Comments on: 18+ ways to tell if you’re an SEO O.G. http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/ Drive more Web traffic. Boost your search engine rankings. Make more money. Online SEO copywriting training classes for freelance writers, small businesses and marketers. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Heather http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47113 Heather Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:44:01 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47113 Hey girl!

LOL! And just a few years later, right before Google went public, people were begging to be a “friend of the company.” Definitely one cool idea that worked! :)

]]> By: Heather http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47112 Heather Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:42:05 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47112 LOL, @omnireso. We’re not getting old. We’re “seasoned” now. :)

]]> By: Bill Marshall http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47111 Bill Marshall Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:18:31 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47111 I remember my first internet connection – command line email by telneting into the local university network on a 4800 modem. Building a Gopher site prior to my first company website. HTML2 and having images for the first time. Mosaic. The US Robotics Sportster 14,400. The announcement of Alta Vista. Serps being filled with thousands of Amazon results. The first cold call from an SEO company and running rings round them.

“Tell that to kids today and they don’t believe you” M Python ;-)

]]> By: Lisa Williams http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47109 Lisa Williams Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:20:50 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47109 This was a hoot, thank you Heather. I worked in content creation for the web in 1996 and started my biz in 1998 (and bought my first SEO book written by you;) A friend actually introduced my to Google and I remember thinking “White space, no clutter, just searching, don’t know if it’ll last but cool idea!”

]]> By: Heather http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47108 Heather Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:49:24 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47108 Eric, I’m laughing over here, ’cause I thought the exact same thing.

Wow, were we wrong. :P

]]> By: Omnireso http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47105 Omnireso Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:16:48 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47105 Well, back then there was another big deal : being listed in ODP / DMOZ ! Almost every Internet Access Provider had its huge directory too (and what about Lycos, does it ring a bell ? ;-)

Thanks for reminding us we’re getting old !

]]> By: kelvin http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47104 kelvin Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:15:08 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47104 cool post. Since i am new in seo world so some of our points seems to be totally new for me. I want some more explanation in these points……………

]]> By: Ammon Johns http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47103 Ammon Johns Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:29:36 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47103 Nah, I loved GoTo! I didn’t know if it would last, but boy was it a great tool.

Two major reasons for loving GoTo:

1) You only paid per click, impressions were free. That meant you could do FREE branding campaigns by placing memorable, high-bid ads that nobody would actually want to click… I raped that before they set a minimum clicks rule.

2) We didn’t have News search back then. But in a special deal with Overture (right around the time of the name change) I got a special ‘Hot Line’ deal for my client CNN where we could get any keyword placed in just 1 hour. :)

We had to be more inventive back then.

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]]> By: Eric Enge http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/17-ways-to-tell-if-youre-an-seo-o-g/#comment-47098 Eric Enge Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:04:47 +0000 http://www.seocopywriting.com/?p=9279#comment-47098 I do remember when GoTo launched! I had a call with one of their sales reps and laughed at the idea. No way that model was going to work.

People would NEVER click on a search result they realized someone had paid for.

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