Halloween is a special time of year… no wait, that’s Christmas. Lets start again…
Halloween is a fantastic day when adults and children can create alter-egos and pretend to be something they’re not. Maple North’s internet marketing team got to thinking… What would the well known folks in our industry might dress up as this year. We humbly present, the “Fantastic 8”
Disclaimer: My Photoshop skills are not my super power
SuperRand – Rand Fishkin
Internet Birth: ~1993
Gender: Male
Occupation: Wizard of Moz
Base: Mozplex
Website: http://www.seomoz.org/
Twitter: @randfish
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs and spammers
Power: X-ray vision on the SERPs and flying everywhere (Mozcation, events, meetings, etc)
“Faster than a speeding algorithm! More powerful than a Google Search! Able to crash websites in a single tweet! Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SuperRand!”
SpiderMatt – Matt Cutts
Internet Birth: Joined the Google Team in 2000
Gender: Male
Occupation: Head of Google’s Webspam Team
Base: GooglePlex
Website: http://www.mattcutts.com/
Twitter: @mattcutts
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs, spammers and low-quality scum, affiliates(?)
Power: Precognitive sense of danger (SafeSearch) and superhuman crawling abilities
Wilverine – Wil Reynolds
Internet Birth: ~1999
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ultimate Link Builder
Base: Search Church
Website: http://www.seerinteractive.com/
Twitter: @wilreynolds
Enemies: Link-buyers and spammers
Power: Keen senses to sniff out and find links, extraordinary ability to heal sites from spam and other blackhat harm, and hidden link building claws of death
BatMihm – David Mihm
Internet Birth: ~2006
Gender: Male
Occupation: Local SEO Consultant
Base: Portland Hideout
Website: http://www.davidmihm.com/
Twitter: @davidmihm
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs and fake local reviewers
Power: Brilliant mind and powerful strategies to protect his local roots
THORrester – Duane Forrester
Internet Birth: 1997
Gender: Male
Occupation: Senior Product Manager for Bing’s Webmaster Outreach
Base: Bing Headquarters
Website: http://www.theonlinemarketingguy.com/
Twitter: @DuaneForrester
Enemies: Blackhat SEOs and spammers
Power: Super stamina and lightning speed travel from conference to conference
Gray Lantern – Michael Gray
Internet Birth: 1998
Gender: Male
Occupation: President of Atlas Web Service
Base: New York Hideout
Website: http://www.wolf-howl.com/
Twitter: @graywolf
Enemies: Haters
Power: Possesses a magical auto-tweet ring for “archive” tweets, truly a gift
Captain Avinash – Avinash Kaushik
Internet Birth: Unknown
Gender: Male
Occupation: Chief Education Officer at Market Motive
Base: California
Website: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/
Twitter: @Avinash
Enemies: Anyone who does not track and record data
Power: Born an ordinary man, but transformed into an analytical genius
IrondyMan – Andy Beal
Internet Birth: Unknown
Gender: Male
Occupation: Founder of Trackur
Base: Everywhere
Website: http://www.trackur.com/
Twitter: @AndyBeal
Enemies: Haters and slanderers
Power: Brilliant mind that created the gadgets and tools to track and monitor the world (or your reputation)!
Submit Your Own Hero
If you have any Internet Marketing Halloween Heroes you would like to submit, feel free to send them my way! Send them by email to mitchell [at] maplenorth.com. Just include a picture (with the credits of course) and the details of your hero. I’ll approve it and get your hero posted!
Image Credits:
http://www.buysuperherocostumes.com/
http://www.buycostumes.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avinash_Kaushik
http://www.wolf-howl.com/about-graywolf/
http://www.aseopro.com/SEOrockstars.php
http://www.davidmihm.com/about.shtml
http://www.affiliateblog.co.uk/wil-reynolds-interview-seer-interactive.html
http://www.seomoz.org/team/randfish
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