A couple weeks ago, just for the hell of it, I emailed several SEOs and asked them the question they've waited their entire careers to hear:

If you inherited SEOmoz, what would you do with it? Rand Fishkin is out of the picture (he left SEO to pursue his dream of becoming a master chef, he eloped with Mystery Guest, he got sued by Puma, whatever), leaving you to run SEOmoz and a team of five [I excluded Gillian because I wanted to make it more ragtag and entirely Fishkin-free]. What would you do with the site/company?

The coolest SEOs (coolest because they actually participated) responded, and I thought I'd share their answers below. (Obviously, this is a meme-esque blog post, and many of the answers are silly, off-the-wall, or downright inappropriate [ahem, Chris Hooley], which is why I saved this gem for a Friday post.)

Some of the participants had somewhat lengthy answers, so I'm linking to their responses on separate pages (listed alphabetically by last name):

• Lisa Barone
• Andy Beal
• Guillaume Bouchard
• Matt Cutts
• Michael Gray
• Chris Hooley
• Kim Krause Berg
• Todd Malicoat
• Lee Odden
• Cameron Olthuis
• Barry Schwartz
• SEO Fangirl
• Aaron Wall
  

Thanks again to everyone for participating, and happy Friday to everyone! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a margarita (mozzarita? Maybe we should serve them at SMX...) and a churro. :)