Ian Lurie is Chief Marketing Curmudgeon and President at Portent Interactive, a firm he started in 1995. Portent is a full-service internet marketing company whose services include SEO, SEM and strategic consulting.

Ian rants and raves, with a little teaching mixed in, on his blog Conversation Marketing. He recently co-published the Web Marketing for Dummies All In One Desk Reference. In it, he wrote the sections on SEO, blogging, social media and web analytics.

His educational background includes a B.A. in History from UC San Diego and a degree in Law from UCLA. Along the way, he's been an amateur competitive cyclist, a bike messenger, a roof consultant, a technical writer and an Adobe FrameMaker consultant. You may find him teaching his kids to play D&D on the weekends, or dragging his tongue on the ground as he pedals his way up Seattle's ridiculously steep hills.

In his spare time, he attends and speaks at various online marketing conferences, including SMX, Pubcon and Blogworld.

• Easy SEO Wins For Big Sites
• How To Prune The Enterprise Link Tree
• How To Get The IT Team On Your Side
• The Challenge Of Justifying Enterprise SEO
• The Enterprise SEO Guide To Response Codes
• Friends Don’t Let Friends Use NoFollow
• From Garbage To Gourmet: Fixing SEO Content Strategies
• 29 Ways To Speed Up Your Website
• Simple Tips For Writing An SEO Style Guide
• 6 Content Tips: How To Write When You Have Nothing To Write About
• How (I Think) Crawl Budget Works (Sort Of)
• 9 Step SEO Checkup Using Google Webmaster Tools
• 4 Tips For Search (And User) Friendly Design
• Standards Compliance: Just Do it, Already
• How To Grab More Rankings With Google’s Branded Search Results
• Why I Still Hate Rel=Canonical
• 3 Lies The Search Engines Will Tell You
• 8 Canonicalization Best Practices In Plain English
• A Plea To Corporate America: Get IT Out Of The SEO Business
• Go Green Or Go Home: Recycling Content For SEO