I will be speaking at PubCon about widgets on the Wonderful World Of Widgets session. This will be my first officially “We Build Pages” speaking gig! For those of you who remember my adventures of last years PubCon you probably know that I do not like to be awake during the day, so if I [...]

I am writing this post from the Troy, NY offices of We Build Pages where I now work I have moved from Honolulu to Troy where I will work with Jim Boykin as the Search Engine Marketing Manager for We Build Pages. To learn more, see our announcement at We Build Pages.

Terms like semantic web, the social graph, and machine readable link relations are things that people in SEO and marketing typically sorta know about but don’t have a clear grasp on. I want to quickly explain a couple of terms and concepts that are part of the social future of the web and how link [...]

SEM Canada is an event I am looking forward to speaking at. I just spoke at WidgetWebExpo in New York, and I discovered that my wacky style goes over quite well, even among professionals. As far as SEM Canada goes, Google will be sending Ariel Barden (Google Group Product Manager) who will speak on paid [...]

I just got two emails from someone via Linkedin that had to do with recruiting. It made me think for a second about companies I would recommend so I will just do it here. Many of the people I will mention are known to insiders, but may not be spoken of all the time or right [...]

Hi, this is just an open letter to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask spam teams. I will be speaking in depth about SEO and widgets at a couple of upcoming conferences and highlighting some of the more “dangerous” behaviors that can lead to spam trouble within widgets. I have sent an email to Matt Cutts and I hope he [...]

I will be speaking at the SEM Canada conference this year. The conference will take place on September 4th and 5th in Calgary. There is a great (and growing) lineup of speakers including Todd Friesen, Andy Beal, Bill Slawski, Jane Copland, and Ken Jurina – see the most current speaker list here. More conference info [...]

Keeping people on your page is good. Gadgets are great for this, and a gadget we all use alot is an excellent example of this. One of the most used “Google” gadgets is, um… Ever posted a video from YouTube on your blog? Thats a gadget, see you already use them Keeping people on your [...]

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly nintey-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think links are [...]

My 44 second video rant about Mahalo whiners received at least 380 links, was watched nearly 800 times, and was one of the most linked to videos (see stats in image) on YouTube in the “people and blogs” category for the first two days of its existence. This is interesting to me in two ways. [...]