Patrick Coombe

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:   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!

The more I learn about SEO the less “SEO tools” I use

I will always be a student of SEO. The day I start calling myself an expert is the day I stop getting good at SEO. I have so much to learn from so many different people. The great thing about SEO is that it encompasses so many different disciplines, I could literally spend my entire life learning about SEO [...]

By |2014-08-06T01:41:52+00:00August 6, 2014|Blog, Rants, SEO|Comments Off on The more I learn about SEO the less “SEO tools” I use

Rant: CTA bar plugins PR leak, traffic leak and link scheme

Hello my friends. I'd like to ask you a very short and simple question: Would you install a website addon, extension, or plugin that embeds an image and do-follow link to someone else's website at the top of your website contained within a call to action? My official answer: hell-to-the-no! Anytime I see a plugin that attempts to add [...]

By |2014-07-17T14:42:35+00:00July 17, 2014|Blog, Rants|Comments Off on Rant: CTA bar plugins PR leak, traffic leak and link scheme

Yet Another Absurdly Backwards LinkedIn “Feature”

LinkedIn is all sorts of messed up & backwards. Last week Darren Nix wrote about "the absurdity of LinkedIn" which basically pointed out how logged out users have more benefits than signed-in users. The thread got hundreds of comments on Hacker News from folks talking about how terrible it is as a platform and social network. Anyway, if you [...]

By |2014-05-07T06:22:43+00:00May 7, 2014|Blog, Rants, Social Media|Comments Off on Yet Another Absurdly Backwards LinkedIn “Feature”
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