to apologize for not keeping up with the blogging lately. I’m hip deep in rebuilding a...

Today (Thursday, July 26th, 2007) on SEO 101, we (Dave “Neo” Brown, Brian Mark and yours truly) talked about a...

Okay, so I’m sitting in the Omaha airport’s little cafe area near the gates, eating a Krispy Kreme and trying...

Alrighty, friends and neighbors. Here’s what’s going on with me as of 1:25p, Thursday, July 19. I’m in Omaha meeting...

I’m sorry I’ve been so absent from the blog lately. Work-work has been a little crazy, I’ve been working on...

On the Beginning SEO Podcast, Dave Brown, Brian Mark and I talk with Robert Garcia (Rumblepup) about topics and concepts...

While it’s a little late, the Beginning SEO Podcast did not want to be left out of the spate of...

Brian Mark, Dave Brown and I discuss best practices for building the structure of your website. We cover making it...

Sessions and General Overview… While I enjoy the huge conferences like SES NY, I have to admit that I really...

I’ve been debating whether to do this in a chronological format or just give a summary. The chronology is actually...

I swear I feel like I’m never at home anymore. I’m not even all caught up on the pile of...

I’ve sat down to write this post at least a dozen times, and I’ve either been too tired to write...

So apparently, I’m a Supreme Nerd… and yet, somehow I suspect there are people out there, at this very moment,...

As I’m starting to do laundry and plan out my “what to pack” list (so I have everything I need,...

Barry Schwartz posted screen captures of his Google search activity today and tagged a few people to do the same,...

The Beginning SEO Podcast with Brian Mark and David Brown (that was just posted today) talks about using RSS and...

Lee Odden at Top Rank Online Marketing is running a poll to determine the “unofficial” most popular search podcast. So...

Yesterday on Rush Hour, Cameron, Neil and I talked about Google’s confirmed acquisition of Feedburner, the Technorati redesign, a really...

There is a school of thought that the in-house SEO should be like the Wizard of Oz… feared and awed...

First off, I’m not picking on Google. I’m not, okay? I’m just puzzled, and so I’m asking some questions. For...

I am pretty much the entire extent of the newly created web services department for an old (~80 years old)...

Yesterday on Rush Hour, Neil, Cameron and I discussed Neil’s new blog QuickSprout, MySpace’s acquisition of PhotoBucket, Ebay’s impending acquisition...

Just wanted to let everyone know that I got out of the hospital late on Saturday. They switched me off...

I got home last night from work and noticed that my left ear felt all hot and a little tender....

I meant to post this yesterday, but alas, work-work gets in the way sometimes. So yesterday, Cameron and I (sans...

I was talking with a friend yesterday who was freaking out about his step-daughter’s new MySpace account. Apparently, the daughter...

Fixing my old theme was pretty easy now that I’ve actually *done* it, and I’m glad I went back to...

I know the current theme isn’t terribly attractive, but it looks mostly functional and I don’t want to spend my...

Dave Brown and Brian Mark of Beginning SEO Podcast have posted a new segment today explaining what frames are, the...

Today was my first “official, official” appearance on Rush Hour (Wednesdays at 4 Eastern, 1 Pacific on WebmasterRadio.fm). I was...

Monday night, I recorded an “SES NY Wrap-Up” podcast with Brian Mark, Dave Brown and Robert Garcia for the Beginning...

I saw Rand in the lounge at the Hilton yesterday at SES and it prompted me to start telling a...

First off, you’re probably wondering what happened to Days 1-3, right? Well, it’s been a busy week, so you’ll have...

I’m (finally) all packed (I think… though I’m sure I’ve forgotten something because I always do) and I’ll be leaving...

Yesterday afternoon, I chatted with Neil Patel and Cameron Olthius on their WMR show “Rush Hour” about how to leverage...

There’s a fun debate happening right this very second on WebmasterRadio.fm chat where people are arguing over whether or not...

The Generic Names Supporting Organization’s final Whois Task Force report (something like 2 years in the making) recommends that ICANN...

My new position has a thoroughly entertaining “new software” requisition process that I have to go through to get stuff...

My daughter’s “computer class” teacher instructed the children to type words into Google when they weren’t sure about the correct...

I started futzing with Twitter yesterday. It’s interesting, but it’s not causing me angst if I can’t get back to...

My other site runs community news, so I receive press releases from businesses, city hall, civic groups, etc. on a...

I realize this is late notice, and if it’s already too late for you, file this away for future reference...

Congratulations to my friend, Brent Csutoras of WeirdAsiaNews.com, on his newly minted PR6 and subsequent schload of 5s and 4s....

There was a comment made during the Disney/Spocko’s Brain fuss a few weeks ago that really bothered me. Neil Simpkins,...

A visitor from wcsp.wipo.int (193.5.93.24) was logged once, starting at 12:30:02 AM on Monday, January 8, 2007. The initial browser...

Witness the power of my pen keyboard. If you ever wondered how much exposure you can generate for your business...

Deerfield Beach, FL (PRWeb) January 5, 2007 — With construction season fast approaching, Metal Buildings R Us (www.MetalBuildingsRUs.com) is starting...

** See Press Release Magic for an analysis of how this press release performed. ** Orlando, Fla.(PRWEB) Jan 5, 2007...

1) Stop procrastinating. 2) Focus.  3) Lose weight. 4) Quit impulse buying domains. Number one is pretty obvious since it’s...

WIPO makes no sense. The vast majority of their decisions come down on the side of the complainant (generally also...

There is an interesting thread over at Dnforum.com right now where a bunch of guys have been having good luck...

Brent Csutoras of WeirdAsiaNews.com blog-tagged me, so here goes my obligatory five things people might not know about me and then...

Remember when I said Google can’t see behind privacy protected domain registrations because they don’t actually manage any domains? Well…...

I was checking out TickMe.com earlier today. It’s DaveN’s newly launched social networking site that is better looking than MySpace...

Deerfield Beach, FL (PRWEB) December 13, 2006 — Although the holidays are not traditionally associated with new construction projects, it...

Caydel was asking around for a copywriter in the Webmaster Radio Chatroom today. Not a quality copywriter, mind you, because he...

So I’m back-back from SES Chicago now. I say “back-back” as opposed to just “back” because I technically got “back”...

Reuters ran a story today about how Senators Charles Schumer (NY-D) and John McCain (AZ-R) have proposed legislation intended to...

This whole “can Google see past/around private domain registrations” thing that came out of the Interactive SERP Site Review session...

I was having hard time designing the logo for a site I’m working on because the site is for neuroradiologists...

I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in Shoemoney’s “Net Income” show on Webmaster Radio on Tuesday, November 21 (listen...

During the big Interactive Site Review clinic at PubCon last week, Matt Cutts was was using some type of tool...

Several months ago, I checked Lafayette Online’s rank in Google and almost cried. I had dropped from #3 or #4...

Everyone knows the best way to build a mailing list is to give interested parties the opportunity to sign themselves up...

Here are the domains that sold in the live auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East on Friday, October 27, 2006. It’s sorted...

There is a reason “content is king” is a big ol’ cliche — it’s true. While you might be tempted...

I tuned in via WebmasterRadio.FM to the big domain auction that Moniker put on in Hollywood, Florida last Friday. While...

In case you missed it last night, Hiro’s buddy tracked down his Internet Stripper “friend” and showed up at her...

Before you blow most of your start-up capital (or life’s savings) on a great 3 or 4 letter .com domain,...

Chicago morning radio host DreX (ClearChannel’s Kiss 103.5 FM) said this morning that he’s not using his MySpace page/email anymore...

Since I’m constantly late about booking hotel rooms for conferences, I have compiled a list of links (to my own...

I hear this from local small business owners frequently -- they get a brilliant idea for a domain name, go...