Bellwether Brains
“Step inside my mind for a moment…” Robin Williams from "Reality, What A Concept" When I saw this Tweet from John Andrews, I knew I had to question him about it…and here’s how the conversation went: Just from this brief...
A Minimalistic Paid Search Tip
“Keep your eyes on the prize…hold on.”…Bruce Springsteen Many of the paid search accounts that I’ve worked with contain a geographical component and I have a well-used spreadsheet that contains the names of the biggest U.S. Cities,...
A Fresh Look At Local Search Ranking Factors
“Oh cheeky cheeky Oh naughty sneaky You're so perceptive And I wonder how you knew.” ...Brian Eno ‘Dead Finks Don’t Talk’ I admire the Trailblazers of Local Search Marketing…people like David Mihm, Michael Jensen, and...
SEO Spared The Gutter Ball
“I'm an insider, I been burned by the fire And I've had to live with some hard promises I've crawled through the briars--I'm an insider.” Tom Petty I have no problem stating publicly that I don’t feel that…’s prison sentence...
Portland / Beaverton Handyman Edition Of Six Degrees Of Social Media Separation
I’ve had terrible luck getting and keeping good and reliable handyman for my house. I have a great plumber and a great painter that I work with and but with handymen, I’ve encountered either incompetence or unreliability with several...
Search Engine Anti-Marketing
“I think it’s time for some tough love here…” Google’s Adam Lasnik When my wife and I went house shopping back in 2002, we viewed a house in Sherwood that I didn’t think much of but my wife really liked. She expressed quite openly...
How I Decide Who To “Follow Back” On Twitter
“Men with insight, men in granite Knights in armor bent on chivalry.” …Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey I’m probably getting 6-10 new Twitter followers a day and, unless it’s an obvious bot, I always check out the page of each new...
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
“What is the price of Experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for the price of a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all Man hath, his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate...
Hayley Mintz, Cade Mintz & Todd Mintz Model SEO T-Shirts
I'm long overdue to post SEO t-shirt photos, so here goes: Hayley is modeling the EasyTweets t-shirt which is a service offered by my friend and fellow Sahara patron Alexander Barbara. EasyTweets is a web-based marketing tool that makes it...
The SEMpdx Searchfest Session That I’d Program
“The room was humming harder as the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink the waiter brought a tray.” Procol Harum “A White Shade Of Pale” A couple weeks ago, Jane Copland wrote a post at the...