Sugarrae - Never Mess With a Woman Who Can Pull Rank

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A little bit ago, I got an email from Matt McGee - someone who I’ve only met once in person, but who posts some pretty good information on small business seo. The email was to tell a group of us - who in his head were prospective judges - about an awards website he started called the SEMMYs. Basically, he was asking us to pare down his initial list of nominees to some finalists that the seo community could then vote on.

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This is a tough post for me to write, but I’m going to write it because it should serve as an example. Let me first give you a little history. Picture it (kudos to anyone who got that intro)… I wasn’t always known as Sugarrae online… I switched to the nickname in March of 2005 and bought the domain.

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You know, I am starting to feel like most of my blog posts are seo rants and last week I decided to try and lay off the rants for a while. But then I came across a column today over at Search Engine Land by Shari Thurow that made me fucking fume. It isn’t the first thing by Shari to make me fume either, but this one I’m going to voice an opinion about.

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So, it would seem Andrew Goodman didn’t like my latest rant about SEO as a popularity contest. Normally, I ignore this type of stuff as everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But, when my words get twisted into comments I don’t even recognize (such as saying I respect a guy who is spamming restaurant review sites), I’m gonna sound the hell back.

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I am going to break my normal rules of laziness and post twice in one day to get one huge sentiment off my chest: search engine optimization is now and has been since the arrival of Google, a popularity contest - you either learn to compete or fucking whine in silence. Oh, I went there.

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A while back there was a huge debate about women in search. The topic being whether or not there were enough of us and some statements that women in search tend to be more geared towards search engine marketing rather than search engine optimization.

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I’m going to write about something completely trivial because it is and has been annoying the hell out of me. I am wondering what the hell the qualifications are for a word to “become” a word by Google’s standards. What the hell am I babbling about?

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Hey you. Wannabe digger. Yeah, you. What the fuck is it about the rules that you don’t understand? When you submit a story to Digg, it is supposed to be news. You know… things people haven’t read about before or a very new twist or angle or original thought on a non time sensitive topic. The digging process goes like this:

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I was wandering around the Blogosphere when I got home from New York SEO Class and came across a post at rmay’s blog about MerchantCircle. He was essentially complaining about the lack of usability and useful layout and/or information on the MerchantCircle.com website. But, what shocked me was what happened as a result…

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I read an article in Wired while I was on the plane last weekend and it annoyed me so much that I actually took notes in the magazine to write a blog post about it, but had to wait until the article was released this morning on Wired for you guys to know what I was bitching about…

Hearding the Mob: Crowdhacking on the Web

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