Blogging — Building Blocks

Questioning the Rules

What does it mean to be successful?

To be rich?

To live forever?

To be famous?

Frankly, I’m not sure what it means.

I do know this. It is open to question.

I hooked up with this program by Johnny Truant (is that his real name?) and Lee Stranahan. So far, listening to the two of them riff about the idea of what success means, I like what I hear. They have some definitions of success that strike a chord.

I question their rules, too. Some of them. Some of then I believe are right on the money.

Their course is called, “Question the Rules.”

That’s the part I do like about it. The question for me has always been (you may have picked this up if you’ve read AngerFllex.com) “who the hell made these rules anyway.” Whoever it was was human just like you. Rules are fallible, rules are often wrong, they are always based on fury about the past or fear about the future, and are often outdated even before they leave someones lips or the ink dries on the paper they are written on.

Their Stuff

The stuff they’ve put out goes like this for me – like it, don’t like it, like it again. They’ve got a section on Faith and Belief. Well, the title knocks me out of the box right off. Then they started their riff and hooked me with some good information.

Whappo!

Then the stories came and I thought I was listening to a review of “The Secret.” Aaargh! Bad! Yukk!

Alas, I kept listening. It started sounding like they were saying something like, “Well, whatever happens, somehow it’s all going to work out.” Here’s where I started liking again. It isn’t that all of a sudden, riches will be bestowed upon you.

And here’s where I agree with them – if you just keep plugging away, you will find a way to keep the wold away from the door.

And then you get the chance to take the next step.

There is always a next step.

Take a look at their pitch. I’s good stuff, Check it out here.

Originally posted 2010-05-03 16:48:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

What is SEO? Does it REALLY Have to be So Complicated?

Will SEO Scribe be the app for that?

I’m new at this blogging thing. And I’ve been doing it going on two years. I think I’m beginning to see a scratch on the surface, but I’m not really sure.

While this blog is new, I have been writing This Old Brain for a while, and have a new project called AngerFlex. The big problem I keep slamming my forehead against is getting noticed.

There are places that will tell you how to do that. One that I have subscribed to for a long time is SEOMoz. Take a look at it. They have a shitload of great information. Trouble is, it goes about seventeen feet over my head. I’m 62 bloody years old. How much of this stuff do I have to learn?

How much do I want to learn?

That’s the real question.

I read a few other blogs on the subject, too. Some are better than others. And by better, I mean easier to understand. I’ll write about some of them next time.

Here is what I do know. In order to get notices at all, unless you know a shitload of people, is to rely on those creepy-crawly Google robots (and their counterparts). That’s where the SEO stuff comes in. Matter of fact, that’s what is, the thing of nightmares – Search Engine Optimization.

The ‘seo algorithms’ as they are called, from what I understand, have more twists and turns than the IRS code.

If you are a blogger, you may know that CopyBlogger makes SEO a little easier to understand. (Okay, maybe I am sucking up a little, so shoot me)

So,here’s the deal for me-

I DO NOT, IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, WANT TO HAVE TO LEARN SEARCH ENGINE ANYTHING

I really do want an app for that. In blogtalk, that’s a plugin.

Okay, so I am lazy; I don’t have the energy to expend.

I just want to write my damn blogs and get noticed occasionally. That’s as occasionally as is humanly possible.

I mentioned AngerFlex above. That is a project I’ve been working on for nearly a year now – speed is not one of my many qualities – as a membership site I am developing with the help of Teaching Sells. TS is another Clark project. So, my humble opinion is that he only puts his mark on quality products.

Okay, enough sucking up.

If AngerFlex is going to fly, I need to build traffic there. No doubt about that. That’s wher this damn SEO comes in again.

Meet Scribe

So, here comes this new plugin, SEO Scribe. With it, can analyze a post in a couple of minutes. Scribe will tell me how I rank in the eyes of the Google gods; it tells me where my SEO is naughty, and where it’s nice; and it shoots me a whole bunch of keywords that relate to the post I am writing.

Now, blog traffic, that’s what I’m talking about.

Brian has come up with a great article relating to SEO and this plugin – SEO Scribe. In it Brian puts his copywriting and SEO wisdom to use. Good stuff.

So, here’s what I got. There’s a link to the article below. I’ve already read it. It’s got my (meager as it may be) enthusiastic stamp of “oh, yeah, this is cool.”

Click it now and read it. See what you think.

You don’t like it, no loss. You’ll learn something valuable about getting noticed. It’s a jungle out there.

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography

When’s the Last Time You Questioned the Rules?