http://www.rankedhard.com Life in an SEO Company Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:22:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Happy Birthday to you." - Marilyn Monroe (video) I received this birthday card on my 40th birthday, Oct. 15, 2007. The card itself is an actual scan of the original card. I thought it was clever enough to include it as a Ranked Hard comic strip, and ... http://www.rankedhard.com/an-seo-birthday-card.php Phil: Do you ever have deja vu Mrs. Lancaster? Mrs. Lancaster: I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.- Groundhog Day The Internet has taken the art of finely-crafted writing and beaten the living crap out of it. Not only has content on the Internet become a series of ... http://www.rankedhard.com/keyword-stuffing-keyword-stuffing-keyword-stuffing.php "Is that a mirage, or just product placement?", Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) This comic is brought to you by: Keyword Discovery | Syndicate Kahuna | Romow Web Directory | SEOHosting.com I'm sure this month's Ranked Hard SEO comic will draw some controversy, and to be quite honest, ... http://www.rankedhard.com/your-ad-here.php "Yoohoo, I'll make you famous!" - William H. Bonney, Young Guns II Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame. We have Andy Warhol to thank for this supposed entitlement to fame, but is fame always justified? We easily could have expanded this "square" to be a rectangle and included dozens of ... http://www.rankedhard.com/seo-squares.php "I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular is the most important thing in the world." - Homer Simpson It is important to be popular on the Internet and buying links helps with that. Link buying has certainly gotten a bad rap lately. Especially from Google and a certain Mr. Matt Cutts. ... http://www.rankedhard.com/your-link-here.php "I'll be back." - Terminator I heard Jason Calacanis speak at SES New York in 2008 and I honestly didn't know who he was, so I listened to his presentation without bias or preconceived notions. By the end of his speech I had seen several people get up and leave and ... http://www.rankedhard.com/jason-calacanis-seo-has-no-future.php “Show ME the money!” - Jerry Maguire The June comic for Ranked Hard is about the decision that many of those that do business on the Internet have to deal with – using Pay Per Click either over SEO or in conjunction with SEO. Now, while we're not actually implying that ... http://www.rankedhard.com/the-real-reason-your-site-dropped-in-google.php "You can’t handle the truth!" - Col. Jessup, A Few Good Men. The truth is many companies are outsourcing. Outsourcing isn't just a hot button in the SEO industry, it is a topic of heated discussion in most businesses. Outsourcing overseas hurts because it takes away jobs from Americans, but American ... http://www.rankedhard.com/outsourcing-reservations.php If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. - Darth Vader This month's comic, "Beware the Dark Side", deals with those SEO companies that are less than straight forward, and how nice it would be if they were. We always do our best to keep everything we do ... http://www.rankedhard.com/beware-the-dark-side.php "It Cutts like a knife, but it feels so right." - Bryan Adams "Cutt Her Some Slack" is our most niche comic yet. Not only are we focusing on the relatively small SEO community, we have made the focus of the comic a Google engineer named Matt Cutts. And if you ... http://www.rankedhard.com/cutt-her-some-slack.php