SEO Mentor

For this SEO & Social Media Monday Interview Podcast Series I had the opportunity to interview myself. Yea I know I am weird but hey your chance to learn a bit more about me Garrett Pierson Your SEO Mentor. I also go into depth of why and how I do these interviews and stay tuned to my next interview with Lee Odden of TopRankBlog.com on Monday August 25, 2008!

So check out and listen to the podcast above or check out the transcript of the recording below:

Hello everyone, this is Garrett Pierson here; Your SEO Mentor. You’re here for my Monday interview series. Welcome, and thank you for being here.

Today, I have the opportunity to interview myself, Garrett Pierson. The interviewee that I was going to interview fell through but that is okay. I have the opportunity to interview myself. That’s a good thing, because I’ve had a lot of listeners, people who follow me, and friend ask, “Garrett, you’re doing these great interviews with some great experts in the SEO and Social Media communities and industries, but we don’t know a lot about you.” This is a great opportunity for me to tell you all a little bit about myself, to tell you why I do these interviews, and to go through what these interview series are all about. Thank you for this opportunity. Hopefully you guys will stick around and listen. I’m going to make this very quick and to the point.

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So it is official we have a winner of the SEO Baby Contest! Before I announce I just want to thank everyone for participating and having fun with my family and I. If you have not watched the video that my wife made of our new baby Gracie’s birth then go to An SEO Baby Is Born!.

Drum roll please…. The winner of the SEO Baby Contest is……

Stephanie Sharp

Here was her guess:

Birth Weight: 7 lbs 6 oz
Gender: Female
Birth Date: May 23, 2008

Here were the correct answers:

Birth Weight: 7 lbs 1 oz
Gender: Female
Birth Date: May 21, 2008

Here is what Stephanie wins:

• Free iPod Nano (value: $149)
• Dave Harry’s “The SEO Handbook” (value: priceless)
• Free membership to LearnSEOLive.com (value: $37)
• One month banner ad at Kimberly Bock’s LearningSEOBasics.com (value: priceless)
• One month banner ad at YourSEOMentor.com (value: $50)
• Bill Slawski of SEObytheSea.com is giving away two books: Don’t Make Me Think, from Steve Krug, and Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, from Avinash Kaushik

My wife and I are so blessed and happy to have little Grace in our lives and soon begins the SEO training for this little one! lol

So I am finally getting done with the design of my blog here at YourSEOMentor.com and am almost happy with the layout and design. I am so sorry I know that design doesn’t matter and content does but I guess I am a perfectionist when it comes to all this stuff. Any ways I just wanted to write and let everyone that ever reads this blog know what I will be writing about and why you should continue reading it.

First of all if you are beginner, guru, professional, or whatever you are you should become a reader of YourSEOMentor.com. Here is why:

Why Not!!!

No, I do not consider my self a guru or professional I simply consider myself a Teacher and Mentor of SEO and Social Marketing. I have had much success in the last 4 years and would like to share that success with everyone that is willing to accept my point of view (Which won’t always be right). I say this because I can tell you right now that I will be getting people commenting on my posts that will disagree with me which is fine. I know the SEO industry all to well and I know there will be people that consider themselves know it alls and will try and tell me that I don’t know what I am talking about. But it all comes down to this I DON’T CARE what they think. I know what works and what doesn’t work cause I do this for a living all day every day. Does this mean I know everything, of course not and I would never dream of telling you all that I do know everything.

So there it is somewhat of a disclaimer for all those that read this blog. Will I give you some great content? Yes! Will I help you with your SEO and Social Marketing online journey? Yes! Will I make mistakes? Yes! But you can know this I am here to help and mentor those that want to Learn SEO and Social Marketing. I will give you access to great tools, techniques, to help you get better rankings in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I will be writing about what others in the industry is saying, and any news that I think is worth talking about.

Here is a list of my Categories that I will be talking about (this is the list as of February 6, 2008):

• SEO
• SEO Tools
• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN
• Link Building
• Keyword Research
• SEM
• Social Marketing
• Social Bookmarking
• Web 2.0
• Web Design & Usability

So there it is all laid out for you to decide, “Is this blog really worth following?” Well I hope it is and I will do my best to give you the content you want. So simply click on the Get SEO Advice under that cartoon image of me and ask me anything and everything and I will try and help answer all you SEO and Social Marketing questions to the best of my ability.

And you have no idea how or where to start. Well you have come to the right place here at YourSEOMentor.com! Keep reading below to get an short introduction of what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is and why you need to learn it:

If you are just starting to learn SEO and you want some quick pointers let me help you out. First of all let me tell you why SEO is so important: Search Engine Optimization is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your website. Lets face it there are billions of websites and webpages on the WWW (World Wide Web) what makes you think yours is going to be seen. This is exactly how I came to the knowledge of what SEO was and why it was so important. I was working for a therapy company and they put me on the project of building them a website. I had some design experiance then and so I built them a pretty nice website. Then I learned about Google Analytics where you can track how many people visit your website.
Well I soon found out that nobody but me and a couple of our employees were visiting our site. I thought to my self why in the world is nobody going to this site. I then found out that there were more websites than there were people and started doing some research. I then found out that most people find websites through Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This is where I first learned about Search Engine Optimization.

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