There has been a theory floating around for a long time: Google hates SEOs. That is just one article from Bruce Clay former writer Lisa Barone, referencing something from Jill Whalen. Matt Cutts responded with what we all know: Google doesn't hate SEOs, just the bad ones that give us all bad names. It's like lawyers ... yes I just went there. But now there seems to be a trend (and it could be because I live in my little hole called SEO) ...

I have been noticing a trend on my twitter account @katemorris. I get new followers on a fairly regular basis, but most are spam, so I don't pay the emails any mind. So why not turn off the notification emails you ask? Do I just like to see my follower number go up? Nope. (No really!) There are sometimes that people/businesses follow me that I know and want to follow when I see their names. Just the other day, someone I thought I was ...

Twitter is a favorite place of mine to hang out and talk to friends. I always say I talk a LOT - and I proved that when I hit 10,000 tweets yesterday. I have friends that are more powerful and influential (and talkative), but this was a milestone I caught and wanted to celebrate. Twitter has allowed me to meet and converse with some awesome people in the past year. My life will never be the same, and I can't begin to thank the people I have ...

Note: Sorry about the mixup earlier, I wasn't done with this post yet. Was going to wait to post it, but everyone is asking about it now. Stupid feedburner. ;) We've all heard it. Ashton did this. Miley got coffee. Oprah tweeted. All of a sudden all of our friends and family, and the mass public is on twitter. Our little world isn't our little world anymore. Once Oprah talks about something ... the world does it. I worked at a bookstore ...

All my blog posts seem to start with "so my friend so and so" ... but what can I say, they give me the best ideas. So a new friend I met at PubCon South, Gregg Hilferding, told me that I only had one update on Twitter. Huh? Yes, I am a twitter n00b again. So, apparently I have one update in my stream, but as the screen shot shows, I still have 9155 updates overall. So I had someone check the API with my info, and still can't get past this ...

Social media marketing can be a great tool. I have learned more about the Austin area and its news in the past week due to the fact that the local paper joined twitter (@statesman). I've checked out new products and even thought about purchasing a few things (damn you Lisa and your cupcakes in a jar). It's a great way to get your stuff read and talked about. It's even great for link building! But don't annoy me with your fake shit. Seriously. ...

Okay, I'll admit it, I did it too. I am addicted now. But for someone in SEO, I think being on there is very important. It's another news avenue ... but really, if I keeps growing like this ... well the top industry people are gonna get annoyed. :) But for now it's great. http://www.twitter.com/katemorris More updates as I get time. Things are pretty hectic at work. We have gotten some good MSN rankings for a new project. Don't know how seeing ...