Purple Widget – An SEO Experiment

This question was recently posed to me:
If I were to ask you the question “What drives SEO success”, not specific to any client, and I was a CEO, how would you answer me?
Here’s my response:
If you steal it, at least give me some credit
SEO success is driven by several factors that evolve over [...]

Another slight detour from widgets – purple ones, green widgets and SEO.  But not completely off track this time.  A bit about personalized marketing and e-mails.
Every morningwhen I wake up one of the first things I do is pick up my smartphone (currently a T-Mobile G1, previously a Blackberry Curve, before that a Palm Treo) [...]

Maybe I should be paying closer attention to the road when I drive but seeing a common irritant once again this morning as I completed the final 1/4 mile of my drive to the office put another SEO analogy in my head and how could I resist putting it on Purple Widget.
First, what happens at [...]

Of course this site, Purple Widget, is sort of an SEO case study in itself but I have a specific example of an e-commerce site I’ve done work on that is finally starting to pay off.
The site started from the ground up – new domain name and all in the fall of 2007.  It’s built [...]

I thought I’d vary the subject matter just a bit today.  There will be some SEO ties but the main subject is really more of a marketing, brand management concern than anything else.
Recently, and perhaps with more to come in the future in the face of global economic concerns I’ve gotten (or seen) e-mails from [...]