http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard Life in an SEO Company Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "You can’t handle the truth!" - Col. Jessup, A Few Good Men. The truth is many companies are outsourcing. Outsourcing isn't just a hot button in the SEO industry, it is a topic of heated discussion in most businesses. Outsourcing overseas hurts because it takes away jobs from Americans, but American ... http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard/outsourcing-reservations/ If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. - Darth Vader This month's comic, "Beware the Dark Side", deals with those SEO companies that are less than straight forward, and how nice it would be if they were. We always do our best to keep everything we do ... http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard/beware-the-dark-side/ "It Cutts like a knife, but it feels so right." - Bryan Adams "Cutt Her Some Slack" is our most niche comic yet. Not only are we focusing on the relatively small SEO community, we have made the focus of the comic a Google engineer named Matt Cutts. And if you ... http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard/cutt-her-some-slack/ "Abracadabra." - Alfred Borden, The Prestige There is a bit of truth to this Ranked Hard. No, there isn't any sorcery being performed, but I have had more than a few phone calls from potential clients that have spoken with other SEO companies that have gotten similar responses. We are ... http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard/black-magic-seo/ Welcome to the first installment of our SEO comic, “Ranked Hard”! This is a comic about the trials and tribulations of the mythical staff of Ranked Hard, a growing and ambitious SEO company. There will certainly be parallels to our SEO company, Big Oak, but we won’t tell you where reality ... http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard/first-day/ Before we chose our Ranked Hard artist we commissioned two artists Kelly Ishikawa and Jake Ekiss to do a version of the same strip, "Black Magic SEO." Although we ultimately chose Kelly to work with, Jake was a close second and we were very impressed with his version. He was ... http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard/first-day-ranked-hard-by-jake-ekiss/