This is just one amazing, magical and blessed week for Search Marketing Wisdom.  First, I invited @SocialMichelleR to be a guest writer, the first time I’ve invited ANYONE to contribute.  The next thing I know, I was moved to open that invite up to a few select people, marking  an epic change here. Each was [...]

What would the search industry be without evolutionary progress?  It would be a shadow of its current self, that’s for sure!  And with that in mind, I’m excited to announce evolutionary progress for Search Marketing Wisdom!  A true sea-change in focus and purpose. So Why Change A Good Thing? As proud as I am of [...]

Today a funeral is being held for someone I never met in person.  Someone who lived half way around the world.  And yet, while we never met in person, I mourn his passing.  As surely as though we had. Jaamit Durrani, by all accounts from people who truly were his friends, lived a life with [...]

With the latest radical change to Google’s listings, which has made some people very unhappy and convinces others that Google cares about Local, Google pushes Place Pages to a higher level of importance. As far as I’m concerned, first and foremost, it’s their way of forcing more companies to get Place pages, so that millions [...]

I can’t wait to get to #BlueglassFl  – the Blueglass, Inc. conference coming up the 1st week of November, and taking place at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida…  I say that not just because I’m going to be speaking there, or the fact that Hollywood Florida is really just a rock toss away from [...]

So ten days ago, the new Twitter web interface was announced in a big ta-da conference and it was live-streamed by Robert Scoble, which meant that 4,000 of us got to watch along, so hats of to Robert for that effort.  Unfortunately, this is a timed roll-out.  That day only a handful of people got [...]

I’ve been managing people for 30 years and over that time, have come to learn a lot about how to make it work.  Because there’s a right way and a wrong way.  And believe me, you don’t want to do it the wrong way…. So when James Zolman recently tweeted “I need an apprentice” then [...]

Okay so by now, you may have learned that I really enjoy liveblogging. It all started at SMX Advanced, where Susan Esparza from Bruce Clay Inc. corralled a few of us into pitching in when Virginia Nussey couldn’t make it. And when I saw Lisa Barone from Outspoken Media tweet that she too couldn’t attend [...]

Early on in my SEO life, I would focus exclusively on optimizing client sites with high rankings in the SERPs as the singular goal.  From there, I slowly began getting more involved in caring more about the user experience.  Both to strengthen SEO and because it also benefits the site visitor and the site owner. [...]

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 [...]