Are you wondering if your “SEO expert” has been around as long as he claims? Feeling like you’ve been in the business since the beginning of SEO time?
Here are 18 ways to tell if you’re an SEO O.G. Plus, you’ll find even more tips, thanks to a little help from my SEO friends. If you’re new to the SEO world, you’ll enjoy reading how much things have changed. And if you’re an O.G. SEO too enjoy Here’s your trip down memory lane.
- You have a robot t-shirt from the original Googledance.
- You remember when Search Engine Strategies was so small that r
- You remember when getting a Yahoo Directory listing was a big deal.
- oundtable sessions were the norm.
- People didn’t know who Danny Sullivan was.
- One word: Looksmart
- You didn’t optimize for Google because Google didn’t exist.
- RankWrite was the only resource that discussed SEO copywriting.
- You remember prospects telling you, “We won’t pay you, but we’ll give you a piece of the company. Our company is gonna be huge.”
- You remember the dotcom crash, the Company site and a bunch of companies going out of business.
- A little engine called GoTo.com launched and you debated whether PPC was really viable.
- “Big Boy” reminds you of Inktomi first then the hamburger chain.
- I-Search was THE email newsletter to read. Having your post featured was a big deal, too.
- Search Engine Strategies San Francisco was at the Fairmont complete with a sit-down, steak lunch.
- “Content optimization” meant making sure that you had a 5.5% keyword density for AltaVista.
- You remember when Bruce clay was featured in Wired magazine.
Peter Zmijewski is the founder and CEO at KeywordSpy. Through Internet Marketing he places his name on great search engine like-GOOGLE who is also called as Innovator, Investor, Internet Marketing Guru and Entrepreneur. For more updates don’t go away, please stay with us.
