I came back last week from a relaxing vacation and found an email in my inbox sporting the following title: “PageRank is Dead.” Upon reading the title, my mind went blank, closing up in an effort to prevent shock. Was this possible? The Death of PageRank? I tried to remember the predetermined events of the [...]
About Jeff Call
Jeff is a one-time SEO.com Office Summer Olympic Bronze medal winner and a Viking. When not pillaging or plundering, Jeff, who calls himself Svenrir when no one is listening, likes to get in touch with his peace-loving side by writing Norse ballads and putting his pen to palette, which can be seen at jeffisnotartsyfartsy.blogspot.com
4 New Search Engines To Keep An Eye On (Or Risk Annihilation)
May 20, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Are Search Engines the Beginning of the End? When fiction looks to the future, humans always seem to find a way to engineer their own demise. Particularly, pop culture is rife with plotlines centering around a complex system designed to serve our interests with access to unlimited information, deciding to purge, manipulate, subjugate or otherwise [...]
The "How SEOed are You?" Quiz
April 7, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Inspired by the popularity of all those “entertaining” and “highly informative” (read also: “turgid” and “loathsome”) quizzes that have spread across Facebook like fire on the savanna, and that tell me so very much about my friends and myself, I have created this quiz that asks, “How SEOed is Your Site?” It has a series [...]
The Waggish 10 Step SEO Guide to Finding the Success and Prestige of a Spammer
March 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
People often ask me, “Jeff, how can I become a spammer?” I don’t know why. I wish they’d stop. The following guide is for them (see exhibit A). The rest of you should consider doing the opposite. Step 1. Forget website mission, goals, and long term growth. Embrace deception, egotism, and the soul-less pursuit of [...]
Re-Enter: The Competitive Analysis!
February 12, 2009 by Leave a Comment
When I was in middle-school, comic books were AWESOME. Looking back, I notice now that in nearly every comic book, eventually there was the villain that could take everybody’s powers and use them as his or her own. The uncanny X-Men battled the aptly-named Mimic; the Avengers and the Fantastic Four both took a shot [...]
