Time goes fast, especially online. It’s already been about four years ago since I started working at Tribal Internet Marketing, and I’ve learned a LOT in these four years. Tribal gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge, to attend (and speak at) several search marketing conferences, and to work with lots of amazing colleagues and very interesting clients. It was great to set up a completely new service at Tribal, and to hire and coach a team of very smart link marketers.

Although I still love working at Tribal, I felt it was time for a new challenge, which is why I decided to leave the company. Until the end of January, I will still do some work for Tribal. As of February, I’ll be completely independent.

So what’s next?

That’s what I asked myself when I decided it was time for something different. I love being creative, I enjoy testing & tuning, helping others gives me a boost, and trying new things is awesome as well. And all of this had to be part of whatever my next step would be.

A few months of thinking, brainstorming and talking things through, resulted in an interesting combination of developing & running a few (publishing) projects, taking on a few link building clients on my own, and teaming up with the brightest Dutch link builder I know. He happened to have a great link building domain name laying around, which is where you can see both our faces now.

The next few months will tell how this combination turns out to be, but I’m definitely looking forward to it :)

Although it just seems like yesterday, it’s already been a year since my son Liam was born. While some folks already told me that this would definitely change my life in an amazing and unbelievable way, I’ve now experienced that this is so, so, so very true. Liam’s changed from a small baby into a little boy who can walk a few steps on his own in just a few months, so time does seem to fly.

Don’t be afraid, this isn’t a post about my son, but I just wanted to show you the main reason why things have changed enormously for me during the past year.

Personal Projects

In a few weeks, I will start working on a few personal projects more often and in a more structured way. Although this will partially be compensated by working less for Tribal, this will also mean that I have less time to blog. I do, however, still plan on blogging about link marketing quite regularly.

Less frequent, more in depth posts

This can only mean that I will have to drop the pace, but improve the size of my steps. More posts like the guide to creating link targeted content or 69 link building strategies will follow next year. I’ve already got quite a few ideas that I’ll be working out in the next few weeks and months.

No more Link Building this Week…

…but Link Building this Month in stead. Like I said, I will be raising the quality bar of all posts, starting in January. This also includes the Link Building this Week posts, which is why switching from a weekly to a monthly report is a logical choice, in my opinion.

So…

…now you know that things will change a little bit around here. Not a lot, but just a little bit.

Because most Americans are at the SMX right now, this must be the perfect time for me to write a post targeted at all my Dutch (and Belgian) readers. Normally I don’t geo target my blog posts, but in this case I’ll make an exception :)

One of my colleagues decided it’s time to move on and will leave Tribal Internet Marketing pretty soon. He and I work pretty close and kind of manage the whole Link Marketing department. This means that Tribal’s looking for someone with link building related experience. The vacancy is so fresh that the profile of this new function isn’t even online yet, but I can assure you that it’s a pretty interesting job.

So, if you have SEO and/ or link building related experience and if you want to work together with me and several other very inspiring people (check out the video and other vacancies as well), feel free to drop me an email ;)

On December 13th, at 8.17PM, my girlfriend gave birth to a healthy and beautiful baby boy, Liam. It’s our first and we’re both very, very, very proud :)

Damn, I thought I would have more time for blogging. Moving (I just moved into a new house a few weeks ago) is still taking up lots of time and my pregnant girlfriend isn’t helping either :P

Currently, I’m working on a few tests (hope I can give you some results soon) and working on a huge list of Social Media website. I hope to be back soon, maybe I’ll even be able to post some quality stuff then…