This past week I was alerted to the fact that yet another Internet Marketing industry “review” site had cropped up and was attempting to be a consumer watchdog service without having either any understanding of our industry nor, in my opinion, presenting their offering in a way that could actually deliver on their pitch. Upon [...]

Blog comments can be a blessing or they can be a curse.  When I first started my blog two years ago, I was excited to just get one comment.  From anyone.  Then as time went by, and I started getting comments for most of my posts, I was in heaven.  I’ve got Akismet set up [...]

UPDATE: A few days after my first contact with them, the owners of this site chose to shut it down.  Read the update, and an important lesson I learned in the process, in my update article. _________________________________________________________ Fast on the heels of my latest article where I spoke with Bruce Clay regarding the deceptive practices [...]

I was going to write this article right after SMX Advanced, but instead of settling, the dust has actually kicked up big time but since this is a holiday weekend, I figured it’s time to write up the one on one conversation I had with Bruce Clay regarding TopSEOS, while up at Advanced… __________________________________ In [...]

Alex Bennert (SEOSylph) tweeted a link this evening to an article by Sean Michael Kerner at Small Business Computing from today covering the SES Toronto keynote by Maile Ohye, senior developer programs engineer at Google.  According to the Article, Ohye said that Meta Descriptions are now once again factored into the relevance of a page.  [...]

Okay so many of you know already that Dana Lookadoo, Gil Reich, and I pitched in to help Susan Esparza with liveblogging of SMX Advanced earlier in the week. But since my contributions are all spread out, I figured I’d provide a consolidated post that provides links to each of the individual session articles. And [...]

As this session was the most anticipated during day one of SMX Advanced, and Susan Esparza wasn’t going to miss it for anything in the world, she liveblogged this for the Bruce Clay blog.  Personally, I just wanted an excuse to sit up front after rushing downstairs from my liveblogging of the “Demystifying Online Attribution” [...]

This is a liveblogging post of the “So You Want to Test SEO?” session from SMX Advanced that I’d done originally for the Bruce Clay blog, however at the time I wasn’t aware that one was also being written by Gil Reich, and that his was the one they ended up going with – a [...]

TOPSEOs was built on deception, article scraping, and bait-and-switch practices.  The industry cried foul, Jeev Trika blew it off as motivated by ulterior motives, I called him out, and 3 days later they issued an official apology, vowing to change.  Fast foward a full month, and they continue their ways, laughing in the face of [...]

UPDATE 5/1/2010 Ken from SEOHonesty has agreed to take the site down.  Read his comments in the comment thread below… _____________________________________________________ Hot on the heels of the TOPSEOs apology to the community, and their vow to clean up their act, yet another company has decided they can create an SEO recommendation service and profit from [...]