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Thank God it’s — SEO !

Ruud Hein | October 10th, 2008
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Today I'm taking a break from the meaning of search series simply so I can take a moment to give thanks.

North Americans as we may be altogether, this Monday you might feel a little bit out of sync with your remote neighbours as Canada celebrates Thanksgiving more than 6 weeks ahead of the USA. We're a country naturally optimized for Thanksgiving and so, sorry, by the time our southern neighbours get to joyfully expound on the gracious gifts bestowed on them this year they are, frankly, too late to the game.

That obligatory jab out of the way - they like to make fun of our "eh!" while we're used to being at least 6 weeks ahead of the game (ouch, jab #2!) - let's stop a moment to be seriously grateful.

If everything has gone the way Life should go, you're looking back at some big changes. I know that in my life a lot of things have changed; some dramatically so but let me be free to not bore you with the details and suffer alone in silence instead (he said, sort of tongue in cheek but firmly believing in at least some separation of The Blog and The Personal).

Some of those Life changes you've experienced are good, some bad, no doubt. But today, right here on a blog dedicated to search and search engine optimization, I'd like to focus on our work and what we may be grateful for there.

Whether you're reading this blog as a blogger who finally received a $100 payment from Adsense after toiling enormously hard on your site for months or you're here as the in-house SEO of a multi-billion dollar company (adjusted for current economic circumstances that's a 20 dollar company, I guess…), whether you're here as the pro or the beginner; you're having a job, self made or not, which could not have come to pass but for this wonderful third wave of technology.

• I'm thankful for the existence of search engines; they're part of the basis of my job, my pay, my fun.

• I'm thankful for the huge explosion of sites in the past 10 years; it's that very large number of sites which helps make my job needed.

• I'm thankful for contextual analysis; it's what feeds our PPC department.

• I'm thankful for Flash which can make the most beautiful content the most deep-link unfriendly; thankful for CSS and plain HTML styling which can make any element look like an H1 while avoiding to use the actual H1 tag itself (don't ask…). It's sites like that that make site analysis feasible.

• I'm thankful for Digg, Sphinn, Stumbleupon, Grox, I Am Bored, Fark, and many, many others; they've opened up new ways to do our current jobs and new jobs for the Next Big Thing.

PS: I'm also very thankful for Twitter and today I used it to ask others what they are thankful for in their SEO jobs.


Will Reynolds, Seer Interactive


Steve Spalding, How To Split An Atom


Mark Pilatowski, Pilo SEO


Yura Filimonov, Effectize


Michael Streko, Streko (dot) com


Stephen Smith, Productivity in Context


Casey Yandle, Web Entrapments



Melanie Phung, All About Content

Just Between You & Me

I loved doing a post together with you on Twitter! This is fun!

Anyway… The photos are by Joe Error who took them, apparently, during his 2006 housewarming party in San Fransisco. Just before I'd considered using some of Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten's photos from the 2008 TheNextWeb conference in my birthplace Amsterdam. This one would have been nice as we tend to react good to human faces. I think the one I picked instead does well too, don't you?

No remarks about the coffee or music today as I wanted to reserve some space to proudly show you a drawing Maite, my youngest daughter, gave me this morning.

I have 3 wonderful daughters and man, I tell you, that is something to be thankful, nay, grateful for.

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About the Author: Ruud Hein

My paid passion at Search Engine People sees me applying my passions and knowledge to a wide array of problems, ones I usually experience as challenges. People who know me know I love coffee.

Ruud Hein

12 thoughts on “Thank God it’s — SEO !”

  1. Michael D says:
    October 10, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Ruud Hein, Jeff Quipp, and the rest of the gang…. Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the holiday weekend.

  2. Boris says:
    October 10, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    Glad you considered my photos! Maybe you can use this one for another post: http://flickr.com/photos/thenextweb/281640512/

    😉

  3. Comparison Shopping says:
    October 11, 2008 at 8:06 am

    A thoroughly enjoyable read. Thank you. It is nice to see such sentiments being posted on blogs.

  4. dewaji says:
    October 11, 2008 at 8:15 am

    Then, I’ll ask you about SEO in twitter too :D. And I’m one of your follower on twitter 😀

  5. Metaspring says:
    October 12, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Happy Thanksgiving all. This is a very important day because we do need to take time out and give thanks for our blessings. Too often we either forget or are too occupied with our problems to pay attention to our many and myriad blessings.

  6. Ruud Hein says:
    October 13, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    @Michael @Metaspring Thanks for the wishes!

    @Boris Goeie foto man! Ik zal je stream in de gaten houden voor materiaal.

    @dewaji I love the Twitter convo’s 🙂

  7. kouji says:
    October 14, 2008 at 6:04 am

    happy thanksgiving. 🙂 over here, we don’t celebrate it at all. :O

  8. Utah SEO says:
    October 14, 2008 at 8:28 am

    While most people are thankful for food and water…We’re thankful for Websites. haha.

  9. Armen Shirvanian says:
    October 17, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    You bring up a valid point that we should be thankful for these various resources that we are so used to. If it was not for certain linking sites or search engine programs, it probably wouldn’t be as easy to find certain bits of information.

  10. Downloadic says:
    October 18, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the holiday…

  11. Breeders Cup Picks says:
    October 21, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving, a little late perhaps, but nonetheless. Now GET BACK TO WORK!! (Lol)

  12. Wil Reynolds says:
    October 27, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Rudd, hey dude, didn’t realize I didn’t respond with a big THANK YOU for including my .02. I just do feel lucky, all in all this is a great job!

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