Comments on: 18+ Ways to Tell if You’re an SEO O.G.

By: Heather Lloyd-Martin

Heather Lloyd-Martin — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:56:56 +0000

Dianna, I LOVE your O.G. cred! I too remember those old modems. 56K seemed lightening-fast compared to 14.4

I also remember not quite getting the “Google thing” when I could just use AltaVista instead. My, how things have changed.

Sorry about losing $3.5K back in the day. I just did a search (in Google, naturally!) and learned that the owner of F*cked Company is still around and even on Twitter (@pud). Ah, memories… :)

By: Dianna Huff

Dianna Huff — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:52:17 +0000

OMG! I got more than half! Woohoo! I remember when I had a link TO Google on my website — so that I could show prospects how “cool” I was using this way cool new search engine.

I remember when Yahoo was founded and reading the news story in the Murky News about the two guys sleeping under their desks in a trailer on the Stanford campus.

My first modem was 14.4 — and I remember how excited I was to get a 56K one. Yeah baby!

Loved, loved, loved F*cked Company. It’s how I found out my client had split the country — with the $3.5K owed to me.

How’s that for O.G.?

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:44:01 +0000

In reply to Lisa Williams.

Hey girl!

LOL! And just a few years later, right before Google went public, people were begging to be a “friend of the company.” Definitely one cool idea that worked! :)

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:42:05 +0000

In reply to Omnireso. LOL, @omnireso. We're not getting old. We're "seasoned" now. :)

By: Bill Marshall

Bill Marshall — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:18:31 +0000

I remember my first internet connection – command line email by telneting into the local university network on a 4800 modem. Building a Gopher site prior to my first company website. HTML2 and having images for the first time. Mosaic. The US Robotics Sportster 14,400. The announcement of Alta Vista. Serps being filled with thousands of Amazon results. The first cold call from an SEO company and running rings round them.

“Tell that to kids today and they don’t believe you” M Python ;-)

By: Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:20:50 +0000

This was a hoot, thank you Heather. I worked in content creation for the web in 1996 and started my biz in 1998 (and bought my first SEO book written by you;) A friend actually introduced my to Google and I remember thinking “White space, no clutter, just searching, don’t know if it’ll last but cool idea!”

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:49:24 +0000

Eric, I’m laughing over here, ’cause I thought the exact same thing.

Wow, were we wrong. :P

By: Omnireso

Omnireso — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:16:48 +0000

Well, back then there was another big deal : being listed in ODP / DMOZ ! Almost every Internet Access Provider had its huge directory too (and what about Lycos, does it ring a bell ? ;-)

Thanks for reminding us we’re getting old !

By: kelvin

kelvin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:15:08 +0000

cool post. Since i am new in seo world so some of our points seems to be totally new for me. I want some more explanation in these points……………

By: Ammon Johns

Ammon Johns — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:29:36 +0000

Nah, I loved GoTo! I didn’t know if it would last, but boy was it a great tool.

Two major reasons for loving GoTo:

1) You only paid per click, impressions were free. That meant you could do FREE branding campaigns by placing memorable, high-bid ads that nobody would actually want to click… I raped that before they set a minimum clicks rule.

2) We didn’t have News search back then. But in a special deal with Overture (right around the time of the name change) I got a special ‘Hot Line’ deal for my client CNN where we could get any keyword placed in just 1 hour. :)

We had to be more inventive back then.