Well, speaking of letting other people do the work for me; here’s a video by Kevin Tor. I wasn’t even creative or ambitous enough to remake it; I’ll just embed it and leave it at that.
Well, speaking of letting other people do the work for me; here’s a video by Kevin Tor. I wasn’t even creative or ambitous enough to remake it; I’ll just embed it and leave it at that.
Beware: Non Bloggers will find this a tad Bit Boring! But if you want Backlinks, Bear with me. The rest of you might as well Begone, or Bend over to take a Bludgeoning of Bewildering Backlink Bull$hit in the Backside the likes of which you have never Been Blasted By Before…..
It is amazing the lengths people go to to get backlinks to their blog. They beat themselves black and blue, bend over backwards, doing backflips to get other bloggers to bend their way. I’m no different. I have rushed hither and yon like a chicken with it’s head cut off, following good and bad advice with abandon. The only thing about it is, all this activity sure has shown me what doesn’t work well for my situation, as well as what does. This morning I have done some serious house cleaning on my online portfolios, ditching a bunch of useless dot info sites that I don’t need and trying to figure out if I should scrap even a few of the dot coms or just ‘farm’ them out (wink wink nudge nudge). My biggest problem is lack of time, what with a full time job of over 70 hours per week and a family and a social life, etc. I don’t need to spend all of my valuable time on sites that have tanked and are just wasting internet space.
I used to participate in link memes and other crazy stuff to try to get traffic. I spent hours on ‘social linking‘ activities, trying to get ‘friends’. While this did get me some results, mostly what it got me was really busy and out of time. A lot of people will count social sites like facebook as entertainment. You know, if all I want is entertainment I would be better off picking up a book or going to see a movie. Facebooking is more like turning oneself into a computer zombie with limited typing opportunities. If I’m gonna be a zombie, I might as well be a sci fi movie zombie, so I can eat popcorn without getting my keyboard all greasy.
Dofollow comments have gotten me results, as has Keyword Luv. In fact, they seem to be really helpful. The problem is the time it takes to visit all those blogs and actually read them in order to make a relevant comment. A lot of us just fall behind on the time and energy. Also, leaving comments will never get you right to the top in the search engines, and I think this was confirmed at Make Money Online With Grizzly although I don’t recall exactly where on his site I found that tidbit. Since he is one of the Top Bears I tend to believe his info. Also, after leaving hundreds of dofollow comments, I never did reach number one for any of the keywords I targeted. Go figure. It did help, but just couldn’t get me over the hump.
One really useful activity is writing and submitting articles to directories so that others can use them on their sites. Every time you get free backlinks and it works really well. The problem is it takes a lot of time and energy to submit all of those articles. Even with a service like Unique Article Wizard it is still very time consuming. However, that service does speed up the process a lot. For a better explanation of article submissions and such, read this Unique Article Wizard Review.
By far one of the most successful services I have used is ConnectContent, which I discussed in my post How to Build Backlinks For Beginners. I have had quite a bit of luck getting results from this site, and it is highly recommended by many ‘gurus’ out there including Grizzly. And speaking of which, backlinks are also findable at Griz’ site so go check it out if you haven’t already.
From my lowly position at the bottom of the SEO pile, I guess my conclusion is that for most of us, moving up in the SERP’s is going to take time, persistance and work. Basically, persistance is the main virtue of most endeavours. Without that one thing you might as well forget huge successes online. Without persistance, you probably won’t succeed in marriage, child rearing, brick and mortar and real life carreers, or any other worthwhile endeavour. Heck, without persistance, you can’t even wade through all the crap on TV to find a decent program. Now excuse me while I get in a little ‘me’ time. Where is that remote?
I have been noticing a curious trend amongst my Facebook “friends”. I am certain that other people out there have experienced something similar. Several of the people on my “Friend” list are in fact pre-teen children. They, like everyone on the site, try to have a clever status; i.e. “Ernie is writing a new blog post” or “Tim is at home chillaxin’”. Sometimes, though, one of the children will have a status that just doesn’t make any sense to me. “Betty Sue is eating the best mac & cheese EVER. Callie just had the best sleep EVER. Now, naturally I would assume that these statements are deliberate exaggerations; however, I find myself wondering what if they mean it literally? What if they just ate the best mac & cheese of all time?
If you are 12 years old and you have just eaten “the best meal EVER”, what are you going to do for the rest of your life? After that every time you eat it just won’t ever be as good as that one time. Maybe, if you’re really lucky, you might eventually forget that you have already eaten the best piece of chocolate cake EVER after a couple of decades. If you’re not so lucky… I think maybe the only way to combat this would be to raise your expectations to a really high level. That way you could say you ate a pretty good piece of pizza last night, but not the best one EVER. Just bear in mind that if you eat/do/say/have a relationship with the best thing EVER early in your life, then it’s all downhill from here.
Update from Tim: Great news! I just located the Best Way To Quit Smoking Ever!! Now we can help all those twelve year olds that were seduced by the Popeye Candy Cigs and moved from that gateway candy to “hard” candy, the real smokes.
The other day, I was hanging out over at The Rundown. Our Beer Buddy, Manodogs, was talking about an upcoming remake of the Wes Craven classic, House on the Left. It got me to thinking about all of the recent and upcoming remakes, not just of horror movies (the guy who directed Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video is going to be helming a Nightmare on Elm Street remake) but also of all the “classics“. For example; Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly will star in Saturday Night Fever, Will Smith will direct a new Karate Kid and Zac Effron will fill Kevin Bacon’s shoes in a “re-imagined” Footloose. There are plenty of rumours on the internet about all of these, so I decided that I would start my own rumour in hopes that it would get passed around and eventually some movie studio exec would decide that it is really a good idea and would go ahead and make the project. Now all of you will be my witnesses that I thought of it first and then I can get an Executive Producer credit on the movie. So here’s the rumour that you can all pass along to anyone who will listen.
It was recently announced that a major Hollywood studio has secured the rights to produce a complete re-imagining of the classic film Casablanca. According to an inside source, McG (of Charlie’s Angels fame) has been tapped as the director. Early information has pointed to Will Smith assuming the role of Rick Blaine made famous by Humphrey Bogart, the female lead is expected to go Jennifer Lopez with the role of the piano player Sam being taken over by none other than Bruce Campbell. Although nothing has been confirmed yet, Will Smith’s people have indicated that “he may be open to” doing an unnamed project with McG.
Now, personally I completely support what Hollywood is doing with all their remakes/re-imagining. Why bother putting a whole lot of time and effort into creating something original when you can just take what someone else made, put one or two new twists on it, modernize it and then put you own name on it. That’s much easier. I do it all the time in the kitchen at The Redneck. I just remake something that I saw on the Food Network and then say it’s my own.