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 recently found this nifty widget that you now see up in the right corner called “Wijit” or “Lijit Search.” So far, I’m impressed.

It syncs up with all of your social networking profiles and allows people to search for anything and get results from not only your site, but from all the sites in your network of friends.

How cool is that? It lets you search for whatever you want and it gives back results you can trust because you are searching from a blog you trust… it’s basically like asking your favorite blogger what they would recommend… about anything.

I’m letting you all know about it because I want more people to get it… Think how awesome it would be if every blog that you read had this? This is taking social media to the next level because it brings all of the social sites together and allows you to search your friends network for great posts on any topic you want.

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.

So I have been doing a little experimenting with social media as of late. This experiment goes on in a couple places that I am not going to name because I don’t want to call out/embarrass anyone by this… I have not done this on sites where I am normally a frequent user.

The premise for this experiment was “Create a social media profile with a girl name and cute picture - create another with a boy name and decent boy picture. Be active on each of these about the same amount and invite friends and comment in about the same way.”

After a month of “research” the girl-name/cute picture has three times as many “friends” and receives generally positive messages nearly daily and responses to “her” comments. While the boy-name was shot down on even his first comment and made fun of, and to date has no direct messages.

Conclusion - By having boobs you make friends more quickly and slow the generally “quick-witted-sarcastic-hate filled-comments” that reside in the vast majority of the male social media people.

To further justify my conclusion (and what prompted me actually posting about this experiment) I direct your attention to this hot sphinn topic. I made this same list, but since I don’t have boobs no one cares.

Just to be clear, I am not bitter about this. Shana really does deserve this biglist mention because she is a rather awesome blogger.

I just got lucky with a fan-boi post.