July 2012

And today’s work journal begins. I pushed out an awesome article today. I’ve been trying to envision and nail the future of my field as accurately as I did in 2009, when I laid out precisely how things were going to play out, wrapping social results into search and the gradual shift of relevancy signals [...]

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If you have any doubts that it’s a lifestyle near religion sort of thing that the big ecosystem-crafting companies are selling—or are at least preparing to sell—cast them aside. These now-familiar faces are the first wave of business tycoon geeks in the new information economy. They’ve got plenty of ability to become the Mad Men [...]

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Today I was neck-deep in PowerPoint. I hate that. But like any exercise, I was able to get some value out of it. Having to put your thoughts into ANY structured format also helps you clarify your thoughts. My thoughts lately, as much as I want them to be about the future of SEO, keeps [...]

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Unless Google is going to fail, then Google+ is something that is going to gradually fill up around us, like water in a bathtub, until we are totally submerged and enjoying a nice hot bath. One of my favorite observers of the SEO industry, Barry Schwartz, noticed a new “Actively Discussed on Google+” link in [...]

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