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Bad Advice … or Just Advice that Doesn’t Pertain to Me?

November 28, 2006

Bad AdviceThose of you who have read of me through my blog might see that I’ve been trying not to get too personal in my blog posts. Industry news and a little opinion has been what I’ve covered thus far. I suppose this is partly because of advice I have taken from a well-known SEO who ironically wrote an interesting blog post a mere three days ago on bad advice that sounds good. I take advice from such individuals with more than just a grain of salt because those are the very individuals who are defining my perspective on SEO, of which I have recently shown great interest.

Note that I said “recently.” That’s because a few months ago, I didn’t even know such a thing existed. I was a huge participant in social media, but SEO was a virtual unknown to me.

I remember approaching Aaron about my blog initially, asking him what I should write about. He mentioned that I should really hone down to a main idea. This is good advice if I amassed all of the information on SEO as he has, but like I said, I’m a newcomer to this scene and this blog was originally an attempt for me to discover this world. My “main idea” is too broad if I am going to write what I’m passionate about.

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5 Ways to Make Your New Blog Stand Out

September 27, 2006

Is it too late to start a new blog?

With the prevalence of thousands of blogs out there, I’m sure people have always asked this question of newer bloggers, of which I put myself in the category, well, sort of. I am not new to the world of blogging (I posted my first blog on the MovableType 2.1 platform on May 22, 2002, at 5:02PM. It currently resides on my local Linux box and is of personal nature. It initially had a relatively big readerbase among friends — I didn’t know SEO then or had any intention to make it public — and it since became a very deep personal quest, one that I maintained through the toughest time of my life). Today, I’m on my third day of maintaining this newer, more interesting blog (or so I hope) and I have hopes to continue it as a regular journey.

Am I late? There are so many blog that have 30,000+ readers on FeedBurner … well, maybe only the Google blog. But there are other blogs, at least in the industry of blogs to which I subscribe, that have thousands of readers. I’m not sure I have a reputation to even have 1 subscriber — yet.

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