Entries from July 2010
First Rule of Online Social Networking is……
Make yourself so useful, when you are not around people notice.
Categories: Social Networking
Mark Rein of Epic Games catches his nuts in the Gamer Blog Machine
It’s a bitter moment when your peers tell you to f**k off. But this is what happened to a big cheese in the game publising industry called Mark Rein of Epic games. Go read it, if you like to see the Indie kid take down the big business behemoth you will love it. I love [...]
Categories: Blogging
What is Blogging but simply a communication tool
Some people over complicate things. Blogging is simply a communications tool. Once the piece of information you want to communicate is acheived, its purpose is done. Therefore the length of the blog is merely something for the aesthetic. Of course it could be argued that a blog is also an “emotional delivery machine”, or an [...]
Categories: Blogging
Blogging blogs, and the blogging bloggers that make them
Is it better to be the consumer? Or the creator of the consumed? Are truly successful bloggers both?
Categories: Blogging
General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord said
General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord said “I divide officers into four classes — the clever, the lazy, the stupid and the industrious. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. [...]
Categories: SEO Creativity
Getting the Blogging Mojo Back
For one reason or another I stopped blogging, stopped writing. Which is a shame as I really like the process and it’s something I do well (haven’t the time to be modest this morning). Most of the problem is simple distraction, too much going on, too many possibilities, even too much success. Sometimes you have [...]
Categories: Blogging
What Dan Raine Taught me about SEO Agencies
I was watching a Dan Raine presentation in the wee small hours of the morning. And I realised what seo agencies are about. Or rather what they are not about. It’s something that has been niggling me for a while and I probably haven’t raised it because a lot of my clients are seo agencies. [...]
Categories: Internet marketing
Before you create Linkbaiting content you have to Ingest your Niche
Linkbait by it’s nature has to be exceptional. It has to be remarkable to attract the links. This of course is relative, it’s relative to the other content which is being produced in the niche you are targeting. As this is the World Wide Web we are talking about, most content is utter garbage. Sure, [...]
Categories: Linkbait