Over the past three years, I’ve set up 15 blogs in addition to providing SEO, Reputation Management, and Copywriting. They go hand in hand most of the time, and blogs are something traditional business owners / managers aren’t very familiar with. Whether it’s adding a blog to an existing corporate site or creating a new domain, there are at least a few little things you need to know to set up a blog to get optimal results.
If you think your company or organization needs a blog, but you’re not sure where to start or how to make it happen, feel free to contact me. I love blogging, and it’s rewarding to help other people get the most out of blogging too.
Ask me about how a blog can increase traffic to your site and help establish you as a thought leader in your industry.
My wife piled some of my stuff in the guest bedroom and asked me to go through it. The goal being to reduce the amount of crap. After forgetting to comply for a week or two, I trudged through the door last night and grabbed two handfuls of stuff to sort through. Everything was trash except for some old writings, which I’d like to keep but not store in boxes to be lost and forgotten once again.
Why not post them online so they can be lost and forgotten there instead?!?!?! Brilliant! So that’s what I’m going to do. I’ll post something every now and then that I wrote in the past (most likely in my early 20s). Hope you’ll enjoy it. If not, feel free to skip over and only read my random updates.
There are days when I’m literally riding the high of owning and operating blogs. Then there are days like today when I look at the time I spend reading and writing blogs, and I regret missing out on more time spent journaling and writing that first book. The book has been on hold for a couple years now, and I routinely face the question: do I really even want to write a book?
It’s a question that must be asked, yet the answer ever changes. Do I really want to write a book? Or do I just want to be an author? One is a passion for writing; the other is a passion for identity. Following advice is rarely easy. “Write because you have to” sounds great, but almost all advice ends up sounding lame when you feel tired and used up.
Give me a tropical island and wireless internet, and I’ll probably still gravitate toward blogs and social networking. Social networking is both a drug and a micro-manager. It requires your time and attention constantly. It doesn’t take long to become forgotten and irrelevant. Immediacy. That’s what it’s all about these days.
Before you judge me a heretic, hear me out. Yes, it’s fun to think that all people everywhere are utter nincompoops, and many of us survive each day by pointing out the follies of others, but all people are not morons.
So why in God’s name do I continue to write to people like they’re morons? How many readers have I offended or simply bored to tears because I was too busy explaining basic concepts over and over again, giving the punchlines too early and never building suspense?
You see, I have this flaw. I think people are, at their core, fairly stupid. And even the ones who aren’t stupid can rarely convince me of this fact due to their inability to communicate, which is commonly assumed as a sign of intelligence. And since people are relatively stupid, I over-explain EVERYTHING. My writing has become a wretched and pitiful thing. The habit of dumbing down in an attempt to successfully communicate.
That being said, I wonder if I’ve lost the ability to write properly. Can I truly function in society, or have I caught the blogger’s disease? Am I just a walking, talking regurgitation of all news online? Perhaps. After all, I’ve spent two years reading other people’s opinions of what everyone wants to read and how to reach them. There are enough self-help bloggers out there to drown a behemoth dinosaur.
After said research and study, I’ve come to one simple conclusion: those who can, do; those who can’t teach. Look for someone focused on “how to’s” and lessons in blogging and you’re sure to find a genuine grade A gasbag. If you really want to learn how to blog, learn how to put the right words to the thoughts in your head. Start there, and practice. The rest will come.
*** warning: take everything written with a grain of salt. It’s meant to be humorous. So stop getting offended so easily.
My wife and I have begun a small organic garden in our backyard. We’ve decided that peak oil is enough of a reason to be prepared to supplement our food supply from our own backyard.
Ask me about peak oil if you have any questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them.
So I ordered season three of Roswell. It arrived on a Friday afternoon. By Sunday morning, my wife and I had watched 8 new episodes. Is that overkill? I think not.
We were a tad concerned that we’d run through the season before the end of the weekend, so we took a break to argue, make up, and kiss the baby. Now that we’re back in the middle of the work week, all Roswell viewing slows to a crawl. We may get to watch three episodes this entire week, though even that may be a stretch. This coming weekend, however, is a different story.
God, teach me self-control that I might enjoy the paths of alien-ness for one more week. Because then it will end and I will never have a new Roswell episode to watch again. EVER. And that will be bad.
On the upside, I think we’ll attack Millenium next. Gotta keep the sci-fi action/drama going. Oh yeah! Battlestar Galactica is about to premiere as well! Thank God for small miracles. It’s like a cup of Vitamin Water in a dusty desert.
A friend IMs me the other day to tell me that my site is being blocked by Google. He told me he searched for “daniel dessinger” and the search result for this website had a warning placed on it by Google saying, “This website may cause harm to your computer.”
Do what?
This is a blog. This has always only been a blog. I don’t add crazy stuff to it in hopes of spamming your computer. I don’t know why Google hates me. This has led me to one of two conclusions:
1. The last WordPress theme I used had some secret stuff hidden on it that I wasn’t aware of. That’s possible, I suppose, but I haven’t found said secrets yet.
2. Someone hates me and has submitted my URL to Google as a spammer. I hope this is not the case, if for no other reason than because Google obviously didn’t check my site before calling me dangerous. Then of course there’s the other side of it where I don’t want someone to dislike me enough to try to sabotage me.
If you have any ideas on why Google is warning the masses against me, please let me know. I’m hoping that the warning will be removed once Google crawls my site again and notices that the template has been changed.
Sigh.
