Sage’s Interview By OASEO

November 14th, 2006

Joel Cheesman from OASEO.com - an SEO job search community came by and did an interview with me. You can check it out here:

If you are looking for seo people or are a search engine optimization specialist be sure to check out OASEO.com - an SEO job search community.
Thanks Joel!

Older Cleveland State Testimonials

November 13th, 2006

At Cleveland State every student is asked to fill out a survey of the class. The comments are then sent anonymously back to me. These were some of the comments from the first time I taught that class:
* Great course — cutting edge!
* Best I’ve seen. Exciting.
* Great course - will definitely do a write-up on my blog that you can cross-link to.
* Sage Lewis is a keeper. This was an excellent class! I will be looking for his name in future courses. I will be suggesting his class to internet people at my company.

Lakeland Community College

November 13th, 2006

I recently spoke at Lakeland. As part of the class I made a post here with links to some resources that I felt were useful. One of the students wrote a comment to that post here:
http://www.sagerock.com/weblog/2006/10/30/lakeland-e-business-class-on-wednesday/

She wrote:

# Laural Wagner Says:
November 12th, 2006 at 8:26 pm e

WOW! This presentation was excellent. The resources provided here are great. Sage, you are dynamite. To anyone reading this who is thinking about working with Sage or hearing him speak, DO IT! I’m serious, this guy is great. Five Stars, no question.
“Crazy Algorithms”

Thanks Laural! I do love teaching.
Take care,
Sage

Cleveland State Class Gets Results

November 13th, 2006

Here are a couple emails from a person who took my most recent SEO class at Cleveland State:

Hi Sage,
This is Dagmara Ragone,I took your SEO class at CSU recently.
Men, were you great teacher!!
I was shocked when I discovered today, that after little SEO work done to my housbend’s company website RagoneBuilders.com I got on Google those results:

I got on:

2 !!! position in “cleveland basement waterproofing contractors” Tot.results: 55,500
5 (7th) position in “cleveland basement waterproofing” Tot.results: 69,200
8 position !!! in “cleveland garages contractors” Tot.results: 1,490,000 !!!
23 position in “cleveland garages” Tot.results: 6,530,000 !!!!!!!
16 position in “cleveland wall replacement contractors” Tot.results: 1,060,000 !!!!

WOW! Thank you Sage!
I wish I could get this done to MY Design website ;)

Have a good day!
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From: Dagmara Ragone
Date: Oct 26, 2006 12:29 AM
Subject: Sage, you wont believe this one!!
To: Sage Lewis

Google

keyword : “best cleveland construction contractors”

Tot. results: 1,840,000

my website RagoneBuilders.com
position: 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one more time Sage,
thanks you are great SEO teacher!

D.Ragone
www.advancedwwwsolutions.com
440.390.8104

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Google keyword: ” cleveland construction contractors”

Tot. results: 3,020,000

my position 1 !!!!

I know why I got those results, it’s not the best way…. but get you there.

Thank Sage,
and I promise now more spam e-mails! ;)

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Thanks Dagmara! I’m so glad you were able to apply all the things we talked about. Take care!
Sage

A Place For Testimonials

November 13th, 2006

I’m always losing testimonials that I would occassionally like to use in various marketing efforts. I know I put them somewhere but everytime I go to look for them I can never find them. So, I thought I’d put them here and see if I can remember that I blogged about them. I’ll follow up with a couple posts of testimonials. I’ve created a Testimonials category here where I’ll try to remember to post them.

Being mean to your server

November 10th, 2006

It can have some pretty bad consequences.

Only Do What Is Best For The Client

November 7th, 2006

Sage Is Speaking at Search Engine Strategies

November 6th, 2006

I just got official word that I’m speaking at Search Engine Strategies this year in Chicago. I’m really excited about the opportunity. I’ve never spoken there before. It’s a session featuring, I believe 4 vendors. We are all in different areas of focus in the search engine world. I’m not exactly sure what I want to talk about yet. I’m leaning towards, “How to hire a search engine marketing company.” I’ll write more about it as it gets closer. Here’s a link to the show, if you are thinking of attending:


Sage will be speaking at this year’s
Search Engine Strategies Conference at the
Vendor Spotlight Session
on Monday December 4 from 9:00-10:30am.
Please join him if you are
thinking of attending the event.

You can learn more here.

The risk of pushing around your SEO professional

November 3rd, 2006

eMergent Gets Bought Buy Brulant

October 31st, 2006

Sorry for being remiss on getting videos up here. My computer died on me last week. It had 4 clips on it that I wanted to put up. But I’m happy to say that my computer is back and now so are the video.
This is a little old now. But it didn’t get as much play as it should. eMergent Marketing, a search engine optimization firm here in Cleveland recently got bought. Check out my thoughts: