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Re: The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Alan Bleiweiss - Caring & Giving SEO

@steveplunkett — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:32:56 -0000

=( We were supposed to go out to dinner when he was in Dallas. I wanted my son to meet him, he was my brother and my friend. He Bill and Dana are already hanging out.. they were the first to greet him. =(

Re: Cloudflare: We Will Get Google To Provide A Way To Block AI Overviews

@steveplunkett — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:58:15 -0000

CMO: "Why isn't our brand showing up in AI anymore?"
CDO: "We host our website at Cloudflare"
CTO: "We have the following alternatives to Cloudflare, some of them are actually less expensive"
CEO: "what are we waiting for?"

Re: Google: It's Tempting To Optimize For Tool Metrics But There's No Shortcuts In SEO

@steveplunkett — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:23:59 -0000

The Best tools are Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Google Keyword Planner.

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@steveplunkett — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:59:30 -0000

if it is a location page it should have the address in the title anyways?

Re: Google Tests Automating The Removal Of Manual Actions For Hacked Sites

@steveplunkett — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:59:30 -0000

nice.

Re: Farewell: Google Drops Google+ Links & Reviews

@steveplunkett — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:31:13 -0000

this makes sense.. map pack and mobile..

Re: Google: Web Pages vs Web Posts Are The Same For Indexing

@steveplunkett — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:48:28 -0000

dont confuse people.. tell them, it would then have a unique URL so then it could be indexed so technically it is a "webpage" it's just on a "blogging" platform instead of static HTML. #SMh =)

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

@steveplunkett — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:24:20 -0000

Great show Sam.. had no idea you used podcasts, did notice you were updating things sooner rather than later in story lines.. a very awesome show would love to hear you speak about this.. p.s. awesome ending.. first season.. and i hope you get an award for best music in a TV series.. =) #MrRobot

Re: Google Trying Local Pack Without Google+ Links

@steveplunkett — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:16:57 -0000

question: have you ever been paid by yelp for anything?

Re: Stock gift benefits the donor and DAV

@steveplunkett — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:31:47 -0000

Good info about giving stocks as gifts.
http://www.investopedia.com...

Re: Google Trying Local Pack Without Google+ Links

@steveplunkett — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:44:38 -0000

do a local search... =)

Re: Rick Santorum Staffers Leave Campaign to Form Super PAC

@steveplunkett — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:56:19 -0000

interesting

Re: Google Trying Local Pack Without Google+ Links

@steveplunkett — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:29:49 -0000

You should call it the weeding out of Yelp.

Re: Google Tests Direct Hotel Booking

@steveplunkett — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:58:22 -0000

if apple or microsoft did it, would it still be oh.. wait.. expedia.. also.. Google Wallet hotel booking? hello?

Re: Is This Google’s Twitter Integration Into The Search Results?

@steveplunkett — Mon, 04 May 2015 10:58:27 -0000

looks mobile only... do you follow Gary Valenciano? Those look like standard twitter alerts that come across android if you are following a hashtag?

Re: Bing Testing Recipe Data In Search Snippets

@steveplunkett — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:22:51 -0000

Yay!!! #Recipes

Re: 10 cool spaces at our headquarters

@steveplunkett — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:07:31 -0000

there is a Betty Crocker kitchen? Is it a test kitchen? the Cereal Bar have test cereals? (salivating over noms..)

Re: Generalists Vs. Specialists In SEO: What’s The Best Approach?

@steveplunkett — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:14:56 -0000

thinking like a programmer helps.. p.s. just broke Google.. /tools/mobile-friendly vs /tools/mobile-usability

Re: Generalists Vs. Specialists In SEO: What’s The Best Approach?

@steveplunkett — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:57:41 -0000

SEO is the optimization of a query retrieval system or rather the assets it uses for a query result.

This applies to amazon, xbox, ebay, Google News, Youtube, on site search, mobile directional search, geolocated unbranded search, voice search, within a mobile devices as well as queries upon the internet at large.

If you type/speak a query against a data set... you are searching.. this applies to all social networks as well as their connection points across those networks. =)

Re: Generalists Vs. Specialists In SEO: What’s The Best Approach?

@steveplunkett — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:54:20 -0000

Question: Why you specialize in the one thing that Google goes after the most.. see panda, penguin, hummingbird, proton, daytona, memphis and london.. ALL link building updates.. all to CURB link building influence.. i honestly do not understand..

Re: Generalists Vs. Specialists In SEO: What’s The Best Approach?

@steveplunkett — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:52:40 -0000

or just pwn everything. =)

Re: Generalists Vs. Specialists In SEO: What’s The Best Approach?

@steveplunkett — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:51:30 -0000

you either code or you dont... pretty much the main distinction... can you code? can you teach others to code? as in teach CMS technical team who to pull from existing database content to auto populate meta, urls, alts, a hrefs, and unique OG tags.. then work with copyrighters to use keywords and keyword phrases in unique segmentation points in navigational elements and body copy as well as social sharing attribution. Master SEOs know how to inform the client, lead them and client services team to integration of SEO in all campaign elements, intrinsically with the minimum impact on the daily operating functions and processes of the clients business as they already exist... i.e. if the client needs to hire someone to answer email fulltime due to SEO you did your job.. but also inform where those emails should go and then how to track them using CRM and metrics.

Re: Generalists Vs. Specialists In SEO: What’s The Best Approach?

@steveplunkett — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:18:58 -0000

use technical SEO toward providing solutions for the clients digital marketing goals.. and FYI... the difference between 2005 and today is SCALE. in 2005 SEOs had silos... you didnt share info.. today we have SEO teams,, someone for retail.. someone for local.. someone for B2B and someone for ORM.. then we share techniques across disciplines within SEO... and the methods to interact with other digital avenues.. Mobile, ORM, Social, PR, video, geolocation, ecommerce, etc..

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

@steveplunkett — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:14:26 -0000

see #whitecoatseo

Re: 5 reasons you’ll regret hiring a PR firm for your startup — and what you should do instead

@steveplunkett — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:44:46 -0000

Kevin.. just because you apparently have had bad experiences or have heard tales of pr charlatans.. not all PR Agencies are created equal..

Disclaimer: i don't work for PR Agency now.
Truth: did for 8 years.

They gave good advice to startups whom are still in business today or were acquired and managed through those acquisitions with sound business advice. I was just the SEO on all of the examples i speak of, but none of the negative attributes you mention above.. (which i have actually seen.. and know of similar examples..) would be representative of MOST of the REAL PR professionals.. also.. a lot of what you speak of is Crisis Management and not specifically PR. Some agencies are 24/7/365 - some are not.. some are B2B and some are B2C.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater man.. =)