Today I have the huge pleasure to chat with Anthony Pensabene, an SEO and writer at WebiMax and at his own blog, Content Muse. Anthony is a great guy, and moreover I like the fact is commenting a lot to posts I read, giving great insights, adding value.
Since I was criticized for my “too long” introduction, I stop here 🙂
Let’s talk with Anthony ThinkGood (translation of Pensabene in english).
Well, well, well…this “Meet your SEO” interview series is becoming huge. I wanna thank each one of you, really, but I don’t have enough money to travel around the world. So let’s do in this way: if you wanna a cool thank you letter from me, you can write in the comment section or send me an email with your address, and I will write something funny for you BY HAND(ley)….one day that piece of paper is gonna worth at least 30$.
Today I have the immense pleasure to interview Peter Handley, SEO director at The Media Flow based in UK. Peter was one of the first real SEO I met on twitter , and he always was so generous with me giving me a lot of SEO tips and stuff. He was up for every project I wanted to do (like the SEO music post) and he helped me a lot realizing it. Moreover he is like a sort of English teacher for my poor english, and he is even quite cheap (10 pounds per hour). But the real reason I like this guy is that he is a great singer (watch this only if you are not sensitive). I read in a local newspaper he is well known in his city as “The new Freddie Mercury”. But I don’t think it’s right: Freddie Mercury sucks when compared to Pete.
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Hi folks. Glad you are here. Another “Meet your SEO” interview is going to begin, and I want to take 156 seconds to thank you very much for the positive feedback you’re giving to me and to this project. The project is to go on and on, in order to interview many SEOs as possible. You can think: “Hey, it’s too much simple: you ask questions, SEOs answer you back, they bring you traffic, and you don’t have to worry to write new things every day!”. I want to clarify. First of all, I’m doing this because I need to know what cool SEOs are thinking about stuff, and to compare their answers in order to test and try what they are doing. Second, I prefer to have these interviews up and running, then writing stuff just for the sake of it, when there are other 154 blogs that are writing about the same in a better way. Third, I like to be criticized, so keep going: I’m making these interviews especially for you. And remember: if it was SO simple, why didn’t you do it?
Ok, done with the rant.
Today I have the big pleasure to chat with Nick Eubanks, CEO at the social media company Factor Media in Philadelphia. You can read more about his thoughts in his blog. I have to say Nick was and is really supportive with me, and he is one of my mentor, since he’s always been kind enough to talk to me in an humble way, without bullshit around (yeah, it happens). I know all of you are thinking: “Nick, have you got red eyes?”. Well, it seems so, but I never met this guy for real, so I cannot confirm or deny 🙂
So ready to enter in the mind of Nick? Yeah? All right then, let’s go! have fun and see you next week.
Today I have the immense fortune to have a chat with Jason Acidre, a search strategist based in Manila. If you want to learn more about him, you can read a lot of great SEO and online marketing tips on his blog, Kaiser The Sage.
In this interview, he’s going to tell you a lot of things, even for the very first time the girls he likes in the SEO industry.
Ok, let’s go.
When did you enter the SEO world, and why ?
I accidentally became an SEO on February 26, 2010 – that’s the date when I was first hired to be an SEO by an Australian-based SEO agency, and I didn’t know anything about it, even what SEO means during that time! I needed the money that time (because of I have to, for my son), so I tried searching for a writing job, then I emailed this agency, as I saw their job posting on craigslist, then when they emailed me back, they asked if I’ll be interested to work as an SEO for them instead of being a writer (they thought/feel that I’m fit for the job), so I said yes.
I tried to learn everything that I think I needed to learn about the job, all the basic stuff (I remember how I was amazed when I first learned how to create an anchor text for a link, haha), while doing the actual work. They provided me with lots of resources, so most of my days are spent reading those materials (ebooks from Marketing Sherpa and a lot more) and working (7 days a week, just to catch up with my teammates). Then after 2 months I got fired – but was immediately hired by Affilorama, where I think my true journey began. That’s pretty much all of it 🙂