Introduce Yourself Part 3

Hi All,

I couldn't resist being at the top of this new page!
My name is Jonathan Clark and I run Webmaint and build websites for fun and money. Have been doing both since 1998.

Great resource Nick - thanks :-)

yeo threadwatchers, EliteWeb aka Nick R here, been liven the life of a seo for some years running a few hundred sites and am now the CTO of Tygo.com a search engine and directory we've been worken on.

Nick W, great site, its a daily hit for me.

I'm Paul, a latecomer. I've been hanging around the fringes of seo for a couple of years, long enough to know a few of the people here, and to know that they're a great bunch. The best thing I've got out of seo is the people I've met at pubcons and less 'organised' meet ups.

My favourite seo pursuit is building tools. Unfortunately I program in java and havn't the patience to build nice user interfaces so its not easy for me to share what I build. One of these days I'm going to knuckle down and learn PHP and some windows programming to solve that problem...probably.

I have a bad habit of going in too many directions at once to ever do one thing well, but it keeps life interesting. I used to be a freelance artist, portraits and murals, and I think I'm going to go back to that sometime soon.

I doubt I could ever completely give up messing around on the web since its too much fun, but hopefully you'll all still talk to me if and when I'm mostly juggling paint brushes instead of HTML and java code.

Nick is a great bloke and I hope this site grows and becomes an even bigger success for him than it already is.

Conversely, and for purely selfish reasons, I hope it stays small and intimate enough to feel like home.

I am a used-to-be ColdFusion web developer, who decided doing SEO work was more fun and entertaining than writing long boring dreary code. I've been doing my own sites for a few years now, and take on the occasional client, but not very often. There is just not enough time in the day to do much more. I'm a mod over at SEO Chat, and I've been a lurker here at Threadwatch since it began. I can always count on Threadwatch to keep me entertained. I decided it was time to become a member when I had the urge to make a comment on the autolinks spoof video. Nick, you do a great job and have created a unique community. Congrats on that. I'm sure I'll be mentioning Threadwatch again and again in my blog - www.seo-scoop.com that is.

Been involved in this web one way or another since '98...

Somewhere along that road I learnt how to sustain myself and my family from websites....

Tripped across threadwatch several times know and recognize/know many of the names posting here, so feel comfortable being here.

I breed American Bulldogs as a hobby and they were my entry into the www.

Nick, I think this is a fascinating site, really hit the mark, it does everything you intend it to.

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Hi, I'm Greg Duffy. I came here originally because of a link to my Google Print scandal :-p

I'm currently a student in Texas, but I have a good deal of industry experience.

Threadwatch managed to dredge out my site for the Google Print thing, so I'm looking forward to many more interesting posts.

Nice to meet you guys! Be on the lookout for more of my scandalous articles in the near future ;-)

/me adds threadwatch to newsreader

I should have filled this out a long time ago, but when adding a thread just came across it. I have enjoyed the comraderie and informative subject matter immensely.
Will try and get a little more active.
AussieWebmaster

My name is Bruno Bornsztein, my main project online is Feedmarker, a free, web based RSS reader and bookmarks manager with tagging. I'm interested in social software, blogs and communications.
I'm from Minnesota and studied journalism, so I am a web developer by hobby, not by training.
I keep up a blog at blog.feedmarker.com where I try to post about developments to Feedmarker and other stuff I find around the web.
Glad to be part of the site.
Bruno

My name is Derek Meister and I have no connection with the web development industry whatsoever outside of the fact that I have a website that I use for my own amusement.

However, as a former member of one of the psychological warfare (not my site) units in the United States Army, I'm interested in, if not outright amused, at discussions of how companies, organizations and individuals can influence people through the technology and/or content of the web.

Despite coming from a long-running military family, I am (mostly rational) moderate-lefty, pro-consumer, anti-corporation, softy at heart, but am not above taunting of wacky extremists on any side of any issue.

I like pie.

Hi to all my name is Syd Hoyle, as with Derek Above have no connection with the web, got a laptop as an upgrade to a few small psions that I had.

Just been trying to get my head around the www, dont understand all the talk here, seo, som, and so on, just ended up on this site I think from google, have read some posts and find that there is a way to make some money.

Come from Somerset in the UK, spent a life time in the employment of queen and country, and discharged on med grounds from injury received in combat.
Really hope to learn and earn, have registerd some names for websites on domains, but dont have a clue, see a lot of affiliate words banded about, maybe some members can point me in direction.
Very happy to be here and when I understand it all will be very gratefull, but thanks to Nick for this site.

hehe... still dumfounded now after 5 or six years, it just gets a little easier :-)

In the right place though to find the right stuff.

a.k.a. Everyman, Doofus, Snafu, Kackle, Scarecrow (all but the last have been kicked out of Webmasterworld over the last three years).

Also known as Daniel Brandt, google-watch*org, scroogle*org, namebase*org, cia-on-campus*org, etc.

I don't like ecommerce in general, I don't like affiliate spam in particular, I don't like SEOs who namebomb me, I don't like U.S. foreign policy, and I have yet to find a blog that is worth reading more than once a month.

I'm fairly tolerant of everything else.

I said that Google was broken back in June 2003, and now I believe that it's more broken today than it was 21 months ago.

Is there an easy way to find the right stuff, have been looking around the site to find out and try to digest, a lot of info about Blogs, have visited some sites of the members and see the logo e blog, not quite sure what is all about.

Thanks for welcoming me, look fwd to being educated.

Hi somerset, the best way at present to find stuff is use the site search link at the top.

Threadwatch isn't really geared to 'teaching' those new to the net, as it's primary audience is professional internet marketers, you are of course, welcome to read here and follow the links, which should start to make sense after a while :)

The best way of following TW is through the RSS Feed - you can find a quick primer with links to more information in The 10 Minute RSS Primer - Getting up to Speed with Bloglines and do check the comments for more links.

If you're really looking for a good starting place on for "web newbies" try the New to Web Development forum at webmasterworld.

Thanks, and welcome to TW all that have signed in since i last posted here...

Hello there. I'm Ozh, I am not related with the SEO business, except maybe for being the starter of the controversial "online poker" googlebombing that made me post here when TW was slashdotted about it.

I'll keep an eye on TW since things related to Google always interest me (again, on a personnal level, not professional), and since it made me discover this excellent off-topic sensible blog that's now in my blogroll :)

And I like pie too.

Heh ... we bloggers with "planet" in our domain names have to stick together.

Hi there my name is Damien Guard and I'm a software developer living on a tiny island between France and England.

I've previously rambled on Slashdot, my blog and my website... Now it looks like I'll be rambling here too ;-)

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Hi there. I'm a webmaster, web designer, web marketer, IT manager and sometime desktop publisher. Obviously, it's a fairly small organization I work for. Upstate New York is where I reside. That's about all I have to say right now. :-)

Oh yeah, web links! Here's where I do the self-promotion thing:
http://www.cluonline.com/
http://www.cwgministries.org/

Nick, great site! I love it. Keep up the good work. Ye-ha for less noise and more signal.

Found this site after some searching. Then I got threadwatch-dotted...

Interesting topics here.

Among other things, I'm a spamhunter. Fun stuff...

Hi all
I am Yogi. I am not a professional by any right. But i love the internet and what it has to offer.
I am 23 Yrs old (really i feel a lot older than that).

I like books and music (Pink floyd a lot)
My fav books are The Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Seems like they spoiled me enough that i quit college in the final sem.

I already know a bunch of the folks here by sight, nick, rep or color of hat. Good to find where some very good people are hanging out.

I run some sites of my own and manage a few others. All white hat now (well, some checkerboard), though I'm proud to say I'm authorized to wear the official "I survived being banned by Google" T-shirt. (Yes, you can pay the rent with MSN alone.)

For the personal stuff, NYC born, bred and can't get away from it. Over 50, going on eight years in the game and looking to retire by 60 unless I learn some really neat new tricks.

Hi all,

Got my start on the Web back in '00, when I founded my own Web publishing and marketing services company...advertising, affiliate stuff etc. Run well over 200 sites now. Prior to that, spent some 20 years in the big NYC ad agency environment, working with mega clients. That was fun, but 20 years is enough of most things, and certainly advertising is among them.

However, I couldn't stay away from media altogether I guess, so now I'm working my second career as a Web dude. Spend my time between NYC and West Coast mainly ... poking and jabbing at everything I see along the way. Worst problem: Too much curiousity ... but not enough time. :)

I try to restrain myself from positng on too many forums, but this one is too damn good to ignore. Very nice job Nick! ;-)

Hello everyone,

My name is Jaan Kanellis. I started in web marketing in 1999. Started off with local design work and was offered a job to start building web pages for a local SEO start up in my home town of Toledo, Ohio. Worked there for 4 years and went on my own. I have been much happier conducting what I consider "normal" SEO since leaving the local SEO start up. Soon after I left the company was bought up by a larger marketing group from NY who was basically only buying the client list and some minor technology.

I participate in many forums, but I love the way Threadwatch works. I get much of my SEO news from this website comparable to any other forum. Post happen fast and often and keeps everyone in the loop of SEO and any other related marketing techniques. Kudos to Nick and whoever else that run this website.

My website is www.kbkmarketing.com

Recommended to this site by Mr. Ploppy. I've been checking in on it every once and again, and then someone (Mr. Ploppy) told me about bloglines, and I've been checking in a few times a day after subscribing to Threadwatch. Trying to read as much as I can.

I run a site with my father that we started in early December '04 - I'd love to leave the day job if my site does well, so we're putting every effort towards it (as much as a team of two can) to make it successful.

Back to the shadows...

Subbu.

I'm a Montreal, Quebec Web marketing consultant since 96, I post on many forums (WmW, Cre8, SeW) on the nick Allergic or InLogicalBearer (a anagram of my name).

I got involved with online bulletin boards in 1986, and used Fidonet to stay in touch with friends after moving far away from Vancouver. Spent time on the PR SIG of CompuServe for a while, managed a trade association communications department through the launch of an intranet, extranet, web site and web site development/hosting service.

My next gig was more hands on, running a web service team for a financial institution during the introduction of a content management process and a few other things. I was researching SEO for the last company I worked for, and bought Aaron's SEO book. I help maintain a web site for a non-profit association I belong to, and now write a blog on PR, marketing and sometimes technology.

Despite all this experience, I'm primarily a content person with almost no HTML or other technical skills.

I keep an eye on TW through my RSS feed reader, and haven't been very involved in discussions so far. Hope to spend a bit more time here. Here's my blog: http://www.mutually-inclusive.typepad.com/weblog/

hello

i'm a freelance copywriter who does a lot of work in interactive, but also more traditional stuff too.

good to keep up with latest news and views. and nice to meet you all.

emma

HI everybody my names Ben I work and live all the way down in a country the south pacific called New Zealand. I primarily do Flash Development and SEO (I know that’s a weird combination).
This is defiantly my favourite news site thanks

Ben
fizzing media

Oh hell why not.

seomike here, not to be confused with another SEOMike at wmw (hey I checked the dates I used the name first) anyways I work for the sweetest seo company, SEO Advantage out of Tampa Florida. I run the design and programming aspects of the company as well as manage the internal websites. As per the team I work with they are pure forum trolls they love to read so I guess that makes me the spokesman for the company. But here we are anyways:
Stone >> Bossman and seo guru
Pat >> the Optimization Queen
Pete >> the link boy as well as affiliate/directory site builder
Lisa >> Copywriter, MBA, PPC ad optimizer and blog editor
Chaitanya >> Senior programmer developer database administrator
me >> I do pretty much all the above and design all the sites, prep them with initial optimzation as well as clean up the crappy html when new clients come in (html garbage man) plus I program all the tools we use and of course do all the mod rewrites.
Kane(dobberman) >> Guard Dog
Nemo(australian sheppard) >> squirrel chaser
Chocolate(cockerspaniel) >> half blind lizard catcher (record 0 - 98745433) she's not very good :)
Ciccio(Amer.Bulldog) >> My loyal footwarmer :)

Hey all, my name is Justin and I work at a technology company in the states (Kansas specifically) creating a new QA system for search. I'm pretty much the marketing and PR monkey for the company, but I promise no shameless self-promo. I've been following Threadwatch nearly since the beginning, but only recently decided to register...a huge oversight on my part. I'm really enjoying what Nick and crew are doing here, and I can only imagine it'll get bigger and bigger. Keep up the great work.

cheers,
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My name is Chris and I am a SEO consultant, but seriously thinking about joining the other side. In fact, it was a post here about our Vioxx-Search-Engine.com that attracted my attention to your site. This represents our first effort at "verticalised" engines that coincides with our image of the future where many will go to G and Y to find the best in vertical sites for what they want... We also run a small directory as well, and I can tell you that being involved with these types of sites really changes your prespective as a SEO...

Anyway, we not only belong to, but also started the organization that was mentioned in the post. It's intended to bring SEOs and search engine owners together to try and improve the industry. There's information on the site if you are interested...

Man, I was just scaning some of the posts above mine... very cool, interesting people! If anyone wants to chat SEO, share ideas, leads, or whatever, please contact me. We like to share, and give away copies of our SE submission list. If anyone is interested just let me know.

Thanks,
Chris

Hooooowdy-ho, everybody! Gosh, I sure do like Nicks' new site and all. Its spreading goodwill and cheer, and the REAL meaning of Christmas. Even to Jews, like Kyle.

All together now, "Kyles Mom is a Bitch, in C Minor"

Weeeeeeelll........

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howdy! my name is loki, aka craig mclaughlan, website is www.craigmclaughlan.com.

born in oz and living in sunny spain since 1991.

i've been in website design since 99, yet more and more my time is spent on SEO.

i'm an avid reader and my favourite past-time is writing without capital letters, except when absolutely necesary. my biggest problem is balancing billable hours with research.

glad to be here, can't believe i've never seen TW before.

I run moblogUK with Mat Brown, I also run palmpixels. SEO is done for us by www.cohack.com , ace pals of ours. I'm interested in SEO from an effect as opposed to technical view, although I keep up with algorithm changes and am constantly looking at optimisation methods. I'm a skateboarder and am reckless with it most of the rest of my time, and have a technology fetish it seems.

I've been reading here for a while now so I thought it was about time I said hello. I'm a random computer programmer type who lives in Edinburgh in sunny Scotland.

I'm trying to cut back on the amount of time I spend on forums and have found Threadwatch to be a huge time saver. Thanks to Threadwatch I have more time to eat, sleep and wear my fake moustache, all of which are very important to me.

wrong forum??? oops.

Hi all, I'm Director of SEM for the NYT. Threadwatch keeps it real consistently and thoroughly. It brings in the noise, and when prudent, the funk as well. So I'm joining.

Glad to be here.

Hi everyone this is Navneet, from http://www.pagetraffic.com. I been reading the posts on threadwatch from last 3 months, but never got time to register to post comments. Hey you all know how busy good seo are ;)

I don't know how much I be posting, but I sure will try to my level best to be an active member.

Thanks

Kay here. I've been around the internet since, oh, about 1993, when I was anxiously seeking contact with the rest of the world via my public library's connection to All the Gopher Servers in the World. Ah, the heady days of the amber dumb terminal illuminating my off-the-beaten-track life... I lived in northern CA for a bunch of years and in between jobs (I refused to commute to the Bay Area -- the Loma Prieta earthquake was still fresh in everyone's mind, and somehow the idea of being trapped far from home didn't appeal to me -- I've since moved back East ;)

When I was in CA, I picked up some freelance work with a little publishing company in town, called O'Reilly & Associates. They seemed like nice enough people. Little did I know, but my transcription of some of their key interviews with real pioneers in the internet space would clue me in on all the exciting stuff that was happening with TCP/IP, HTTP, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and connecting telephones & modems in top-story apartments in Poland in the middle of the night. In retrospect, the work was priceless in terms of the perspective. At the time, the transcription seemed like a handy way to pass the time between tech writing assignments.

Oh-so-much has happened, since 1993, and I've been building websites since late 1995. I started out all-purpose, then moved more to the coding side, then systems integration, then web apps, and now the joys and frustrations of a purely client-side approach (thank the gods that the technologies I learned in 1997 are now mature -- and respected -- enough to be of good use on regular basis). I work for a Very Large Company, which you have likely all heard of, but shall remain nameless, and when I'm not doing that, I'm blogging or working on my own site(s) or the sites of friends and acquaintances. I did fairly poorly in computer classes in school, and when I started out coding for dollars, I was the only chick for miles around, which doesn't bother me in the least :) I'm one of the folks who was running around in 1996, annoying everyone I knew with insistence that e-mail would really, truly matter before too long. I feel so very vindicated :} And I weathered the stigma of the Heaven's Gate web-developer cult suicide with grace and aplomb ("No, Mom, I'm not *that* kind of web developer! Tell your friends I'm not crazy, and I don't wear that kind of Nikes.")

Anyway, it's good to be here. Looking forward to reading up on everything.

Every once in a while I feel like chiming in, so I finally joined. Love reading SEO stuff, but usually when I finally get it all figured out, they've already changed the rules. :-)

I've been wondering where all of the old school SEOs have been hanging out - now I guess I know. :)

I started doing SEO back in 1999 with what was at the time the largest interactive agency in the US. Six years and 3 mergers later that agency is history – although the eTrade statements for my options there still give me a good laugh each month. Good thing they don’t bill me for the cost of that stamp. ;p

Now I run my own SEO agency - I specialize mostly in client work in the healthcare industry since that’s my academic background (physiology/life science research).

The caliber of the experts here looks very promising – reminds me of WMW in the early days. Looking forward to contributing to a lot of good discussion here.

Hi - Just stopped in from deep in the Louisiana swamps...lol
Im Tina in house marketing director for an international hardware company. Just landed my feet in the door to discover one of my main priorties is search engine optimazation. Im actually a graphic designer but I have been devouring SEO info since the early days of Wilson Web so now is my chance to shine :) I here to learn from the masters Ive been told....

Since I recognize at least 25% of the names here, I'm guessing at least some of you know who I am. I didn't even know this site existed until I followed a link from DG's blog. I've been less enamored of SEO lately, so all I've really done is Foo'd & blogged. I like Starbucks, staying up late, sleeping in and checks in the mailbox. I check my stats, but I've bought glass etching and dye sub equipment in hopes of spending some quality time offline. Due to the NHL lockout, I've also become addicted to fantasy football & baseball to fill the Leafs void in my life.

Heh - good to see you Ann.... and how's Vegas these days?

Hey guys, hardly had a chance to look around, but I stumbled on the "trustrank" issue I was typing a post on an curious to what else was being said. Look forward to another source of dialogue to inform and vet my wild ideas.

Long time lurker, first time caller...err, poster...

Been creating and buying search engine real estate for the last few years. Started Scoreboard Media Group, http://www.scoreboard-media.com , a couple years ago and take on 10-20 select SEO/SEM projects a year.

I see a few familiar faces and names around here and I hope to make a few more familiar at future industry events.

Thanks to Nick for creating a great resource for those of us who are tired of reading PageRank Update and Link Exchange threads!

Brit based in Seattle for 11 years: worked in tech PR for Visio and Visual FoxPro, moved to Amazon.com, now enjoying self exploring potential of blogs, blog communities, and general access to info'. Found this excellent site while looking into chameleon reader.

Advisor, blogger, wannabe weblog network creator from Western Australia. I edit The Blog Herald and reluctantly registered here some time ago because despite being a conscientious objector to having to register on any site, I couldn't help myself in wanting to add the odd comment. Still trying to work out whether Nick sees Threadwatch as Slashdot, The Register or a mutated yet superior version of both of them. Am regarded by some as mad, particularly by the employees of SixApart, and by others as an evil genius. My wife on the other hand just wishes I'd spend less time on the computer.

Good afternoon Threadwatchers. My name is Jay, and I am an account executive at a prominent search engine marketing firm in Pittsburgh, Pa. I've spent my first four professional years out of college working in Internet marketing for a variety of Pittsburgh advertising agencies and web shops. I'm a relative newbie to Threadwatch; I've been checking it out since about February. I also run a side-by-side blog with a buddy called http://www.oneblogtwoblog.com. Give it a look.

My name is Brian. I am from Arizona and I have been doing affiliate marketing/website publishing for a couple years now. I started building sites as a freshman in high school (1995) when my dad came home with the instruction manual for Netscape that included tutorials on how to write HTML. My first experience with SEO was in 1999, but I didn't realize I was actually doing SEO. It was just an assignment I was given to do as part of building a site for the construction company I was employed by. In 2002, I took a job as a programmer for an affiliate network and learned about affiliate marketing. Since then I've been trying to learn as much as I can. I post a little at WebmasterWorld under the alias AZEvil, but that name is a throwback to a paintball team I used to play for and I'm trying to work away from it. The information here on Threadwatch is so much easier to work through, so I've been lurking here for a few months. I don't post much because I am in awe of the knowledge that others have and I don't like to shoot off my mouth about things I don't know.

I work for myself and I prefer it to be that way. If anyone is around Arizona and wants to chat over a free beer, let me know. I'm always looking for like-minded people to hang out with. I don't get out of my dungeon often enough :)

My name is Jack and I am a retired Advertising Guy who writes a little, draws a little, does graphics pretty well, takes great pictures with my Nikon digital, and would like to learn how to 'really' do a website.

I think I can learn something here.

jakwalp

I'm Mark, from America now living in Thailand. Decided to retire early when the downturn hit the electronics industry in the U.S. back in 2002.

I keep pretty busy in my "retirement" with mostly offline activities. But I also build and maintain an odd website now and then, and try to keep up with all the changes in the business. I also have a little translation business that puts spending money in my pocket and provides a lot of entertainment - interesting to read all peoples trials and tribulation which they trust to you when they need it translated. Mostly it gives me a low opinion of so many people. But on the other hand I'm acquiated with so many good people over here.

If only this country would catch up on broadband. Only this year did it start to become widely available and then only in major city centers.

I'm Ed from LA and am a Los Angeles based photographer with a web presence for local searches. Since the net has proved such a valuable venue, I have been learning about SEO since February and hope to take over maintance of my site in the next few months. So, I am a neophyte and for the moment have little to contribute to your conversations but questions.

I thank you all for patience and generous information.

Ed

?Been lurking here for some time, you have done a good job here Nick.

As some of you know, I do a little SEO.

I have been actively involved in SEO for so long now my mind and ?attitude have become warped.

Big Turn off - Pretend SEO's.

Big Turn on - Number one spots in google.

Started off as a PHP developer, however over the last three of four years drifted more and more towards SEO/M, as I personally find it far more challenging and ultimately rewarding.

After years of doing SEO for other people have finally started my own business, peteyoung.co.uk which has now joined forces with another organisation, the E-Gain partnership.

Hi. I'm a student at UC Davis. I read threadwatch all the time, but haven't had the time to make an account, or it could be that I'm that lazy enough to not do so.

so it is 13 years since I first started working around the web with conferences at the ICA in London. Since then I have built a new media centre, done some cultural stuff, some commercial stuff, had a family and just watched things go round. I built the 45th website in the UK and still build them in the same crappy text way as always

Hi All,

I've been doing professional SEO sinc '97 (www.PolePositionMarketing.com) and blogging since late last year (www.emarketingperformance.com). Just recently downloaded a blog reader to keep up on what everybody else is saying and I now my already long day of sorting through various forums, making (hopefully) relevant post, blogging, writing articles and now blog reading, has just gotten longer. Oh, yeah, can't forget about my clients!

Keep up the great work!

Got pointed here through a thread at Webmasterworld (no, not through a link), and really enjoy the atmosphere here.

I'm working on a cms system in a Danish defence authority, and got in on the project so late that I now have to try getting the whole thing just reasonably seo'd. Considering the size and previous experience of the consulting firm that built it, it's amazing that you can be so unaware of seo needs in this day and age.

Anyone considering local meets in Copenhagen???

Hi Threadwatch Members. Nick and the many others who regularly contribute here, thanks for doing so -- though I just signed up for an account I've been lurking here for quite some time and have learned quite a bit! I regularly read other SEO and Marketing forums but always check Threadwatch first! Currently researching a niche market to open my first eCommerce store. If anyone has any reputable drop shipping sources (besdies Chris Malta's list), drop me a line. Thanks for reading, and I look forward to being a part of the community here!

Hi Threadwatch people...
I been reading the threads for while, so I thought today would be the day I add myself to the community...

Well I'm an seo'er and have been for many a year now. I'm in boiling London which has just hit 30c (very hot for the uk)..

I run a small seo/design company which I love doing.. :-)

I'm sure I'll be comming to the pub next time with you lots as I always find it hard to turn down any offers of beers..

Thats about it really..

TW recently mentioned a post of mine on 302 web page hijacking. http://www.threadwatch.org/node/2728

I couldn't resist the urge to chime in and disagree with everyone, so I registered.

I make fine art prints, host a website for an artist or two, and think some day I'll actually make a reasonable amount of money from affiliate programs.

Hello

My name is Andrey Milyan and I run SEMBooster, SEM resource website. This is my first time visiting threadwatch but the site looks great and I'm sure I will be visiting it often in the future.

hey all,

I've been working in seo since '99 and while I'm a world-class lurker @ places like WMW and SEW, I rarely post, mostly because I don't have time to follow threads to their agonizing deaths, and I often grow weary of the "it happened to me, so it's universal" algo mindset. I like TW mostly because Nick curses frequently and unapologetically.

I'm one of the founders of Cohack. We offer a PPC reporting tool for all kinds and sizes of online businesses. Before that I was a freelance web developer. I'm a standards+unix tools kind of guy. Since starting Cohack I've learnt a shedload about marketing, both online and traditional and I've come here to learn more really.

Something I should have done a long time ago, but didn't :)

I am OWG proper name is James Christopher Edwards, some call me James, others call me Chris, depends how loing you have known me and if you grew up with me or not lol. I run a marketing business in the Uk called Umbrella Consultancy. We mostly specialise on web marketing seo/sem , but as I come from a sales and marketing background we pretty much can organise offline and online stuff, so it is always fun.

I mod at a couple of forums both large and small from busy ones like highrankings forum down to itty bitty Uk ones like ukwebmasterworld . I love rugby, and most of my Saturdays are spent enjoying it in one form or another.

Hi, I'm Adam. One of the Wikispaces guys.

I have been an independent consultant for two years providing internet marketing, web strategy and business analyst services. So joining this forum is a no brainer for me.

I hope to expand my skills and expertise by sorrounding myself with professionals that are as passionate as I am about making the best use of the internet, both in marketing and operations.

My url is http://www.smartmarketingconcepts.com. I am currently working on a redesign that I hope to rollout in Q2.

Hello, all; my name is Bob Scheier, a veteran IT trade press editor (PC Week, Computerworld) now a free-lance writer for both trade pubs and for vendors (writing white papers, case studies, and other marketing collateral.) I'm exploring using RSS feeds for lead generation purposes, and would like to hear from anyone who has done this, would like to, or who can point me to good CRM or other tools to track individual reader habits for lead generation and market research. I'm interesting in providing readers with HIGH-QUALITY content focused on their needs -- giving them the power to choose stories for themselves in return for receiving contextual ads or special offers.

Drop me a line if this is of interest -- further details on my Web site at http://www.scheierassociates.com/pages/850425/index.htm

Cheers to all...

Bob

New Threadwatch member, longtime Threadwatch reader. Sent a message to
Nick yesterday who graciously posted a reference to our site. Currently
marketing AdSupervision.com - an ad campaign pausing service that works
with Adwords, Yahoo/Overture and 7Search. That's it - see you soon.

Hi, I'm new to your site... looks really great from what I've been reading so far. I thought I'd introduce myself, I'm Steve and I manage a wholesale sunglass business at www.eWholesaleSunglasses.com I look forward to picking up some information that can help us out with the whole internet business thing. Thanks for welcoming us! Peace!

Hi all,
My name is Alistair McIntyre although Mack will do.

I live on the west coast of Scotland and have been involved in web development since early 1999. Most of the sites I have built are my own. Although I do freelance design and seo projects when ever possible.

Ove here from Sweden.

And DaveN i think you are a skinny guy :-)

There are no real men under 100.

/Ove

Roy from Sheffield, UK here. Recently joined this site. I am an IT graduate currently looking for work. In my spare time I maintain a website for the [url="www.britishothello.org.uk"]British Othello Federation[/url] amongst other things.

I only joined because I am concerned over Ian Turner's whereabouts...

While I had seen TW once or twice, it took me until now (IT Missing thread) to realise what I was missing by not making time to be here.

By day I run an SEO department for a large Aussie domain registrar in Melbourne and at night I read or post at WW and do some of the nefarious things that my fellow WW members do. It was great to meet many of them last week in New Orleans.

I am also a veteran of the PC user group movement (22 years) and have been active at the local and international level. I write for computer magazines (user group and commercial).

If any TW or WW members are visiting Melbourne, let's meet up for a coffee!

Ash

Hi Folks,

Scott here from Edinburgh.

Just registered here, but have lurked about for a while and recognise a tonne of tags from WmW and SEW. Been in the biz for a few years now, currently work as a campaign manager for a SEM firm.

Scott

Hi all, I am an IT grad with a few yrs exp now. I just liked the content so wanted to post a couple of replies, thats all. I pimp my skills at www.freelance-developer.co.uk.

Cheers

w

Hi guys! I've been reading this blog for a while and find it really interesting and now have joined up. I run the backlink advertising network AdCaliber http://www.adcaliber.com .

Nick Sahadi at your service and attention from deep in the heart of Texas.

Glad you found Ian

http://www.opengrid.org

Hello all,
Thomas here to say thank you for a generous welcome. I'm here to learn and help from the southeast, in Savannah, GA.
http://linuxgnubie.blogspot.com

These days I do cyberterrorism research for a newsletter but also have an eBay store and am going to start marketing two new sites of my own:

helpdotcom.com
and
frugalsenior.com

I've been published 17,000 plus times (including five books) and started programming computers in 1963 (IBM 1401)

My first major PC-related writing was doing large multiple item comparison reviews for the original Byte.

I also do some commercial site development, mostly for local businesses and I've been asked to give some advice on marketing the new search engine clusty.com

In my copious free time I raise miniature horses and miniature donkeys.

Love that nickname :) Welcome to TW SS and all those that have signed in since i last posted here.

If you've not signed in here, please do, it's my favorite thread!

International woman of mystery here!

If you mean mine, I have it on google answers and on several columns over the years but it came from having written a very (VERY) early game column for Tandy Color Computers.

I'm Ruben from Spain. I'm Just an internet addict.
I'm also the admin of one spanish seo forum.

is pretty much what I am or do. Always looking for ways to promote and protect our web sites.

This forum looks 'very' interesting, and I would love to know the outcome of the Google Bombing.... We have created a buzz word in our registered trademark :-) that has caught the attention of many who use it to steal traffic...:-( but by same token ends up a reference link to us. Not sure if the last statement is good or bad, guess it depends where it comes from.

Hey there.

Just got into the SEO, internet marketing game about 3-4 weeks ago. Don't have much of a background in tecchy, my expertise comes from telesales and timeshare marketing. Now am doing "SEO/Internet revenue generation" for the same company.

Anyways, it's not my style to nose around and wait for the info to come to me, and I think forums are the best places to learn.

Looking forward to trying something a little more white hat...

Staying on top of the effects of the recent change at Google Adwords led me here and prompted me to register. I specialize in creating, optimizing, and managing Keyword Advertising campaigns aka Pay Per Click (PPC) and strive to find ways to make them keep working in spite of changes like this one.

Welcome all!

This thread now closes, and we start Part 4!