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 [...]

Given how often I write book-length articles, I figured this time I’d give a shot at creating my first InfoGraphic, and what better subject than our own industry, right?  So here, without further diatribes, I present to you, my SEO Industry InfoGraphic….

There’s been a flurry of renewed activity in the past few days regarding the fact that TOPSEOs has been caught using deceptive business practices in their operation.  Apparently someone at TOPSEOs, perhaps Jeev Trika himself, finally felt that enough pressure was being applied, because yesterday morning (April 28th), a press release was posted through PRWeb.com [...]

UPDATE 4/29/2010 – TOPSEOS issues Apology – But Is It Enough? _________________________________________________ The TOPSEOs discussion (mostly industry leaders and participants calling for TOPSEOs to stop their deceptive marketing practices) has been raging for a while now. Not long after this all started, I attempted to contact Jeev Trika, one of the owners of the company.  [...]

I learned today that my blog has been nominated for a Search and Social Web award as best SEO blog and I’m beyond ecstatic.  At the same time, I’m also very humbled because I put as much, or more time and energy into my writing for SearchEngineJournal.com, and truthfully, I’m nominated in a category among [...]

I just spent four days at what essentially can best be described as a gathering of like-minded people seeking emotional, psychological and spiritual growth.  Over six thousand of us (early estimates put the number closer to 7,500 but the final tally is less important) gathered for four days of meetings, workshops, fellowship and fun.  And [...]

UPDATE 4/29/2010 – TOPSEOS issues Apology – But Is It Enough? _________________________________________________ This week’s buzz in the SEO community is all about complaints against TOPSEOs (and questions for Jeev Trika, one of their owners) – a company that sells rankings and awards within the SEO industry.  While they bill their rankings as a “competition”, people [...]

Google announced today that they’re going open-source to extend their “Living Stories” project, a platform cooked up in the Google Labs and initially tested in collaboration with writers at the New York Times and Washington Post.  The initial effort, rolled out in December, was billed as featuring new ways to interact with news and the [...]

How many times have you signed up to receive Google Alerts on a topic only to have your in-box filled with the most absurd and useless spam, regardless of the topic?  It happens to me all the time.  It used to be restricted to “news” related to client keyword phrases.  Initially, the alerts I had [...]

I am not a graphic designer by trade, though once in a while I’ll pretend I am for my own sites.  Usually it involves hours upon hours of research, dozens of trial and error attempts in Photoshop, and quite often completely scrapping what I thought initially was spot on. This past fall I worked on [...]