I’ve never made a big secret of the fact that as a commercial SEO and marketer, I am what most call a blackhat. When I change hats, it’s gray at best. This is a choice that has brought up some interesting debates within my own blog, and occasionally on forums around the web. Since those conversations generally go a predictable place (but are always interesting), I thought it’d be nice to put the debate into the larger community.

the black hat

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This week I watched "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and couldn’t help but realize how far I’ve come. No, not necessarily career-wise but …well… in pure years.

Glancing at my handsome avatar you might easily be deceived and even attempt to argue; "But no way, Ruud, you look like a young grasshopper — and anyway, age is all in the mind, the mind man!"

OK… Well then let me tell you this.

You know you’re old(er) when you know "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is a sequel, the fourth (count ‘m: four) movie.

This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.

These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to link to you – without initially coming right out and asking for a link. It occurred to me to add a few links to actual places where you can get free .edu links, however I did that before over at seomoz and the free sources are now useless due to being spammed.

As social media moves beyond early adapters to become more mainstream, Marketers are beginning to realize the tremendous opportunities in SMM.

Marketers need to start allocating budget over but to do so requires more reason than just intuitively “knowing” that it’s the right thing to do. Unfortunately marketers are currently ill equipped to sell social media internally to their stakeholders.

Part of our role as Social Media Marketers is to explain social media to our clients so that they can in turn “sell” it internally to their stakeholders. When I talk about social media with a client, I break it down into easily understandable pieces. In essence, a formula….

Source: Joy Of Tech 

Some time ago I joined Flickr. My choice of social media.

Now they also offer video uploads (short and condensed). I still use YouTube as my main source to upload my videos. Why? Because I like it, that’s why.

Some people try to figure out why or how us mere mortals choose, without really having a lot of information on the subject, one social site instead of that other hot site advertised by strangers ( read: not a friend or acquaintance).

Il y a quelques temps déjà, je me suis jointe au site Flickr. Mon choix de média social.

Le site offre maintenant la possibilité à ses usagers de télécharger des vidéos (courts et condensés). J’utilise quand même YouTube comme source première lorsque je désire partager mes vidéos avec les copains, la famille. Et pourquoi vous direz-vous? Et bien, parce que cela me plaît, simplement. Les experts essaient parfois de déterminer les raisons de nos choix en matière de médias sociaux que nous faisons, nous, humbles mortels, pourquoi nous choisissons ceci plutôt que *CE* site très populaire en ce moment dont tout le monde parle (lire entre les lignes : pas un ami ou une connaissance). Tout le monde? Et bien voilà, c’est tout simple : la meilleure façon de connaître un produit est de voir…s’il est utilisé par nos amis, où est-ce qu’ils crèchent sur le net. On n’appelle pas ces sites des médias sociaux pour rien! Alors, les gens vont là où se trouvent leurs copains : on suit!

What valuable lessons, if any, do we teach on Sphinn regarding SEO?

A high-level analysis of one week of Sphinn postings.

The Selection

I’m coming at this from an angle where a non-SEO site owner says "hey, I have to do something… now let’s learn from the best".

I sifted through the  900+ items posted between Friday May 9 00:00 and Thursday May 15 24:00, culling the ones that seemed to convey real value for a newcomer and dropping items like "30+ Weird, Educational and Stupid Search Screenshots", "Trolls or Upset Customers? Do You Know the Difference", "Exercises For Lower Ab Workouts" or "Is Bebo better than Facebook? Creating a profile network".

source: pcweenies.org