So after successfully winning the Lancaster SEO contest I figured I should hop in and give everyone some much needed updates! First things first SEO 101 on WebmasterRadio.fm had quite the surprise last week when our producer told us in chat that we had a caller on our Toll Free Question line! And who was this surprise caller? It was the 1 the only… Brian Mark! His question? Well he wanted to know if Carolyn and I wanted him back on the show… Which we jumped at… Brian has been on hiatus for 5 months now… Carolyn Rawks… but I do have to say I missed my bud So WELCOME BACK BRIAN! 

And if that’s not enough awesomeness for you first thing in the morning… How about this? Heather Fox over at IBM Press has sent me a Draft Manuscript copy of Search Engine Marketing, Inc.  Second Edition (Mike Moran & Bill Hunt) Mike will be joining us on SEO 101 to discuss the new book… look for that episode in the first weeks of October!

And now to talk about my new position as Director of Search for GetMyHomesValue . If you happen to be a Real Estate Agent you will probably want to drop me a line. As we are now the 16th fastest growing Real Estate Company in the USA! What we do is Connect Real Estate Agents w/ home owners looking to find their home value – there are only 3 reasons a home owner would do this (generally speaking) 1.) Because they are looking to Buy a new house (which usually means selling their current house) 2.) Because they want to Sell their house. 3.) Because they are looking to Refinance – We have custom CRM solutions / Websites / Real Estate Leads – the whole gammet! While we don’t have the numbers Zillow or Realtor.com do… it’s now my job to put us on the same page! Any of you that know me personally know how competitive I am… and that I LOVE LOVE LOVE a challenge! In addition to blogging here I’ll also be blogging over at ProspectMx (a Lancaster SEO company). So check it out… keep in touch oh and watch us over at the new page – we’re trying a live webcam all work week… should be interesting! I don’t think I can hear you… but you should be able to see and hear about 4 or 5 of us.

So yesterday was a fun one in the office… As many of you that read the blog know we recently moved to Lancaster Pa (and I do SEO) so my blog post yesterday hopped up in the Google SERP’s to the #3 position from yesterdays post… Shortly there after one of the co-founders of our company decided to try and out rank me for the term “Lancaster SEO” So Dave then laid out some guidelines for our little ‘experiment / contest’ the winner will be determined by the Google SERP’s 1st to 1st place wins! And we cannot spend ANY money buying links or paid services to help us rank. Fine… I think to myself… as I go outside to have a smoke, shortly after I notice that there is a Youtube channel for “Lancaster SEO” And well… watch the video

Looks like the gloves are off… so I’ll go ahead and ask for a quick favor. Anyone that has a site and knows how to anchor text / blogroll etc… do me a favor and shoot me a link to this site with the anchor text “Lancaster SEO” w/o the ‘ ‘ . It doesn’t need to be up forever… just a nice lil boost for the run of the contest – I did notice on the serps this morning that we have two offices? ahem… cough, cough…