Archive for March, 2007

Neil Patel: The SEO Man Child

Busy day (and in the midst of a tornado warning down here in San Antonio), but I wanted to say, “Job well done, Princess” to Neil Patel who manned up and came out victorious on his SEO Challenge to Jason Calacanis.
The Challenge
Neil Patel’s Victory Dance
Neil Patel 1 - Jason Calacanis 0
Neil Patel Bitchslaps Calacanis On […]

There are probably a hundred widgets and tools out there that try to assign a price to the value of your website or blog.  Whether they are accurate or not doesn’t really matter as much as what types of information they look at in order to compute that value.  These are roughly the same algorithms […]

Wow.  I never expected that last post to create such a shitstorm (I swear it wasn’t linkbait!).  I’m crunched for time so I’ll impart a few thoughts/responses in random list form.
1.  Rand Fishkin.  I commented to Rand over at SEOmoz as I didn’t want him to take any personal affront that he may have inferred.  […]

“If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why would you do it for clients instead of for yourself?”
That’s the first thing you, the prospective client, should ask each of the SEO consultants you are considering.  In my opinion, there are only three honest answers to that question:
1.  “I choose interesting projects that give me […]

I’m sitting here reading Bill Simmons’ play-by-play of the NCAA Tourney and it reminded me why I hate livebloggers more than slamming my genitals in a bank vault.
Liveblogging.  At first blush, it sounds like a great idea.  “Wow, I’m going to get soooo much traffic because people who aren’t at the conference can live vicariously […]

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