The Core
Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: Woz on November 02, 2010, 07:45:42 AM
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or, as we Aussies would say - "Who the Bloody Hell Are Ya?"
So, tell us:
who you are,
perhaps where you are,
how we might recognise you around the traps,
and as much else about yourself as you are comfortable us knowing.
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I'm Woz
from Australia,
known as Woz almost everywhere online,
Jack of many trades, Master of, well, a couple perhaps. Trained musician/composer/recording engineer, although it's been a long time. Dabble in the Webmastering/Marketeering arts. Filling in my spare (??) time studying Permaculture, and Old Forgotten Skills as we are headed for tough times ahead, and amuse myself with Bushcraft activities.
Onya
Woz
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4Eyes
One of those who jumped ship from WMW when it started being interesting for all the wrong reasons (YMMV)
Older, balder and fatter, but still doing pretty much the same thing as before - client SEO, conversion improvement and affiliate stuff - balance falling more on affiliate stuff these days though.
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TallTroll
Looking at the member list is like old times :) So, is this place going to *SPARKLE*?
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Drastic
Location - South Carolina (Southern East Coast US)
Class - redneck. <cannot continue gaining levels in this class>
Strengths - affiliate, seo, tactics
Weaknesses - graphic design, kryptonite, Chuck Norris
Likes - moonlit walks alongside automated bots, cigars, beer, home theater
Dislikes - guberu speak, hats, most email, the telephone
Hero - Ricky Bobby (you may have seen his latest hit movie, Talladega Nights)
Good to see all the new and old faces here, welcome people!
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Crap, the member roster is making me wonder if the lobby of the Islington is still available.
...and Debbie says hello, boys.
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>Islington
Yup. Here's the infamous "front table in the window"
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sugarkane, UK
Some great memories been stirred here...
These days I'm still up to much the same stuff - affiliate, adsense, and running a credit brokerage (been an interesting few years on that one).
Looking forward to seeing where this goes :)
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agerhart - US
Previous life of daytime corporate SEO and night spamming
Leading a new life running a company...managing the team, driving traffic, monetizing in any way we can, etc.
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DrCool in the US. Joe is my real name.
Do primarily affiliate stuff. We have created a couple IM products in the past as well. Have a couple more of those in the works.
I am probably the dumbest guy in the room here. Most of my affiliate stuff is pretty low level datafeed based sites.
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JamesR - my real name is top secret ::)
Independent webmaster
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OK, I got slapped for not really saying anything, so here it is, more than you'll ever want to know....
1972: BS in Commerce and Economics from WLU.edu, Mid-70’s: Worked for Burroughs (now Unysis) for a couple of years selling mainframes door-to-door. They taught me some programming, enough to be dangerous.
Late-70’s to present: Work in the family businesses. Wrote the A/R, A/P, and Inventory software from scratch for a mid-size wholesale supply house. Got heavily involved in price books, catalog production and, later, desktop publishing. My computer background led me to PC’s but it was the unrealized promise of desktop publishing that whetted my appetite for the web.
1995: My first 4 domain registrations were free. The current registrar system wasn’t set up yet.
1996: The beginnings of the high-content, official tourism network goes online. These sites were, and remain, responsible for generating the revenue needed to develop and maintain the project, which is still done through banners (now contextual), affiliates, sponsorships, and ad sales. Today, the sites continue to cooperate extensively with numerous regional and community chambers of commerce, museums, historic sites, and organizations. For most of them, it still provides their primary ‘official’ tourism leads and referral traffic.
1997: Get C&D from a billion-dollar chemical company, they wanted one of my geographic domains. Seems they had a trademark, but in a different classification. They ended up buying it for about $7,800.Lawyers got $2k of that.
1998: First super-long tail local site went up. Though there are so many sites like it out there now that we all damned as a class, mine was close to groundbreaking but probably not the absolute first, though I can’t recall having a competitor when it went live. Being unique and having enough real utility, it was listed as a good travel resource by newspapers, major magazines, edu sites (yeah!), library sites, etc. It even had a book credit from Neil Gaiman …just goes to show how perceptions change or, more importantly, how a good niche gets to be shoving-room only. Interestingly, it was also the one that was absolutely at its dog-ugliest while it was piling on the authoritative incoming links and racking up significant hotel bookings.
As for my involvement in SEO, I was sitting at the keyboard when Digital Equipment’s Altavista changed the web. I say it changed everything because AV was the first spidering engine with a hint of mass appeal and popularity. (“Mass” in 1995 was still pretty pitiful in media terms.) The realization of just how much this would profoundly alter the linear nature of web surfing even caused me to call a meeting on how to deal with it. I still remember the subject line of the email; Whoa! This changes everything! I guess if you’re looking for the definitive moment when my SEO thoughts crystallized, that meeting would be it. The thoughts? [1] Long Tail and [2] Doorway pages. A few months after that, as Altavista started making inroads with the general public, a local Chamber of Commerce president called me, he was very much agitated and alarmed. His town had been the location of a very negative event that would blacken tourism and relocation prospects and Altavista’s serps were chock-full of references to it. He wanted me to get them removed from the search engines. I explained that while no one other than the search engines themselves could remove them, I thought I could push them off the front page. The Game was on! I was an early subscriber to Danny Sullivan’s new-ish paid site, SEW, but dropped out of it after a few months. I drifted around a bit between a few SEO forums (there weren’t that many). I was an active member in Jim Wilson’s searchengineforums, quit, came back a year or so later, started hanging out online with Oilman. Online forums just weren’t hitting on what I knew was working, what I knew would manipulate results. Then, as now, the newbies drowned out any real chance of having a serp-jerking discussion. Oilman moved to a site with about 40 members –searchengineworld, the predecessor of webmasterworld. I visited, it seemed to be primarily about cloaking, I left. I came back a few months later, though, and became active. Later, I became the first admin, or at least one of the first. There I met or re-met my online friends, many of whom have gone on to become the brand-name nicks of SEO today (though most have also moved on from life in the forums). Mackin came up with the initial spark of what became Pubconference and we started that as a semi-private, international SEO meeting.
I retired from admin life in 2003, I believe, and left public SEO forums soon after. (The problem with the global village is all the global village idiots. Paul Ginsparg) I still post some water-cooler chat and, every now and then, try to provide a reality-check or counterpoint. Other than the occasional newspaper reporter, I’ve given up on minding the mindless, there are just too many of them. Mostly, I just read and watch the developments in search.
The above is from Michael Gray's site. Let's see if he's tending his logs
http://www.wolf-howl.com/local-search/rc-jordan-local-search-interview/
Oct 2010: I'm baaaaAAAaaack.
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Fallowing RC's example I'll put in some detail.
Northern California, USA
The very old timers will remember me from searchenginegforums.com from back in the late 90s. Those who are a little less old will remember me from WMW where I moderated the Spider forum, Linux forum and was pretty active in the cloking forum. After a while I just couldn't post over there any more. My nick went public again for a while back when Threadwatch was active and fun, but it's mostly lived behind closed doors for the last several years.
I started out (late 90s) slamming the search engines with lots of cloked content, and really thought I was the sh## back then owning some great positions in Excite, Inktomi, Altavista and all the other dead engines that use to mean something.
As the engines got better at busting clokes and linkpop became more of a factor I moved to more mainstream SEO consulting which is probably about the most frustrating thing to do for a living -- not that the task of optimizing a site is hard (often it is quite easy with these popular corporate/retail sites) but it is hard because it is really difficult to get the corporate machines to do what they need to do.. Although, I have to say, on those occasions when they do do what is advised it can be quite rewarding.
Last few years I've been involved in a few open-source projects, but I mostly am self employed as an internet marketer. I Working for myself so I have only myself to blame or praise, but mostly I work like this because I like the commute and I get to spend a lot of time at home.
Strengths: affiliate, SEO, some technical know how
Weaknesses: anything that takes artistic talent
Dislikes: What some of us call stardust and fandom
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1. After school to Leeds Uni
2. MPhil at Birmingham uni followed by phd. Learnt SEO for fun since realising that you could get to the top of AV and Yahoo
3. Work in tech services on portal project which was ahead of its time, but way to far. Learned php and other stuff
4. Work as SEO consultant since 2004 full time, but before that a little on the side during work hours
5. Property rentals since 2008 with a little SEO
6. Moving back into SEO more now now I have taken on people to help with properties.
Looking forward to getting back into it more, in a way that means I wont have to deal with dipshits
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Peter
Various names over various forums/blogs
Started SEO in the late 90s from a design background.
Mod at SEF until I moved totally to WMW - Don't hardly do any (public) forums any more.
Met a lot of you guys at various SEO Roadshows, etc.
Doing client work & consulting half the time - and a few of my own aff/drop ship sites.
Interested in link-building.
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Ha, so here it is... jumped the gun elsewhere :)
Was the first in the UK to sell suits online. (If someone else was, I never found them for some years) Most people thought I was nuts to do it. Now I know I am ... so many better was of making a living ::)
Joined WMW in 2001 left open forums soon after, as the same rubbish kept getting circulated.
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jetboy, UK - AKA Rowan
Usual route: Search Engine Forums > Webmasterworld > Threadwatch > lack of public posting
Corporate sell-out, managing front-end dev, SEO and PPC teams agency-side; now running an online marketing department for a travel operator.
Good at: CSS and other front-end development, LAMP stack, usability, accessibility
sh## at: Social media
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Kali
Was known as Kali on Threadwatch but I'm another WMW -> Threadwatch -> don't post much in public anymore people
I recognise most of the names in this thread from bygone days or more recently in some cases.
"Crap, the member roster is making me wonder if the lobby of the Islington is still available"
Certainly remember being there :)
And the first Cittie bash
--Still doing my own thing and living off it.
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Hi I'm Chris, have always posted as Chris_D in SEO/ Webmaster forums
Lots of old familiar handles here.....
Me - I first started at The ReverendDrDoug'sIHY "Whitehat is righthat" forums; joined WMW back in Oct 2001; Threadwatch; and SEW as a mod in June 2004
Not active at any forums much for the past few yrs.
Based in Sydney Australia, and sometime accomplice of Woz in Barvarian Beer Café escapades.
Work with corporates.
A bit jaded....
:-{) (that's a Movember Mo smiley face)
Chris
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I should have come up with a better nic/handle, but I'm just bill. I've been bill at SEF, then WmW, very rarely at SEW and TW.
I live in Japan and work for a local corporation. I got into the whole SEO scene to help jigger my own sites' rankings. Then I found my knowledge of the local markets was of interest to some, and did a bit of work for the Japanese market. Lately I've returned just to working on my own sites, but I'm still fairly active on WmW where I'm currently an Admin.
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I'm so happy to see all you guys! I've missed you..it feels like the old gang is back together without all the bullsh*t!
I am Heather, my nick is grnidone (Green Eyed One). I started as a newbie in SEO in late 1999, and did mainly corporate clients until very recently when I just got burned out and quit altogether for about a year. I've started again, but this time working on doing my own thing with clients I like to work with. I've done affiliate off and on...
As far as places I've been, I moderated at WmW, posted at Threadwatch, SEW, A Best Web...
Strengths: Dealing with corporate idiots, usability, metrics, coding, not being afraid of making myself look bad by asking stupid questions...
Weaknesses: Selling myself...but I'm getting better.
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Hello, darling. Glad to have you here.
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Finally caught up to all of you....
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LOL :)
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STOP THAT! Sent a damn chill when I opened the thread.
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hhh, someone else register quick and get the nick off the "Latest Member" ;D
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hhh, someone else register quick and get the nick off the "Latest Member" ;D
done.
Hey all. long time. Excellent to see this website and the people involved.
By way of introduction, like DrCool, I'm mostly in retail affiliate stuff. Just came off biggest season for me, Halloween.
I worked at affiliate networks (Be Free then CJ) from 1999-2005 and left to stop making other people rich.
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Good to see ya Scott....it's been awhile
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Hi All:) Nice to see you all again.
dougs on lots of forums since 2001
Quick CV:
Did lots of dodgy stuff
Now own some big UK traffic sites......some would say we have some brands.
Numerous companies in the Group now.
50-100 staff, loads of really good people but alas they have different agendas to me
The business I started for a laugh has gone very real and today I officially resigned as the CEO..and will just become an investor.
Very strange to get introduced to this place today....the way the world works:)
On Feb 1 I become unemployed officially and want to do stuff again for fun.
Doug
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Gald you could make it across Doug.
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Hello! So nice to see all your names again.
My name is Damian. Amsterdam, Netherlands based SEO and perl programmer since 1998.
Not known for many words or posts ;)
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Welcome back Damian
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mivox 36/F/Alaska :-) Also known as Teresa, but that's not very memorable, is it?
Shorter forum history than most, since I started with WMW and went straight to "screw public forums", but I got some moderating time in there (Graphics & FOO, for anyone that missed my illustrious reign).
Been working the same day job for 10+ years now, although I make it more and more part time as the years drag on. Still keep telling myself I need to get off my a## and build some income sites for myself and quit the office gig. Still haven't done it. hehehe
And I'll chime in on the "damn nice to see everyone again" sentiment!
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Good to see you again Teresa, you definitely need to quit your day job ;)
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It has its perks though... maybe if we ever get a national health care system going, I'll quit then. hehe
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Hey all. Boy have I missed some of you :)
Also answer to Denise, but online I'm generally Gurtie and was a member at most of the old places, modded at Searchguild (RIP) and Threadwatch.
I've switched between agency and in house stuff and even had Mr Duke as my boss for a year or so. I survived that so I guess I officially now qualify as toughened up.
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Hi,
Great to be here - missed my dose of forums
Got into SEO in 2001
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Great to see you have fallen off the form waggon. :-)
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Hi everyone. Andy here.
Used to do a lot of agency SEO, started off with Barry Lloyd.
Have now run off to sunny Spain to do the affiliate thing.
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Craig - might be better known as creative_craig
Worked for a few agencies in London then moved to Cape Town and have now been here for 4 years.
Run a small agency down here working as an out source agency for larger UK, US and Euro agencies as managing a few SA clients.
Still finding lots of things to exploit online down here!
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Rasmus here. Denmark born and raised.
Started doing SEO in 1999 with the late Notabene.net brand and stayed there until 2007 where Torben and I left to do our own stuff.
We witnessed the expansion from being 5 man shop in the basement to have 3 offices, 30 employees, got bought up, got listed on the stock exchange, expanded to Sweden, Norway, Finland and the UK (bought Guava and a couple of other UK SEO firms, thought we where golden, saw it all tank due to psychopathic management/CEO and now back to being 2 guys with a couple of ukranian programmers.
I'm still an active mod at WMW in Euro forum since 2000.
These days we do aff stuff, consulting on seo/sem/aff and run a couple of small online shops.
Good to see all the old familiar nicks and names :)
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Hi everyone!
Vitaplease here - David is the real name.
I'm Dutch, i run a non-internet related engineering firm and that is keeping me too busy to post much, but i love these hangouts and meetings and i promise to better in the future.
And very nice to see all the familiar names from the last 10+ years!
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Great to see you here David! ;D
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I sell stuff I don't own to people I don't know. (stole that from Mackin)
Paul - Canadian, married for 25 years, 18 year old daughter in university. Been dabbling in affiliate marketing /search for the better part of 10 years.
Likes:
Hockey
snowmobiling
road trips
cooking
affiliate programs with recurring payouts
Nice to see all these old nicks.
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Good to see ya dude
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The cast list here just keeps getting better and better. ;D
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Good to see a lot of familiar names around here. I think I've worked directly with at least 4 people on here so far at some point in the last 8 years.
I run the SEO team for an online travel business these days and sadly rarely find the time for much extra curricular SEO.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading up here last night after registering. Looks like you've all been busy.
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I started out on most of the forums as webdiversity. I did that because Dixon Jones (Receptional) and Barry Lloyd (MakeMeTop) had done so at WMW and I thought that was what you did. Didn't realise it was against the TOS.
Sold Web Diversity in 2006 (got stiffed), but did get to set up shop in Hong Kong with money from the company that bought it.
Set up affiliate network in 2007 and changed name when company who bought Web Diversity decided to close the doors because of Sarbannes Oxley (for a publicly traded company they sucked at finance).
Sold that affiliate network in early 2009 and after 12 months of working for the new buyers decided to leave with nothing to go to.
Since then have been consulting (which, when I employed people consulting=jobless/unemployed) and playing around with various automation, datafeeds, Wordpress plugins etc. looking for the next big thing.
Nice to see some of the old names and faces, but seeing the pictures of Islington etc. reminds me of not being able to see lazerzubb here, and that helps me to focus on the important things in life - family, friends etc.
I spend 7 months of the year in the UK, 4 months of the year in Northern Cyprus and a month doing shows/speaking at gigs etc.
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Good to see you Jim.
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Welcome, good to see you here Jim.
>Set up affiliate network
>Sold that affiliate network
Interesting! I might attempt to pick your brains about that in the near future :)
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Good to have you here Jim. If you make it to Vegas in January I will buy you a drink.
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Little did I think when I clicked on bill's message.... Good to see lots of familiar names. This is a real time warp. :)
I'd actually planned to get to bed at a decent hour tonight, but I couldn't not stop in here to say hello. I see the pressure is on to post a bio. The best I can do right now is a link (well, a url anyway) to one that's just about nine years old and probably overly kind... and mostly about my film career, which I was still trying to hang onto....
http://www.nbma.com/member/profiles.html
I'm still a freelance SEO consultant for hire. The bio above should give an idea why I don't speculate on my own sites.
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well look at all the cat dragged in, damn cat must be tired
I'm jatar_k
forums kinda bore me even though I seem to have lived and breathed them for so long
I have been programming in php forever, worked for wmw for a while then did some hardware authentication stuff and then worked in gambling affiliate networks, terrible company, now I settled into the very large Montreal adult scene. Massive volume, no mistakes, good pay, good experience and good people.
I don't do much seo these day but the seo guys I run into in my daily life usually make me laugh
nice to see you all
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And the cast list just keeps getting better. ;) hehe
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Paul - former SEOidiot
Know many here - some I havent seen in an age... ;)
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..... and the rogues gallery is almost complete
Hi Paul - glad you found us :)
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Hello Sir, may have been skulking in the shadows for a while as one does...
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I am Julie...SEO Chicks, owner of Link Fish Media, purchaser of links. I met some of you in Copenhagen a few years back.
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Adam, Good to see you, hows the family? Time for another visit eh?
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Who the hell is Julie Joyce ? ??? ??? ::)
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>who the
Be patient, Julie will check in, I'm sure.
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I'll get you Paul!
And hi Jason!
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Hello Julie - I think its official that we stalk each other on every single form of communication now...
Ohh wait! Fax!
Let me fax something
Paul
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nick: encyclo, real name: Richard, location: Canada (Quebec).
I'm another wmw refugee (thanks to bill for the invite!), was mod/admin there from 2005-2009, I bailed out not long after Woz left. I currently combine a corporate day job with being a night owl working on my own sites.
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nick: oilman
name: Todd Friesen
occupation: big agency corporate sell out
formerly: spammer
location: Tacoma, WA
I figure yall can find the rest ;)
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Washington keeps getting invaded by Canadians ;)
Welcome to the USA oilman!
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I'm amazed at how many forum nicks I recognize (or remember) although I don't know most of you well.
I think I've been Brad or brad at most seo forums.
In the early 1980's I sold computers, mainly Kaypro CP/M luggable models referred to as 'Darth Vader's Lunchbox', plus a few mini-computers running Unix.
In 2000 I started building niche directories as a quit smoking scheme. Enjoyed it. Needed to learn how search worked. Joined SEO forums. ;D
Since 2000 I've moderated at: Searchking, Spiderfood, Searchguild forums, been a member of SEF, WmW, Threadwatch, Cre8 and others.
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Brad Enslen? Good to see you buddy.
Spiderfood was a good one on your list. Small but nice.
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Brad Enslen? Good to see you buddy.
Spiderfood was a good one on your list. Small but nice.
Heyas ukgimp. Yeah that's me. Spiderfood was good.
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nick: oilman
name: Todd Friesen
occupation: big agency corporate sell out
formerly: spammer
location: Tacoma, WA
I figure yall can find the rest ;)
Once a spammer, always a spammer, you just get to do it in a suit now. BTW good to see you in Vegas Las Vegas, albeit briefly.
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hola, i'm seoboy. based in northern california.
first used that handle back at wmw, where i was fairly active between 00-04. checked out when the knucklehead-to-knowledge ratio tilted, and also as business picked up on the homefront.
littleman is an old war buddy. we started working together in the late 90s and have continued on-and-off since.
i got started on the seo side when it was the wild west. back in the day, littleman and i built a sizeable spider database and did some pretty sophisticated stuff with cloaking and link farms and landing pages and tracking and whatnot -- well, sophisticated in 2000 anyway. we built targeted keyword lists for clients, grabbed a lot of top rankings, and sold clicks to them on a cpc basis. it was all in perl; i miss perl. then goto/overture signed all their big partnerships and adwords select launched soon after, and the whole landscape changed.
later, in 2002, my co. built our first bid management software in for arbitrage purposes (remember, we sold clicks). that soon evolved into a full-on paid search management business. we got pretty big, wrote some cool software, and eventually sold out.
so my old-school chops are in seo, but i'm really better known as a paid search and analytics guy these days. i was even a moderator at SEW forums for a while, before i quickly discovered it to be a waste of time. :)
these days i've got a few projects in the hopper, as we all do i'm sure.
i'll be in-and-out, but try to contribute when i can.
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Hi all - thanks for the invite. Some of you remember me from WmW - if not, check out my LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/tedster - but you may not know that I've got a corporate position as "senior search analyst" for a Manhattan-based agency, Converseon.
We're quite the full service agency, with a 9 year background in social media -- yeah, there's a whole lot more to it than most people are seeing. For example, we are one of only two agencies with access to the full "firehose" of Twitter data - 100 million messages a day. We had to build a new data center just to mine that flood.
Exploring the interface between SEO and SMM is an absolute blast - and I especially enjoy bringing technical precision into the social media mix - something Converseon already does really well anyway.
We're SOOOOO corporate it's scary sometimes, but it's a good stretch for me. The folks in the agency are great to work with and very happy in their work, too. In fact, it's boom time for us. We tripled revenue last year and only doubled our staff size.
What this means for my life is commuting between Boston and New York about 3 times a month, sometimes more. I know the Amtrak staff pretty well by now.
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Great to have you around Tedster. Glad you found your way over here.
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Nick: BoL , Real Name: Richard Where: from Scotland but living in Canada
Been learning web related stuff for 10 years, i suppose my trade is database management and programming... but can dabble with some client side stuff, and a bit seo.
Ive been self employed making cash online for the past 8 or so years... firstly by myself and lately as part of a team of 3. Rather than making sites I find myself making systems to promote sites and follow metrics, The systems made range from 'getting quality diverse links' to a rankchecker system with over a quarter billion results and lots of domain/url metadata.
Sometimes it seems like digging roads would be a more rewarding day job but for the most part working online offers plenty.
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Good to have you here Richard.
Long time no see.
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Ah, BoL == BrotherhoodOfLan, yes?
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Indeed it is... and good to see you again gimpy.
Great to see a lot of familiar nics on here,
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Great to see you in here Ted :)
I still have fond memories of what seemed like an endless dinner session in the brew pub in Boston :)
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..and you too BOL :)
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I am loving the idea of this site.
My real name is George, my handle on most internet things is either werty or wertrose.
I am mostly an asshat, but dable in the gray and white hats as well. I am known for doing PPC, but know a bit about SEO.
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My CV:
1965: Born
1965 - 1985: Grew up. Kind of.
1985 - 1995: Can't really remember.
1995: Moved to London. Learned programming.
1999: Started messing about with other peoples web sites for a living.
2002: Discovered WMW and SEO.
2002 - 2005: Messed about with web sites some more. Started messing about with my own.
2005: Absconded from the 9-5. Nice. Forgot about web sites and starting drawing pictures. Drew lots, sold one, ran out of money.
2009: Started messing about with other people's web sites for a living again.
It's all starting to look a bit circular at this point.
It's kind of bizarre (in a nice way) to see all these old nicks again, some of whom I know personally but many of whom I don't and some of whom I just glanced off one or twice. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
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yo Paul - still playing the fiddle? :)
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Hiya Col, good to see you! Yeah still playing a bit, much to my neighbours' chagrin :)
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Roger. Doing a fair amount of link building for clients and self. Been obsessed with freshwater fishing lately though.
Where's the bar?
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>freshwater fishing
Hey MB good to see you here! What are you going for? Trout, pike?
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hi and thank you for the invitation :)
I'm Marina, Bulgaria - also known (though not very much) as ASPD. I don't know almost anybody here, but this is a mistake I can hopefully correct. Couple of years of experience, I worked for some time in a corporate environment, recently I quit and started working on my own. I do mainly link building - for clients and on occasion for myself. Have some natural tendency to spam by night, but I'm trying to keep it down
greetings,
m.
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Hi Marina - welcome to our den of iniquity :)
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Hey Marina, welcome to the forum :)
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2much
WOW This feels like I'm in a time machine and landed 10 years ago. All the old names and faces. Very cool!
Started as a spammer back in 1999.
Started consulting in 2002.
Got bored fast so started a link sales company.
Then kinda fell off the radar and mostly worked my butt off as a mommy.
Now back part time and having fun with figuring out the latest trends.
Looking forward to catching up with everyone again!
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Welcome Marcela, nice to see you here.
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Welcome Marcela, Marina, BOL, Oil, Tedster, and anyone I have missed. It really is like a time warp.
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Welcome marcela. You will get used to the swear filter.
:-)
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Hi Marcela, good to see you here! Long time since I've seen your nick online :)
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Geez... looking at the list of people here I'm wondering who got me mixed up with the other guy and let me in!
I'm actually still a historian for most of my time, publishing books on obscure topics.
Those of you who recognize me would know me mostly from coding-oriented forums on WMW. I moderated the PHP forum for a while with jatar_k and coopster. Got tired of it and quit forums for a a couple of year, but then was in Vegas for other reasons during Pubcon. Dinner with a few of my WMW buddies and I ended up moderating the Content Management forum there. Lately I've been finding it harder and harder to read and participate at WMW.... Tedster know my reasons in excessive detail (sorry Ted).
I built my first site in 1997 to get some course materials online. From there, revived my programming skills (did some programming in another life) and learned PHP to put my research database online a year or two later. Then built an e-commerce site for the Sierra Club Bookstore (RIP) and since then have dabbled here and there. Have honestly never done anything that made serious money online. Whitehat only because I don't know any better (like I say, who let me in???).
Left the city in 2002 to live in Yosemite National Park. Will trade fine lodging for instruction in the finer points of spamming ;-)
http://yosemitehouse.com
Tom
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Nice place Tom. Very jealous. :)
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Pretty spot Tom.......may take you up on that offer:)
How is the weather?
Doug
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How is the weather?
Current forecast at the house
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.644684587165884&lon=-119.73861694335938&site=hnx&smap=1&marine=1&unit=0&lg=en
You probably don't want to hurry over, but if this keeps up, skiing will be epic this year (have been out 4 times so far).
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I was wondering when you would show up Tedster, good to see you :)
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I finally got an invite to this place. Good to see some of the old names no longer seen at WMW as well as some I saw at Pubcon last month and in past years.
I'm Ash Nallawalla from Melbourne - 7 years accountant in NZ, 8 years Australian air farce, and 20 years mostly in large corporations as a product marketer and a search marketer for the past eight. I am presently consulting to a large group of banks and resemble a mod at WMW.
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Welcome Ash!
Good to see you here.
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Hi, another here thinking I've landed in a time warp.. it's great to see everyone! and thanks for invite Woz
Claire or more commonly known as Suzy to you guys, answer to both.. newer nick around is ClaireSuzy trying to join myself back up haha - from Bonny Scotland!
member @ a lot of forums out there but am by nature quite shy, most prolific on WMW and have only recently started taking part again after a good year or so off
been around since about 1999, when I also became a mum, still dabbling away but got a serious case of burnout after a few things went pear shaped, but back on track and feeling fit and healthy and grateful for each day as it comes.. I often see you guys around but I'm not much of a social networker so my apologies
I'm doing a bit of WAHM (non-IT) stuff with regular income just to keep the wolf from the door (Hubby business has been seriously affected by crisis) - and a bit of community stuff to get into the outside world, have stopped watching the news, can't take any more world crap - am dipping toes into a bit of affiliate stuff, two different types of site to see which works for me - hope at least one of them do ;) - but very lightweight as have just taken another temporary job 'til April - job no. 3 - life is nothing if not varied at the minute :)
Great to see you all!
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Nice to see you Claire.
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Good to hear you're back in the saddle Claire.
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You're welcome Suzy, er, Claire, um, whoever you are. :D Glad to see you here.
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Good to see you both Claire and Ash - familiar nicks :)
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Ash and Claire! My goodness, who's still minding the store at WMW?
Claire, I was surprised to see you post a hard-core CSS topic on hiding content with clip and it made me wonder if we'd see more of you again... just didn't expect it would be here.
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Hello all!
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It's good to see the familiar names in this thread!
I hail from a small town in the Canadian prairies, where no one understands what I do.
In previous lives I spent several years as a stay-at-home mom, and also taught at both the junior high and college level. I took time off when my parents were ill, stumbled into affiliate marketing, and never went back to the classroom. I've been a freelance affiliate for several years and also do some limited SEO and PPC consulting. Over the years I've been active on the old CJU forums, ABW, Threadwatch, WMW and a few other places.
My hat is 99% white, partly because that's the ethics I strive for, but as a practical matter I don't have enough technical skills to do anything very black! My strengths are more on the writing and content side of things.
I sold one of my sites last year for A Very Pleasant Sum but I'm still having too much fun to retire. So many ideas ... so little time ...
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Welcome Bucky, good to see you here. :)
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Nice to see you here Elizabeth.
Thanks for giving me a lift to the Convention Center at Pubcon last month, much appreciated.
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Welcome to a bunch of folks too numerous to mention. Good to see you here.
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I was hoping to just sneak in unnoticed, but got spotted by Brad and promted to post here. Introduction then...
I run a web development / marketing agency on the South Coast of England. This is my fifteenth year playing this game full time, so I have bumped in to and had contact with quite a few of the names here over the years. Unfortunately I am one of those weird twitching paranoid freaks who uses different names all the time so I don't think many of you will know me.
Over recent years we've concentrated more on development over marketing, but that is changing a bit and I seem to be getting more involved in SEO again of late.
Currently interested in automating the parts of SEO that made me switch to a more technical role some years ago.
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Glad you are here Rooftop. 8)
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Welcome Rooftop!
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Cheers. Nice to see I've now lost my "new boy" credit in the top left of screen.
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I'm a bugger. I've always been a bugger but now I'm a bugger with 2 kids and a Yank.
Nice to see some friendly faces.
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Eurotrash, welcome.
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Welcome to the show!
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Name's Elaine and been around a long, long time - sufficient to say since I bought the kids a ZX81 - but only doing t'internet stuff since 2000 ish.
I'm totally fascinated and awed (is that a word?) with SEO, but glad I didn't go down that route, 'cos I've not done too bad with affiliate marketing and I'm a black belt in CCP (click, copy, paste) and knowing when to outsource the big stuff :)
I think I'm one of the few affiliates who've entered the on-line merchant arena (if you're an affiliate you know what sells!!) and, with the help of my 3 kids (how's that for forward planning) have quite a successful second business.
Certainly recognize a few names and have interacted with one or two and I'm looking forward to learning more stuff, being baffled and being entertained.
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Hi Elaine
I remember the ZX81 too - in fact I once toyed with the idea of using 'wobblyrampack' as my nick :) (it was a close run thing, but 4Eyes describes me better I think)
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Welcome Elaine. I know quite a few affiliates who have become merchants. Affiliates do have a great skill set to help them become merchants.
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Thought I'd pop in and say Hi.
I have been making money in software for years, but got the bug for IM a year or so ago. Most of my success has been in the gambling niche, but I am trying new things every day and have learned more in the last year than the previous 10.
This looks like it is going to be a great place to share ideas and I can't wait to talk to you all.
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Welcome to th3Core Saint :)
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Hi All,
Been at this game for over 10 years and recognise a lot of the names on here - makes me very nostalgic...
Not many folks will recognise me as I've been in lurker mode for many a year, but I'm starting to come out of the shadows now.
I started out in the domain game in 2000 and got involved in the ICANN gravy train for a few years, then got into affiliate stuff with some seo and ppc thrown in. Bit of a jack of all trades and master of none now... whilst running a small marketing company to help pay the bills.
Cheers,
Mike
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Welocme Elaine and the others:)
This is a time warp
Doug
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Thanks all, for the welcome
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Welcome all ya new guys and girls!
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Hi everyone.
Name's Ed and I've spent most of my life living in Papua New Guinea being worshipped by locals as the reincarnated son of Melanesian sky god Kambel. In my spare time I do affiliate stuff and am trying to get better at SEO.
Cheers,
Ed
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Welcome Ed. Glad to have you.
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Dale from UK.
'aZooZa' on all forums I frequent.
Previous DNF mod.
UK drop catching system. Domain metrics site.
G'day all!
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Good to see you Dale.
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Scott from north of Scotland, I have had my hosting reseller account for 10 years now, started out building small local websites and moved on to just building & buying for myself a few years ago, mostly buying old sites lately and adding to the network @SJ.co.uk and dabble in UK domains as well.
I occasionally post on my blog selfmademinds.com running my own bunch of adsense, affiliate, subscriptions and some e-sales sites and enjoy learning and trying new things to keep the grey matter entertained.
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Welcome ScottJ, nice to have you.
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Morning. Shows just how far down the cracks I've fallen that the first I've heard of this place is thanks to a bloody Twitter link (Jason).
Mat, Italy, posted and modded at TW for a few years, met a few names here in assorted places. Been off radar for a long time now. Not because I've gone hardcore, but because I'm lazy and misanthropic.
Bookmarked. Cheers.
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Welcome Mat! Good to have ya here :)
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Nice to see you surface again Mat
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I'm known as inbound elsewhere, but have seriously neglected forum participation recently... this place should sort that.
I've been doing SEO and Local Search for over a decade but only went full time in 2004. I run a UK company that now focusses on Local Search (UK and US sites).
I miss the days when forums were filled with information (seems hard to keep the tide of negative discussions at bay nowadays), I hope the old spirit of halp and be helped will thrive here.
I'mm off to look at what I can chuck 2p at...
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Welcome inbound! Good to have you in the Core :)
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Hi I am Dave from Purecontent. Hope you are all well. Im with JasonD good to see some old names in here. Hope I can be useful in here.
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Nice to post @ a forum I don't mod or admin. Even nicer to see lots of familiar names, including ....*swoon*.... Gurtie :-*
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Tsk....
Newbies! Gawd save us.
:)
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Welcome to the Core Zwart.
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Hiya
So I joined in November and only now decided to start posting.
I'm Gerard Doyle, Australian but been in the UK for 7ish years.
Received my first affiliate cheque in 1997 and decided this was my career ;)
I seem to recognise a bunch of people here so I don't know why it has taken me so long to get posting.
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Welcome Gerard! Thank you for joining us.
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>I'm Gerard Doyle, Australian but been in the UK for 7ish years.
I must ask: do you miss the sun?
Welcome aboard!
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Welcome to the show!
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Welcome GerBot - a name from the past!
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stever on most forums...
Back in the light of a dim New Wave moon when Paul Weller rather than Threadwatch was using the RAF roundel I was a journalist.
Decided to take a year off and instead spent most of the rest of my life bumming around the world.
Had a brief flirtation with a serious job in travel for a while, but it got boring and so I bum around the internet as well as other countries these days.
Like many here, WMW Islington days through to TW and a few conferences. I've been hanging around at Aaron's place for the last few years.
Recognise a lot of nicks here, but I'm sure it's probably not mutual, so hi!
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Hello Gerard and Steve.
Long time no see.
Welcome.
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Welcome Stever.
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Long time no see.
Mr Gimp, if I remember rightly, the first person I ever met from WMW... as you say, long time no see.
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Hey stever...
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Hey steve, welcome.
If you were in the bar at Islington back then, then you're ok :)
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SteveR...jeez. The last time I saw you was London 2006 ish... am I right?
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Think it was around then, yep. Plenty of water flowed under lots of bridges since then... :)
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Hey Guys!
I'm an SEO in Ireland - some of you might remember me from the SEO Roadshow ( ??? ) in Limerick in 2008! Hope to get reacquainted with everyone!
(Shout out to 4Eyes)
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Yo there link8r - good to see you in here :)
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Good to see ya link8r. Most of us where in Limerick, so we probably met :)
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Welcome Guys.
It would be an fun roll call to see who was an the various function over the years. An old Maids forum, and if you were there... post :)
My first outing was Nottingham... a couple at the Duke of York, got to Boston, Florida. Stopped going abroad when WMW got too big imho.
I cannot network 2000 people.
[edit by littleman]
Meetup thread split up and moved to:
http://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/reminiscing-on-meetups/
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Looking at the names here all in one forum thread made me feel like I'd been gobbled up by the wayback machine.
Black Knight, aka Ammon Johns
History is just that. Half of you were there to share it, the rest wouldn't appreciate it as an anecdote properly anyway. :) Like most of the stories in SEO, you really had to be there.
So, "hey" to all those that know me and remember, and "hello" to whoever doesn't.
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Good to see you BK.
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Welcome BK. Your deep cover is blown now, so you might as well stick around.
>wayback machine
Ain't it the truth?
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Cool. Glad you made it over. :)
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Goodness.
Alt-search-group or something like that BK? I wonder, if those threads are still out there somewhere.
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Hi BK - great to see you in here :)
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Hey BK, good to see ya here!
My first encounter with you was waaaaay back in a forum where Barry Makemetop also resided. Good ole times :)
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Heh, yeah, alt-search-groups and similar is where it started publically, though I think Rumbas is referring to the old MarketPositionTalk forums, run by the folks behind the oldest big SEO software (huge in its day).
Then there was SEF, WMW, the original Cre8pc newsletter and later the Cre8asite Forums, etc, etc.
There were days of search engines that indexed and ranked in real time - submit a page, see where it ranked, tweak it, resubmit, watch it go up or down, in real time. Those were easy days. Then Altavista, Excite, Yahoo as a directory, and Looksmart actually mattering (a little bit). Later Google getting its break providing SERPs for Yahoo, etc.
There were days when SEO wasn't. When search engines provided less traffic in a month than Google alone can provide in an hour now. When we still looked at banner exchanges, web rings, and links pages as sources of genuine traffic. When a mention in the right newsletter was worth more than being #1 for a SERP for a couple of months.
Workwise itself, there were the days when respectable companies thought SEO was basically hacking, and you had to sign an NDA just to talk about talking about maybe giving a proposal. :) Days when the only companies hiring SEOs were either adult industry or the mom-and-pop businesses with nothing to lose. SEO was not just a dirty word, it was a word so outright filthy hardly anyone admitted to knowing what it meant. :D
It ought to make me feel old, but thankfully, I know at least half of you remember it too. (Probably 3/4 if alzheimers hadn't started to get some of us). Of course, its only old history in Internet years. Half of that stuff is still out there (or still being sold as SEO if you outsource to some places).
Some might look at all the waters passed under the bridge and wonder at how far the SEs had evolved and forced us to follow.
But most of us here know the truth. It was us that evolved, continually producing the next generation of spam and tactics that the SEs desperately strove to keep abreast of. Only a few search engines made it. Strange as it may seem, and argue as I'm sure most search engineers would, it is marketers and spammers that forced the evolution of search, and a heck of a lot of the entire success of ecommerce.
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>I think Rumbas is referring to the old MarketPositionTalk forums
Right, bingo! It was WebPositionGold and that forum, hehe. Good memory there Ammon :)
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I had forgotten WebPositionGold. Got my first client from there :)
Google too over the alt-seach didn't they? I found:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.internet.search-engines/topics
But the older threads I could not read.
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I had forgotten WebPositionGold. Got my first client from there
As much as it pains me to admit, one of the first internet .com's I worked with copied word for word the tutorials that came with WPG and we called it the "full web marketing pack" and sold it as a bolt on to a web site build for £1000 a time and everyone bought it.
I think I can trace my very first post on alt.internet.search-engines back to January 2002 where I plied most of my trade (and got a lot of clients) and I met good people like fantomaster there and traded anecdotes. it was definitely social media ahead of itself.
How about Top Dog and the scandal of that with David Cecil and the other guy whose name escapes me.
And whatever happened to Sumantra Roy? Planet Ocean?
Good to see you here Black Knight.
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Thanks to Col for the invite - good to see some familiar names from Threadwatch here. Might have been called "Brian Turner" there, but now here with my more usual moniker. :)
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good to see you in here Brian :)
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Welcome, you Brian :)
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Welcome Brian.
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Hey Brian. Glad you could join us.
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Welcome Brian.
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......and welcome Brian.
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Hi All,
Mike here, I'm new to the site (was pointed here by JasonD) so just thought I would say hello :)
I've been working online, initially in Web design / development for around 11 years now but mainly in seo / ppc management over the last 5 or 6.
I have historically been a bit of a hermit so trying to make more of an effort to get involved
Looks like you have a great community going here and I'm looking forward to contributing and no doubt asking lots of questions!
Mike
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Hello Mike
Welcome
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Hiya Mike. Good to have you here.
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Thanks Guys, happy to be here :)
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Welcome Mike.
Um, not Sergeant Schultz perchance? ;D
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Welcome Mike.
Um, not Sergeant Schultz perchance? ;D
Thanks :) Funnily enough, I was actually in the army for a couple of years in my youth but never made it to Sergeant (Couldn't take the shouting!) I left as a lowly Private...
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Hi Mike. Welcome to th3core :)
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Thanks edo :) and thanks again Jason for pointing me here :)
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Welcome Mike!
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Welcome!
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Thanks once again for the welcome guys :D
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Hi everyone,
As the cuckoo chick that was recently - and surprisingly - welcomed into this warm nest, I will tell you some more about myself this time, in a desperate effort to blend in ;)
I first started "coding" in 1984 at the age of 14, on my Commodore 64 of course. It took me 10 more years to start making webpages. And even 10 more to start worrying about the sad number of people actually visiting my websites! I had to start learning about SEO and I had to do it fast.
You all probably know that I'm not one of the WMW crew. I went to SEOChat instead (*gasp*), learned how to rank my pages #1 there, and was asked to mod the place after that. That was my first mod job -- many more would follow after that. I think I've even been a mod over @ Threadwatch, but hey: haven't we all?
Anyway... I chose Wit as my forum nickname, which is part of my name and also means "white" in Dutch. For the record, contrary to what Earlgrey of Syndk8 fame has made people believe: I am NOT from the North Pole (and I am NOT available for Bar Mitsvahs either). Of course as a SC mod, that nickname pretty much matched my public hat colour. I'm not a SC mod anymore tho. I pretty much started their November 2005 dip, when I got mad with the admins and consequently got most mods and regulars to leave the place and join other forums instead.
Earlier, when the Earl asked me to fiddle with his new forum (back when I was still mr. nice guy @ SEOChat), I chose a nickname that meant the opposite in Dutch: Zwart, meaning "black". Nowadays, it doesn't really matter anymore which nickname I use. Nothing's a secret anymore, now is it? I've been using both nicknames here and there ever since, because I am in fact a chequered hat number. Now also using some other forum nicknames on the side...
That said, more recently I have turned into a "nightcap magnolia hat". My day job (not really web related) leaves me little time to juggle my websites. And still I mod/admin a gazillion forums, none of which are my own BTW, but I have fitted some of them with nuke buttons that only take 0.2 seconds to wipe the twonks off, so that's good.
Mainly because of this lack of time, I have been to less than a handful of "unconferences". I've met maybe a dozen of you peeps, mainly around Manchester, and talked to maybe half a dozen of you for more than a couple of minutes. Only some of you, I got to know a little better still :-X Most of you tho, I recognise from forums, blogs and websites all over the web. So I'm very glad to still be part of this - from up close even.
Cheers and thanks for having me, Zwart.
P.S.: with my first name I could well be a Joker or even a Gangster of Love, but I could also be a Hairdresser with questionable cred.
So that's mainly why I stuck to variants on my last name instead.
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Welcome Zwart. I always suspected you had a sordid past! ;D
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Welkom bij de club Zwart ;)
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Ah, more Dutch people? Great :) Welcome behind the curtain!
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Hi, just wanted to say hello and I look forward to meeting you guys at the UK Christmas meet
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Hi Alchemy, welcome :)
Where are you from? What do you do broadly? No secrets, just an idea? Affiliate, Merchant, Search engine, SEO or lay-about? ::)
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Hi
My real name is Andy live in Devon running a small SEO biz. Do client work and affiliate/lead gen stuff in injury and finance.
Forum history wise I started on Web Designer Forum, then Uk Business Forum and now here. Lurk all the usual spots as well, wickedfire, blackhatworld, seochat, highrankings etc.
:)
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Welcome hungrygoose!
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Yea, welcome to the Madhouse :)
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Welcome hg
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Welcome! :)
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Hi,
Just started working with 4Eyes this year.
I'm fairly new to SEO and Internet marketing so I'll get the fool questions in sometime soon.... ;)
NoBeard
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Hi
My real name is Andy live in Devon running a small SEO biz. Do client work and affiliate/lead gen stuff in injury and finance.
Forum history wise I started on Web Designer Forum, then Uk Business Forum and now here. Lurk all the usual spots as well, wickedfire, blackhatworld, seochat, highrankings etc.
:)
Nice to see you finally joined, Andy - the conversation is usually a higher level than UK BF. :)
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NoBeard, Are you a magical elf?
LOL - if he is, he is a bloody tall British one
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Can elves have a beer gut?
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Can elves have a beer gut?
I think they're gnomes
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Welcome mr. NoBeard! :)
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I think they're gnomes
Oh crap - I'm a Gnome
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better than a Troll :)
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Welcome NoBeard!
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Hi NoBeard - how do you keep your face warm during winter?
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The current cold weather is showing me the error in my ways :-[
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Bumping for the new members. ;D
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I missed this thread, Hi!
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Need a bit more than that Chunky. ;)
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Lol, well... I'm UK based and live in the tourist trap that is called the Cotswolds with my family :)
I've been into computers and the internet from year dot and it's my choice of drug. Without em I'd clucking like a chicken.
I dabble in a bit of everything related to the internet but mainly enjoy the ecommerce side of things.
I used to hang out on the Actinic forums then went to UKBF, but was informed of this place where the brighter and smarter people hang out who can satisfy my needed to simulate my brain cells better.
Fingers crossed this is the place :D
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Welcome Chunkford
where the brighter and smarter people hang out
hmmm... long time since many of us fitted that description.... I think 'older and more experienced' would be a bit more accurate these days :)
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long time since many of us fitted that description.... I think 'older and more experienced' would be a bit more accurate these days
long time since many of us fitted that description.......
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Ha, I wouldn't put yourselves down that much guys, without you "oldies" none of what we have today is possible ;p
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Welcome Chunkford.
I am in the (slow) process of moving up your way. I was told by the agent that it never rains. I trust that is true.....
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ermmmm were they high on Red Bull when they said that?? lol
Which part you moving too? I'm up in the North Cotswolds
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Hey people, just been told about this place, you might know me through syndk8 or those old enough through SEOChat. Looking forward to discussing all kinds of interesting things
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Hey :) Good to see you here!
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Heya Gurtie, been ages since I seen you anywhere! :-*
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what took you so long to find us again :)
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Obviously out of you all only TallTroll was nice enough to hand me the URL :)
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The softie!
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Welcome IrishWonder.
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Welcome to the show!
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Thanks guys, hope I'll be at least mildly entertaining
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Hi,
I'm Jeff and know quite a few of you from pubcons ( specifically the early ones) and wmw. When I'm not trying to flog some herbal products,online, I like to spend time at the beach seeing as I live on an island in Thailand with my lovely family. Nice to see familiar nics here!
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living the dream huh. welcome
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Hi Jeff! It has been a long time!
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Uh oh..here comes trouble. :P
Welcome aboard sir.
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Hi Jeff, nice to see you here :)
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Jeff! Welcome on board buddy - been a while :)
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Good to see ya here Jeff, thanks for dropping in!
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Thanks for the welcome everyone. If you ever plan on coming to Phuket, let me know and we can have an island/beachcon. We try to keep our beverages cold, while we keep our ocean at 28C or about 85F ;D
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Was over there earlier in the year, but came back to double down and fight a penguin. Where abouts are you?
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Welcome Jeff.
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Was over there earlier in the year, but came back to double down and fight a penguin. Where abouts are you?
Southern part of the island.
>>Welcome Jeff.
Thanks Brad.
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Howdy :)
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Did a double take on the eljefe nic, I thought you washed off the face of the earth Jeff :)
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Did a double take on the eljefe nic, I thought you washed off the face of the earth Jeff :)
Hehe, nah just getting washed by the 83 degree ocean water waves!
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The water is warm where you are BUT what about the banks in Cypress, Jeff ??
Hi there expat person ;)
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Hey M Mackin,
What's Cyprus? As Sgt Schultz said " I know nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing":).
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Welcome Han. We have a few members who live in Asia here.
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Welcome aboard Han. You'd be the first member from Malaysia. ;D
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test
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That's odd, i tried to post my intro earlier (a few times) but got a Forbidden as well as a 404.
My text doesn't include links or anything that may be disallowed by the forum so i'm not sure what's going on ..
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Welcome to th3core.
:)
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I came across that before, check your post for keywords that might raise a flag
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Hello,
my name's Gary, i've been an IT contractor for 20 years and programming as a hobby for 30.
I'm an SEO noob (one year) but have done well for my small number of clients, all of whom rank on page one of G for most of their search terms, so i must be doing something right !
Tried a couple of other UK forums but this one tops them all (Clever, sarcastic etc ...).
Looking forward to learning and maybe even throwing up the odd thing that none of you clever people have seen ;+}
I'm based in Leicester and am doing this full time now so i can throw all my energy into it.
All the best,
Gary.
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Hello Gary, welcome to the forums. We have a pretty international contingent here with the UK being the largest but also members from Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, America, Denmark, California and I'm sure a few places I've overlooked. Anyway welcome.
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Welcome to the forums Gary, pleased to have you join us :)
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Welcome aboard Gary!
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Welcome Gary!
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New face, cool. Welcome Gary :)
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Ah new blood.
nffc get the whips, chains and gimp suit ready.
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Cheers for the warm welcome :)
Ah new blood.
nffc get the whips, chains and gimp suit ready.
You forgot about the cream ;+}
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welcome aboard Gary.
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Here's a hello from Canada! :)
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hey Gary :)
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Welcome Gary.
(we don't do cream...)
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Appreciate the invite Ladies & Gents. Looking at some of the member names I thought everyone had dispersed into the great blue yonder - little did I know!
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Caine, wow! good to hear from you....
whenever two or three are gathered together in one place, they shall perform the Parrot Penguin sketch
This is the retirement home ;)
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Whoa! Good to see you in here Caine!
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Welcome Caine, it is great to have you here.
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Hope you're well Caine, welcome.
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Yo Caine... for some reason the other day I was thinking about riding around London in your mini a few years back.
I think we went to "The End" that night...
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>mini
I think Louise is still keeping the BMW keys so he won't drink-n-drive.
Nice to have you here, Caine.
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;D YO, MF 8)
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If y'all got in Caine's mini at the same time I want to see pictures!
Welcome Caine.
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Good to see you in here Caine
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Welcome to the group Caine. Good to see names from the past pop up.
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Thanks for the welcome's. Sorry said hello and rather selfishly buggered off on holiday to Costa Rica and New Orleans.
Got some poke's from the system reminding me that I was not posting - believe me I wanted too, but spent most of the holiday pissing it up, with many a sore head in the mornings.
Grown up a little since the Mini experience (apologies for that) and leave the keys / car at home.
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>Grown up a little since the Mini experience
hahaha, I don't even remember anything negative? Except I felt like Dino from the flintstones.
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Hi Everyone,
Co-worker invited me, nice to meet you all.
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Hi Everyone,
Co-worker invited me, nice to meet you all.
Great to have you here Dave. Welcome!
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Welcome! Do you mind telling us a little bit about yourself?
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hey Dave :) Nice to see a new face.
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Welcome! Do you mind telling us a little bit about yourself?
Been working in SEO since 2001, In my spare time i train Mixed Martial Arts, Race Cars, DJ and Play bass guitar. I also enjoy Action/Horror/Sci-fi movies, tv and old kung fu movies :)
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Welcome Capone.
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>Race Cars
Nice! I think we have a couple others here who do track time.
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>Race Cars
Nice! I think we have a couple others here who do track time.
Awesome, i try to attend a few HPDE's a year if i have time. I'm in Florida so we have some great tracks in relatively close distances to choose from.
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2001? you will fit right in here :)
welcome.
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Welcome capone!
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Helooooo :)
I play iRacing does that count as track time ? ;+}
Welcome :)
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Hello Dave :)
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Welcome capone!
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Awesome...
Your gimp suit is over there in the corner... meet mackin in the back room for orientation.
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In Keeping with OP I'm an old SEO and web designer guy who is originally from the UK but has upgraded to Florida where It really rains, none of the half measures drizzle.
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Welcome Vectorite! From the UK to Florida, and an old SEO & web designer. You seem to have the Core covered.
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Gang please welcome Vectorite.
I met him in another group, he is a sharp seo, also gearing up a local seo business. He is also a joomla specialist.
We've worked some tools and strategies together, he's the real deal. In mackin terms, I've had phone with him.
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welcome Vectorite.
Any friend of Dras is welcome here.
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>> had phone
wow - a real relationship :)
Welcome Vectorite - you could have just moved to the south west for real rain you know...
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hey there :)
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Welcome Vectorite
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Welcome :)
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Here's a hello from Canada! ;D
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Hello and welcome Vectorite. Where in Florida are you? I am in Jacksonville.
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What's up guys. I landed here by way of a friend and mentor from a seaside town in East Sussex. I'm from the wine country and also Yosemite in California. I left the horrid world of commercial insurance and also SMB IT and fell back on my hobby of IM and SEO a couple of years ago. I had to start over and had no savings but couldn't stomach another job in that industry so I got busy selling myself in the SEO world to clients who suited the wee skill-set I had back then.
It has been sink or swim ever since and I'm right proud that I have survived and had some good victories by spending a couple of years staying up late and hungrily seeking seo truth. I don't like reading too much bandwagon seo for the most part. I'm more interested in harder questions and getting an edge.
I have accumulated significant amount of experience and insight in local seo that I can contribute if that's valuable to anyone. Outside of SEO, I mostly keep to myself online and don't represent what I do in forums and am not active in social media except in a few private groups and with a few individuals.
My other primary interest is photography which I've done professionally and if / when I retire from SEO, I'll be doing commercial photography. I tend to have a teasing sense of humor and I've spent a great deal of my life growing up around Aussies so I can take roughness.
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Here's a welcome from Canada!
>> insight in local seo
Yes, YES please! :-)
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Hello and welcome Daniel.
Make yourself at home, find a few posts to dive into. Good to have you onboard :)
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Good to have you here Daniel.
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Welcome Danieljc! Local SEO is something I have very little practical experience with, so I'd appreciate your insight.
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Welcome to the forums Danieljc.
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Welcome Daniel :)
you will find the pace of life steady here, and the insight deep.
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Well met Sir :)
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Afternoon Daniel. Welcome :)
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Welcome from Denmark! Good to have you on board!
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What everyone of the MFs above said 8) ;D 8)
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Hi All. I’ve been hearing about this group for ages, but once I heard that Jason is beginning to refer to me as Mrs. Ergophobe, I figured I'd better get going and join already.
I’ve been working in marketing for years, but mostly relying on agencies to do the real nitty gritty stuff. Now, it looks like I have a chance at being part of a brand new in-house SEO/SEM team (fingers crossed), and the chasm between what I know and what I feel like I should know feels … more substantial. At least I know that there is a lot I don’t know, right?
Interestingly, I was looking through the other introductions, and this would be two newbie introductions in a row from the Yosemite, CA area who are interested in photography. Go figure.
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haha - Henceforth Mrs Ergophobe shall be referred to as SimpleTheresa by me.
Welcome to th3core Theresa, great to have you onboard :)
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Ha! finally got "Mrs Ergophobe" to join.
Some folks here (buckworks and Ash for sure) know her from the "real" world (mostly Pubcons but some forum people have cycled through Yosemite here and there). Maybe a couple of others.
She is my guide to social media (one of my guides anyway) and the one in the house who knows how an iPhone works.
https://www.instagram.com/stillsimplytheresa/
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Welcome Theresa! It's fabulous to have you on board! :-)
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Welcome Theresa!
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Welcome :)
And beware of the Ergos !
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Welcome SimplyTheresa I hope you enjoy our community.
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Welcome Theresa! I guess you know us better than we know you :)
Good to have you on board.
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Brilliant! Welcome to the show Theresa!
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I guess you know us better than we know you :)
Safe to say... trying to change that though.
But buckworks may know more about Theresa's "girl stuff" shopping than I do.
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Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome. I thought I'd get caught up on recent conversations while I worked up the courage to start posing questions.
Oh, and gm66, what could you possibly mean by that? ;)
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If littleman says welcome then so do I.
But I don't know who you are, or do I ???
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She's my wife and I think other than me, Buckworks is the only regular here who has met her in person at multiple Pubcons. A few other folks who are not quite as active here (anawalla and a couple others) have met her too.
Not a big overlap between Th3 Core and Pubcon, but simplytheresa will probably be at Pubcon Vegas this year... with or without me, I don't know.
Trying to get her more active here, but a new job is keeping her pretty busy.
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CaboWabo
Main handle due to my Van Halen addiction. In an odd coincidence, whenever I travel, the people in the room next to me always listen to Van Halen...whether they want to or not. ;)
Started back in '96. Speaker at PubCon. Owe much of my success to the late Tedster.
Currently an affiliate marketer and trying to keep a low profile.
Been looking for a safe haven since WMW ceased being that.
Looking forward to contributing.
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Welcome Cabo
We love to visit the Baja
Were you @ ASW in Vegas?
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Hello Cabo and welcome to th3core.
Good to have another old boy/girl around. You sound eerily like someone I know.... Different nick though :)
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Welcome behind the scene! Being an old timer, you'll find plenty of familiar nicks in here. Good to have ya.
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Welcome Cabo
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Yes welcome. was that always your Nick, or have you found Van Halen more recently?
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Hi Cabo and welcome to your experienced brain :)
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Thanks for joining us CaboWabo. Sammy or David?
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Thanks for the welcome!
Found Van Halen in 1979.
I'm old.
Always Dave, but pre-'85 Dave. When he lost his hairline, he lost his cool.
Sammy better solo.
CaboWabo has been my handle since 2001 I think when I joined WMW.
Rockon.
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>I'm old
Pfffft!
Welcome to a safe haven, CB.
Keep April 20-27 open.
Ping me your location in NC. Elizabeth City here.
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>Sammy better solo.
I agree, the early David years of VH are when they made their best music. Somewhere there is a photo of glassy eyed and mullet wearing teenage me going to a VH concert in the 1980s.
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>Always Dave
Membership accepted. Welcome to the madhouse.
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Hey MFs. Saw Mackin in January, and he reminded me that this place exists. Thought I'd poke my head back in and see what's going on.
The more things change...
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Good. Saved us the trouble of pinging you, slacker.
http://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/corecon-se-2017/
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slacker.
valid
http://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/corecon-se-2017/
he shared that too. looking at the calendar...
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Welcome, Welcome.
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Welcome Tcolling! 8)
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Thank you for allowing me to join and for welcoming me!
I live and work in Oceanside, California and my agency is A Servant's Heart Web Design and Marketing, at https://eldersell.com. The company provides SEO and other online marketing services along with WordPress website building and management.
We work primarily with clients who are in the field of home health care, hospice, non-medical caregiving and other services that support the elderly and their families but we can work with other types of clients as well and do so, everything from ministries to online education.
Most of our clients are "local" in nature or regional at most, so we do a lot of local SEO work as well as general practice organic SEO work.
The company was formed in 2013 and is small but profitable and we're always looking for more opportunities to help other firms grow through their online presence.
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Welcome to the show tcolling. Thrilled to have you join this gang of old veterans. Grab a cuppa and poke around. We're here to help you getting lost :)
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WELCOME
I've spent many a happy morning @ http://www.jollyrogerrestaurants.com
Years ago I lived at the Marina for 10 days.
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Welcome tcolling. We talk about most anything here, join in as you will.
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Thanks for the warm welcome.
Re the Jolly Roger - I had lunch there just last Friday! :)
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I've been away for a while - looking to find some familiar faces here. :)
I noticed gurtie's not been about for a while but grnidone is. Is JasonD still about? Is Aaron Wall still active? What did Dave do after he did work with Microsoft? Is Rand Fishkin a millionaire yet? Did Matt Cutts really leave Google? How did Danny end up becoming a spokesman for them? Lol, yes, it's been a few years. :)
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Some might know me.
Been a member (and mod) at WickedFire, before its demise.
Banned on buildersociety.
We'll see if I last here.
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Welcome emp!
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Welcome emp. I am sure you'll get along fine. Most of us are old time seo spammers here. We've got along over many disagreements over the years; we just treat each other with a basic level of respect. I don't think anyone here has a god complex.
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Welcome!
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Hello! Is this introduction thread still a thing?
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>still a thing?
Yep. Good place to start.
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ah, okay, hello everyone!
I started out with web design. Then I added print. Then I started to study copywriting, I've yet to earn a thing with that one. At the moment my service offerings are taylored around lead generation via websites. So it's basically back to web design again.
Currently I am located in the middle of Germany. I am from Germany. I do work self-employed in Germany. This forum now has a higher ranking for the keyword Germany. Obviously, my humor skills are also from Germany.
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Welcome to the Core Kvetcher from Germany.
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indeed welcome!