Comments on: 12 Skills of the Rand

By: Lucas Ng

Lucas Ng — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:48:12 +0000

You get what you put in.
Yes, blogging takes effort, but a retweetathon is series of single clicks without engagement.
Appreciate your short but sweet lesson, sound advice for anyone creating content, not just SEOs…

By: SEO Aware - Melissa

SEO Aware - Melissa — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:47:57 +0000

Marty, that is about the funniest thing I have read all month!

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:40:03 +0000

Yeah, while Twitter has sent me some decent traffic, I’ve found that it seems to have cut down on the number of links and comments a post will get.

But, rather than complain I realize that it all starts at home.

I need to make a more concerted effort to blog about quality information (as you appear to have done here Lyndon) rather than simply tweeting about it.

By: Marty Martin

Marty Martin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:32:24 +0000

Good point. Now I need to get back to my blog which hasn’t been updated in months due to my tweeting habits…now where did I leave it?

By: randfish

randfish — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:23:39 +0000

OMG – so tweeting this!

By: richardbaxterseo

richardbaxterseo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:01:13 +0000

Yep.

Maybe this is why you’re also very unlikely to see Rand tweeting (pretty much) anything…

Loving the new site, nice work!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:46:23 +0000

Agreed. Twitter has become another blackhole in much the same way as Wikipedia has. It offers no link love, comments can’t last, heck even the tweets themselves are hard to find after a short time.

Not to mention I’m not a fan of short URL’s as you have no idea where they lead. Guess that’s why spammers love them.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:35:47 +0000

Stop sucking me in with Tweets that look like I’m going to read an entertaining slagging when I get the opposite.