Category: Rant

Is Search Marketing or Social Media Best for You?

In November of 2010, I heard another marketer say, “It is no longer a question of whether you should be on Facebook, but rather, if it is necessary to have a Website any more.” While I agree that 90+% of businesses would be wise to also be on Facebook, I … Read more →

The Scoop!

April Fools! I gotcha. While I have your attention, may I wish you a happy April? Cheers, Robert

An SEO Summer

Wow, I had a great summer. Most of it with my son. I wonder if he’ll become an SEO Expert too? We went camping in Wyoming in July. And we made it to the Dreamtime Festival weekend in Paonia. That was a lot of fun. Then we went to Water … Read more →

Top 10 Search Engine Experts

For some reason I Googled “search engine expert” I had thought that it looked impressive to be on the top of search for the phrase “search engine expert.” But when I Googled the phrase, I was somewhat surprised. I found

Beware of SEO Scams

Last week I was contacted by a business owner who was looking for SEO expert advice and maybe some search engine marketing also. I was shocked at what she told me. She had found me on page one of the search results for her query and for some reason she … Read more →

Google Measuring RSS Subscriptions

Google Webmaster Tools , under Statistics:Subscriber Stats, now shows how many subscribers to your feed they are aware of via data from Orkut and Google Reader and Gmail. I can’t help but assume that this data will be incorporated into an algorithm update, one that is designed to

The Future of SEO?

Among those of us who have done SEO right, and white, for the past ten years, or more, and the newer SEO’s who have paid their dues and commit to excellence in learning and the execution of SEO, we admit that true blue SEO work is getting more and more … Read more →

Bye Bye Google Supplemental Results

If! this post were announcing that Google had decided to do away with thier supplemental results index entirely, I might be smiling. But it is with a frown that I write this post. I don’t make it a habit to criticize search engines but sometimes I just got to rant … Read more →

Just For the Sake of Blogging

Wow, things are busy in this SEO and Search Marketing industry. Summer is winding down. My son will be back in school soon. I am moved into my new office and poised for something really big! Anyways, I do have a lot to blog about and just so little time … Read more →

Blog-jacked!

Sorry Friends, that I stopped blogging. A couple months ago I discovered that some clown was auto-scraping my blog posts and aggregating them over to his blog, which was monetized with Google Adwords. His blog was ranking for keywords in my posts, while my original content was all going to … Read more →