From Texas Hold’em to Texas Tea - Meet the Oilman
It’s not every day you get to meet a spammer. While we didn’t actually spot a live one in the wild, Chris talked at length with a guy who used to post Viagra and Texas Hold’em links in blog comments across the Web. Todd “Oilman” Friesen has since cleaned up his act, instead employing years on the dark side of the biz to helping companies figure out how to reach their audience in the search space the right way. His company Oilman Promotions is among the best in the field at search engine marketing tactics. Listen in for the Oilman’s thoughts on the future of tagging spam, the pointless nature of the nofollow tag and more. For a guy we’ve virtually cursed in the past, his opinions on the biz seem spot on.
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September 22nd, 2006
at 12:35pm
[...] I got to do a delightful presentation at SES San Jose with Andy, Rand, and Chris on Social Networking (wikipedia and tagging). Chris is an incredibly intelligent and quite personable guy, and is quite entertaining to talk (debate) with, though we definitely hold some differences in opinion about the SEO community, and on our definitions of “SPAM”. I think Oilman may have rubbed off just a little bit - perhaps proving the value of SEO - but unfortunately not improving Chris’s opinion of the industry. Anyhow, during the session at SES Chris valuespammed the crowd with one of his new projects that I wrote down for later, which has turned out to be incredibly entertaining - BLAUGH. Check it out for a chuckle - One of my personal favorites: document.write(”Add to Del.icio.us“) | Add to Y! MyWeb | Digg it | Add to Slashdot [...]