Introduce Yourself Part 2

Hey Guys, Nick,

Many Props to Nick for putting together Threadwatch. It has quickly become one of only a a few sites I have the time to visit on a daily basis.

I am the CEO/President of 360 Enterprises, Inc.

I have had my hands in many web projects since around 1997. As with most "web" people I started out in design and moved to hosting and then marketing. One of our more notable and public successes has been textlinkbrokers.com although we currently operate over 100 domains.

Our Current focus is on SEO, PPC Managment, and Lead Generation but we have dabbled in many different forms of Marketing and will continue to do so in the future.

We are always on the lookout for bright people, feel free to contact me if you are looking for work.

I look forward to reading and contributing to threadwatch on an ongoing basis.

Whether known by my long-term nick, Black_Knight, or by my real name, I'm guessing I won't need to do too much of an introduction for most folks, 'specially as I recognise so many.

My first computer use was so long ago that our terminal used a phone-cradle modem to connect to the University's computer, and programs were made by blackening in little boxes on a sheet of paper, which was then sent off to be used as a template for making the punch cards...

Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in. Welcome, Ammon.

I was referred over here from another thread after I posted my first comment today, though I've been reading for a while.

I'm a freelance web developer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I specialise in the application development side of building sites but I usually work by myself so often need a good overview of all aspects of our industry.

I'm originally from the UK and my first high profile project was the Drop The Debt website launched for the G8 summit in Okinawa in 2000, though I'd been working on the web for a few years by then.

My work site is at http://jystewart.net

Hey Nick,

Just wanted to say hi the right way. I'm Shawn, and from http://www.uncoverthenet.com Kinda funny, 3 months ago I didnt even know what Threadwatch was, now I can't go to any decent seo site and not hear about it! Good work Nick :)

Wow, been hearing about ThreadWatch for months, never had the time to check it out, then I find out Nick is behind it. Then I see all the familiar names. Man I'm glad I've finally got some more free time.

Anyway, hello everyone. I'm the VP of R&D for Traffic Logic, now known as InfoSearch Media. Was independent for 4 years prior to that. Next year, I plan on retiring and doing nothing but taking care of my horses, cows, goats, donkeys, chickens and running a ranch for troubled teens.

Nice job on this site Nick.

HI BK
Never even considered that you were not lurking / posting here.

Good to see ya!

Lurking

Kind of true enough, MrM, in that I'd been posting and reading here for a fair while before finding my way around to introducing myself.

Good day all, my name is Dennis Hettema and I'm the founder / CEO of http://www.op3.com
My company was discussed here which motivated me to sign up. I've been active in the Internet industry for about 8 years now, started a company that developed AI software in 99. The boom and crash were my university degree.
After the crash I've been responsible for building Holland's largest entrepreneurial network and founded OP3 almost two years ago. I'm native Dutch based in Sweden.

I haven't posted an introduction to myself, even though I've been here for some time. I'm kinda shy.

I've been in the SEO business for 6 years and the internet business for longer than that. My specialty is usability...and one of these days Nick will get around to implementing the usability study I did for him. *HA!*

I am also kicking this post to the top so my friend and second mom Michelle Anderson can find it and post here.

Hoping to kick it in soon grnidone! Time is not my friend right now after having relatives over for a few days heh...

Welcome to everyone that's posted in here since i last said hi, it's lovely to see the intro's and this is definately my favorite thread :-)

So, if you've not officially said hi, please do!

I was semi-retired, moved to northern Maine to raise my sister's son. Homeschooling took me pretty much out of the business. Now that my nephew is pronounced "cured," he's off to school, we started a local online newspaper and internet cafe. We're the only internet cafe around for more than 70 miles in any direction. I teach computer classes to the locals, but am slowly getting back to my real calling.

I am eternally grateful to Grnidone for pointing me here and to Shak for teaching me to pronounce "niche."

Nice place, Nick!

Often wondered what had happened to you, Laisha. Couldn't have guessed you'd left the game so completely. Not so surprising that its luring you back tho. SEO gets into your blood somehow.

- and I'm busy taking care of newborn Robyn Sophia. I do read Threadwatch, but I will probably never post here.

I thought I'd sign up and wish you all a Happy New Year. Any way, I thought I'd use the Threadwatch PM to get Nick's attention, he never reads my email any more ;)

Wow! What a great place...not sure how I stumbled on it, but it's my new, definitely "gotta check it everyday" site. I've been a member of WW since 2001 (never posted - lurk, lurk), but I was hoping for a place that had more professional focus, took less time to get thru the garbage, and a sense of fun/humor at the same time - Lord knows we need that in the SEO business.

I've been an SEO consultant since 2001 from Montana and I have a small, but handpicked client base. I'm looking at releasing some of my own products this year, instead of just promoting my clients' stuff.

Thanks, Nick, for finding me a home!

Been lurking here since Nick launched the site - got it in my RSS reader (good ol' Bloglines).

I've worked for one "normal" search engine then for a PPC, before that I studied Computer Science (and History, there's being multi-disciplined or you), know some HTML / CSS and work mainly as a SEM (so SEO and PPC). Started in search in 2000. Feels like it was a decade ago!

Glad to see you out of lurk mode DunkP :-)

Welcome to everyone that's joined recently, if you've not posted in this thread or the previous one then please do. It's so nice to see people in here and get an idea of what they do...

I just got a mail from Nick saying something about me being the 400th member here. Thought I'd drop a post. So heya, I'm jabba. I just recently developed an interest for SEO and traffic generation. I'm active mostly in the scripting and security scene but am always out to broaden my horizons. Cheers to the admin(s?) of threadwatch for offering a great site to do just that !

heh, welcome.

400 members? If I'm in the early 200s, thats a double of members in under six weeks -- thats pretty darn good, I wish some of my projects had faired that well :)

Great site. I've worked on SEO for a large site for the past 10 years. I have a new nick from a recent diagnosis- occupational hazard.

Hello all. Got introduced by DougS & UKGimp. Like what I see so far. More quality, less dross.

Me? Been dabbling with Web since '92. Used to do SEO / PPC for clients before I realised that clients are assholes and there is more money to be made doing it for yourself. Main company activity now is managing decent portfolio of SEO sites, affiliate PPC & Lead Generation through SEO/PPC. (actually, you might want to scrub no. 2 after Google's Adwords announcement today!).

Looking forward to some interesting debate and exchange of ideas....

I've been in lurk-mode for the past couple of weeks, but I've really been enjoying the discussion.

I am Managing Partner at Reprise Media, a New York City based SEM company. My colleagues and I have become somewhat obsessed with keeping up with all the great dialogue going on in the industry and have just launched our own search-marketing blog @ www.searchviews.com. We plan on linking to Threadwatch quite a bit (including this morning) and participating in the conversation.

Nick, Excellent site you have here. Thought I'd introduce myself -- I am Alden DoRosario, co-founder and CTO of Chitika, Inc.

Been in ad targeting for about 6 years now .. just released a service for monetizing blog traffic.

Best of luck with this, Nick. I notice that you have a solid community going here. Great job !

Nick, thanks for putting this site together. It is desperately needed.

Anyhow, I from Chicago, but now living in Lincoln, Nebraska. (parents getting older so I moved). I am trying to retire early like DG - so I have several projects in the fire! I have two of my own products that I am trying to push online and several ecommerce and Adsense sites supported by a network funded by Google. Self employeed for 7 years except for brief period (10 months) of employment.

I see many familiar nicks - feels cozy.

Hello, my name is Edward Lewis and I'm a threadwatcholic. I do believe that I caught Nick right after he launched. What an excellent resource, eh? See, I'm even picking up on his lingo. :)

Started SEO in 1996. Been hanging around the forums for years and have always posted under pageoneresults. I do believe most probably know me. I want to retire too!

I know you from two forums. Obviously WW, but how about the PR8 OutFront?

GerBot here (Gerard)
just found out about this place and I'm excited to be joining.
I work in SEM, SEO and affiliate marketing.
My experience ranges from fortune 10 SEM to SEO "button pushing".

I hope to get to know some of you over time.

Well, the man anyway. I stumbled upon a reference to my byline posted by MrMackin, so I thought I'd stop by to see why my name was invoked. I am an Internet consultant who specializes in working with attorneys, and I have also worked with a wide variety of large scale content collaboration projects, including ODP and the long since dormant Project Napa. For more information about me, please see my blog or my resume.

Welcome to TW netesq, good to see you here :)

and hi to the others that have signed in, if you've not done so already, please do!

Nick

I joined about a month ago, but never got around to saying hello. I'm qwerty, also known as Bob Gladstein. I've been an SEO for 4 or 5 years, but only two years as a full-time freelance consultant.

Let's see... I live just outside Boston, but I'm originally from that big scary place a few hundred km to the southwest. I'm a mod on a couple of forums (one of which is a fave of many of the members here) but I'm actually a generally pleasant person. Generally.

I've followed some of the conversations on Threadwatch off and on for a while now. It was only recently that the CES thread prompted me to register.

Anyway, a little bit about me. I'm Jason Joyce, a technology journalist covering PC peripherals for About.com in addition to some freelance work on the side. About.com was my introduction to the SEO world, and I have to admit I'd be more than happy to go back to the days of not having to worry about my writing being optimized for search, but since it has to be done...

Been posting here a bit.

Enjoying this forum as I can just say controversial things for fun, normally posts get pulled elsewhere.

Hello all.

Cheers Nick

DougS

Well, I'm a bit of a long time lurker in most places. Good to have somewhere that seems to avoid the politics of the forums, not to mention a one stop shop for quality threads and comment!

Based in Herts, UK, I've been in web development for 5 years and SEO for 2.5 years.

I heard about this blog from Todd and I read it often now. I like it cuz there's no BS and high quality posts/commentary. I'm not much of a poster, but I am very involved in SEO for my company. I'm from Los Angeles and would like to meet some local SEO's for drinks. Cheers!

Hey, I'm Paul. I'm a law and politics student in Edinburgh (Scotland) at the moment and was previously involved in seo for clients. I saw the light and have now cut out the clients part. Working towards a mountain retreat in the Alps where I can snowboard, cook and drink. This is a great site which helps greatly in reducing the time necessary to keep up to date without wading through much of the mountains of crap which litter the many forums - thanks.

I've been lurking for a while, sent this way by Jason D. Thanks Jason!

I'm Jeff Hope, live an hour's drive north of Dallas, TX. 44 now, been working in computer-related fields, mostly in large corporations, since I was 19. PC hardware/software support, Wang & VAX system manager, network analyst/admin, IBM COBOL programmer, *nix & Windows server admin. On web since 1993, programming/design exclusively for the web since 1997. If forced I can painfully work with Perl, but much prefer PHP - user since PHP 3 beta, around 1998 I think. Big supporter of LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP). To be honest, being a cynical old guy now, I no longer enjoy programming for the mind-challenge - it's just a tool to get done what I need to get done.

Affiliate marketing since 1998, released two software products last year. Have had hosting/design/programming clients since 1998, but since March have "fired" all except one (I'm contractually obligated until Sep. 2005 & they won't go away voluntarily). Self-employed and totally working for my own benefit these days, with occasional special projects and JV-style arrangements thrown in.

Thanks, I really enjoy TW!

Jeff

Hi, I'm another Paul (there's a lot of us about.) I'm based in Brighton, UK.

I've been making websites for just over nine years, on and off with some other jobs inbetween.

Currently I'm a freelance developer and SEO, doing mainly ColdFusion and PHP on the developer side, and CSS / linking / training / fixing pages / usability advice on the SEO side. A while ago I wrote SpiderTest as an exercise in the technical side of SEO. I really need to make it's advice a bit more comprehensive, but I keep having too much work on, which is both a good and bad thing.

TW caught my eye as it keeps popping up in links from lots of the SEO places I look at and it seems a very good thing.

Just arrived... I did wipe my feet before I came in ;)

Thanks to Jason I've found another great place to hang out - when will I ever get any work done?

I look forward to participating.

John

I've been lurking and checking the RSS feed for a while so thought it was time to post here.

I'm based in Reading, UK - I've been a part-time SEO/webmaster for about 18 months and am trying to build up a few sites to enable me to go full time.

Thanks Nick for providing such a timesaving resource.

Cheers,
Mark.

I've been reading Nick's blog since I think he created it - my fav RSS feed. Never had a reason to b/c a member until Nick made a brilliant move and offered something free... www.threadwatch.org/node/1137 (Where's that email link to follow directions...)

Good info + free stuff = eWhisper out of the shadows.

Anyway. I'm an oft verbose poster who loves PPC, reverse engineering AdWords forumalas, and figuring out how to get OV products to trump each other without others bidders realizing it.

For the actual paycheck, I'm the Senior PPC Analyst at LocalLaunch.com.

Enjoy.

So, after sending my PM for my free stuff, I see a PM from Nick from, like, when I joined a ways back telling me to intro myself. Which I would have done had I ever seen the PM, LOL. Not much to say bout me. I'm affiliate scum.

Nice site Nick, it's getting props everywhere - and it deserves them.

Hi, I'm George Sepich. I run a small offline tourism publishing business and I'm in the process of building that business online as well.
In the past I've been a TV producer, copywriter, and advertising account executive, and live with wife and daughter here in balmy Central Illinois.

This looks like a great place to learn what I need to learn!
Thanks Jason.

Hey all...

I'm the owner of http://www.iwinweekly.com and http://www.constant-content.com . Constant Content is my newest project and its only been up about 6 months and its gotten some pretty good results so far. As for my real job, I’m a Mac IT guy who specializes in OSX servers. This is a great site and will now be added to my sites that I visit daily.

All you writers and webmasters check out Constant Content when you get a chance.

Thanks

I'm Adam. I don't recall exactly how I stumbled upon TW, but I'm happy to be here. Seems like a lot of interesting stuff, and cool, opinionated people.

Um, as for me... well, I like digital photography and music performance/composition, I am a major Lindy Hop enthusiast, and love traveling and exploring.

Ah, and workwise... heh heh, well, I do a bunch of geeky-but-non-programming stuff. Some SEO (largely AdWords / PPC related), and also quite a bit of consulting for a startup company in silicon valley.

But 'nuff about me. I look forward to learning about others here, even if largely in lurk mode.

Have a good one.

Feel like I am back at WmW :) I just love working from home.
Thanks Nick.

He has arrived:)

DougS

Hello, not too good with intros...but meet me at any conference for drinks :)

Nick,

Great site, thanks for letting me in to offer my 2cents.

BTW, the poop was flushed :D

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Mugshot,

Drinks? OK! :D

Nice site!! I am into the editing side of directories. I have edited in quite a few directories, starting with DMOZ 5 yrs. ago in a category with 5 listed sites. I reached the 100,000 edits quite some time ago, and I am still going strong.

There are not enough hours in a day. ;)

I've been lurking on the RSS feed for awhile, but just recently got the urge to post -- Nick has a talent for starting discussions that make you want to say something :-)

I've been building sites since pre-mosaic days (yes, I'm older than dirt), but have mostly been building web apps since about '97. I'm also co-owner of a small hosting co., and have recently started a new sideline teaching small business site owners why their 6-page brochureware sites don't make money...

There's always something new to do in this industry...

Talk about a star studded line up :-)

Welcome everyone that's sigened in since i last posted here - if you guys (or anyone) have questions or need anything just pm me - im a bit slow sometimes but i do get there in the end :)

If you're reading here and you have either a) Not said hi in this thread or b) Not registered at all (gasp!) please do! It's great to see a few details on what people and their backgrounds, this remains my favorite thread here at TW hah..

Cheers

Im ben.

just found this place through a semi-cryptic clue in the wmw supporters forum, and have been reading the good stuff ive been missing here since.

im based in newcastle, uk and mainly do css/xhtml/graphics/accessibility, but am tryin desperately to brush up on seo so maybe oneday i can work from home on my own sites, isntead of coding for the man.

nice to see all the familiar names - was wondering were nick had been hiding :)

Hi Everyone. Thought I would show my face. I use WMW with the same name.

I heard NickW is doing a good job so I thought I'd come on over.

The members list here looks pretty intimidating. I'll try not to say anything stupid :))

Hey all, wanted to stop in and say hi.

i've been lurking for a while but i just finally signed up for an account. i do mostly C programming but i've been known to hack some php on occasion. i'm basicly a newb when it comes to most other web stuff tho :) but i'm here to learn!

the_sinx

After being plunged by a burning plane into the jungle, where my parents were already toast after drinking large gin and tonics for the entire flight, I was saved by some apes who found me in a burning bush.

They then sold me to some wolves, who with a little help from me, were able to build the city of Rome.

After this, we all got bored with inventing central heating and hot baths, so we worked on something new: a search engine powered by natural hot springs, which is all we knew about then.

Unfortunately, as neither the apes or the wolves could read and therefore, neither could I... well that was a complete f*&^%ng waste of time wasn't it.

So, we live and learn...

Hi, I'm Mike - and like you - I'm a searchaholic!

Hmph - yet another forum to join? Well, that was my first reflexive thought ... but then I took a gander at what was actually going on here, and seeing that Nick is such a nice guy, and Dirk developing a knack of pointing me to really good threads every other day or so, yadda yadda - anyway, here I am now for better or for worse.

Lots of familiar faces here, too, and not all of them entirely virtual, either. So feel free to simply skip what's coming below. But for those who are as yet in getting-familiar limbo as far as I'm concerned, here's some bio feed.

Never been employed, never said "boss" to anyone for the past 25 years or so. (Two shitty years in the German army made it perfectly clear that I wasn't particularly cut out for that sort of thing.) And haven't regretted it one second, even when the going got tougher than I care to remember.

While my academic background is in literature and languages, I discovered the Internet back in 1994 after feeling the temperature of the BBS scene a while before. Got my first PC (a Victor Sirius hybrid) around 1984 and enjoyed experimenting with programming and, better still, writing about it.

Later, when the Net became accessible to the general public, I'd switched to quite another industry, namely offshore finance, tax avoidance schemes, privacy tools, anti Big Brother strategies, etc. (yeah, pretty shady stuff even then ... but I reckon the notorious "taxBomber" won't ring too many bells in this place); and when I made my first sale only 12 hours after "designing" my first pot ugly amateurish web page at Geocities, I guess I was hooked to the medium. Spent some money and effort on what was still nascent SEO a couple of months later (boy, was that an easy going and dead simple affair at the time: meta tag stuffing, invisible text, lots of sneaky stuff which still worked then.

Ok, so there are those who would say I never ever stopped, he he: when
I met my old school buddy Dirk again and we decided to go into Internet marketing together for real, we mucked about with SEO and cloaking a bit till we'd honed our spiel enough to incorporate and go public as fantomaster.com. So what shall I say: we were profitable after only six months (and, better yet, still are) online, so I guess we must have done something right.

Ah yes, and in case you didn't know - we're German expats (did I hear someone mumble "kraut cloakers"?!) residing in the German speaking part of Belgium where the food's about ten times better than anywhere across the border and every man and his dog is voraciously multi lingual.

I will confess that I'd loved to have said that I'm a Gypsy by abduction or something equally exotic, but then I didn't want to spoil Mike's act ... :-)

Instead, I'd like to point out that this SEO/SEM industry, whether still in its toothing stage or a geriatric nut case already (argue, argue), strikes me as one of the major individualists' hotbeds of our digital time. (Would be hard put to name a second one offhand, actually.) What a wonderfully anarchic crowd. In short - glad to be here!

Welcome in! :)

....and, what a way to make an entrance -- User number 700 Woohoo...

OK, so at least 100 or so will probably never return after getting their free giveaway last week but that's still a cool number, if only you could have been number 666 eh? but alas, that honor went to a guy yet to break lurkdom :(

So, again, welcome in everybody, and if you've not paid your dues in this thread by saying hi and telling us a bit about yourself, please do...

Nick you finally prompted me to get out of lurk mode and actually post.

I'm more of a programmer (offline) than anything web based, however I have developed some PHP sites that have performed beyond expectations for their owners. Maybe it's because there it not a great deal of SEO competition down here in South Africa ;)

I am formally employed as Quality Assurance manager of a company in the telecoms sector although eventually I hope to go back to being self-employed. The offer I got to return to corporate life was to good to turn down and the original limited period contract has been extended a couple of times.

Paul

I stumbled upon this great forum yesterday and honestly can't remember how. I work in Calgary, Canada as a financial consultant and have been trying to learn enough to build a website (still working on it)

I work with quite a few small businesses and got interested in "local search" and started a blog about the subject:

http://localsearchideas.blogspot.com

I'm not a tech guy but I would certainly like to learn more about doing business on the web. I'm hoping a little bit of the knowledge here will rub off ...

Hmmm... why am I compelled to post?

Stealth mode off. Been an SEO about 9 years now, entirely on sites I directed or owned, and nowadays for select clients. That's a long time. Nothing major earth-shattering or ground-breaking or insanely creative or grossly profitable, but lots of top rankings.

Many years of memberships at certain tool houses, subscription forums... and usually in stealth mode. There's a ton of data buried in that historical record, and it will probably never be erased. Someday someone will collate it. Danger Will Robinson.

Nonetheless WTF, for certain aspects and this excellent forum. And in continuing my spirit of KMA, my website URL is still "coming soon", at http://www.seo-fun.com. Yes, so unprofessional. So sue me.

Just discovered this place today, great job Nick.

I've been a fulltime webmaster since 1999 and Creative Director at 360 Mediaworx Inc. for some 4 years now. Always busy, always up for a round of golf.

Long time WMW member, occasional poster. A lot of familar names round here..I look forward to visiting on a regular basis..

Cheers,

Chad

Just wanted to say hi, its Leigh from Mirago.
Great site Nick ;o)

L

Nick has been very sweet to me this weekend and he's encouraging me to quit lurking...so I'll try.

Hi, I'm Rochelle and I'm a...lurker. Ha, you thought I'd say alcoholic...well maybe that, too. After the Super Bowl party last night (this morning) I could very well qualify to fit in the category of the "A" word.

Anyway, I have an employer and work on his site fulltime. One of these days, hopefully, I can make some money on my own. Testing the waters, Unsuccessfully so far, but someday...

I really don't have much to say (which is why I lurk everywhere). I mostly feel intimidated by all of you brilliant people, but I will make an effort. OK?

No need for that sort of thing Rochelle. Everyone plays nicely and those that dont get a slap off of Nick hehehe (probably :-))

So get posting, no need to feel intimidated. I promise ya :-)

Threadwatch is at the top of my RSS feeds on my.yahoo homepage! I was recommended probably 3 months ago by the owner of the company I work for when I commented how much "useless chatter" their was in the forums. (I am a get to the point type of guy)

About me, I do link building in Upstate, NY for an internet marketing company. Before that I had been working on a website for myself and found I was spending way too much time re-inventing the wheel. So I made a career change. Turns out I have a knack for getting lots of Links for clients :)

Anyone wanting to know more private me...

Glad I found this page to introduce myself. I started in web design about 10 years ago. I have been doing SEO in addition to the design for around 4 years with the last couple feeling like I actually know what I am doing.

I have enjoyed reading threadwatch for a while now but just recently registered. I hope to help encourage the quality discussions that happen here and hope not to offend anyone when I happen to say what I am thinking.

Cheers, and here's to threadwatch.org.

I have been a lurker for yonks. Been outed by a post so the introduction appears.

I lurk on most boards I watch but now this and webmasterworld have forced me to post.

Been in internet biz for about 12 years as consultant and journalist. Am a consultant with various companies in Scotland, Germany and US. Mostly B2B except for in Scotland where I am e-initiatives advisor to Scottish Parliament.

Before this I was a soldier, keyboard player for band in the 80's and long time music and entertainments journalist for UK national daily.

Hobbies have been getting into helicopters to fly them and jumping out of fixed wing aircraft (also jumped out of a helicopter twice but both times the aircraft was perfectly airworthy). I also liked climbing mountains.

I smoke and swear like a trooper.

new to threadwatch, but have been 'online' since compuserve and BBSs in the 80s. i describe myself as a journalist, poet and pilgrim (not necessarily in that order). if you google 'kpaul' you should be able to find out some more info. (the motorcycle site and some others aren't me, tho. lol. )

good to be here.

-kpaul

Nick this is a really nice place you got. Like Kpaul and I suspect many of you I got into this stuff in the bbs days. Who could of guessed then we would end up here. Kind of dropped out in the middle nineties when I did the best thing I ever did. Sold everything I had and just walked the earth. Very liberating experience.

Around 2000 I was living and still do in the Guatemalan Highlands and I was looking for ways to make a little money. A friend and I concepted an online b2b services company and I got back into the internet and boy what a change.

How I got into SEO was we were showing 80th place for our company name. Then I stumbled on wmw. Nic is Skippy but I don’t really post much there. So you all probably don’t know me too well. Learned css from our kind host and I still hand code if you can believe that. Just like to touch the code.

I am really impressed with your membership list Nick. I learned a lot of stuff from you guys and gals and I just would like to thank you.

Adoy

though I fall into the "web design" cat not the SEO cat.... I was more or less nudged this direction by mivox....

Lots of reading to do, but I do read fast. I see a lot of names I recognize, and many from whom I have learned a great deal, my thanks to all of you. And thanks to NickW for this nice place - kind of wondered where you'd got to! Your CSS tutorials saved my life and made me think.

Hi Nick,

Just wanted to thank you for the Threadwatch site (an excellent idea) and to introduce http://www.jobsinsearch.com.

We are an international (niche) job site for the search engine industry.

My personal background is in Online Marketing and Online Recruitment and I feel this makes us fairly unique in that we have experience of running and operating search engine marketing campaigns for clients(SEO & PPC)as well as helping companies recruit people for their companies.

We also produce a blog offering news/information about jobs and careers in the search engine industry:
http://www.jobsinsearch.blogspot.com.

I look forward to being able to contribute to the forums in the future.

Thanks

Mike Taylor

Another WebmasterWorld refugee. Thanks to Mivox for pointing me here - lots of familiar names. I am a marketer by trade and run a vacation home website to market some properties we own.

I am sure my technical skills are insignificant compared to many of those here, but I look forward to providing useful commentary when I can and keeping my mouth shut when I can't.

Don

We're all here to learn, Mardi Gras. Welcome to threadwatch.

Hi all,

my name is just like my nick, Boaz... I live in Israel, have a wife and three daughters, and no cats or dogs. Been in the SEO/M business for 7 years and enjoying (almost) every minute, running my own company. Used to be a software engineer before that (15 years). Beside semi normal SEM, we are also the SEO consultants to a few very high profile Internet companies.
I found this site while searching for something else, and after I saw all the names I used to see at WMW and whose posts I liked to read (some of which I rarely see anymore), I decided to add the site to the very small list of sites I keep track of. It definitely has a certain spirit I no longer find at WMW.

Hi,

I am very much new to blogging even to the word "blog." I am a software and design engineer from USA. I love to read peoples comments and responses. Usually I am out on the net for solutions to my problem. In one of those moment, I hit Nick's website and I do have to say I love every single post I read. Some are very insteresting and informative. These days I am into running my own e-commerce website

Welcome in Thaya, and everyone that's signed into TW since i last posted here - nice to see this thread getting close to the point where i'll have to shut it off and start "part 3" heh..

Thaya, you have mail - check your pm box just under the logo on the left :-)

I have been working in the internet marketing biz for about a year and a half now. I learn something new each day and hopefully pass that along to others. Unless i learn something really good then i horde it for a month or two lol. I love forums like this and from the looks of it I will be coming back on a daily basis.

Thanks

I think Nick has mentioned this thread at least twice now, hehe.

I am, and always will be jatar_k, I know a lot of you, have heard of a lot of you I don't know and have no clue who the rest of you are.

nice to meet everyone and I am trying I find more time to read and post.

so many forums, so little time ;)

Ok - I am Chris. Some of you know me. I do "forced content delivery" (what some of you refer to as spamming). I don't post on boards as much as I used to, but still read every once in a while.

Really love this board, happy to be here, kudos to Nick_W

In retrospect "yes" is a stupid choice of name. No? But, I'm too lazy to setup a new account so I'll live with it.

I've been lurking here for a few weeks and decided this a pretty good place. Particularly as I'm finding it increasingly time consuming to filter out the noise in other places I frequent. Nice job, Nick.

Well, I signed up because I keep seeing this site during my daily read of the latest news in the search market. I'm Joe Holcomb, SVP of Marketing at BlowSearch. Formerly with Kanoodle, I have also been a search engine marketer and web development professional since 1997, long before my time working at any engine.

Please feel free to stop by my Search Marketing and Web Development Weblog at: http://www.agotoguy.com/news-articles/index.php. I think you'll find I'm pretty opinionated on what is going on in the search and web development market even though I work for an engine.

I try to keep my opinions and promotion of BlowSearch on my Blog separated from my other writing and I think I do a good job of that. You'll find "inside scoop" on happenings at BlowSearch under that category on my blog. No, it is not the "official" weblog of BlowSearch. But I do make announcements on our plans there.

Looking forward to participating here at ThreadWatch. If you're attending SES NY please stop by the BlowSearch booth and say hello!

Nick ... thanks for having this great site. I was only introduced to it today via email.

I'm the CEO of Rose Rock Design and my usual haunts are http://www.talk-e-commerce.com and http://www.applepiecart.com.

Some of you probably know me from my under-the-radar nick at WebmasterWorld, PatrickDeese. ;)

I live in Mexico where I operate some regional tourism sites, and do Adsense powered info sites on the side.

I also feel that it is important to mention that I hate Ask Jeeves.

Hello, my name is martin (uboo is my teddy bear). :-) I have recently returned to the web design/SEO/SEM business after a 4 year absence. Lots of changes in that time.

I go back with computers to the early trash-80 days and no matter what I do, I always seem to be the "computer guy" (doesn't say much for some of my peers though).

I started a local computer repair and home tutoring business in 1997 and migrated through clients to an ISP client troubleshooter and then into webdesign and WebPositioning (as it was called then).

I think this is a great site! Good job Nick (and all the others)! I kept seeing TW as a source on several sites that I watch and finally gave it a look and subscribed to the RSS feed and have been moving it up the page until it's at the top!

PS. There isn't a preview feature, so do you just use the edit link, when you goof up?

Hello all, I'm Alister. I'm a self-employed web developer, living in Australia.

My business website is www.edition3.com. My main contribution to technical communities is through my involvement with ASP.NET.

Zeldman and the Google autolink HOOPLAH brought me in, and now that I've surfed around a bit I think I've found a rather nice place to kick back. Thanks for that! And the comments about the whole autolinks thing-- lotsa brain power here, methinks. Cool beans.

FYI I do small business web design and SEO, in addition to running a part time vintage and collectibles business. My latest effort is http://decorides.com which has been a blast and is almost complete. I have the dubious honor of designing sites for folks with almost no computer savvy, which makes my task SO much more interesting!

I'm based in the gorgeous Delaware Valley, not far from NYC and Philly, but worlds away in atmosphere. If you're in the neighborhood . . .

... and i'm from Denmark, Europe. Hi to all i know and all i don't know yet :)

Had to check out this group blog thingy (really interesting concept and it seems to work fine, kudos Nick W :) ... as well as make sure nobody else grabbed my nick *lol* I hope you can stand to see me at this place as well. Not sure if i'll be posting a lot here or less - time will show ;)

I'm Hjalmar Gislason.

I found Threadwatch through some talk about my latest venture, the search engine Zniff.com. It is a search engine that is based on human information gathered for a little over a year by the users of Spurl.net - an online bookmarking service that I founded and largely own.

I'm a computer geek since the age of six and have worked my entire carreer on projects that I have started myself - more about that and other things on my rarely-updated personal home page hjalli.com

Looking forward to participating here.

Well, the system's recent posts list buckles once we pass 90 messages, so it's time to start a new Introduction thread!

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