Slava Rybalka

Debra Mastaler

Shari Thurow

Christine Churchill 

Rae Hoffman

Maybe you could add some pop-up box, so when somebody flags a post, they are presented with this window and a phrase: "Please, tell us why you think this post is a spam?" This will give you better feedback from the community and help to understand our needs better. ;)

Hi Rand and the team. Please, maintain this site's quality level. It started as the ultimate resource on SEO with pure gems submitted by SEO's all over the world. Now it is turning into a pile of BS. Please, have someone assigned to separate useful posts (real life case studies, presentations, other people experience) from other s**t like posts "why I...", posts that have misleading titles, posts that are about the things been discussed 1000s of times. Every single morning I start my day from opening inbound.org and I still recommend this resource as the ultimate destination for anyone seeking professional SEO advice and looking to learn SEO, but with recent posts I am going to reconsider my opinion. Thank you. Slava Rybalka SEO Analyst

Hi Christian,

1. Python/regular expressions (urllib and re libraries namely) - has helped me a lot with scraping information about target audience.

2. Basic MySQL to be able to analyze registered users (again, your target audience).

3. Google Search Operators - you should be able to quickly retrieve information that you need about the website.

4. Excel - for analyzing data sheets with competitor's links.

5. Read several books on Branding - as a Senior SEO you should be able to see the general picture of where the company is moving.

6. Management and Marketing - again, read several good books on this topic. (Peter Drucker and Phillip Kotler).

7. NEVER stop learning new things about your profession, learn something new everyday, different aspects of it.

Another example of how you can turn literally anything into content, just by being creative. 

I vote for Jason without reading the article itself - if I see that this was produced by him - this is the mark of quality.

I would pay 80% to the best copywriters I could find to create the best content they can produce to satisfy the needs of my target audience and 20% to the PPC campaign to that (those) pieces of content, to give them initial boost of traffic.

I think it's you who missed the point. Please don't get misled by the term SEO. I have just noticed that the overall quality of UGC of the website has decreased.

That's a very interesting tool, I might give it a try!

I have watched the video; this is exactly what I need.

sorry, boring.

As always you've made my day. While reading I have this thought: "Where did they find this guy? Where has he been all this time?"

Charles, I have been on both sides.

You are saying: "People need to stop pussy footing around being "ethical" - I've always said that if you don't do everything possible to make your client money, then you're doing your job wrong."

Yes, you can think like that and "do everything possible". Think about the consequences. You get a boost in the short term, but then the results are devastating for any brand. So, think twice before using any shady methods that bring money today. Maybe it's better to think strategically about where will your client be in 5 years?

so... great article, upvoted, but: has this thing already been implemented by Google or not yet? I didn't quite get it from the article.

such posts is what I love inbound.org for

...which gives us an idea of combining different marketing methods and creating new ways of reaching target audience. Thank you for sharing!

1) as for me, content marketing involves both, and first of all, it's like you said, being creative and notice what is going on in your daily business operations and what you can turn into content

2) I have seen the same effect, however, I tend to focus more on content rather than links, because: 1. Links tend to disappear over time, whereas your contents stays on your site, you don't have control over your links but you have control over your content  2.if you have content that resonates with you target audience, great links will come naturally and recently we have seen the cases when few links can make a difference in search results, since Google is focusing more on quality of links. There are other things that come to my mind but these are 2 main points.

This is what I was talking about - lots of articles are just about the things that have been discussed 1000's times. I wouldn't say Inbound needs a filter for the word "dead" but rather a live person who would monitor and filter out the submissions considered of no adding additional value to the community. In other words - if it's something unique and useful - let it go through. If not - filter it out.

ermmm, I am not sure about the checkboxes, since there maybe thousands of reasons why people could flag anythng as spam. I'd better prefer just to click Flag, see a modal window, and describe why I think this should be flagged as spam, so you could better understand my choice. Also, this field should be necessary to complete, ie, you can't mark anything as spam, unless you provide your explanation.

Thank you Ed. I really appreciate what you guys doing with the site and to me it is the best resource on everything related to Internet Marketing, long waited for. Please, keep up the good work. Please, see my reply to Keri. Right now, when I click Flag, it looks like the page is just refreshing and that's it. Some response from the site would be great, something like: "Thank you for your submission, we will take a look into this post and see what can do!"

good call