Monday, December 31, 2007
Symetri #1 for Ocelot Grooming!
On December 17, 2007, created a lovely post about Ocelot Grooming in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The purpose, of course, was to offer a tangible example to anyone involved in SEO or someone looking to hire a company to do SEO as to the importance and weight of blogs. The post was slightly heavily peppered with keyphrasing, variations, and misspellings, but without being flagrant, egregious, or irrelevant; I stated my purpose directly in the post itself. Included was an image with the proper attribute "alt" tag. [Not directly used, but a further step would be to make use of the built-in blog tags to take advantage of even more levels of relevance.]
I am pleased to say that within about a week, a Google search for ocelot grooming places pages in this blog at #1 and #2. Similar results show by adding Greensboro to the mix, and that single post lists us 2nd only to the NC Zoo for "ocelot greensboro." That would be a case in point.
However, the first quagmire that I enter with such a post is that by writing about the results of a blog post and its effects on rankings in another blog post and using the same keyphrases as the original post, I risk altering those results, immediately rendering them null and this blog post inaccurate.
Yes, you read that correctly: by writing this blog post I am entering information into the interwebs that - by its very existence - may void the information within the post itself. As Keanu Reeves and Joey Lawrence one day need to say in unison: Woah. [And, no, that's nothing like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; read your particle physics book again, please.]
The second issue, of course, is that some neckbeard living in Mom's basement will stumble upon this post between marathon sessions of WoW and myChickBot CAD revisions, interpret modest bravado as a personal affront, and seek only to own the phrase "ocelot grooming," which, being unemployed, he will successfully accomplish within two weeks time. This will also nullify the information in this post.
So as a single day comes and goes, never to occur again, let us enjoy the ephemeral SERP listing, and stand in awe at the fickle nature of Google, our Fortuna.
The purpose, of course, was to offer a tangible example to anyone involved in SEO or someone looking to hire a company to do SEO as to the importance and weight of blogs. The post was slightly heavily peppered with keyphrasing, variations, and misspellings, but without being flagrant, egregious, or irrelevant; I stated my purpose directly in the post itself. Included was an image with the proper attribute "alt" tag. [Not directly used, but a further step would be to make use of the built-in blog tags to take advantage of even more levels of relevance.]
I am pleased to say that within about a week, a Google search for ocelot grooming places pages in this blog at #1 and #2. Similar results show by adding Greensboro to the mix, and that single post lists us 2nd only to the NC Zoo for "ocelot greensboro." That would be a case in point.
However, the first quagmire that I enter with such a post is that by writing about the results of a blog post and its effects on rankings in another blog post and using the same keyphrases as the original post, I risk altering those results, immediately rendering them null and this blog post inaccurate.
Yes, you read that correctly: by writing this blog post I am entering information into the interwebs that - by its very existence - may void the information within the post itself. As Keanu Reeves and Joey Lawrence one day need to say in unison: Woah. [And, no, that's nothing like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; read your particle physics book again, please.]
The second issue, of course, is that some neckbeard living in Mom's basement will stumble upon this post between marathon sessions of WoW and myChickBot CAD revisions, interpret modest bravado as a personal affront, and seek only to own the phrase "ocelot grooming," which, being unemployed, he will successfully accomplish within two weeks time. This will also nullify the information in this post.
So as a single day comes and goes, never to occur again, let us enjoy the ephemeral SERP listing, and stand in awe at the fickle nature of Google, our Fortuna.
Labels: blogging, social marketing, symetri
posted by Symetri at 12/31/2007 09:27:00 AM 
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