Freshy SEO



After five years of being intimately involved in the SEO realm, I’ve finally decided to go live with a full scale SEO/blogging-tips/new media blog.

Sure, I’ve written various things and stuff with relation to SEO, but I never really had a coherent collection of my thoughts and ideas on the subject. This site, hopefully, will provide a place for me to do just that.

Who am I?
My name is Eric Odom. I’ve been self-employed/privately contracted for the past five years. Most of my work has been in the non-profit realm, but I did take a few large contracts with for profit ventures over the years. I currently serve as New Media Coordinator for the Sam Adams Alliance in Chicago, Illinois.

I own and operate Fresh Vision Media, LLC, a company that develops online communities and strengthens existing eNetworks. Over the past five years I have been heavily involved in a plethora of blogging communities, some of them now enjoying more than 150,000 unique visits per month without a marketing budget and without spending anything more than the cost of hosting.

I’m very active politically, but more on the policy side instead of actual parties or campaigns. I consider myself a libertarian with a lot of independent beliefs. I find both major parties to be extremely corrupt and bankrupt as far as ideas.

My passion is online marketing, networking, new media, SEO, search engines, web 2.0 start ups, and community development.

What’s this blog all about?
Freshy SEO is here to work as a diary of my thoughts on SEO, new media, internet marketing, and random news related to the web based tech industry.

I also plan on opening the site up to other bloggers who might be looking for a similar platform and a place to market themselves and their respective networks. More to come on that part…

What are my beliefs on SEO?
I’ve watched years of page rank updates, been involved in countless threads about code hacks and behind the scenes edits, and for the most part I believe this type of SEO talk is garbage and not as relevant as it used to be.

I’m much more of the opinion that organic SEO is the right direction and in the end it is what benefits the user (reader) the most. In organic SEO, I mean that by immersing myself in to new media realms, blogger networks, social networks, and building relationships, along with some minor tweaks and edits, I am doing what the search engines want me to do when providing content for readers.

Does it work? I’m sure I have a lot to learn, and I’m sure there are MANY different things I have yet to try, but so far I feel what I do brings success and most of the folks I have worked for agree.

With that being said, I hope you’ll join me here for the ride, and I hope you’ll jump in with your opinion from time to time.

Welcome to Freshy SEO!
-Eric Odom



One Response to “Freshy SEO”

1. PChere says:

   May 13, 2008 at 6:29 am

   I wish you all the success…

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