Wingnut SEO

I’m not nearly one of the “cool kids.” I’ll be the first to admit that. However I am starting to see some actual traffic to my site and people submitting my stuff to all those fun social networks that I love so much (to the point of dreaming about them, but I won’t bore you with that.)

Now don’t get me wrong this is awesome - I couldn’t be more happy/excited/giddy about it - and anyone who does it you are the coolest people I could ever imagine. That said, however, it has changed the entire dynamic of my blog - how I’ll write in the future and how I will promote my own work.

Why does this change? Before, I could time my submits, submit only where I wanted, or have time to ask someone bigger than myself to submit and bring in way more traffic than the post should. I could also write up pretty much anything, not submit it anywhere, and know no one saw it.

So thank you to everyone who is stopping by and thinking my work is good enough to submit to your favorite social media pages. I really appreciate it, you guys are great.

I’m rollin’ like a pimp slappin’ blog posts turnin’ tricks, submittin’ all my business to Sphinn and Mixx. Got a million clickers on my adSense every day and when I drop a thumbs down the bitches go away.

They call me big G cuz I’m the Google Masta’ if you leave a bad comment I’ll just write back and blast ya. My SEO’s just betta then you stupid perps - don’t believe me? Take a look at the SERPs.

Aaaand now that I got that out of my system… A lot of people who use social media to promote their websites use it only for shameless self promotion. It is so much more than this and that is one of the hardest things for social media noobs to learn.

When I started using forums back in the day to promote my website that’s all I did… promote my website. I was quickly seen as a marketing guy and the community shunned me.

It wasn’t until later, when I found a forum on a topic I was actually interested in and knew about. I asked questions, answered questions and just got involved in all of the fun discussions and actually MADE FRIENDS some of whom I still talk to and keep in touch with to this day.

That’s the real gold of all of this Social Media, making friends, networking, chatting it up and rubbing elbows with all the big names in your niche, the people you look up to - use social media to surround yourself with the best in the business and learn from them.

Social media shouldn’t be about shameless self promotion - it should be about bettering yourself.

Tim Nash opened his Q&A the other day, so I asked the question that is on everyones mind:

“Does Matt Cutts have a XML sitemap printed on his bed sheets, you know, for the ladies”

In a timely fashion I received this in response:

“Thank you for your question.  Unfortunately we did not use this because - Yes he does but his robots.txt file prevents them crawling on his index.”

Thank you, Tim Nash, you clearly are a mad genius.  Hilarious.

I have had a bit of writers block as of late - until something happened today.

This morning I got a random IM from none other than top sphinner, nowsourcing. It was simple, just a “Hello there, you’re wingnut over at sphinn right?” and a little conversation where he asked questions about me and seemed genuinely interested.

I didn’t recognize who it was at first, I had just been set free from an absurdly early meeting and had only started on my first cup of coffee. After coming out of my morning haze, however, it was just cool. A blogger that I read all the time. Decided to take the time and say hi to me… a no-name nobody.

How cool is that? Not only do I now think he’s one awesome guy but I’m also following him on twitter, stalking him on sphinn, added him to my buddy list on AIM, and am more likely to reference his posts on my blog (not to mention this fan-boi post.)

It just goes to show you what that little extra bit of time it takes to say hey to someone can do for your networking. I think it’s just a great lesson for everyone, not just the big names. Social media is about being social and nothing is more social than saying hi and being nice to the people around you… even the quiet ones standing against the wall.

Post from yesterday -  2 links from this blog - and my spyware site is ranking for the keywords I wanted - page one.

Lessons learned:
1.) Blogs get spidered very quickly
2.) URL is very important if you are trying to rank for a specific keyword.  Duh.

I started a spyware distribution site… ItouchGame.com.  I feel badly about it… but it brings in so much money it is sick.  So if you are here don’t go to this site… but I needed the link love :D  *snicker*

Oh man… I finally jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and holy hell.  I’m addicted.  It’s not all that cool, but so simple I love it.  I like knowing what everyone is doing.  As of yet I haven’t updated with my BlackBerry… but I will.   I know I will.  This scares me…

Once that starts it’s game over.   I’m far, far too addicted to things like this… and with Twitter… It’s going to take over all my down-time on public transit.  Sigh, I’m going to miss that valuable nap time.

Well, I need more followers and people to follow… so Follow me by clicking here or look me up my screen name is Wingnut_