Comments on: I Am Only As Good As My Network

By: SEO Mofo

SEO Mofo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:46:29 +0000

I don’t get it. If your clients are paying your mortgage and feeding your kids…that’s 2 fewer things for you to worry about. Shouldn’t that have freed up some extra time? =P

By: Monica Wright

Monica Wright — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:40:22 +0000

Thanks Mofo for the awesome free WordPress SEO review, it’s just what I needed, you made my SEO to do list a lot easier. And who doesn’t like someone to leave a useful comment, especially one that challenges and stirs the pot a bit? I say bring it on.

But just for the record (and I believe I already tweeted this) – this is personal blog, a sandbox of sorts – and therefore don’t spend a whole lot of time optimizing the crap out of it. I should, just to demonstrate I’m not that clueless, but just don’t have the time when clients are calling, paying my mortgage, and feeding my kids.

By: Monica Wright

Monica Wright — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:30:27 +0000

Hey Patti,

Thanks for your comment, I would love to get together and share stories. I’ll reach out in a few weeks, and schedule some time when I’m down in your neck of the woods.

By: SEO Mofo

SEO Mofo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:44:50 +0000

Monica! In the spirit of free information...I present you with the following mini-audit: Your category archive pages have 3 meta robots tags! Also, the links to your category archive pages (in the top nav menu) all seem to be using the rel="nofollow" attribute (except for the about and random links) everywhere but the home page. In other words, your home page seems to be the only page that's wasting PageRank on category archive pages that can't be indexed. Also, it looks like you have 2 meta canonical tags per page: 1 from the Thesis theme and 1 from the All-in-one SEO Pack plugin. This isn't really that serious; just a bit redundant. The more-important issue is the fact that you don't have a WP-generated meta canonical tag, which suggests that you haven't upgraded to WordPress 2.9...and therefore your blog might be susceptible to the security vulnerabilities discovered in WordPress 2.8. Lastly--and most importantly--your blog roll has erroneously (and unintentionally, I presume) omitted the World's Greatest SEO blog.

By: Patti Fousek

Patti Fousek — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:31:08 +0000

Monica, I completely agree with you. Speaking from someone who was once in your shoes (literally – former HMG SEO), learning and sharing from/with others is what makes us better at what we do. There are no secrets in SEO. The idea that you may be giving away a secret sauce by sharing with others is complete bull. Also, by not letting your employees engage online is not only short-sighted, but can be hurtful to the agency itself. After all, the most successful SEO agencies are those that participate and share. Sharing your knowledge makes you (and the agency) more credible – especially in a time where SEO/SEM agencies are a dime a dozen. Now that I own my own agency, I would never prohibit an employee from participating in the industry. If they happen to get snatched up by a competitor, I would be sad for me, but happy for them. We should do lunch sometime. I’m sure we’d have a lot to share.

Best,

Patti Fousek
CreativeMind Search Marketing