Bryan's SEO Resume

Thanks to Todd Cochrane at Geek News Central Podcast for anouncing my need for a job on his podcast. In case you've never listened to Geek News Central I recommend that you check it out. When I was employed, his podcast helped me with my long commute from Riverside to Orange County. He is a great source of Geek News and I highly recommend that you give his podcast a try.

Here is a copy of my resume in case anyone is interested in hiring an unemployed SEO.

Bryan Siegel
Mira Loma, CA 91752
bryansiegel@gmail.com

Search Engine Optimization Professional with Experience

National Directory Service Irvine, CA – 2007 – 2009
Sr. Manager of Search Engine Optimization | SEO Strategist

• Search Engine Optimization – Keyword Market Research related to market search habits devised from server logs and existing website traffic trends. Evaluated existing website architecture, website content and layout to maximize usability and crawl ability in search engines. Created competition reports for target phrases and devised strategy based upon competition and server log data.

• Developed numerous company-wide SEO guidelines
-HTML Coding guidelines
-On Page SEO Factors that influence rankings
-SEO copywriting
-Meta Tag and Title tag guidelines

• SEO Management – Trained and monitored in-house link development and social media optimization.

Advanced Access Anaheim, CA - 2005 – 2007
Search Engine Marketing Specialist | Search Engine Marketing Specialist

• Search Engine Optimization – Evaluated existing website content, architecture and layout to maximize usability and crawl ability in search engines. Responsible for Link development and social website optimization and branding.

• Pay Per Click (SEM) – Responsible setting up and optimizing campaigns in Google (Adwords), Yahoo (Panama), MSN (Adcenter). Created and optimized landing pages for to maximize conversions.



Education

United Education Institute – Computer systems repair, network administration, TCP/IP, MS SQL, Internet Information Services.

Fontana High School – Computers, Math

Technical Skills

Operating Systems
Windows 98, 2000, XP pro, Vista, Windows 7 (beta) Windows 2003 – 2008 standard server, Linux Ubuntu, OpenSUSE

Adobe – (CS, CS2, CS3, CS4) Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Fireworks

Programming Languages
XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01, CSS, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, C#, XAML, SQL queries, XML

Beware of Renting homes on Craigslist

Be Careful of Craigslist home rental Scams

Recently, my wife and I discovered mold in our home. Since we had kids (and the fact the landlord only wanted to fork out money to put bleach on it) we decided to find another place to live. Since I know the web like the back of my hand I decided to search craigslist for rentals in my area. I found allot of good deals and emailed a few, but I recieved a response to one of them that is obviously a scam.

Disclaimer: I do not know 100% whether or not this is definately a scam, but I will try to contact the homeowner and alert the athorities

Okay with all the legal stuff out of the way here is the message,

Craigslist homes for rent scam email

"Hello Dear,

Thanks for the email. I own the House and also want you to know that it was due to my transfer to (West Africa, Nigeria) that makes us to leave the House and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a responsible person and God fearing person who can take very good care of the house in our absence.we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean all the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own. So for now, We are here in West Africa and will be staying here for the next 4 years in our new House and also with the keys of the House for rent, we try to look for an agent that we can give this documents and the keys before we left but could not find, and we as well do not want our House to be used any how in our absence that is why we took it along with us. I and my Wife came over to Africa for a missionary work, so i hope you will promise us that you will take very good care of the house. So get back to me if you know you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home. Hope you are okay with the price of $1000 per month and the security Deposit is $400.Get back to me for the rental application.You can go and view."

Beware of craigslist scams!!! Especially if anyone is living in another country and the price is too good to be true. I plan on contacting the homeowner and updating this post to help other people out there looking for craigslist homes for rental.

Finally a Terminator Movie to be proud of

Back in 1991 I was about 11. Never before had I experience something as awe inspiring as the Terminator 2 film. The survival of human kind, to the rebelious nature of John Connor to unbelievable CGI. I even waited for the "so called doomsday T3 movie" on August 29, 1997 (the day of the machines take over). When nothing came out I lost hope and thought the T2 movie would be the last of the Terminator saga.

Then Came T3 the mistake

In 2003 Terminator 3 was released. The first time I noticed the movie trailor I experienced a child like excitement and rushed to the movies theatures early for the first showing I could attend. The T3 movie was horrible. So horrible in fact I began to feel betrayed by the Terminator franchise. You revolutionize the movie industry by your amazing graphics, then you release this crap. James Cameron (the creator) must have thought he can pass on anything to make a buck with this one.

Terminator Salvation, the movie that can save the franchise

In case you haven't seen it here is the trailor,

If you are any type of action junkie I hope you're as excited as I am about this.

Funny Underwear gadgets

Have you ever had a million dollar idea you swear no one has come up with. Like other dream filled days of my life I had one such idea today. Half-jokingly I suggested skid mark proof underwear. While the idea was still in Alpha stage I was convinced my idea was truly original. Come on, skid mark proof underwear who would ever come up with a genius idea like that.

Well... I wasn't the only one with the idea a company called garmentguard (which specializes in underarm sweat protection) has a skid guard called Skid out. While my idea of being the original skid mark guard faded I decided to take this idea and turn it into a few laughs.

While searching around I found another invention (that involved underwear) called security briefs which store your personal belongings in underwear instead of a safe.

How genious!!!

Now is it just me or do all of these underwear inventions use tiddy whities on their website?

SkyFire Mobile Web Browser Review

When I bought my T-Mobile Wing a month ago I was disappointed when I launched the IE mobile web browser for the first time (honestly I almost took the phone back). I couldn't see flash, silverlight and it had a hard time with Ajax. Every big website I visited made me watch tne mobile version, which in my opinion was dull.

After a few searches I came accross Opera 9.5 beta for the mobile phone. It was a huge leap because you can see the whole webpage and focus on a particular area of interest. Keep in mind Opera mobile is in beta and has a few bugs they need to work out. The Opera 9.5 mobile browser on my T-Mobile Wing would display an out of memory error, even though I used a work around that put my cache on my memory card. Every other website I visited crashed the browser and locked up my cell phone a few times.

Then there was SkyFire's mobile web browser

The idea behind SkyFire is to bring the browser from your pc to the mobile phone. You can check out the release video on the Skyfire website. Since that was exactly what I was looking for in a mobile browser I decided to check out YouTube for SkyFire Reviews and sure enough came accross a review of the SkyFire browser on the T-Mobile Wing.




I imediatley signed up for the SkyFire beta 2 preview. The only drawback is that you have to wait. It took me a good 3 weeks to finally recieve the download link via text.

SkyFire beta 2 strengths

The first website I wanted to try was hulu. The browser brought up the whole website within seconds. I had no problem watching videos, on hulu's website. From there I went to Gmail, in which SkyFire showed me the full PC version and not the watered down mobile version. There was no lag and the zoom in and zoom out features beat out Opera hands down.

SkyFire's weaknesses

It was impossible to control the video controls on Youtube and hulu, but the back button can control that. I did experience a lag with the videos which I can live with.

SkyFire Overall

The mobile revolution is here. I have not seen a mobile browser come close to SkyFire and hope the competition steps it up a notch. I was not only impressed by SkyFire, but excited for the future of mobile web browsing as a whole. I've wanted to have my laptop in a cell phone and windows mobile plus the SkyFire browser has accomplished that and then some.

YouTube watch out

As the Internet gets smarter and Internet speeds get faster my web experience is getting a whole lot better. I remember dial up speeds and the bright colors of Internets past. I remember the first time I saw YouTube and thinking to myself, "this is where things are going to lead." Successful websites are all about the experience and ease of use. There are 2 video websites I visit, when I need a break from my SEO web design business.

FunnyOrDie.com is hands down the great idea of the year. A social funny video site mixed in with a YouTube embed feature leaves me to wonder how long YouTube will stay ahead of the video game. Check Will Ferrell in the most funniest video I've seen on the site so far;

See more Will Ferrell videos at Funny or Die

Hulu.com - Is the legal way of watching T.V. shows and movies. They have a large selection to choose from. I've seen a few videos such as Firefly and The Dresden Files there along with web clips which can be short documentaries of actors or full blown advertisements of shows to come.

Anouncing SourceSurge.com - Search Engine Optimization Web Design

Finally Search Engine Optimization Web Design is here

After long hours and no T.V. I have finally finished my SourceSurge.com website. I had the idea a while back while trying to find Web Designers that know seo. Problem is there is none (at least that I could find). Usually you have either a web designer or SEO (or web designers that claim SEO).

I'm having $500 dollar basic Search Engine Optimization Web Design Specials right now. I've posted this amazing deal (usually a $1,000) that includes,

• 5 page website
• 1 month of
• initial SEO
• pay per click setup
• keyword research

If you or anyone you know are interested in Web Design from an SEO you can contact me directly.