Search-This welcomes Dan Schulz to the team!

Dan is another SitePoint catch and a good one. He draws from a wide area of web expertize, but his passions run deep for CSS, XHTML, usability and standards compliant code.

One thing is for sure, with the Search-This team we have assembled, you won’t find any crappy code here.

Enjoy Dan’s bio below:

User Name: Dan Schulz

• childhood ambition: to get out of the house
• fondest memory: meeting my best friend
• favorite music: whatever sounds good. Usually classical, rock, alternative-rock. I don’t listen to rap. Record company executives took the “C” off of a certain word to make it marketable.
• retreat: nature
• proudest moment: two of them, getting out on my own, and becoming self-employed
• biggest challenge: staying self-employed
• alarm clock: I have a biological clock (and a 27-hour sleep schedule)
• perfect day: every day I wake up
• first job: bagger at the local Jewel-Osco
• indulgence: sports, reading, table-top warfare gaming, computer games, being with friends
• favorite movie: no favorite movie - there’s too many I like
• inspiration: too many to list here

Over at Search Engine Land in the post Defending SEO, Yet Again! Danny Sullivan defends the SEO profession from some who may think it’s all too easy. I thought I would voice my opinion.

SEO isn’t rocket science - but most things in life aren’t. Changing the oil in my car isn’t rocket science, but it’s something that I don’t have the time to do. Painting the exterior of my home is not rocket science, I could do it, but I would rather hire it out to a professional. After tearing my ACL I hired a physical therapist to aid in the rehabilitation of my knee. The exercises the PT put me through didn’t take a rocket scientist to come up with, but it did help the results of my knee.

Search engine optimization, like anything else, can be learned by anyone who is willing to put forth the time and effort to learn and then do it. There are many things we choose to learn and then do on our own and then there are many other things that we decide are worth hiring someone else, someone to do the job that we simply choose not to.

Tonight I think I will order a pizza, I don’t feel like cooking…

Adam Lasnik from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog gives Webmasters some proactive solutions to deal with duplicate content.

If you are concerned about duplicate content, then this would be a good read for you.

Danny Sullivan has spent the last decade as the editor of Search Engine Watch. Danny fueled the fires of the SEO industry from the very beginning and helped to make the industry what it is today. Everyone within the internet marketing community has benefited from his knowledge and willingness to share it. So today, Search-This.com lifts its virtual pint of beer and salutes you Danny.

Best of luck in all you do,
Search-This.com

SEO guru and Google representative, Matt Cutts has put together some short videos in which he answers questions about search engine optimization.

Session 1 - Qualities of a good site
Session 2 - Some SEO Myths
Session 3 - Optimize for search engines or for users?
Session 4 - Static vs. Dynamic URLs
Session 5 - Site Structure
Session 6 - Supplemental Results
Session 7 - Webspam
Session 8 - Google Terminology
Session 9 - Datacenters
Session 10 - Lighting Round
Session 11 - Reinclusion requests
Session 12 - Tips for Search Engine Strategies (SES) 2006
Session 13 - Google Webmaster Tools