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HybridSEM Becomes a moderator on Web Pro World

admin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0000

I did a recent post over at our company blog about me becoming a mod on web pro world. I really am excited about this opportunity and the chance to be part of the web pro world family.

Thanks Mike!!

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Happy Birthday Lisa Barone — 25 years old!! woo whoo

joe.whyte — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:29:38 +0000

Today is lisa barones birthday. Lisa barone is the blogger at Bruce Clay. She does a great job blogging for him and we wish her a rockyfied 25th birthday!

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WOW to bigums leave the big boys, Vanessa fox and Terry Semel

joe.whyte — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:14:37 +0000

Two big names leave there associated counter parts.

Fairwell to Googles Fox and good luck at zillow

Fairwell Terry Semel who left yahoo.

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Wickedfire.com Hacked by NAMBLA members

joe.whyte — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:08:02 +0000

Today I was about to post on my favorite forum wickedfire.com when to my suprise there was a hacked message on their index page.

It looks like a wayfarring renegade group of misunderstood NAMBLA members have chosen to pick a fight with jon and wickedfire.com. They have somehow hacked the wicked fire forum and my inside sources tell me that they have actually stolen all user information and signed all members up with nambla increasing their community growth percentage by 50%.

My sources tell me that jon from wicked fire must publically say he likes little boys before they give his site back to him!

See photos below

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Who is the industries BEST SEO utilizing the most effective techniques?

joe.whyte — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:13:44 +0000

{democracy:1}

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Rockyfied becomes an SEO Guide on WickedFire webmaster forum

joe.whyte — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:29:12 +0000

I have graciously been invited to be an official SEO guide on Wickedfire.com. Wickedfire.com is a webmaster forum that is in my opinion one of the coolest forums online. It has an edge, you can curse and although there are moderators it is a much more relaxed atmosphere then other webmaster forums.

I meet jon over at ASW accidently as our paths crossed when he asked me for a light for his smoke. After our brief meeting I had to ask him the hard questions at the power affiliate Q & A. Jon is one of the most ballsy guys I know.

I encourage my readers to check out wickedfire.com not just because of me but because you can learn a lot from this forum and meet some real quality contacts. This forum is also one of the leading forums on PPC arbitrage.

Also the wicked fire T-shirts are pretty ballsy.

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How to get banned from MyBlogLog

joe.whyte — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:58:36 +0000

I have been doing a lot of reading over at shoemoney.com about mybloglog hacks. Jeremy has been, in my opinion, helping mybloglog fix possible exploits but with all of the noise he has been causing I think they got a little upset and banned him from mybloglog.

How to get banned from mybloglog:

7.Use co-author spam
6.Leave spam messages
5.Build programs that automate friend requests
4.Build programs that create multiple accounts on mybloglog
3.Use hacks that enable you to browse sites as another user
2.Utilizing scripts to create dynamic functions without a user’s approval
and now…
1.Publishing mybloglog hacks and encouraging readers to do these hacks

Jeremy Schoemaker was banned for this and officially Mybloglog made this public response to jeremy’s ban.

“To be clear — we did not ban shoemoney for posting about exploits. Although we would certainly have appreciated that he email us first, it’s his decision where he would like to publish them. We banned him for publishing other people’s data on the site and urging readers to spoof them. On what planet is that not a bannable offense?”

Something to keep in mind

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Rockyfied 2.0 is now released | The Rockyfied Vision

joe.whyte — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:54:21 +0000

I have a new wordpress theme thanks to a great designer and a powerful vision. My favorite movies of all time are Rocky 1-4 (NOT 5). I still have not seen Rocky 6, but I heard it was pretty good and true to the Rocky theme. The movie Rocky is all about triumph over adversity. RockyBalboa faces impervious challenges and impossible odds but through hard work, determination, skill and heart, Rocky is able to overcome and succeed. He is the true spirit of the underdog.

The reason why I have chosen “Rockyfied” as my online handle, branding and mentality is because the SERPS and ranking for difficult keywords is like fighting Ivan Drago in Rocky 4, SEO’s are the underdog against the giant Search Engines like Goolge, Yahoo! and MSN but through my hard work, research, skill level, determination, experience and my love for doing SEO I have been able to overcome many obstacles in this business.

This wordpress theme encompasses my mentality, determination and my love for SEO in one well put together artistic visual representation of my business mindset.

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What the search industry leaders are doing for Valentines Day

joe.whyte — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:43:07 +0000

I created a special post today about SEO’s and valentines day with the help of many of the search engine optimization leaders today. These leaders where kind enough to let me and my viewers into their private life just a little bit and I really appreciate them being so candid. I posted this over at the worlds best hosting companies blog called blog.lunarpages.com. Some of the people giving there valentine’s day stories are as follows:

Danny Sullivan
Darren Rowse
Aaron Walls
Andrew Gerhart and more.

Thanks again everyone!!!

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Neil Patel Stands up for SEO’s Everywhere | The NEO of Search

joe.whyte — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:17:07 +0000

Today Neil Patel decided he was sick and tired of Jason Calacanis saying SEO is bullshit. Neil put out a challange to Jason in regards to something jason said a ways back.

here is Jasons quote.

“90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman. These are guys in really bad suits trying to get really naive people to sign long-term contracts. These clients typically make horrible products and don’t deserve traffic–that’s why they’re not getting it organically so they hire the slimebuckets to game the system for them.”

Neil fired back.

“So to you Jason, I offer the following challenge: I can take your blog and increase your daily search traffic by a minimum of 10 to 20% after 30 days of putting my changes into effect. I will NOT be doing anything “shady” or unethical and will even point out all the changes that will be made to your blog. You can even have your own designer/programmer make the changes to your blog; I will even layout everything for them using step-by-step instructions.”

Its going to be a great way to put these types of rumors to rest. Now I do admit there are your SEO’s out there that give us other SEO’s a bad name and give weight to such comments that jason made. I believe that in any feild you are going something like that but neil has provided a great opportunity to solitify the validitiy of the SEO community.

Neil, you have my support and if you need anything just let me know. For this to fail would be less then ideal.

Good luck NEO, I know you can do it!!