User:Mcdoogenator
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Colin P McDougall is a search engine optimization (SEO) expert, speaker and author. McDougall is the founder of The Positive Mind, The VEO Report and The Constant Conversation. The inspiration for authoring The VEO Report came after meeting Matt Cutts (Google Engineer).
McDougall's clients often get top search engine listings within days of publishing their web sites by following the VEO approach to SEO.
At the time of publishing (2003), The VEO Report, was highly controversial but has now become widely accepted as an industry standard approach to SEO.
McDougall coined the term VEO (Visitor Experience Optimization) after compiling his notes that he took after speaking with Cutts, McDougall authored The VEO Report. VEO is a search engine optimization strategy that combines necessary elements of SEO but places an emphasis on the human visitor versus focus on search engine spiders.
McDougall has been cited as a search engine expert in Revenue Magazine and has been chosen as an industry expert by ReveNews. ReveNews has a very strict policy for accepting new bloggers.
[edit] Biography
Colin McDougall was born in 1969 in Lethbridge, Alberta Canada.
McDougall studied Telecommunications at British Columbia Institute of Technology and gained employment at Nortel Networks in 1993 where he worked as a UNIX Systems Administrator until 2000 when he accepted a job at BC Hydro where he worked as a Work Group Leader for the team responsible for implementing process automation and high availability systems.
While working at BC Hydro McDougall launched a business promoting products on the internet using Search Engine Optimization techniques.
McDougall currently operates a paid membership coaching web site teaching business owners and entrepreneurs how to leverage the internet to grow their businesses.
[edit] Career
McDougall worked at home since 2000 when he launched a series financial advice websites, his latest website Crediteria.com. Since appearing in Revenue Magazine, McDougall launched his internet marketing training program called The Fly on the Wall Club. The name of the internet marketing program was chosen as a result of several clients requesting that they have the ability to “have a look over his shoulder, like a fly on the wall” after appearing in Revenue Magazine in the January/February edition in January 2007.
McDougall provides a free newsletter and has authored The Constant Conversation which is also provided for free.
The Constant Conversation is a manual that shows business owners how to leverage blogging and social media to establish their brand.
[edit] References
Revenue Magazine - Features Colin McDougall in an article titled The Timekeeper
Matt Cutts Blog - Senior Quality Engineer at Google.com mentions Colin McDougall on his blog
Revenews - Internet and affiliate marketing blog featuring industry experts as bloggers
