Building world-class Search Engine Optimization expertise

As everyone on this blog is probably aware, Facebook apps are hot, hot, hot. MySpace (and everyone else) is sure to open things up soon as well. Who in Cleveland can we turn to for application creation at a fair price?

I’m extremely proud and excited to let you know that I’m now an expert columnist at Searchenginewatch.com.

This site has been the definitive search engine news resource site since the onset of this industry.

My focus in going to be on “Link Love.” This means I’m going to be discussing the ins and outs of viral marketing and what the link building world is all about these days.

It’s an extremely interesting area of expertise. Understanding this arena will help you generate untold numbers of new visitors to your web site with little or no cost.

So, check out my first article. I’ll be writing on this topic every other Thursday:
Prevention is the Best Medicine: Don’t Let Viral Campaigns Get Sick and Die

I can’t even believe it.. I’ve got a blog.It’s my first blog ever and though I’ve been entrenched in the world for years now I’d like to think that I might be able to give a little bit back to the place that I’ve got it from.

Thus is born: SMOmashup.com

As I’ve said, it’s my very first blog and instead of just being random drivel brought to you with some catchy punchline I’ve decided to focus my efforts on a specific part of our industry: Social Media Optimization. Though most all of us deal in some way or another with various forms of marketing on the internet, I’ve decided to go where I’m unnaturally called… the land of MySpace, YouTube, Digg and beyond to see where it is the rest of us can fall into place.

In the world of SEO, so many of us have taken something that’s fairly new to the world and perfected it to a science. The differential to this is the world of SMO, where things we only dream about happen on a daily basis.

At SMOmashup.com I intend to take all of us on a daily journey from the most simplistic (WTF is SMO?) to the most complex (What can Fortune 500 companies do effectively with MySpace?) and just about everything in between. As a newer part of Cleveland SEO I would ask for you to check back each day to see what we can all share from our adventures in the underworld as well as giving up some Link Love to help promote NEO as a place where people can find the cutting edge news in our quickly expanding realm.

Can anyone out there hook me up with an Orkut invitation? I’m at joelcheesman[at]gmail.com.