Cubicle Liberation Podcast

Episode 37 — Marco Benavides’ SEO & Business Journey


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Intro

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Plug

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https://en.elninoylabolacr.org/donations/

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send proof of donation to:

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invitation to charity webinar

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was one of the kids

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in Costa Rica

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Semantic Mastery

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mgyb.co

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Make Google Your Bitch

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affiliate link





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Story

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Grew up in extreme poverty

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Lived in Costa Rica until 9…

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Then moved to New York @ 10

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30+ Years in USA



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HS into sports — wrestling, soccer, football

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bored in class and get into trouble

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Navy @ 18…served active for 10 years

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went to college @ 28 —

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degree in computer science

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then wanted to be a literature professor

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until saw lit prof check



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then back to business administration

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Got MBA





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Ran a company in LA…someone else’s company

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company sold it…

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new company put him in a cubicle @ 2003…40 years old…

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looked ahead “next 25 years of life”

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took his cash and told company to fuck off



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Dream to go back to Costa Rica, so did it

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Bench press — up to 435

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Got ripped



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At Party…

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“computer programmer”

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online directory owner offer

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result: hyper focused on SEO

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2004

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got directory to lots of traffic



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Doing SEO ever since…

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CT Fletcher

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Likes Fucking with Google

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More biz from directory owner talking about him

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Gets a lot of clients from word of mouth

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POFU mindset…set own terms

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Snowballed from there with clients

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Clients from all over the world

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Started Semantic Mastery ~ 2012/2013

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Google: “things not strings”

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It all comes down to binary code

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Tim Berner-Lee? TED Talk entities/relationships

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2009

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2014





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don’t focus too much on building other peoples’ biz vs your own biz

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Did some Adsense until Google killed his account

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got up to about $20k/m



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Google’s servers are connected via links

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Read Google’s: Distance Graph Algorithm patent

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Here are the links to the Distance Graph patents:

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Updated April 24, 2018

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