CK Chung here from the OC. I'm an Independent SEO Consultant / Competitive Webmaster. I don't want to look spammy, so you can find more info about me and what I do if you click through to my profile...

As for making the site better for me, you are already doing an excellent job as it is. I was going to try to be funny and say that it would be better if you sent me a lot of money... but the ideas and strategies that I have gleaned from you are making me money. :)

Well I'll kick it off then :) My name is Joost de Valk, SEO, Blogger, coder, and avid reader of SEO Book :) Making stuff better: you should go into podcasting, that way I can consume your stuff while on my way to work etc. :)

My name is Corey Creed and I am an Internet Marketing consultant and trainer in Charlotte, North Carolina.

We offer classes on SEO, PPC, Blogging, etc at our "Hippo Internet Marketing Training" website.

SEO Book is a great resource for me to stay informed on SEO trends and offers excellent insight. I agree with the idea of podcasting. I follow several from Webmaster Radio every morning.

I appreciate the tools and information. Other than that, I have no recommendations. The only other thing I would like is the opportunity to meet more local webmasters and SEOs. Not sure how that could be done, though.

Keep up the great work Aaron!

Corey

Hey Aaron, congrats on 4000 members.... Peter Davis here, I go by the same handle (petertdavis) in most relevant communities. I've been webmastering for nearly a decade now, doing not only SEO but also community building and domaining.

Congrats on 4k members!
Mike Piper here. Use seobook for strategies for marketing my small business tax books. Avid seobook reader since I learned about it. Loved the videos the most perhaps, but all of the content is wonderful.

Hello all - Doug Cress from NYC. Long time reader - always enjoy your commentary and insight.

Todd Mintz: Internet Marketing Director / Corporate SEO and Board Member of SEMpdx (Search Engine Marketing Professionals of Portland).

Your site is great and I want to particularly acknowledge the awesome (and free) tools that you provide for webmasters. I also like the Q&A threads you are doing...so long as you have the time to answer folks, it would be great to keep the up.

Hi I am Didier and I've been reading SEO book for as long as I've been a SEO consultant. I own a couple of websites and mostly just work on my own projects.

Thank You

Hi I'm Nick and fairly new to SEO, but have been reading the blog for a couple of months - I too like the Q&A posts you're doing and the videos.

Top Rank Internet Marketing SEO (etc) consultant since the wild west days of 1997.

English male born in the Torquay, Devon area.

Moved to San Francisco with my Missus (who's from Detroit) in 1995.

Started tinkering around with HTML and websites then fell into SEO when Alta Vista was big ;)

Gradually built up a steady clientele including some big names (in Northern California) and the local window cleaner.

Moved to Huntersville NC (joins on to Charlotte) in 2005 and continued to build my solo op business which is kind to me.

I have a 400 sq ft home office and love the daily challenges I face

Recently I opened up as a corporate trainer for all things search and am enjoying meeting and training some smart smaller businesses.

My football team is Chelsea (it's football not soccer)

I am a green belt in Judo, have a degree in Graphic Design ++++ , love toilet humor (in the right company) and kayaking on the local lakes.

Oh yes I have a few money making blogs out there that I work on too ;)

Best

David

I am an internet marketer that got involved with search engine marketing back in the late 90's.

One thing I would like to see is how others optimize live websites for competitive keywords.

Hi, I am Ari Shohat and I am based in New York City.

I manage a popular Internet-radio music network called Digitally Imported Radio (DI.fm), I've started it as a hobby 8 years ago.

I have a number of other things on the side or in the works, too many to mention. But SEO and domaining is my new-found interest as of late, hence why I am here.

SUGGESTION:
Aaron, what I think you might have great success with is if you launch some kind of a resource center. Like a relevant jobs, industry services, or even for sale listings (services / domains). I guess there are a few others like it in the space lately, but your reputation would also make this a good niche hub for such things. Just my two cents.

Cheers everyone.

Hi,

I'm an in-house sem (ppc, seo, affiliate). I work in a fast growing b2c brazilian company. I would love to find here some tips about SEOing outsite US, ranking factors differences, these kind of things.

I'm a musician, brazilian Air Force Fighter Pilot (reservist), have 2 cats e no blogs or websites (!).

I'm an emmerging internet marketer. I graduate in May (BA Business) and have for the last six months really started focusing on internet marketing as a skillset. I appreciate all of the information that I have gleaned from you through your sites and will continue to read and learn.
A suggestion...perhaps you can include an advice section on the foundations of internet marketing. Critical skills to build upon in the future.

I am that I am.

Wow so many professional SEOs here. I actually feel honored reading from the same sources as the pros.

I work at an entry level position for a real estate hosting company called Advanced Access in Anaheim, California. I mainly do customer service & help desk related tasks. However the company I work for does have an in house Search Engine Marketing department that I been trying to get in.

Really I am just an SEO geek. I love learning about it, even though I'm not a SEO expert. I figure we have to start some where and in the past 8 months that I have been learning about SEO I have learned a lot. So someday I may be doing this as part of my profession. For now I'm just having fun learning.

I'm from the UK, and I am an alcoholic.

I have no interest in SEO, and found this site when I typed 'searching gin' into Google.

Hi Aaron (and all of the other readers). After 20 years managing ERP software consulting organizations, last spring I made a career change and am now working in an advertising and branding agency in Canada, managing their online services - SEO, web site development, online advertising, and any other related activity.

My name is Harry Bishop. I have a few consumer facing clients, but most of my customers are in the B2B world - manufacturers selling to and buying from other firms. For the first group I'm doing promotional sites, e-marketing, corporate sites. For the second larger group I'm running SEO programs, attempting corporate website redesigns to at least not be so fundamentally counter to SEO goals :-) , negotiating and executing online advertising from basic banners through rich media and viral, direct marketing, corporate web sites, etc, etc.

Thanks Aaron for your ongoing posts and the book.

Hi Aaron, been reading your blog/site for 1-2 years now. About six months ago I took the plunge and turned my Salt Lake City, Utah based branding/web dev/web design/advertising/marketing/copywriting/graphic design firm into just an seo/web design firm, and things have never been better.

I'm mostly a website developer, but obviously SEO is an important part of any website so I do read your blog among others to understand SEO.

Of interest to you and perhaps your readers, I just finished a series of videos of SEO tips for Drupal.

Aaron, your Book has been great. I have only made it through page 85, plus the supliments and have recieved my $79.00's worth 10 times over. My profile is my introduction also, however, I do look forward to learning and sharing on yet another great site. Peace, Mike

HI I am Lance
Currently I am a mis tech

Love To Program
Love Learning new Stuff
Love your blog and your site

Thanks for all the free tools and info.

Hey Aaron,

I'm a long-time reader, first-time commenter.

I have been studying SEO intensively since mid-2005 when a developer friend turned me onto RSS and some forward-looking statistics about the future of online advertising.

I have a degree in sociology and a background in copywriting and PR, so I am really into KW research, social media, linkbait and link building. (I like the linguistic and sales part of SEO.)

I worked for a local SEO firm for almost a year but I found I couldn't relax unless I was working on building my own business, so now I provide SEO and social media consulting services to clients and I enjoy it very much.

My new year's resolution is to take a serious stab at building an authority site of my own. I've been sitting on a domain for a while and it's time to make something out of it. Thanks for the inspiration!

Hi Aaron,

I'm Matias Bulox. I bought your SEO book like a year and a half ago and I gotta say it has really given me a boost in this field. I am from Argentina but I've lived in Houston, Texas for 5 1/2 years now. I've been always related to Real Estate and 2007 was my best year...I created an online system that generated over $90,000 in 10 months for a local Realtor so I think I got something!!!...Congrats for the 4K members!!!...Keep up the amazing work you do.
God Bless You, your wife and your SUCCESS!!! Happy Holidays.

Hello Aaron,

I'm James Burns from CMS Website Services, LLC. We have a team of 25 and specialize in Drupal Development. Since your site is also Drupal, would love to see some Drupal specific SEO info posted in your blog.

My name is Stuart Hughes and I discovered seobook a few months ago and have been reading the blog pretty much everday since. I've been a professional graphic designer for about 20yrs, but about a year ago kind of changed gears. I've got a hotel reservation site (competitive industry much??) and am spending more time marketing it really than trying to go after graphics business. I've learned a lot by reading your site, because you have a truckload of knowledge ... and are honest and open as to what's happening around the web. Thanks, it's great.

Hi Everyone, my name is Carlos and am based in Vancouver Canada. I have a SEO firm with my wife and I also work at HealthPricer.com as the in house SEO. I find the SEObook site to be the best source of up to date information.

Hi All

I'm Dave and I don't sleep that much, so can often be found catching up with SEO work at night.

Married to a South African fashion designer, work as a pro photographer / web host / web and graphic designer (bit lazy on that score, so always looking for cheap flash templates and add-ons (am I allowed to use the 'F' word on an SEO site?!)).

Always willing (when available)to talk shop with fellow pro SEOs and learners alike. Contacts on profile page.

Thanks for a great site Aaron.

Hi Aaron:

I'm Mario Sanchez and I've been following your blog since the early days of your "Google Steals Christmas" article in 2003.

I am an Internet marketing geek although I work full time as a product development director for a 160 year old hardware company. As of now, Internet marketing is just my hobby but I'm expecting it to become a full time gig once I decide to take the plunge.

I'm now on my second site (see profile), a relatively new blog that revolves around branding and social media.

Thinking of what I would like to see in your blog, I envision a series of posts called "one day in the life of Aaron Wall" where you share all your daily professional activities with us, namely, how much time do you spend reading blogs, researching and writing posts, building your social media profile, working on customer's sites, updating seobook, etc.

I remember once reading "The Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump and talking about it with other people, and the part of the book that everybody enjoyed the most was the first chapter called "A Week in the Life" where Trump shared with his readers the details of a typical week of work for him. It would be great to read the same kind of chronicle about you.

All the best and thank you for all the help you give us every day.

Mario.

ok, you finally got me to register! Hi, I'm Jim Boykin....have we met before? You blog is just tooooo good aaron...you should charge at least 3 times what you currently do ;)

I'm Elvis, and I'm and SEO/Internet Marketer although I'm just getting into the web marketing thing now.

I'm also involved in the Real Estate business and love working on computers. It's no wonder I like SEO :)

I do web design (CSS XHTML), graphic work and I'm just getting into PHP coding to make the sites more interactive. Plus there is some good stuff you can do with landing pages with PHP (and other languages too, I just prefer PHP)

I may as well state I'm 22 years old, going on 23 this year and am looking forward to my future on the net and to continue reading SEOBook pretty much daily!

I'm Ross (rosshill.com.au). I do a bit of seo work for web design clients but am looking into everything with fresh eyes again before I make a much bigger local business reviews site.

Great idea here Aaron,

Jim Spencer, from the Boston area where social media has strong roots.

JBS Partners designs, develops and hosts web sites and blogs for small businesses and solo entreprenuers

Always on the look out for new talented individuals to partner with on a project basis.

SEObook was recommended by a colleague about 2 years ago and has proven valuable. I mostly lurk on the blog. Thanks for all of the great work here. Thanks for suggesting RoboForm.

Curious. Why do you think folks don't comment on comments? The ability is now here (reply) and it happens on other blogs.

Has anyone ever used the "Subject" section of the comments?

I continue to find key word selection a curious task and would appreciate more specific cases studies/examples on live sites. I could donate a client site, if need be.

My name is Bill, I've been doing SEO and SEM since 2004. I have a few websites of my own, and I blog on my art website.

Right now I'm doing SEO and SEM for a company in NJ.

David Norris here, SEO/usability/e-commerce consultant & site manager. Yours is only e-book I've ever bought or recommended to others, and I still find it a valuable resource after years in the business. The one thing I'd like to see more than anything is a recommendation on a keyword management program... something that will allow me to categorize thousands of terms, export (but not list) permutations, and allow imports from google analytics or other programs to add to the list. I've never found anything even close.

Im, Gino Carpio... Cebu City.

Hi my name is Evan Jerkunica and I'm an American living in Taiwan.

I first heard about SEO from a guy in a coffee shop. In fact it was Pat from seoish.com and he told me to buy your book.

I've read the whole thing and I now have my first real net marketing/seo gig over in Taiwan at a Chinese educational company Taiwan.

Currently I don't have any recommendations for the site, but I will let you know if I do.

Love your blog!

My Name is Willi I am Swiss living in Novosibirsk Russia. I work for movavi.com
I just like to read your blog and to be current to new trends.

Hi all, I am Sufyan living in Pakistan and doing SEO stuff of my own. It's much better to do own stuff than working for corporate firms.

And I don't think I would be where I am now without Aaron's support and help. He is the man! The MOST HONEST AND KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON IN THE SEO INDUSTRY I HAVE EVER SEEN. Thanks for being a friend! I would love to meet you in person. :)Keep rockin!

I'm Raja Sekharan from India. I am a web developer.

I'm Ari, and I'm neither here nor there.
I'm a competitive webmaster and seomainer (cross between seo and domainer), and I don't consult, for anyone :-)

Aaron - will you being going out to vegas for ASW?

Ari

Hey Guys,

My name is Craig and I am the in-house SEM and general tech guy for a web design company based in nottingham, England. We do a pretty large amount of sites and we share offices with an e-commerce company.

I enjoy reading this blog as it actually gives me SE news instead of news that has been copied/pasted from somewhere else.

Keep up the good work team Wall.

Nice to read about the background of your readers. My name is Gemme, an independent SEO Consultant. These days I'm focusing more and more on the Chinese market as I live in Shanghai and probably will be here for the years to come.

What I most appreciate of this blog is, besides the useful tools, the passion in your writing and the insights that come with it. The fact that you don't follow the pack is a great bonus as well as there are already enough GG groupies at the moment.

I have no suggestions for improvements of the site at this stage, just keep blogging:)

Hey Buddies,
This is Ramesh from India. I was in the US for quite a while and started my online operations from there while doing a job many years ago. But currently I am operating from India. I work mainly on my own projects including sites selling information products as well as affiliate offerings. I am also trying to do some JVs with local offline vendors.

Though I see lot of SEOs in India seling their SEO services as the manpower is cheap. But I am not a huge fan of selling lot of low value commodity products in large volume. Hence I focus mainly on my own projects and try to create value out of them.

Really, not much suggestions to improve this site as it already rocks. Recently videos, Q&A sessions were great. Maybe you may cover a little bit more on domains. Something like Domaining Guide for SEOs on the lines on the Blogger's Guide that you did earlier.

Hey Aaron

My name is Jason and I'm a graphic/web designer from the UK. I have been designing websites for a few years now but only got into the SEO side of things when I launched my own photo site at www.fotoviva.co.uk which I hope to make into a second business.

Your book is full of very valuable SEO knowledge that I keep reading again and again. Keep up the good work!

Hi Araron, Unsuprisingly I'm a SEO (from London). Have been for 3 years now. As for improvement to the site, post more often, you only update once a day, now that just lazy!

Hi Aaron,
I work in this business in Spain. Most of the information I get is from the US, but too little for other markets. My suggestions would be to give more information about international markets.

I am one of the owners of Tupela, who own a few travel sites and dabble in web development for friends.

Hi Aaron,

I'm an inhouse SEO/SEM for a French travelling company in Paris. Two and a half years ago I knew nothing about SEO and all began with your book. You, your book and your blog helped me a lot showed me the way. When I need some inspiration, new ideas I read your blog and I always find something extraordinary.

Thank you for being.

Great thing here Aaron, good nice link bait going..

I learned a lot from your SEO Book and love the updates!
And the Blog works great for me as well.

I just do SEO on the side next to my normal job as an ICT Manager for my own websites and for a few clients.

Your Blog an that of Joost are on my feed-reader list for a long time now and I am still learning from you guys as well as by testing my own ideas.

Thanks for the great resources you supply!

On the Internet I go by the name Hummerbie, short for Hummingbird and Busy bee :-).

I'm Martijn Anschutz from the Netherlands, besides giving tours in Amsterdam ;) I make my living with being an independent Internet Marketeer.

As for making the site even better, I really liked the video's, nice to hear you're gonna make some more in 2008!

I'm Ryan Freeman, from Toronto, Canada. Online, I use the handles "RKF" and "Infinite."

I started working with "internet stuff" in 1994 with a local computer store that had a BBS and was one of the first ISPs in the area. Eventually they grew into the largest privately owned ISP in Canada, but by that point I had opted to pursue the big bucks of the family flower shop (doh!).

I've moved into SEO as a natural progression from website development which was a hobby/side business since the mid 90's. Now I'm hoping to expand my SEO business in 2008 by contracting / hiring a couple more people to share the workload and allow me to spend more time with clients and sharing basic SEO knowledge when the opportunities present themselves.

Congrats, Aaron, on reaching 4,000 members! I wish you continued success and thank you for continuing to provide excellent advice and insight with balanced opinions. I look forward to congratulating you soon on 10,000 members!

I am Omar Mariño and I make money online by selling advertising and investing on some online projects.

I think this site is really good and I think you could enable a section like YOUMoz in SEOmoz.org where people can contribute.

Just another daily reader. No one special.
Web Specialist for www.innersightdzinestudio.com in Tampa, FL.

I am a SEO analyst for a company in Mobile, Alabama as well as a semi-professional musician who has an interest in the future of search as relates to the music industry.

Hello All,

My name is Mike Tekula. I've been involved, though sometimes loosely, in web development since 1999 when I started a web development company with two high school friends. However, my college career took me all the way from programming to philosophy to creative writing. I did a lot of fiction writing for a few years - still a love of mine.

I've been doing SEO full-time for about 1.5 years now - for two different Long Island Internet Marketing firms. However, I'm in the beginning of striking out on my own. I simply have found other people's business models to be less than honest, and what I personally love about SEO/M is that I can help people and still make money - a novel concept apparently. I've realized running my own show is the only way I can ensure clients are truly getting what they pay for.

I've been reading SEOBook.com since I started learning about SEO about two years ago. Aaron is one of the few sources of consistently insightful and truly helpful information not just on SEO but on all things Internet Marketing, and I don't think I'll stop frequenting this blog any time soon.

Thanks for years of inspiration and great advice, Aaron, and congratulations once again on finding someone great to share your life with!

-Mike

Hi All,

I'm an SEO Director for a top 10 UK Agency, heading up all SEO activities from strategy, delivery, implementation and reporting.

Also working on European SEO and working with key providers in the market such as Wordtracker...

Previously a Web Developer, I naturally evolved into SEO approx 5 years ago. I wouldnt do any other job in the world.....

I always find SEOBook a resourceful site (Thanks Aaron).....

Thanks

Hi, I'm Martin and I'm co-founder of Supernatural Agency Inc., a company that invests in and develops domain names. My partner and I are SEO/SEM marketers who got tired of doing it for others and watching them make the real money. So we started a company that doesn't require customers or clients- go figure...

One interesting thing I've learned is that domainers in general are really weak when it comes to SEO so part of my mission is to get the word out in that world.

Aaron, SEObook is the best.
We blog at http://blog.supernaturalagency.com

In-house marketer for Cars.com in the Chicago Loop. Spoke at over a dozen industry conferences over the past few years (which is nothing to Aaron, but a pretty big deal for me), and a former Board of Director of SEMPO. Love my job, love my industry, and never thought I'd be able to say that, as a former Steelworker in Michigan.

Farmer here. I started following every aspect of the industry over 3 years ago. I've been active and doing my own thing for over a year after taking the leap.

This is one of the few blogs I still read and I've concluded it's because I love your template...I think.

Hi All,

Just became a member (don't know why I didn't do this sooner), but since I started in SEO over a year ago for the first company I worked for(i am not going to drop names but it is a UK company based in Manchester) I have found Aaron site one of the most consistant and useful resources on the web for the industry I was put onto it on day 1 when I started and still have it in my bookmarks today.

I know work for another SEO company (if you really want to know you can look at my profile) and still use your site Aaron.

As far as the site goes I can't think of any improvements but if I think of any I will let you know.

Regards

David.

It's amazing that you answer everyone, Aaron. That shows how someone really cares about their readers.

I am a web developer and small entrepreneur. I used to freelance few years ago, but recently moved ahead into doing consultations. I have few sites and services and am interested in SEO just for getting more traffic to them (have no plans in being professional SEO).

I've read your book and have to say it was one of the most refreshing things to read, especially after I've read several "make money online" crappy books by the most popular "gurus".

Cheers to all,
Bobby

Hi Aaron,

I'm Kay Frenzer, and go by SEO Diva on one of my blogs. I built web sites on the side for 10 years, then got into SEO a couple of years ago and found my niche.

I currently work as SEO strategist for a marketing agency. There's nothing I like better than to see myself or a client on the first page of Google! My goal is to make a comfortable living from my web sites, and I've made a pretty good start.

I read your blog regularly and learn a lot from it. I really appreciate all your tools and your book. Thanks for all you do!

Hola,

I'm an SEO, Semi-professional race car driver and an amature tattoo artist.

I love bear wrestling and PBR drinkin'! ;)

Love the site, Love the book and the tools are the shizznit!

Thanks Aaron!

Keep on keepin' on!

Hello,
Since the Berlin Wall (1989) came down I have been sw engineer and entrepreneur.

With Seo Book and e-commerce I have finally started to learn, after this time, what internet really can do. Manytimes your seoblog entries have been really helping me some way or another. yep.

When there is a community of 4000 people. That is a lot of knowledge if put all together to project, information gathering etc. Next Google? Open discussions for projects?

"You don't just realize what people are willing to do for a good cause for free."

- ex amazon.com 'gu ru' - a man that leads us to the (unknown) future.

(This entry changed will be also in Lifetime Scope Journal)

Summary: Aaron keep on rockin'

Hey, Andrew aka "Gareth" from italy here.
I'm a lurker, working as a php programmer and webmarkering specialist in an advertising agency in Torino (Italy).

I'm also a part time internet marketer and Seo entusiast... i've been trying to introduce "Seo awareness" into the company for the past 9 months without much success... i wonder how can the customer be aware of Seo if my sale department people are unaware of the matter. ;)

Hey Aaron,

Long time reader, and probably the guy who has been the slowest to put the rubber to the road :) I do have a website that is starting to rank because of some of the ideas gleaned from SEOBook :)

I think that I have good insight and knowledge about SEO, but I'm having a hard time breaking out of cubicle nation to really practice! Too bad I didn't find your site in college!

As always, thanks for the great content.

~NickB

Hi Aaron, new reader, about 3 months.
I think the tools are a great benefit.
I'm a renaissance man myself, between software support, client setup, websites, fatherhood, and online gaming, I tend to stay quite busy, with 3 full fledged ideas floating in my head with neither the time nor money to have them come to fruition. Can anyone else relate?
Looking forward to getting the book for my uncle as he breaks into this industry at the beginning of the year.
Nice touch on commenting on everyone comments, World Class!!!!

I am Alexander Tsatkin,

Learned the basics of SEO from SEO book and decided to drive across the country to start working at an agency in San Francisco.

I work on large clients where PR and gaining link equity isn't as much of a problem. What I would like to see is more solutions for large established clients. For example, international KW research, international duplicate content issues, brand name searches etc.

On the side I mess around with a bunch of domains and websites to run some SEO experiments. One thing I noticed, but not through a controlled experiments is Google scanned my gmail account and indexed what I thought was an orphaned page... would like to run the test again or maybe I can get some confirmation here that this in fact occurs.

I also run googlesearchsucks.com where I rant and rave and let out some steam on the end of a long day.

Hey Aaron - LOL - I'm a GIRL! It's Kay, not Ken. The only chick here so far, I guess!

Andrew Shotland, loyal SEOBook reader and presiding pundit over at LocalSEOGuide. SEO/SEM consultant and general client handholder (it's just business I assure you). I am also the proprietor of the East Bay SEO Meetup. Hope to see you at one of our future events in Oakland. Muchas muchas gracias for your great work. It is much appreciated.

Hi Aaron,

I've read your blog everyday (well nearly) for the past 7 months. I gave up a well paid directorship at a blue chip in London to start my own business, Globaledge.co.uk, a trade portal for the overseas property industry. I launched 2 weeks ago and I've already sold over £10k in advertising and employed 2 full time staff.

We've never met and I've never posted on your blog but you have significantly influenced both me and the development of my business. Here are a few things I've learned from you.

1. If you can, consolidate an industry. I evaluate other businesses (real estate search engines)to help estate agents choose the best marketing partners.

2. Build a site that is genuinely citation worthy to get links. Early days, but lots of people are talking about me. 753 direct visitors in first two weeks (trade PR and DM campaign to key influencers.

3. Build a one-stop-shop for your audience. Overseas agents differ from domestic agents because they need to work with international partners (Spanish developers need to find agents in the UK for example). They can find partners quickly on our site and get free independent advice on the best online tactics and real estate search engines. It's a complete solution for all their partnering needs.

4.There is huge value in being concise and making things simple for your audience. I use analogies and examples to explain key concepts.

5. High value activities are content and relationship building. I've written well over 50 000 words of concise content. I haven't paid myself in 7 months but I've learned a lot and I'm proud of what I've written. I've also made great contacts which is making things easier for my new sales person.

6. If you're serious about building a brand, it must pass the "radio test". Not sure if you said this exactly but after reading your posts I bought www.globaledge.co.uk for £1650. As well as the branding benefits (I had www.global-edge.net which doesn't pass the test) it's a 1997 domain and I rank already for competitive 3-word phrases like "developers in spain".

I could go on. Thank you for everything you have taught me.

Ashley

Look forward to sharing a bowl of pretzels and a brew Aaron.

Hi Aaron from another Aaron. I currently work as an inhouse seo / web designer for a large UK pet housing firm. I've been building websites for the good part of 10 years now, 4 years as just a part time hobby along with my photoshopping addiction and 6 years as my day job. I got into SEO through your site 18mths ago while looking for ways to improve my employer’s site sales. Ended up buying your book and that was it. Now totally hooked on anything SEO related after seeing the results.

Aiming to do it for myself in 2008, setting up on my own as an SEO / web designer along with working on my own projects where I’ve developed a taste for mobile search and web design also toying with Googles custom search. Just want to take the opportunity to say a big thanks for unintentionally steering me into a career which I really do enjoy.

Hi Aaron,

I am a SEM Consultant that floats between agency, in-house, free lancing and my own side projects! I am doing just the last three at the moment and enjoy the mix!

Firstly, your tools are great! However, there is one SEO tool that I do not know exists and would personally find it really useful. It is hard to describe... although you would use it when you are deciding which pages to optimise and which have the highest priority.

Ideally it would extract all the pages in a csv file through spidering a site and each page would have key attributes such as the number of inbound internal links linking to it, the internal anchor text that is associated to it, the hierarchy of where the page sits in the site and perhaps even the average (toolbar)PR of the page linking to it. This combined with prior keyword research would provide a good model for mapping out keywords across pages that are important. It would also help identify poor internal linking on a site.

I hope I don't sound like I have gone mad. Please let me know if you know of a process or a tool that could help.

Have a good xmas,

Joe

Hugo here. I'm a professional SEO, writer, and content builder. My pride and joy is www.realfootball365.com (24% stake) but my main source of livelihood at this time is an interactive agency in NYC.

Hi Aaron and everyone else,

I'm Patrick from Germany. 24 years old. I used to program computer games during most of my free-time in elementary, then had the same kind of passion for the stock market and then for foreign languages (though I spent more time playing sports - you can imagine Im a bit crazy, I guess).

When I graduated from high-school (4 years ago), I was wondering what to do with my life and thought it'd be extremely important for me to spend more than the average 50-100 hours researching what major I want to pick/field I want to work in (considering you spend like another 80,000 hours of your life working in that field).

During the next three years, I must have spent more time reading about possible career paths I could choose than I spent on studying and dropped out (with a major in business). That's how I found out about SEO and web analytics a bit over a year ago and realized I had finally found the right thing (which is what I'm most interested in when it comes to the web).

I overanalyzed way too much trying to find perfect ideas, which is why I only started my first site a month ago, but I think I've finally overcome that problem :-). I also started to major in business again trying to get a bachelor's degree just to be on the safe side. I'll be in college for the next 3-4 years and will have up to 20 hours/week to put into actually practicing not just reading about SEO (your blog is the only SEO blog I'm still reading, btw).

My first goal is making around 100 Euros/month from my website(s) until the end of next year and hopefully a bit more by the time I'm done with college. Having 'lost' three years of my time, I hope I can get a well-paying job as soon as I'm done with college.

I also plan on moving out of Germany to a sunnier place (southern France or Spain or...), because the sun hardly shines here, which makes me pretty depressive at times. Hopefully I can get to travel a bit and can do the mandatory internship for my degree abroad and also spend a semester or two abroad to get to know a few more places.

I'm wondering how I'll feel about all that in say 2 years from now?

What I would love to see you do on this site is cover PPC more. I really like your posts on internet marketing stuff in general (not just SEO) and would love to see more about that on PPC.

When it comes to reading about SEO, I think I 'know' about most things I need to know about SEO already having read your book and having been a daily reader of your blog for a year, etc. (I said 'most' (not all) and 'know', but still have to learn to apply it, of course!) and am mostly reading this blog to keep up with changes/news.

However when it comes to PPC, I'm not very knowledgable, yet and would love to learn more about that on the side w/o having to find yet another blog about PPC and reading that all the time.

P.S.: Is your chapter on PPC up to date with the engines' PPC algorithms? or does it lag behind a bit? (I read it about a year ago and am not sure if there have been any updates)

Hi Aaron,
Atlanta GA Realtor by day SEO student by night. Trying to get my site to #1 is what brought me here. I appreciate your approach and advice! Some of the technical stuff goes over my head, but I am living proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

When I was in college (short stay) computers were the size of coke machines and worked with punch cards.

hi, i'm Davide (everybody call me Dave... it's easier), I'm a creative director but I love online marketing.

Hello - I am Kevin Althaus and am working as a marketing director for a Phoenix based nightclub. My training is in marketing, PHP development, and graphic design. Soon I hope to add optimization and online marketing to the list!

This is Tony love to learn SEO and hope learn it here as I was told here is where SEO starts.

Hi all,
My name is Michael and I work for a medium sized full service digital marketing agency (God that sounds naff when you say it outloud).

I'm the lead SEO guy over here in freezing Scotland and also run the web conversion team.

I started out at oyster web - we were number one in the UK rankings for most of the SEO terms. When that got sold to a new owner I moved to a larger company specialising in all things online.

I'm over here most days reading what Aaron has to say about online bits and pieces and using his tools - cheers for the tools aaron :)

Hi Aaron,

I am glad to hear that you reached a bench mark of 4000 members. Don't know why but it give me a sense that there is some thing cooking in your mind regarding paid content and memberships.

I have been following your foot steps and keeping close eye on this blog for almost 2 years its being quite helpful and help me understand a-lot about what SEO is and how it works.

I am 24yrs of Age from Pakistan I have been in this industry for 2 years and started my first website back in 2004 to achieve visitors i have spend countless hours reading online and since then i landed on your site my work is much easier and i learned a-lot from you. Two people i gave all credit in this industry are Aaron and Shoemoney. Rand comes later and his writings help a-lot too.

Currently i am managing sites from small to medium size. I own few and now started consultancy one to UK company and One based in US.

The Sites i am managing are ranking well mostly in top3 if i have some personal address access i will share my ranking with you and make you feel proud that your virtual student did a great job :)

Looking forward to hear from your side.

Regards.

Hi Aaron,
I've been a regular reader for well over 3 years. I read your ebook about 3 years ago when the boss for the company I worked for wanted to rank higher in the search engines. Your book helped us get to over 50,000 visitors per month. I then started my own company that offers web design/development and internet marketing services. www.kinoli.com

I also run a blog at www.virtualmarketingblog.com

You have been a huge help to me. Thanks Aaron.

-Luke

Hey Aaron

I bought your book a few years back, and is the most complete one I have read on SEO. Nice work.

I formed my own development & SEO/SEM company years ago, blog at www.MomentumSEO.com

I didn't have a chance to speak to you at Pubcon in Vegas, but I admire your contributions to the space. What great props Rand gave you in front of the crowd on the link buying panel.

It would be cool for you to speak more to how you make Clientside with Scott and Todd go. Deliverables, methods etc. I spoke with Todd briefly at Pubcon, but that's it.

Cheers

I kept getin water spots on my coffee table so I bought yuor book to have somewheres to put my coffee cup. It works GREAT!

Back in 97 I got fired from my male escort job. I didn't have any skills and not much sense so i decided to become a seo. Bin doin it ever since. It'd be a ok job if you didn't have to screw around with these damn computers!

I was first introduced to your website by a manager who used your keyword suggestion tool to demonstrate search volume at homes.com.

Since then I have used your resources to help move to a better position in my career. I now work at a digital marketing agency downtown San Diego and am very grateful for all the resources that you have provided to aid in my learning.

If you ever come to San Diego, all drinks on me!

Thanks Aaron.
My Just Messing Around Site --> Get Your Name Out There
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Aaron,
Thanks for being a resource putting a different perspective on the industry and congrats on passing the 4K mark!

I have been an in-house SEO, SEM manager for over 5 years and have become active in the community with my own blog. SEOBook and others have been very influential in breaking into the sphere and have enjoyed seeing you speak, watching your videos and reading your offerings here.

Keep up the good work!

I'm Benj Arriola

- Started in the Web Industry as a Designer/Developer since 1997.
- Started playing around with SEO in 2004.

- Still has a day job as an SEO Engineer as they call my position at BusinessOnLine.
- Also does my own thing in my own company YDS Web Solution, Inc.

- Won a car as the top prize being the overall winner of the SEO World Championship by GetUpdated.

- In my own company, not that small, but also not big, It's in the transitional stage right now in growing where I find it difficult with client growth surge.

- And in 2008 I want to do no more design and development work, and even not to take all SEO clients that come my way. And start working more on Affiliate Marketing and Online Community Development. Probably make web-based tools also and doing more Drupal and AJAX stuff.

Aaron,

I have been a regular reader for about a year and have really enjoyed the wide variety of topics you have hit on your blog and in your videos, and love to hear your perspective.

I have been in IT and software development for a long time and have worked on a variety of large and small web sites, but it has only been in the past year that I have finally begun to understand some of the mysteries of Google and SEO.

I have done a lot of testing and playing around with some web sites, but I have just started creating my first real website at http://SmallBusinessTechs.com (just installed joomla today and will start adding content during the next few weeks).

As for making it better, the only thing I can think of is adding a podcast because I love listening to good podcasts while I drive and work in the yard.

Thanks!

Tom

I'm Matt Larson,

Been following the blog right around two years. Don't want to duplicate my profile but thanks to Aaron's insightful information, I've looked much smarter than I really am and sold my first company within a year. Doing client work now but am strongly passionate about building my own B2C product-based businesses... I'd like to be doing only 20% client work or less in 3 years - just enough to keep me sharp and give me some a bigger budget to experiment with.

Suggestions? To Aaron? That's tough - saw a few wanting podcasts and I'd definitely subscribe. Aaron, you can hire yourself a great VA to transcribe all that for you (and do just about anything else). I just hired one last month and I have been outrageously productive so far. However, my wife is pre-angry in anticipation of if she ever receives an unusually sensitive and caring card written in exceptionally good English and with even better handwriting ;)