evilgreenmonkey

Just in case you read Mike Nott’s Blog, you may have seen his recent post about the bet made at Lisa’s Ad:Tech party. Lisa and I have a running joke that we’re like husband and wife, and it somehow moved on to someone joking about having a Vegas wedding during Pubcon.

As it became quite a popular idea at the party, Lisa and I tried to get out of it by saying that we’d only do it if I ranked top for “weddings”. Mike seems to think that it’ll be funny to try and follow through on this bet on my behalf, by starting a link bombing campaign. Oh dear, I think that I may need to blacklist my own blog to prevent him from achieving his goal.

On the positive side, I’ve heard that my stag night will go ahead in Vegas no matter what

I’m happy to announce 2 new ventures that I’m very excited about.

Firstly, after leaving my in-house role at PartyGaming, I have now partnered up with some brilliant SEOs, to form a new consultancy. The company is called Ayima Search Marketing, please don’t ask me what “Ayima” means though ;). I work alongside Mike Nott, who is a fantastic SEO, but likes to keep a low profile. We’ve also just hired a very talented young SEO, who most Black Hats will know from his plethora of free SEO scripts which many have used or adapted at some point. Ayima specialises in offering a level of SEO that is not currently found in the UK, as well as providing on-site support (it’s like having your own in-house team). Although our team has a strong background in Black Hat SEO, we provide best-practice services to clients and use our darker knowledge to understand on-site and competitor issues to a degree unlike any other.

The second piece of news is my new role as Editor of Sphinn, a forum and community site launched by Danny Sullivan and the crew at Third Door Media. In order to dedicate enough time to my new position, I have decided to step down as Forums Editor at Search Engine Watch. Danny started SEW back in 1997, which he later sold to JupiterMedia (now Incisive Media) and left in 2006. After he departed from SEW, Search Engine Land was born along with SMX conferences and now Sphinn. It’s sad that I’m leaving SEW after my brief spell as an Editor, although I really look forward to playing a key role in building and developing Sphinn.

Lastly, if you’ve tried to email me recently without reply, please try again. I’ve changed email addresses (although the old one should now forward on), as well as buying my first home which proved very time consuming.

I was recently asked by Incisive to start writing a column for In-House SEM in the SearchEngineWatch Experts section. My first article looking at brand protection went live a few days ago, and I should be writing a new article at least once a fortnight. You can find a list of articles that I write from my Bio page, although I highly recommend subscribing to the SEW Experts RSS Feed. And before you mention it; yes I do look stupid in that photo, no I’m not smiling and yes I did take the picture using my Mac webcam rather then getting a professional to do it.

Places you’ll find me:
SearchEngineWatch Experts - As above.
SearchEngineWatch Forums - Spending a lot of time here due to my new responsibilities as the Admin.
Search Engine Roundtable - I feel guilty for not putting more of an effort in for Barry on his site, although most of my forum time is spent looking after SEW. I’ll try to get posting here again soon.
SEO Blokes - I need to post here more often, I think we all do really.
evilgreenmonkey - Sorry I haven’t written much SEO stuff, you’ll find some good content on my SEW Experts column though and I should have some more white/grey/dark-grey hat posts coming here soon.
LondonSEO.org - I only post event news on this site, although any UK SEO/PPC/Affiliate guru should get their arses along to these events. They’re free and you meet loads of cool people (don’t worry, I don’t include myself as “cool people”).

When I’m not working 14 hours a day, I use Lee Odden’s marvellous blog list in Google Reader (it helps my karma) to keep up on the industry news. I’m also impressed with the kingdom that my mate Rand is building for himself over at SEOmoz. Rand has a bit of the Charlies Angels thing going on over there, I’m sure he only hires pretty people. The mozzers always had a big following, although I’m starting to find people who only ever read stuff posted by moz HQ. I think that Scott will be the first mozzer to use his power for evil, tempting readers into a spiral of eBooks, self-help courses and getting links to his network of MFA sites.

Right, I’m off to look for an office, an apartment and a hangover cure that works.