Welcome to agerhart.com

Who I am: My name is Andrew Gerhart. I am currently VP of Search for Source Interlink Media. Connect with me @andrewgerhart on Twitter, on Linkedin, on Facebook.

What I do: My specialty is SEO but I also have experience with SMM, widget development, conversion analysis, application development, and product management.

What’s here: You can learn about me here or view my resume here, learn more about my consulting services over at ACG Marketing, read my blog using the categories and RSS below, or click here to contact me today.

Featured Post: Building a Successful In-House SEO Team

One of the things I love about working here is the great team that we’ve built over the years. I feel team building is a business skill just like negotiating, communication, or even SEO. Unless hiring and recruiting is your full time job and responsibility it can be tough to identify needs, find applicants, and get good people in the door. This is magnified within the SEO industry. Just yesterday I was talking with Oilman about how hard it is to find good SEOs, especially if you want them on-site, which I always prefer.

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Featured Post: Yahoo! Caught Cloaking. Will They Ban Themselves?

I was doing some research to prepare for another post, but to my surprise I found something even juicier. Yahoo! is cloaking their (fixed typo for the professor) Autos pages, serving keyword stuffed pages to the SE crawlers and regular pages to the average users. I was browsing as Yahoo!’s Slurp crawler and therefore was able to see this.

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