Todd Mintz knows PPC...knows Social Media...knows SEO...knows Blogging...knows Domaining...and knows them all real well. He is also a Director & Founding Member of SEMpdx: Portland, Oregon's Search Engine Marketing Association.
Humor has always been part of my persona. So, when I took my persona into the social media sphere, my sense of humor came along with me. Social Media Humor isn’t just tweeting out the link to the latest @oatmeal comic (for that just shows how funny he is and that you’re at least bright enough to notice). Rather, it is the ability to use a mix of ...
“This is just like television, only you can see much further.” Chauncey Gardner / Being There When I started my job search that landed me at PPC Associates, I decided that I would consider only telecommuting work arrangements. My choice actually gave me a lot of freedom because every search marketing position open in the United States theoretically became a possible destination for me. After all, I had been...
Enterprise-level SEO ain’t for the faint of heart. Marshall Simmonds is one of the top experts at Enterprise SEO and he took some time to answer some questions about his trade: 1. Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living. I’ve been working in the search industry since my 1997 start in Bend, Oregon. I took a job with About.com in 1999 managing their search...
“That seminar was one of the most eye-opening I’ve ever been too. I am so excited about these new tools and how I can apply them to my business. This is going to be a busy year for me as I hope to make a bunch of improvements to my business model.” Steve Barkley (my accountant…who I introduced to David Mihm, Getlisted co-founder.) The Passenger The day prior to...
Matthew will be speaking about “Advanced On-Site SEO” at SearchFest 2011, which will take place on February 23rd at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link. 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living. In January 2011, I left a six year stint at the New York Times Company, as Director of Search Strategy. That...
“This guy comes up to me His face red like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colors of a royal flush And he's peeling off those dollar bills Slapping them down One hundred, two hundred…” U2 “Bullet The Blue Sky” The Cincinnati Kid I attended our recent Portland SEMpdx Event on “Link Building in 2011”. The speakers were most excellent as usual (like I’d...
from No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre All of us have visited to ugly looking websites littered with ads and unreadable content…and we’ve likely cursed their existence since the intentions of the webmaster are so obvious (get a bunch of people to click on the ads). We know this strategy works since the web is littered with these derivative sites (and many of us have a little personal experience of creating...
“And you know, he's the devil… He's everything that I ain't… Hiding intentions of evil, Under the smile of a saint”.… Kris Kristofferson I was going through my email inbox looking for ideas to write about when I came across some stuff I sent out recently. Somebody asked me to review a blog post and after reading it, I responded: “This post really doesn’t work for me. Some of the grammatical constructs throughout the post are...
I’ve attended all 4 SMX Advanced Conferences and if someone were to ask me who gave the most memorable presentation that I saw, I would absolutely answer Jay Young. Google’s stance against paid links was very much a flashpoint of controversy at SMX Advanced 2008 for Jay to get up in front of his peers (w/ Matt Cutts in the room) and forcefully advocated in favor of buying links at...
“I got up so tight I couldn’t unwind…I saw so much I broke my mind…I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.” Kenny Rogers If you don’t know what movie this picture is from, shame on you :.) Let me tell you about an SEO gig I didn’t get. I was told the reason why was that I couldn’t show the prospect that I had done SEO a...
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