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How I Got Started In An SEO Career

May 19th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

**Welcome to the How I Got Started in SEO Blog Tag. I decided after creating this post that I would turn it into a tag. This is pretty simple to do. Simply make a blog post with the following:

1. How you got Started in SEO
2. List down 5 people and link to them who you want to blog tag and request them to tell their story how they got started in SEO. Although if you are not listed in my 5 people, feel free to still participate here if you want.
3. Link to where you read this story.

I think it would be cool to see how each one of us got into this business :)

So, having said that, here is my story: (more…)

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Dive Bomber Opening for WWE Star Christy Hemme

March 28th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Ok, please be forewarned that this post has nothing to do with SEO…lol. I am very stoked to announce that this Wednesday night, April 2nd, my band Dive Bomber will be opening for WWE Superstar Christy Hemme.

Here is a pic of Christy in case you are unfamiliar with her career. And if you are really interested (and over 18..lol), here are some Christy Hemme videos. (more…)

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Lyrics to the SEO Blues

March 20th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

For those who were curious:

The SEO Blues (© Copyright 2008)
Lyrics by Catfish


It was Monday morning and I was just out of bed
Logged onto Hitbox just to see if I had
Any reason to be happy that day
Cause ya never know what Googles gonna take away
(I got the)

Chorus:
SEO Blues
The SEO Blues
The SEO Blues
Another Google Dance is all ya need to wake up to
SEO Blues

Number one the first day and you’re gone the next
Trying to run a business man is such a mess
Page Rank, Back links, 302s
I already had enough to do (without the)

Chorus

I’m sinkin in the sandbox cause I got no links
I talked to Rand Fishkin just to see what he thinks
I talked to Matt Cutts and Shoemoney too
Not even Greg Boser knew what I should do (about my)

Chorus

It seems I had a problem that I couldn’t understand
Until I read an article at search engine land
My site got hijacked by my own IP
And a 302 redirect I couldn’t see (I had the)

Chorus

PS. This is purely a fictional story ;)

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The SEO Blues – Free MP3 Music Download by Catfish

March 18th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

During the last 10 years of optimizing sites, I have come across a lot of circumstances that could only be described as “The SEO Blues”. *lol* So I finally decided to write a song about it. It’s called The SEO Blues. Everyday on my lunch I go to my band studio to eat and relax. Fortunately it’s only about 10 minutes from work. I wrote this song over the last couple weeks and today I decided to record it on my iPod. There are a couple mistakes on the guitar but I only had time for one take. I hope everyone enjoys it. I think its kinda funny. I am sure many people can relate to the theme. *LOL* Just click on the player below to listen to the song or download the SEO Blues mp3 file. Maybe someday I’ll do a video ;)


Download The SEO Blues

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Random Wednesday SEO Thoughts

December 12th, 2007 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

4:45am… baby crying
5:00am… wife’s alarm goes off
6:30am… scrapping ice off my window in San Diego, WTF
7:30am… still hanging out in an hour long traffic jam

It started out pretty rough today I have to admit…lol. So I thought I would lose myself in the SEO world today to take my mind off how tired I am. Here are some of the things I found along the way:

More on sub domains versus folders and how it effects SEO.

The ongoing discussion about the evils of paid links in SEO.

A great article about the problems that CMS systems have with SEO. I’ll blog more on this subject later myself. I have a number of observations to add..lol. That’s why we invented our own CMS system that is SEO friendly ;)

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