EDIT 12/6/2011 — This position has been filled. Chicago Style SEO is hiring a person who would like to learn the Internet marketing industry through hands-on experience. It’s a chance to learn cutting edge skills, work in a relaxed office that overlooks Lincoln Park Zoo, and do interesting and challenging work: Internet marketing research, keyword [...]
Slides from SEO Presentation at ICNC
Below are links to the slides from the presentation I made at the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago (ICNC) today. I made the slides in Apple’s Keynote application, but have exported it in several formats. Please let me know if you have any problems with them. Keynote (14MB zipped file) QuickTime (27.5MB file) PDF (2.2MB [...]
New Lease on Life? Nah, Just a New Lease on Our Office
After some slightly protracted negotiations, we’ve signed up to stay in our current offices for another year. Below is a very quick tour of our two-story-tall glass box overlooking Clark street and the Lincoln Park Zoo Admin buildings. This was also my first attempt to shoot a video using my new Android phone. Not bad…not [...]
Rod Talks Pay Per Click to CIDD
Chicago Style SEO’s Rod Holmes was recently asked to speak to Chicago Interactive Development & Design about the basics of Pay Per Click marketing. The meeting’s organizer, Judy Wunderlick of WunderLand, was kind enough to not only record a video of the event, but then she edited it and uploaded it in pieces to YouTube. [...]
Slides from CIDD Presentation on PPC
Below are the slides from the presentation I made at CIDD on Tuesday 17 August 2010. I work in iWork’s Keynote, so I’ve saved it in a couple of other formats that might be useful. The movie (.mov file) is pretty cool. It’s a MP4 file that you click on to move through the transitions. [...]
Google’s Need for Speed – Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code
This is the sixth post in a series that addresses several different ideas on how to speed up your website. This series was brought about because of Google’s new focus on how quickly webpages and websites load; by focusing, I mean that they are now saying that page load speeds are one of the factors [...]
Google’s Need for Speed – How To Compress Your Site
The next step in our series of how to speed up your webpages and websites is the easiest: how to turn on compression on your web server. Turning it on will mean the web server will finish all the work faster and therefore deliver the pages more quickly to the reader.
Google’s Need for Speed – Use Cache in .htaccess to Speed Up Your Site
This is the fourth in a series of about seven posts (I keep finding more info and may add a couple more posts) on how to speed up your web pages and your website in general. Speeding up sites has been in the news recently because Google has announced that page speed is now a factor [...]
Google’s Need for Speed – Optimize Photos for Fast Loading
This is the third in a series of seven or so (you never know, we might more to write about) posts on how to speed up your web pages and your website in general. A lot more attention has been paid to site speed by the SEO community because Google began talking about how they planned [...]
Google’s Need for Speed – How To Know If Your Site Is Slow
This is the second of several posts addressing issues around Google’s announcement that they are releasing a new architecture (called Caffeine) for their web search and their emphasis in conjunction with Caffeine’s release of how quickly web pages load. In the series we will be looking at: An Overview of Site Speed How to find out [...]




