May 15, 2012 at 10:49am ET by Barry Schwartz

It has been a long couple months for the search marketing community between the Penguin update, a Panda refresh, the link notifications and the parked domain bug - you guys need a laugh. Sam Applegate put together a hysterical parody video of Matt Cutts talking about how to achieve number one ranking in Google. The video takes dozens of the videos Matt put together from the YouTube channel and mashes them into a video I think you all will appreciate. Here is the video: [...]

SEOmoz Industry Survey Now Open

Mar 22, 2012 at 2:11pm ET by Barry Schwartz

SEOmoz has announced the SEOmoz Industry Survey is now open and ready for you to take. You can take the survey online over here. The last time SEOmoz ran this survey was two years ago, you can see the results of that survey over here. The survey has 54 questions and should take you about 20 minutes to complete. The question topics include: Your Work in the Industry Questions for Consultants, Freelancers, and Agencies Learning and Improving Internet Marketing Skills Internet and Inbound Marketing Scope and Process Inbound Marketing Tools and Tactics SEO Tools and Tactics [...]

Dilbert: Hiring A Weasel To Do SEO & Corrupt The Industry

Feb 17, 2012 at 2:28pm ET by Barry Schwartz

The Dilbert cartoon above doesn't speak well of the search engine optimization position. The cartoon ties people who do SEO as weasels and those that hire SEOs as an accomplice, someone who actively participates in the commission of a crime. It goes on to say the SEO will go ahead and "game the system" and "corrupt the integrity" of the industry. This clearly does not speak well of our industry and the SEO job profession. But then again, it is just a cartoon? The cartoon reads: I hired a pantless weasel to do our search engine optimization. He'll help us game the system and c [...]

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Movember SEO Moustache Competition Raises $17,000 For Cancer Research

Dec 2, 2011 at 1:28pm ET by Monica Wright

What started out as a friendly rivalry between Bing's Duane Forester and Google's Matt Cutts resulted in $17,000 for the Movember, a moustache campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, specifically prostate cancer. Mike Halvorsen set up the competition while at SMX Advanced. There were 83 participants in the Search For The Cure team, many familiar faces from the search community. Duane Forester, the team captain, raised $3,667. Matt Cutts raised $3,721. SEOs were exchanging photos as well as quite a few digs at each other all month via Twitter using the #seostache hashtag [...]

SEO Mustache Competition Backed By Google’s Matt Cutts & Bing’s Duane Forrester

Oct 28, 2011 at 9:18am ET by Barry Schwartz

Mike Halvorsen has set up a special competition this November to help raise money for Prostate Cancer Foundation and Livestrong. The competition is on growing a mustache and both Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Duane Forrester are participating. Duane blogged about it on the Bing Search Blog saying, "Schema, Sitemaps and ‘staches: What do they have in common?" Nothing really, except that those involved in schema and sitemaps are participating in this competition, known as Movember. Here are the rules: On Movember 1st, guys register at Movember.com with a clean-shaven face. For the rest of [...]

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