Posted by rebecca

A couple weeks ago, just for the hell of it, I emailed several SEOs and asked them the question they've waited their entire careers to hear:

If you inherited SEOmoz, what would you do with it? Rand Fishkin is out of the picture (he left SEO to pursue his dream of becoming a master chef, he eloped with Mystery Guest, he got sued by Puma, whatever), leaving you to run SEOmoz and a team of five [I excluded Gillian because I wanted to make it more ragtag and entirely Fishkin-free]. What would you do with the site/company?

The coolest SEOs (coolest because they actually participated) responded, and I thought I'd share their answers below. (Obviously, this is a meme-esque blog post, and many of the answers are silly, off-the-wall, or downright inappropriate [ahem, Chris Hooley], which is why I saved this gem for a Friday post.)

Some of the participants had somewhat lengthy answers, so I'm linking to their responses on separate pages (listed alphabetically by last name):

• Lisa Barone
  
• Andy Beal
  
• Guillaume Bouchard
  
• Matt Cutts
  
• Michael Gray
  
• Chris Hooley
  
• Kim Krause Berg
  
• Todd Malicoat
  
• Lee Odden
  
• Cameron Olthuis
  
• Barry Schwartz
  
• SEO Fangirl
  
• Aaron Wall

Thanks again to everyone for participating, and happy Friday to everyone! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a margarita (mozzarita? Maybe we should serve them at SMX...) and a churro.


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