Make a popular SEO blog in 6 simple steps - the secret revealed!

May 6th, 2008, 12:10 pm Michael 6 comments

This is all it takes now a days. Alot of SEO bloggers are going to be upset that I let this information go - but I think its only right that everyone gets the fair chance to be a blogging superstar & be one of the popular kids at the SEO conference lunch tables!!!!

1) Find an SEO Blog listed on the “Power 150” & go back to some of their earlier posts. Simply rewrite them in your own words and publish.

2) Find a great unique post on an SEO blog - Link to it and use block quotes to basically redisplay the entire post on your site & write your own commentary on it!

3) Sphinn your own stories and then just begin to IM and Email every person you know asking for a sphinn.

4) Go onto “twitter” and add as many SEO people as you can - then each time you blog write something like “New Post up on Sphinn” with a link to the sphinn post.

5) Write about twitter. Anything you want - it doesn’t even have to have anything to do with twitter. But just mention twitter in the title. (Twitter can be substituted for the current cool thing that SEO’s are talking about - you can usually tell what this is by either every speaker at a conference talking about it or there being at least 3-5 posts on the Sphinn front page about it)

6) Repeat.

Holy shit that was easy! Now you are an SEO blog rock star! This formula has worked for so many ( & is still working to this day ) - it is my pleasure to share it with you!

What does sphinn need?

May 5th, 2008, 8:32 am Michael No comments

 

More Cowbell.

the “t” word.

April 30th, 2008, 2:11 pm Michael 3 comments

Everytime a blogger writes a post about “twitter” - a kitten dies & the hole in the o-zone layer increases by 10%.

Even worse, every time a twitter post hits the front page of sphinn nuclear waste leaks into our drinking water.

I am sorry that I just killed a kitten & made the hole bigger - but the public needs to know.

Do your part & make sure that this post does not reach the front page of sphinn.

Its okay - you do not have to blog.

April 4th, 2008, 10:02 am Michael 3 comments

a couple of my buddies comment on the fact that i do not blog that often.
its simple - i never see any real need to. everything else is covered and the stuff that isn’t covered shouldn’t be (if that makes any sense)

i know when not to blog.

does the world need another top ten list? does the world need another “quick ways to SEO your website”, post? does the world need another post talking about buying links? does the world need another post proclaiming how amazing social media is?

no.

so believe me - when i think of something useful i will happily post it or when i get something useful to post i will post it.

on the upside i have contacted a SEO who i would like to interview - if he agrees that will be the next post.

until then.

Google, Gray’s Papaya & Reporting Index Spam…

March 5th, 2008, 12:37 pm Michael 10 comments

The majority of the sites that I do SEO work on are highly competitive key words. Where even my site being on the 2nd page of results usually turns out to be a valuable position. The site that I am currently working on is young - PR1 with a good majority of targeted in links & a steady stream of fresh original content to keep the spiders happy.

For the past 2 months I have watched the site bounce around for some of our target terms, usually on the bottom of the first page. Why I say bounce is because just about every day there is a new .edu domain that has its CMS hacked and gets loaded up with keywords & then is cloaked and sends to a another page witch is just a fat bunch of PPC links. Your typical blackhat shady type thing…

Now, seeing as this basically bumped me off of my spot - I do like any good pissed off SEO google user would do, I report the site via Webmaster Tools.

Every morning I have made a ritual about it. I arrive at port authority at 8:00 am & stroll down 8th to Gray’s Papaya where I pickup my morning breakfast of a Sausage Egg & Cheese + a large coffee (all this for only $2.25 - which is an amazing deal) - I then walk across the street to my office, get situated at my desk, put on my sheriff badge and become a google cop for the next 60 minutes. I usually report a good 5 websites before I am half way done eating the Gray’s Papaya goodness.

So I guess what this rant is about is simple - Google likes to penalize like a Mo-Fo for websites that buy and sell links or do other stuff that they deem ungooglish - So why not reward?  Could we see in the future google actually saying, “Holy crap, this guy spends atleast an hour of his day, (while eating his Gray’s Papaya breakfast) helping to clean up our search index! This guy should get some kinda juice on his site for this!”.  So Matt can we expect a rewards system to ever come up?

**Sigh** It stinks, cause no matter what in this whole situation I am googles b!tch.  Everyday it’s my daily routine - just once I would like to be able to eat my breakfast in peace.