You may have noticed that I removed a recent post that put a “SEO company” that had been spamming me on blast, but I’m trying to reduce the number of negative posts here. To be 100% honest, the emails I receive from scam/misinformed SEO firms are getting too frequent to address, which is unfortunate.

Instead let me take a minute to express my annoyance with yet another example of the hypocrisy that we face daily from Google. The “do as we say, not as we do” examples are piling up and getting really old. Guidelines should apply to both search engine and webmaster alike, or not at all.

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I’ll be attending the SEOmoz training seminar on October 1st, and I’m actually making a vacation out of the trip. After sightseeing in Seattle we’re heading up to Canada. I’ve been to Victoria, BC twice and will be making my third trip there a few days after the seminar.

For anyone involved in search marketing, I highly recommend attending this particular seminar for several important reasons listed below in no particular order:

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