Digital PR

SEO's Grim Reaper

Threadwatch has a terrific (though poorly titled) thread (hats my arse) today on the demise of SEO. There are intelligent opinions from both sides, primarily in the comments on Nick's somewhat over-the-top post - a response to a ...

Wall Street Journal Covers SEO

Sifish pointed me to an article at the Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal by Sarah Needleman - Three Myths on Boosting Search-Engine Rankings. It a fairly primitive stab at explaining how the industry operates, and once again it pushes the pervasive view that most search engine optimization comp...

A Legal Guide for Bloggers

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Legal Guide for Bloggers that walks us through the important issues of having a online journal of events. It notes what opinions are legal to publish, what can get you sued an...

Wikipedia Editors Discuss SEO

Wikipedia has some fascinating reading on the topic of SEO, not in the body of their article on SEO, but rather in the discussion secti...

Amazon.com SEO Job Opening

If you're in Seattle and want to work for the biggest e-tailer around, Amazon.com is hiring right now for a "Manager, Search Engine Optimization". The required qualifications are actually somewh...

The SEO/SEM's Industries Growing Pains

Nacho at SEW Forums has posted a thread entitled "SEM Industry Biggest Growing Pains". In it, you'll find some of the best responses to any thread at any SEO forum in the last several week...

The Changing Role of an SEO/SEM

A fantastic thread at Cre8asite focuses on the new role played by SEO/SEMs in website development and management. Although we have a very tight-knit and well organized online community (between all the popu...

Politics, SEO & the Forums

As most of you who see me in the forums know, I'm a Jon Stewart kinda guy. This can also lead people to make natural assumptions about my personal politics, which is certainly justifiable. Tod...

Ethics & SEO

I'm an exceptionally open-minded person and I like to look at everything in my professional life from as wide a vantage point as I can obtain. Recently, there have been several threads, posts & topics on the subject of ethics in the field of Search Engine Optimization (...

Infamous Fantomaster Blogs on SEO

Among the field of ip delivery, spamming, cloaking and generally violating the search engines' TOS (terms of service), there is one name that stands out from the crowd - Fantomaster. His fame is nearly legendary in the circle of...

David Naylor - A Great Perspective

David Naylor, an SEO based in the UK (of which there are quite a few it seems), has a terrific, if brief blog on which he writes - Changing Face...

Mi Islita - Truly Advanced SEO

Dr. Garcia, well known by his nickname - Orion - at SearchEngineWatch forums has an exceptional resource that all SEOs looking to delve seriously into the industry should read thoroughly. The site, Mi Islita, a Puerto Rican based SEO company, ...