SEO Consultant Michael Cottam

  • About
    • Contact Me
    • About Michael Cottam
    • Working With Michael
    • Testimonials
    • Community Service
  • In Public
    • Articles
    • Speaking Engagements
  • Rates
    • Hourly Consulting
    • GEO/AEO Mentoring
    • Group Training
    • Google Penalty Recovery
    • Other Services
  • Process
    • Working With Michael
    • GEO/AEO Mentoring
    • Site Migrations
    • Group Training
    • How My SEO Process Works
    • Contact Michael
  • Resources
    • Chrome Extensions for SEO etc.
      • On-Page Meta Data Extractor
      • Floating Image Inspector
      • All-Images Info Extractor
      • CrUX Metrics
      • Social Media Tags Inspector
      • Backlink Statistics Checker
      • Spammy Blacklist Checker
      • On-Page Word Counter
      • On-Page Link Counter
      • Page Load Time Test Launcher
    • LocalBusiness Schema Generator
    • How to Optimize for ChatGPT & AI Overviews
    • How to Improve Core Web Vitals
    • Generate Fast YouTube Embed
    • Crawlability and Indexation Best Practices
    • Blog Post Checklist
    • Defeat the Email Scrapers and Spammers
    • Negative SEO Disavow Lists
  • Clients
    • Testimonials
    • Clients in Travel
    • Clients in Healthcare
    • Clients who are Medical Professionals
    • Clients in Green Industries
    • Clients in Legal Services
    • Clients in Financial Services
    • Clients in the Auto Industry
    • Clients in Transportation
    • Clients in Real Estate
    • Clients in Home Improvement
    • Clients in Lawn & Garden
    • Clients in Food & Beverage
    • Clients in E-Commerce
    • Clients in the Fashion Industry
    • Clients in Sports & Outdoors
    • Clients in Arts & Entertainment
    • Clients in Consulting
    • Clients in Training and Education
    • Clients in B2B
    • Clients Who Are Authors
    • Clients in High Tech
    • Clients in Moving and Storage
    • Clients in Other Industries
  • Blog

Friends

  • I was a member of the downtown Portland Rotary Club from 2003-2015; when I moved to Bend, Oregon, I joined the Rotary Club of Greater Bend.
  • My real estate services company, Realty Remotely, sponsored the Mountain View High School football team.
  • I raced motorcycles with OMRRA for about 7 years.  Now I just take my son Ben to watch (but sometimes do "refresher" track days at Oregon Raceway Park).
  • I've written a couple of articles for Motorcycle.com on the MV Augusta F4 Strada and the Ducati 748.
  • I participated in the Rally of the Lost Patrol (twice!) and lived (and thawed) to tell about it.
  • I was a judge for many years at the Forest Grove Concours D'Elegance.
  • I'm an associate of SEOMoz (and a big fan of Rand and his team); I answer Q&A questions from PRO members, and publish the occasional techie SEO article on SEOMoz's main blog.
  • My good friend Kilong Ung, fellow Rotarian, published a book entitled Golden Leaf, A Khmer Rouge Genocide Survivor.
  • My travel company, Visual Itineraries, has sponsored the Peninsula K-8 school basketball team uniforms. I also sponsored a set of banners for the school.
  • I say nice things about great businesses I like on Yelp.
  • My consulting business operates under my S corp, OzTech, Inc.
  • I will usually put my SEO presentations up on SlideShare.
  • Other places I'm listed: Turnkey GNU.

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