Patrick Coombe

Should I accept a backlink from my crazy neighbor who sells movie posters online?

I was talking with my crazy neighbor blogger, who would like to remain anonymous. He wears sweatpants about 350 days out of the year, smokes Marlboro Lights, and has a network of websites that sells movie posters (which I beleive to be bootleg). Somehow he makes a living off of it. He constantly trolls me about blackhat SEO. He's [...]

By |2014-11-12T02:16:51+00:00November 12, 2014|Blog, SEO|Comments Off on Should I accept a backlink from my crazy neighbor who sells movie posters online?

Google Inbox: Confusing, Unintuitive, Redundant, and Meh

You just cannot reinvent email, period. Most people just want the basic features of email: from, cc, bcc, and attachments. Maybe some MIME/rich media. Recently I decided to give Google Inbox, Google's latest app (or Gmail's latest app) a try just to see what all the hype was about. Within about 10 seconds into my experience with Google Inbox [...]

By |2014-11-03T02:30:13+00:00November 3, 2014|Blog, Reviews|Comments Off on Google Inbox: Confusing, Unintuitive, Redundant, and Meh

Is Google+ a permanent Google fixture?

Ok lets see here. Google+'s existence is and has been a fun debate, for sure. Larry Kim and Google+ battled this out on social networks, amongst others last week. It has also been the source of much debate pretty much since it was initially launched. To me, it definitely seems as though Google is permanently embedding Google+ into the [...]

By |2014-10-30T22:54:44+00:00October 30, 2014|Blog, Rants, Reviews|Comments Off on Is Google+ a permanent Google fixture?

A tale of a backlink that never mattered

Just wanted to preface this post by saying that this is basically me "thinking out loud" and should definitely not be taken as SEO advice or anything close to factual information. Iย  don't have droves of data to back up what I am saying (I do have some), but I do have a recent experience to share and I've [...]

By |2014-10-02T15:56:06+00:00October 2, 2014|Blog, SEO|Comments Off on A tale of a backlink that never mattered

“Business networking” implies you are only in it for personal gain

If there is one term I hate more than anything else, it is networking. Let's think about what exactly networking is. Common example: You run a company and attend an SEO conference to network with like-minded people. You pay $5000 plus flights, room, incidentals to attend this conference in hopes that you will get more business and form relationships [...]

By |2014-10-01T23:36:01+00:00October 1, 2014|Blog, Consulting, Rants|Comments Off on “Business networking” implies you are only in it for personal gain

Twitter double click this picture – how does it work?

I stumbled upon Conrad Hackett's nifty little Twitter trick tonight, which managed to put a smile on my face and scratch my head for a brief instant :) The tweet plays a bit of a mind trick by asking the user to double click the picture. Upon looking at the "first" photo, it appears to be a white and [...]

By |2014-10-01T03:47:09+00:00October 1, 2014|Blog, Social Media|Comments Off on Twitter double click this picture – how does it work?

An SEO’s perspective of Ello Social Network

Just messing around with Ello tonight and thought I'd share my thoughts on this hip new social network. Note: I do have a few Ello invite codes left so hit me up if you are interested. The on-boarding process is unique with the fact that it is invite only. They are definitely going with the whole scarcity principle by [...]

By |2014-09-27T03:44:44+00:00September 27, 2014|Blog, SEO, Social Media|Comments Off on An SEO’s perspective of Ello Social Network

Can Google guess my reeeeeeely bad spelling?

Just kind of a fun / fake case study here. No technical data to back any I've been kind of playing around for the last few weeks asking myself the question: "How badly can I butcher the spelling of queries in order for Google auto-correct to get it right." Here are some of the worst (or best, depending on [...]

By |2014-09-18T14:23:43+00:00September 18, 2014|Blog, SEO|Comments Off on Can Google guess my reeeeeeely bad spelling?

Google will probably be annoyed if you use stock images

As an SEO, I try to make every pixel count. That means I try to put thought into every character I type and every pixel I create or publish. Except for maybe some of the nonsense I say on Twitter. I recently took the time to do a complete read ofย  Google's Guide to Material Design, and found some [...]

By |2014-09-12T04:10:09+00:00September 12, 2014|Blog, SEO|Comments Off on Google will probably be annoyed if you use stock images

SEO email marketing gone HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY wrong!

This poor, poor uninformed "SEO content writer" (a word I despise on a cellular level) blasted a scraped list of 500 (probably more)emails and openly included everyone's email. So it went something like this: ย  About an hour later, the shitstorm began taking form. (they are still coming in) -----------begin facepalm----------- Spamming fellow marketers with this tactic is almost [...]

By |2014-08-29T02:06:22+00:00August 29, 2014|Blog, Rants, SEO|Comments Off on SEO email marketing gone HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY wrong!
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