Blog Posts
12/10/2008
Hello fellow Mozzers (hopefully my absence lately doesn't make it wrong to say something like that). This holiday season, I wanted to drop by and say hello and warm wishes to friends I haven't chatted with in a while. And to post one short article about something that really got under my skin this evening. Like many of you, I have a boatload of side websites that I run for business and hobby both. One of those sites gets a decent amount of traffic this time of year, due to the annual controversy surrounding a college football playoff system. My site, BCSFootballPlayoffs.com, is a couple of years old and is a place where I post my two cents on what I feel would be an ideal and exciting college football playoff system. My site gets decent traffic and is ranked #3 on Yahoo for "college football playoff system".
2/12/2008
While catching up on some reading in the blog and YOUmoz section here at SEOmoz, I realized that I haven't been keeping up my end of the bargain as far as sharing much lately. A lot of that has to do with taking a new job in January managing the e-commerce / web operations for DSW (kind of a "buy shoes online" start-up opportunity that has ...
12/12/2007
I return from Chicago's SES conference this week enlightened after speaking with many online ad decision makers in control of ad budgets. It seems there was a recurring theme that I heard many times, and I stopped to think about how much it impacts our industry in whole. It's always been a part of it, but I was amazed at how much so.To quote Ricky Bobby - "If...
11/19/2007
One of the most annoying things that I see regularly are advertisements for financial advisors that can tell you the best stocks and mutual funds for you to buy, personalized just for you and your situation. Sure, there are people out there that probably know a lot more about investments than I do (...
11/6/2007
This afternoon I have the privilege of interviewing a web design firm for a fairly large project. I'm currently in discussions with a company to become the COO of a nicely funded semi-startup, and unfortunately the owners of the firm have already selected a web design firm (thankfully I'm not bound to keep them in any way). As one of the final steps before I take this role, ...
8/28/2007
If you have ever run a web design company or built a website for someone that knows very little (or nothing) about best practices in web design or SEO, then you undoubtedly have come across the client who wants something glitzy, with lots of flash (with or without actually using Flash), and *gasp* lots of animations. When I hear something like "I like those sites that have a flashy i...
Just realized I've had this account since 2007, when it was called SEOMoz. Was part of the early days with Rand when we were putting together the annual ranking factors lists. Haven't been around much, especially since Rand left, but nice to see some of my old posts still around (though they make me cringe just a little).
