Introduce yourself - who are you?
Blogs are a funny thing in that you never really know who’s reading your blog.
I’d like to break that by asking for anyone reading my blog to add a comment with a little bit about you. I’ll even let you post a link to your company.
When my site is updated next week I’ll add a permanent link to this thread so others in the future will hopefully add to this page.
Who are you and what do you do?
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January 5th, 2006 at 12:24 am
I’ll even start this out.
Hi, I’m Jim Boykin.
I consider myself an Internet Marketing Specialist, specializing in obtaining links for Search Engine Optimization. I’m also the CEO of We Build Pages - http://www.webuildpages.com
January 5th, 2006 at 1:44 am
I’m Rand Fishkin. I’m also in the Internet marketing game, with a focus on organic SEO. I’ve got a background in usability and web design and I’m the owner and operator of SEOmoz.org
January 5th, 2006 at 1:48 am
Ok, I’ll go second. (Why does this feel like an AA meeting?) I’m a software/systems consultant in the field of Fibre Channel, SCSI, and Linux Device Drivers. Just about anything real-time embedded.
I’m really fascinated by the SEO process and dabble in writing stupid little utilities that nobody will use because they’re buried six feet deep on the last page of Google.
January 5th, 2006 at 1:49 am
Ok, how about third?
January 5th, 2006 at 2:02 am
Me 4th!
My name is Lea {hi Lea!} and I’m an Australian-based web developer.
I support the internet presence of small-to-medium businesses, which means I’m a jack of all trades for anything to do with the web and I wish they would stop asking me questions about their email clients
Anyway, SEO (for want of a better name) is probably the most fun part of What I Do for people, so your blog is of interest. Why I even had a rant here a week or so ago! {blush}
January 5th, 2006 at 2:16 am
I’ve been in the web stats tracking business over 6 years now. While my business has matured well over the years there are still massive improvements I’d like to make in nearly every aspect of the service. My focus has been bouncing between keeping the server network alive, building/improving the service, maintaining support and running day to day business. Quite a delicate balance! Do I ever loose sleep over it at night? Don’t we all?
January 5th, 2006 at 3:00 am
My name is Scott… I started my Internet marketing company in 1997, and developed it throughout high school and college… having graduated a few years ago. We’re a small firm in Boston… 10 people now.
I consider myself an online marketing specialist with expertise in search engine marketing and expressing brands online. We have a diversity of clients in our “active client” roster, including a Fortune 100, mid-sized public companies, and small businesses (Yahoo Store E-commerce owners, high-tech companies, etc).
January 5th, 2006 at 5:24 am
I’m Dave Child (a.k.a. ILoveJackDaniels) and I’m an internet marketing consultant with Propellernet (http://www.propellernet.co.uk) in the UK. I’m also a web developer.
Like the site, Jim - you’ve got some great information here.
January 5th, 2006 at 5:51 am
I’m an IT consultant with a quite broad background. I’m focused on SE friendly Web development and Web outlets of ERP systems. I fulfill the architect role best, so I prefer to get involved in an early stage, but nowadays it seems that I’m mostly hired when the engines have banned, ignored or penalized a site already. I’m working as subcontractor and for my own clients across the globe as well. When I’ve the time I write pamphlets on linking, crawlability, database design and related topics. Oups, Jim may I link out that much?
January 5th, 2006 at 6:23 am
Hi,
My name is Alex, i work for a SEM company in Spain as Webmaster/SEO. We work for small/medium businesses, and also for damn-big-companies.
Take a look: http://www.ntbuscadores.com
January 5th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Hi Jim. Enjoy your blog. I’m Mark Sceatsf rom New Zealand & run a web marketing called Viz Marketing. http://www.viz.co.nz. Focus is on search engine optimisation & PPC management. Always fid your thoughts on link building useful. Happy New Year.
January 5th, 2006 at 7:23 am
I am a software developer with a stack of ideas for products that keep piling up. Quite varied languages - my favourites are PostgreSQL and PHP.
I am 50% of http://Lifeart-Marketing.com (note blank main page at present - sorry.)
I am a novice with SEO, however am good at coming up with things that are impossible. (very simple - start with “how do I make this possible” instead of “this cannot be done”)
A year ago I wrote some unusual web tracking software purely because I was told it could not happen. (I am about to release this month finally - other work keeps getting in the way)
Something else I have on my design list is a system by which you can find out all the links Google knows about for a site (well 99.9%), instead of just what they tell you. Jim you have convinced me this should be freely available when I build it - your free tools here are AWESOME.
PS - thanks for turning off the nofollow, Jim! I hate how SPAM caused us to ditch part of what makes blogging so great…
January 5th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Hi, I’m Brian, and I’ve been full-time in SEO since March 2004 - so I’m pretty recent to the party.
My company is http://www.britecorp.co.uk, which is run with a sole-trader mentality, and targets small business and start-ups, who have small budgets and need help online.
Also run http://www.platinax.co.uk as a business resource site.
First ambition is to save the world; second is to be a traditionally published fiction writer.
January 5th, 2006 at 7:53 am
Well Jim went first, but Howard went twice, so I guess this is 6th? but whos counting….
My name is Jason, and I’m a software developer from Australia. I’m working on starting a blog type site (www.mid4.net), and I follow Jim’s posts to keep an eye and ear on the SEO world.
Happy 2006 everyone!
January 5th, 2006 at 8:34 am
hi everyone
my name is Rustum and i am doing company registration services from Malaysia and my website is http://www.ReadyCompanies.com
January 5th, 2006 at 8:47 am
Well, I am from Bulgaria. I am in the internet marketing field for 2 years now. My main focus is on Organic SEO and Link Building (50/50). I am currently working for one of the leading Bulgarian internet companies. Before that I had about 4 years of experience as a freelance web developer and designer. I also have some background in software development, server administration and networking.
I consider SEO to be one of the most difficult things in the web (if done right). For me a good SEO-er/SEM manager should have:
1. Excellent knowedge in Web Design, Internet marketing and SEO/SEM specific stuff (things that you do not learn in any other area listed here);
2. Very good knowedge in Linguistics, Psyhology, Web development, Server Administration, Network Tehcnologies;
3. Good knowedge in Statistics.
Very good level of general education is also important, I think it gives you a way of seeing the “big picture”.
I still do not consider myself a SEO Expert (although I have some pretty good results in my portfolio) but I try to never stop improving my knowedge in the areas listed above.
Jim’s Blog is on my list of 30 or so carefully chosen blogs that cover SEO, SEM and Internet Marketing. And yes, I read them on a daily basis, when possible.
I am also a regional editor in the Multilingual Search blog (I cover Bulgaria, of course).
January 5th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Hi,
my is Johannes, but i prefer my nickname “Jojo”. I am from a little town in Germany. Mostly I am working on my own web projects, blogs and such stuff. I am also working on an german SEO ebook and I am planning on distributing it at the “Aaron Wall”-way. At the moment I have 20 pages and I plan to publish the first version with 30 pages somewhere later this month.
I am although thinking about taking 1 or 2 clients for a little variety of my life later this year.
My German SEO blog: internetmarketing-news.de
January 5th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Hi Jim!
Long time reader. First time caller.
I’m currently the Director of Search Marketing for a rapidly growing software company. But over the course of my career, I have held a lot of different positions under the auspices of “Internet Marketing.”
I write a blog on “Improving Customer Experience (ICE).” It’s been a little neglected as of late but my New Year’s resolution is to get it rolling again.
My background is in usability/user experience and Internet marketing.
Last year, I was very interested in tagging and RSS as a potent combo for improving search engine visibility. I even wrote a tag generator that allows you to create tags for Technorati, Del.ico.us, Flickr, and Furl. Since my blog is an open-source app, I need to build that into my blog as well this year. But for now, it is free for all to use and enjoy.
My other New Year’s resolution is to try to quit being such a lurker in the SE community. I’m going to do my best to contribute more this year. Perhaps this is a small first step.
Keep up the good work Jim.
EGM
January 5th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Who am I? How did I get here?
January 5th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Hi,
My name is Josh and I manage all organic SEO for a Boston-based B2B site. We have a similar model to LendingTree - submit one form and be connected to many suppliers on business products and services, like Copiers for example.
I’ve been trying to figure best practices for SEO for about 3.5 years now. Thanks for all the great thoughts you’ve shared so far, Jim.
Josh
January 5th, 2006 at 11:08 am
My name is Andy Pull, and I just started working as an Internet Marketing Specialist for The Step2 Company last September. I’m definitely new to the game, and learning every day.
I also love to create sites with notepad and GIMP. My latest scheme is to get on the Amazing Race with an online petition at goPulls.com. I’d love every bit of word-of-mouth advertising I can get!
Jim, I love your blog.
January 5th, 2006 at 11:08 am
I am a web designer/programmer from Canton, Ohio also SEO novice. Been deep for a few months now but still sitting back and watching before jumping in. You, Jim, have the esteemed privilege of hosting my first SEO blog comment. Congrats!
January 5th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Hey there Jim,
My name’s Peter, and I’m down here in Atlanta Georgia. Currently juggling a few gigs. During 9-5, I’m a principal at SearchIgnite, which is a Centralized PPC Keyword Management application for Google, Yahoo, MIVA, Kanoodle, and soon to be MSN AdCenter. Outside of that, I play around with several SEO sites like Atlanta Walkabout, and Planet BnB. Love this blog though. One of the few I visit on a daily basis.
January 5th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Hi, I’m Dan Kramer. I’m the author of the cloaking software program “KloakIt”, as well as owner of a couple of e-commerce ventures. I’ve been your client since just after the Orlando WMW conference. I’ve been in “the business” since around 1996, and learned SEO the old fashioned way — by making it up as I went along. Remember the good old days when InfoSeek was the SEO’s best friend?
Love your blog, Jim. I think it’s one of the best SEO blogs out there, and if you read carefully, there are some real gems in here.
January 5th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Programmer (about 10 languages), Web Designer (all kinds of combinations), Silicon Valley dot commer, Startup Entrepreneur, net coding since early ‘95. prior to that Electronics Technician in US Navy out of Yokosuka, Japan (traveled Asia).
Current things include my main blog at Diggers Realm and it’s counterpart Inside Online Advertising, where I analyze how changes on Diggers Realm directly affect revenue.
Love your info Jim!
January 5th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
greg hartnett here. i am the president of BOTW, an activist, husband and father of two, and general dissident.
January 5th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
I’m a fellow internet marketing specialist focusing on organic SEO.
I own a marketing/advertising company based out of Las Vegas (but living in Tennessee)
I’ve been developing websites professionally for 6 years and have been doing SEO for 2.
I’ve just now started my own blog at www.tony-hill.net
January 5th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Hi, my name in Martin Muller and I come from Prague, Czech Republic.
I work for travel agency which offers accommodation in Prague hotels and hostels at http://www.prague-spot.com/ .
I also write Prague photo blog http://www.prague-pictures.cz/ .
January 5th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Hi, I’m Bill Hartzer. I’ve been doing SEO since 1996. I live outside of Dallas, Texas and and the search engine marketing manager at MarketNet, a Dallas, Texas based interactive full-service web design, development, and SEM firm.
January 5th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Glenn here, from New Hamburg, Ontario Canada, which BTW has North America’s largest operational waterwheel (thus my online ID of ‘wheel’). The waterwheel is completely useless, it just spins around and around. Doesn’t power anything or generate electricity. And I don’t think it draws any tourists either - I mean who’d go even 2 minutes out of their way to see that?
I do insurance websites and related software.
(Whew! Got my blog spamming duties out of the way early today!).
January 5th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Been knocking around the web since 1998, beats working for a living.
Into blogs at the moment, bouncing around the niches, amazing what happens when you start a blog a day.
At the moment Model Trains are my thing. model trains
I really think a blog on Blu Tac is the next big thing.
January 5th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Dear Jim,
I am Murugan Ranganathan, CEO of Square Brothers Information Technologies, Chennai, India.
Our main business is Web Hosting and planning to start SEO services shortly.
I visit this site to hear about your crazy ideas
January 5th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I’m a directory developer and operator. I own WoW Directory and WoW Yellow Pages and I’m the business manager and partner in Skaffe and Sporge Directory. I read your blog daily. It’s important to us to keep up with the latest SEO news so we can better facilitate our users and submitters.
January 5th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
My name’s Erin Mahoney and I’m a newcomer to your blog, Jim. I’m the SEO Editor for Citysearch.com, and I also publish Chill Out LA, a guide to Los Angeles day spa and yoga deals. And as long as we’re allowed to indulge in a bit of self-promotion, my guidebook Walking LA: 36 Walking Tours Exploring Stairways, Streets and Buildings You Never Knew Existed was recently published by Wilderness Press. Thanks very much for inviting us to share!
January 5th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Hey there Jim!
I’m a voice-over actor, juggler, and SEO lackey. Nice combination, eh? I try to use my website to get more clients for voice over.
peace!
January 5th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I blog. I SEO. I CEO TopRank.
January 5th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I’m a web developer/internet entrepreneur, currently focusing on developing premium domain names. I’m working hard trying to make up for all the lost time I was a user and not a creator.
I also own and run a blog (click my name) covering (I hope this doesn’t set off any duplicate content filters — same list I posted on another blog):
- Contextual Advertising
- Search Engine Optimization
- The Domain name market
- Online Community building
- E-commerce & conversions
- E-mail Newsletters
- Laws pertaining to online publishers
- The online industry in general, sales, acquisitions, and mergers.
The blog is primarily a way for me to remember all the important things I’ve read while giving me some public recognition (which leads to the occasional consulting job.) I’ve also been called an “internet expert” by Brendon Sinclair who wrote Sitepoint’s Web Design Business kit, which I certainly appreciate.
January 5th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
I market property all over the world and have been reading your blog from the start. Your SEO tips and techniques are great and you have a very REAL thought process….from this
I have decided to start my own blog, as people are so full of crap in my industry and I want to give my perspective on it all.
BTW Nice to meet you in Vegas!
January 5th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Hi! I’m Max from Moscow (Russia). I started SEO in 2002 promoting only one online gambling site. Now I’m a black hat SEO thanks to all russian spammers mentor GreenWood.
January 5th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Hi Jim,
I’m what Todd would call SEO3.0 (3 for being a latecomer and 3 for being based in the third world) but I’ve been dabbling on all things Web since 1998.
Been focused on SEO for the past 2 years and have been evangelizing this part of the world on the beauty and wonders of SEM via my blog and the SEO Philippines blog and mailing list.
Your blog and Todd’s are daily destinations. Same goes with the toolsets you’re sharing with the rest of the community.
Marc
PS: with a little link peddling, this could be the next milliondollarpost…everyone will then be fighting to be on it
January 5th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Hey, Jim. Great idea for an entry!
I’m Brian, founder of Scoreboard Media Group, an SEO consulting firm to the corporate environment. Wasn’t originally the niche I had my heart set on, but I had enumerable contacts within Fortune 1000 businesses from a previous life and those became SEO/SEM clients as I donned my search engine marketing hat.
Recently, I took a hiatus from new clients at Scoreboard, to assume a gig as a Marketing Director for a Bay Area media start-up. Gotta wet my beak on the 2.0 money! In doing so, I’ve also found myself directing prospective clients to the SEO biz to the Webuildpages crew as you guys are probably the only firm I feel comfortable doing so.
Great blog and perspective over here. Good luck in 2006!
January 6th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Hi Jim,
My name is Carl. I’m from Montreal, QC. I sometimes describe myself as an SEO specialist but mostly I do all the webmastery stuff most webguys won’t touch with a ten foot pole. People often say “oh, just ask Carl, he’ll fix it”. This is the cause of my intermittent ulcer. That and clients that ask “Pourrais-tu nous concevoir un site bilingue?”
I started reading your blog one day in October and I haven’t missed a day since. Great insight into the subtleties of SEO, a down to earth attitude and news-you-can-use is what keeps me reading.
Cheers!
January 6th, 2006 at 1:29 am
Hi Jim,
I am a web analytics and SEO consultant in Cleveland. I focus more on the web measurement side of things, but I enjoy SEO and appreciate the community has formed around it.
Trying to get my employer to pay for a trip to SES in Feb. so hopefully I can meet some folks.
January 6th, 2006 at 4:27 am
Hello Jim,
I’m an Affiliate Marketer :slash: Professional Internet Junkie :slash: Wannabe Successful SEO and Google Train Derailer. All that and a blog or two too!
I’m a big fan of Todd’s so that automatically transferred to you (guilt by association kinda thing).
Love your blog!
January 6th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Hi Jim,
Am based in London and have been doing seo/web dev since late 90s. Can normally be found in the bar at most pubcons.
Mike
January 6th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Tony Spencer here in Raleigh, NC. Programmer turned SEO back in the good old Viagra days of the late 90’s. Can usually be found sharing a pint with Mike Nott at the bars at the pubcons.
January 6th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Hi, I think I’m #40 or something…If anyone gets down this far i’m George Zlatin and i’m pretty new to this wild and exciting SEO game. I started about a year ago working on my own e-commerce store and now I work at a professional SEO firm in downtown Chicago learning from some of the best in the biz. Ain’t life grand.
January 6th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Hi All—
I work for the same aforementioned Chicago firm, and have been in the game in one way or another for about as long as there has been a game to be in. I have also just launched a new blog and site, Paperclip Marketing (get it— it’s funny, right?). I’m still working out the kinks, so please don’t hold it against me– I’m not a real programmer, and have done the whole thing by hand. I certainly welcome your comments and suggestions on it.
Ari
January 6th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Hi I’m Spencer Hoyt and I manage a team of SEO professionals in Louisiana. I like Jim’s blog and his insight into the SEO field. It is a must read on a weekly basis for me. Keep up the good work!
January 7th, 2006 at 2:05 am
Hi,
I am the CTO of an excellent SEO and Internet Advertising Company.
Jim is one of the best SEO experts in the world, that is why I like reading what he has to say.
January 7th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
You certainly attract some interesting folk here, Jim. I’m an Internet Marketing Consultant based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I’m also a moderator on the Cre8asite Forums.
January 7th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
My name is Ammon Johns, I live in Brighton, UK, and I’ve been into web promotions since 1995, taking the title of “Internet Marketing Consultant” back in ‘97 to show that while I am well known for SEO, its only a tool in the bag, not the whole bag.
I’m one of the Administrators at the Cre8asite Forums, a regular speaker at the Search Engine Strategies events, and was one of those who helped found the Search Marketing Association.
I was recently labelled as an ‘original gangster’ (!) of SEO by Rand, which actually made me laugh aloud when I read it. I’ve certainly been called worse things. At the first ever Pub Conference in 2001, London, I was referred to as a “grandfather of SEOs” by a couple of folks who said they’d learned the trade from someone who claimed to have learnt it from me in turn… Made me feel ancient.
January 8th, 2006 at 3:10 am
Hi! I’m Gradiva Couzin and I’m writing a book about SEO… a down-to-earth approach for busy types. Uh-oh, I hope my co-author doesn’t read this, I’m supposed to be working on the outline for Chapter 8. Anyway, our companion site is Your SEO Plan (does your comment take HTML? I hope so). There’s not much on the site right now but more to come (we’re way too busy writing - ahhh deadlines)! Your blog, of course, has been a great resource. Maybe there’s even a free signed book for you here somewhere! Thanks,
Gradiva
January 8th, 2006 at 4:32 am
Hey Jim,
I feel like a loser here, everyeone seems to have done something cool or is on their way to an achievement while I’m a just turned 17 year old who is currently scouting out SEO news at 3:30 am hoping his parents won’t wake up.
Well I’m proud to say I just began SEO a few months back while still studying in high school. I currently run one main site (the website I put in) while trying to open up as many as 20-30 new sites in the coming few months.
I hope to make a reasonable income before I graduated high school.
January 8th, 2006 at 7:37 am
I’m John Scott. Best known as the sultry voice of Bugs Bunny, I’ve recently been moonlighting as a cigarette smoking coffee drinker.
OR, I’m the guy that runs v7n, offending the pompous and preaching anchor text and links, and marketing before SEO.
I’m also a fan of Jim’s. He’s a cool guy to hang out with.
January 9th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Im James Duggan. Im jack of all trades and master of none…..yet - doing a bit of everything search engine related PPC and basic SEO.
January 9th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Howdy! My name is Brian Gilley & I started an SEO company about 4 years ago called SEOposition.com. Our main business has not (until the new site launch expected this month) been in the signing SEO clients area, with the exception of just a handful.
We’re looking to change all that soon and are adding a host of SEO services including newer LSI methods, content writing, ‘real’ link development with authority hubs, and even some web design using virtually all CSS.
Enjoy your daily findings and thoughts Jim. Very intuitive and insightful.
January 9th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Hello,
I’m Jarrod Hunt; Internet Marketer and Web Developer for the past 9-10 years.
I also run a few websites, one of them being Textlinkbrokers.com.
I’ve always been impressed with Jim’s focus on quality when it comes to his link building techniques, and his blog is one of the most interesting in the industry.
Keep up the great writing and link building Jim. I hope to see you at a conference someday. We’ll have a few drinks and discuss links