the degree requirement is baffling, considering the best seos (and marketers in general) are all dropouts of some sort

first of all that list is artifically higher than it should be because of the terms of playboycash

"The Playboy name, the Spice name, and any affiliated or trademarked terms, may NOT be used in the metatags or domain name of your site or in any email address used by you. "

why would any search engine expert beat playboy ranking for that trademark terms only to have their affiliate revenue pulled.

If they competed against the best SEO experts equally they would not be anywhere close to the top.

Mine does . . . but I don't want to share her

Well, I will give you credit for at least acknowledging that much. It is amazing how few get it

You don't get it: Playboy has a ton of web "properties", niche sites, etc. Just holding onto the top spot for "Playboy" isn't going to bring anywhere near as much traffic -> sales as optimizing for all the terms for their various sites.

I'm sure this will be a very big job for the one they hire, with a LOT of work on researching keywords and then targeting them.

Sue 1000 individual users for posting to the USENET groups that are DEDICATED TO PLAYBOYPICS and that will end things fast. Make sure gets a ton of publicity. Go after people just like the movie industry (RIAA) for downloading videos. (And by the way, there are ALOT of Playboy DVDs being traded using P2P applications).

Has Playboy looked into doing microniche sites for certain popular girls, like Alley Baggett or Victoria Silverstedt?

Might as well be talking to a wall :2 cents:

My 2 cents on this is that its a progressive step taken by an enlightened company.
I have been saying for months now that quality paysites like playboy and etc have the best content on the web and should figure in all search engine rankings for all sort of niche terms.They all need a qualified SEO to work with them or advise them on how to utilise their content for the maximun exposure.

A full time seo isn't always necessary and IMO hiring a seo as a consultant is probably more cost effective and also possibly more likely to attract a already successful SEO.
A seo consultant such as myself :winkwink: charges $250 hr but only needs a limited time to point out the direction a site needs to take to attract SE traffic
For examples of se traffic a paysite can get check out the keywords "tits", 'cum", "milf", "asses", huge cocks, "big cocks" "handjobs" in google.
I am settling in my new country Vanuatu and will be soon available to help interested paysite owners to maximise their chance of getting a piece of the SE pie.
Thanks for reading my selfless promotion :thumbsup

You raised your rates :)
WG

UseNet is protected, the idea is protected. For the most part people posting to it aren't breaking the law. I can't remember exactly which law, ISP act or something. UseNet and the people that post on them are almost impossible to go after. They come from every country, IP's and headers are normally faked. It's also not 1000's, it?s tens of thousands of people posting PB pictures. It would cost PB hundreds of millions to go after newsgroups.

I get a feeling you are not familiar with the NNTP protocol.

The majority of the posters on alt.binaries.* are using a paid service from premium usenet services like www.easynews.com and www.giganews.com. They not only hide the poster's IP address and headers, they clear all server logs 24hours later. Instantly after it's posted, the post will be propogating to all ISP's servers on planet Earth.

Playboy will have to get access to those logs before the logs are deleted.

I don't see the RIAA and MPAA's efforts to be effective. While they did get the press and media's attention and did shut down a couple hundred (or thousand) traders, the P2P networks continue to flourish with pirated music/movies. I think if Playboy tried this, it would piss off end users more than anything.

WG

Anybody capable of doing the job well would make so much more on their own it wouldn't be worth it to work for you at a reasonable salary.

Plus an entrepreneur has 100% equity.

:2 cents:

They already clearly stated that it shouldn't stop you from applying if you don't have a degree. Why is everyone so negative?

So which lucky guy or gal got the job? :)