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  • The Single Best Kept Secret to Success With SEO – Have Something Worth Selling

    Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 03:29 in SEO

    > Guruisms for the week of 15-03-09 I don’t mind telling you where I think the gold is but you gotta do your own digging! G We’ve all heard that when there is a gold rush on the real money is in selling shovels. I bet the guy...

  • H.E. Mr. Kenneth Thompson, Irish Ambassador to India

    Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 03:02 in SEO

    What a St. Patty's day party this year turned out to be. I was lucky enough to get invited to a party at the Trident hotel in Mumbai hosted by the Irish embassy in India by my good friend David Lawrence. The ambassador was gracious enough to grant...

  • Why Am I Not Converting or Why We All Think a 2% Conversion Rate is Pretty Good

    Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 06:03 in SEO

    Guruisms for the week of 02-03-09 > The extrovert in me loves online marketing because there are as many things to sell and ways to sell them as there are the sum total of human experience. The introvert part of me loves online marketi...

  • How to Beat the 3 Second Back Button Boogie

    Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 05:15 in SEO

    > Guruisms for the week of 23-02-09 Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley  07/26/1894 - 11/22/1963 English critic & novelist.  Author of Bra...

  • Search Engines Don’t Take People Where the Search Engine Wants Them To Go

    Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 01:19 in SEO

      We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. Vince Lombardi      I was more impressed with the technology of search back in 1996 than I am today. When I ...

  • Behavioral Metrics Analysis For the Worried SEO

    Posted on Monday February 2nd, 2009 at 21:57 in SEO

    This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back. John Ilhan       No wonder so many who call themsel...

  • The Good That Bad Customers Do

    Posted on Saturday January 31st, 2009 at 23:55 in SEO

    > A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are...

  • How Small a Part SEO Plays In Getting a New Site to Dominate SERPs

    Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 05:51 in SEO

    > I’d say one of the biggest problems SEOs struggle with is that it is all about rankings and traffic, rather than conversions. It’s easy to keep focusing on trying to work the extremes to bring in more visitors when the time might be b...

  • Even Internet Marketers Can Understand Latent Semantic Indexing

    Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 00:42 in SEO

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  • The Anti-SEO SEO Guru Asks -- Can You Define SEO?

    Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 03:19 in SEO

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  • Ask the Anti-SEO SEO Guru

    Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 07:04 in SEO

    > Guru  -- India A teacher or a wise man. www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/g.htm A guru is a person who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom and authority in a given area, and uses it to guide others. ... en.wikipedia.org/w...

  • The Future of SEO is the Death of SEO.

    Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 01:37 in SEO

    Today's post is a continuation of the monumentally lengthy rant which I began last week with: Google Inadvertently Announces the Death of SEO and the Future of SEO in the Same Post This will be the second of a minimum three part installment over the...

  • Google Inadvertently Announces the Death of SEO and the Future of SEO in the Same Post

    Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 01:00 in SEO

    > Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. James  F. Bymes  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Byrnes Marissa Myers, (whom I’ve alway...