Launch Planning Meeting

May 27, 2010

Big news coming from The SEO BrainTrust sometime this summer.  Just yesterday I met with a certain infamous Internet Marketer (IIM) at a secret coastal location for launch planning, so details are still being worked out.  More news later here and on our list at SEO BrainTrust.

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SEO Mindset Reminder #1

May 25, 2010

IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU Ranking is not about you. You really don’t matter at all. Ranking is entirely impersonal. If Bob can rank, so can you, and so can the other guy. No one at Google knows you, or Bob, or the other guy for that matter. If no one at Google knows you or [...]

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Unwinding and catching up following Coming Home 3

May 24, 2010

Catching up on calls and emails this morning following a fantastic weekend of education and comradery in San Diego at Ed Dale’s seminar. As usual, Ed put on a feature-packed weekend without seeming to even work at it. In addition to all the usual suspects — Bob, Lynn, Eugene, Kenny, Pete and so forth — [...]

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The Three Pillars of Success

May 22, 2010

You want to be successful online. You want to do the right things, take the right steps and continue to make those decisions and take those right actions consistently. But what does it take to make that happen? Ultimately, it’s your mindset.  Get your mind right, and you’ll be doing the right things simply because [...]

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Dynamic Linking (Vol I) – the 2010 Edition

May 17, 2010

In 2003 I wrote an article that turned into an ebook that spawned an industry-wide technique named “PageRank Sculpting”. A couple years later I updated the book to include the nofollow attribute as an alternative to Javascript, but the strategies and linking structures remained the same. Fast forward another 5 years and the web is [...]

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Skiing Antarctica

April 14, 2010

In Warren Miller’s continuing quest to ski every flake of snow the world over, here is this clip of skiing on or at least near the Antarctic continent: Skiing Antarctica This is something of a dear subject for me as I spent a year there myself, though what little skiing I got to do was [...]

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New Video Interview Posted

April 3, 2010

While in Australia to speak at Ed Dale’s Coming Home 2 event — and what an event it was BTW! — I sat down with Gideon Shalwick to talk about the connection between SEO and video, in particular, how to get your videos to appear in search results. Enjoy.Gideon Shalwick interviews Leslie Rohde And … [...]

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Hanging in Hotlanta

March 23, 2010

There’s this little thing called StomperNet Live. Next week will be the 9th one and I have been a featured speaker at every single one … except this one. For Live9 I’m just showin’ up for the drinking and socializing with the (literally) hundreds of people I’ve helped over the last three years in StomperNet, [...]

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Success is Just Failure That Didn’t Miss

March 14, 2010

How many times have you heard these excuses: “He just got lucky” “She just happened to be at the right place at the right time” “It’s easy when you have their talent” I have exactly two words for that: Bull Shit. Success without repeated and continuing failure is simply a myth. If you want to [...]

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10,000 SEO Questions and the Nature of Trees

March 12, 2010

In the coaching program that Dan Thies and I run together (The SEO BrainTrust) we answer several dozen questions a week between our 90 minute Q&A calls and our Platinum Member Podcasts. In a year we should answer a thousand questions between us and we’ve been teaching this stuff for 10 years — 10,000 questions [...]

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