Patrick Coombe
Apple's new "pro display stand" is truly repulsive. Other than the obvious fact that it is an overpriced piece of (probably) composite aluminum, it lacks basic features that even the most entry level monitor stands have... and I'm going to prove it. I've been using VIVO's dual LCD monitor stand for about 10 years now, and it does everything [...]
"Good" PBN sellers don't have to PM people and fight for business. They have 14+ day waits. That said, while I was locked in my house for 3 days for Hurricane Irma I started perusing a well known PBN forum, browsing through some of the sites these people were slanging. I'd like to say I was "shocked" with the [...]
Today we need to revisit an important lesson in SEO history: social bookmarking. That is, for those of us joining the SEO industry in the last decade or so. I normally don't do posts like these, but after a Reddit thread that struck a nerve with me, and a conversation with a colleague from Process Street via email, I [...]
On Friday afternoon while basking in the Miami sunlight poolside, I opened up my email on my mobile device to find a very peculiar email. Great, another threatening letter from a stock photo company or something. Just lovely. But sometimes karma swings your way. It was a letter from some law firm. It turns out LinkedIn was ordered to [...]
I've been amused with this story all day long since Cyrus Shepard tweeted it. Mark Hill, a journalist for Cracked.com was recently propositioned by a website called "Wingman Magazine." If you are interested, I also went on a bit of a tangent about this story on Periscope (video) so check that out. How it all went down The online [...]
When I sat down last week with my sweet vanilla latte to read my morning dose of SEO, it wasn't Rand's video that perturbed me but the link within his transcription which basically said "modern SEO requires almost no technical experience." Rand gave an awesome rundown on this weeks whiteboard Friday but as a full-time SEO consultant myself I [...]
Update September 2015 - Well apparently Google is now going after some of these companies. I'm not gonna say "I told you so" but I really did tell you so. I like to keep my eye on the competition, but I also like to keep my eye on the darker side of the SEO sales world. These calls are [...]
If it is one thing I get, it is a lack of transparency. I get that Google keeps a tight lid on trade secrets, algorithm updates, and everything in between. I also get that for whatever reason Google does not feel the need to announce updates for algorithm updates anymore through public channels the way they used to. Penguin [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
