{"id":12748,"date":"2010-07-22T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2010-07-22T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:10:28","slug":"some-observations-from-a-crappy-blogger-who-can-barely-spell-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12748\/some-observations-from-a-crappy-blogger-who-can-barely-spell-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Observations From a Crappy Blogger Who Can Barely Spell SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though most of this post won’t necessarily be tech related, it’s probably wise for me to credibly establish by TechTard<\/em> credentials. I’ll do it quickly by tellin’ a story on myself back when I was a beginning blogger. My marketing guys said, “Hey, this blogging thing looks to be real. You should do it, cuz you know stuff. Can you write?”<\/em> And a blog was born. My first post was published, quickly followed by my first ever comment. It wasn’t really a comment though, as some of the text made my cursor turn into a hand. What the hell?!<\/em> It was a trackback (ping?) from none other than Greg Swann at Bloodhound Blog. I literally was in a panic cuz I thought I’d been hacked. How did they get into my blog?! Betcha my marketing guys from back then are still laughin’ their asses off. <\/p>\n

I know a bit more techie stuff these days, but not much more. So there you have it — I’m a legit, card-carryin’ TechTard.<\/p>\n

OK — Let’s start with SEO, if only so we can leave it first. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I use key words in my posts mostly cuz I need to in order to make the damn thing readable, not for juice. Check out my page rank, then tell me, cuz I don’t have a clue what it is, nor do I give a damn. Most decent bloggers readin’ this draw traffic orders of magnitude<\/em> more than I do. They also, most of ’em, get more comments on their average post than I do in 10. <\/p>\n

Please tell me how much money real estate bloggers earn per comment,<\/em> I’m curious. How much more do they earn with 10,000 readers a month compared to the guy who doesn’t average 1,000? 10 X more? Go ahead, make my day, say yes. \ud83d\ude42 What a buncha hooey. Does SEO work to generate more ‘traffic’? No doubt. When driving, don’t we avoid traffic? \ud83d\ude42 Those extra cars don’t get us to where we’re going any faster, do they? No — they’re just traffic muddling up our commute. They don’t care where we’re Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though most of this post won’t necessarily be tech related, it’s probably wise for me to credibly establish by TechTard credentials. I’ll do it quickly by tellin’ a story on myself back when I was a beginning blogger. My marketing guys said, “Hey, this blogging thing looks to be real. 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