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 […]
Google’s Move toward Paid Inclusion
While you discover the latest major Google search changes, you may notice the big push to show local-ish organic results for your searches. If you aren’t sure, manipulate your IP address to be around a nearby city you know, search for something commercial “brand coffee machine”, and watch the results change to include stores around […]
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.
Embarrassing Google
According to today’s Google, what’s best for the searcher is an autogenerated, machine voiced, brief video mentioning the basic name and features of each new product introduced by each major brand. Search for info on Apple’s new 30W USB-C power adapter, for example, and near the top you’ll find an autogenerated video with machine-generated voice, […]
A “safe space” social media platform. Sigh.
People who have no idea how this blog started, or why it is the way it is, may not like the contents. Not sorry.
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.
Keeping Open-Minded about Creativity when Considering Domain Portfolios
A reminder of the value of creativity, even when an idea seems so very awkward.
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 Dawn of the Disinformation Age
We can haggle about the exact month or quarter later, when we have historical hindsight, but as of right now I’m calling it: the Information Age has ended, and we are now in the Disinformation Age. Fake News is not the Reason Chris Hedges did a good job describing the Fake News phenomenon: The object […]
Hate the Player
Here’s another post for the “I’ve seen this alot while an SEO consultant” category. In discussions yesterday, a young guy lamented his lack of serious success, even though he was very good at what he does, and even though he worked very hard. I listened, and yawned. A lot. It’s the same old stories. Yesterday […]
COTS was a Mistake : Get America Working & Winning Again with Open Source Firmware
COTS stands for “commercial, off-the-shelf” and our nation moved away from custom development to COTS back in the early 1990s, as I recall. Of course my own perspective is quite biased (as is yours). If someone researches the true facts, they can gain more accurate insights into what I suggest here (and please do). Prior […]
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.