Winning.
How’s your financial status? SEO and Zero Sum Games Over the years, I’ve heard many SEOs talk about “zero sum game” aspect of SEO. “SEO is not a zero sum game” is often proffered. Is it true? A zero sum game is a game where the winnings are equal to the losings. In other words, […]
Thoughts on Emerging New Age
As we enter a new era, which is still undefined, some thoughts. Is Make-Believe Time Over Yet? At least one entire generation seems to have been subject to “arrested development”, and often the arrest seems to have taken place in kindergarten. Make-believe time (also known as “Let’s Pretend” time) was a favorite of the creative, […]
Organic SEO vs. Professional SEO
I’m not a Professional SEO. I am an SEO, and I do organic SEO. I realize today that what I consider to be Organic SEO is actually quite different from what today’s professional SEO practitioners consider to be “seo”. Organic SEO Organic SEO is the practice of search engine optimization that pursues better performance, where […]
Competitive Webmastering Blog
Thus begins a blog about competing on the web. Innovating, researching, analyzing, and most importantly ACTING to achieve specific goals using the Internet as a playground, webtools as instruments, and language as navigation. It’s the world’s greatest word game. You can play like you play charades (acting out), or scrabble (careful crafting), or monopoly (cunning […]
Stifled by Opportunity
There is so much opportunity in competitive web publishing today, it is literally overwhelming some good people. The American population is being killed by abundance. The poorly-acknowledged nearly epidemic proportion of metabolic diseases resulting from over-eating has led to a very obese, very sick population of health care consumers. Nearly every mainstream individual has plenty […]
Competitive Webmastering Blog
Thus begins a blog about competing on the web. Innovating, researching, analyzing, and most importantly ACTING to achieve specific goals using the Internet as a playground, webtools as instruments, and language as navigation. It’s the world’s greatest word game. You can play like you play charades (acting out), or scrabble (careful crafting), or monopoly (cunning […]
Competitive Webmastering Blog
Thus begins a blog about competing on the web. Innovating, researching, analyzing, and most importantly ACTING to achieve specific goals using the Internet as a playground, webtools as instruments, and language as navigation. It’s the world’s greatest word game. You can play like you play charades (acting out), or scrabble (careful crafting), or monopoly (cunning […]
One Million Dollar Domain Names
There is a quite significant diference between selling a domain for $1M and having paid $1M for a domain.
Not entropy, not atrophy, just notrophy
Not entropy, not atrophy, just notrophy.
What have You Done with your SEO Skills?
While setting this blog “no index” for Google and blocking Google technical services from managing the website activity, I was reminded of my precarious public status in SEO years ago. As a competitive webmaster, I loathe public scrutiny of my activities. Like everyone, I have professional projects, passion-based projects and activities, and legacy projects and […]
Experienced SEOs Know…
Experiened SEOs know not to waste time, and where to put effort.
Trash-Talkin’ Newbies: the New Link Builders
A new geeration of ass-kickin link builders is doing very well in the Google serps, with very little risk and an unfair amount of personal agency. Props where due.
The Next Web in Amsterdam plus The Hague for Domaining Europe
The Next Web in Amsterdam followed by Domaining Europe at The Hague. Looks like a great trip.
SEO Homesteading 2016
Happy 2016 to the Die Hard SEOs
The Future: This is Not your Father’s SEO
While everyone left and right of me is either not really doing much SEO or is deeply engaged in hard-core SEO, the middle ground is an active battle field. That middle ground… which I refer to as Competitive Publishing, involves smart, strategic deployment of publishing (using technology) to achieve business goals (specific to search and […]
It’s Your Move, SEO
It’s SEO time. Get busy.
Bullish on SEO : RankBrain vs. SEOBrain
The battle between RankBrain and SEOBrain is heating up, as Google develops Artificial Intelligence to battle human innovation.
SEO Security, Threat Intelligence, and Competition
I was reading about a security course over at Black Hat when it dawned on me… this is just like SEO. The US Special Operations Forces pioneered a methodology called F3EAD, which enabled amongst other things the ability to take out insurgent and terrorist networks. Acronyms aside… F3EAD sure sounds cool. And “taking out” insurgents […]
On Practitioners, Policymakers, Business, and Authority
Deleted, because I’m exhausted. It just won’t make any difference… you have lost, and the big players have won.
It’s OK to be Late
It must be a slow news month, because I’ve been seeing a disproportionate number of people whining in public about other people being late to their meetings & appointments. Mostly these are people I do not respect: social media gurus, self-help experts, “authors” of pop business books, professional speakers, venture capitalists, placed startup CEOs and […]