When I first saw Loren publish the photos of the Search & Social Spring Summit 2010, I thought I was the unhappiest person in the world because I can’t make it to the event:
But you can… And you don’t want to miss it. An awesome place and great speakers make me sure that that will be an unforgivable event. Read on: Don’t Miss the Search & Social Spring Summit 2010
There is one cool joke that the worst nightmare of a web hacker is that he suddenly forgets all his passwords. Password fatigue (or password chaos or identity chaos) is the feeling experienced by many people who are required to remember and manage a lot of passwords.
And how many passwords do you need to keep in your head? I am sure as an Internet marketer, blogger and/or active social media user you must have quite a few passwords to manage.
This post will attempt to make your life easier or at least to encourage you to take it easier…
These are plenty naturally. Most will just generate a random combination of letters and numbers which will be impossible to remember. Others are more fun, they generate passwords based on some criteria you specify. Read on: Everything About Passwords – a Guide to Managing Online Personas
*The following is the guest post by Stacey*
This already looks like a series: first The Roast of the Silver Surfers, then Hal’s Geriatric Surfers – Should We Pull The Plug? and now this great and funny post on how Stacey’s Nan sees the Internet.
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A couple of recent guest posts here on SEO Smarty have covered the topic of the more, ahem, mature web surfers. Hal Brown in particular raised a laugh from me when ending his post with, “Us old farts may look stupid to youngsters, but consider how you look to us.” Good point!
But all this talk of the sixty something surfers got me thinking of my wonderful Nan. She doesn’t use the Internet – in fact I’m not even sure she knows what it is really. Let me offer a little insight into the ‘Internet According to Nan.’ Read on: The Internet According to Nan
With link bait, the first important thing is inspiration, then comes an idea. There is no way you can brainstorm something really good without being inspired. This quick post actually aims at inspiring you: I hope it works.
There are many types of link baiting content; they have one thing in common: none of them is 100% working. Even with some solid investment, brilliant idea and good implementation, you can never be sure it works as well as you expected.
This is why to get the feel of what a link bait actually is, I’d recommend to start with something rather simple but fun:
Need an example to get inspired? I have three for you. Read on: 3 Examples of Timely Link Bait To Spur Your Creativity
This is a guest post by Hal Brown, in response to a previously published one (Yes, I love listening to all types of opinions here).
The two things most difficult to write are humor and satire. Humor writing can be targeted to a specific audience, in which case not everyone is expected to get the joke. Broad-based humor is not so forgiving; Invariably someone will be offended. In other words, you might get away with calling obese people fat if your audience is skinny, just don’t make a habit of saying things like that in public.
Satire is the most difficult of all things to write. The target is most specific and some people will be offended. That’s life. The degree of resentment that can be caused is in direct correlation to the writer’s talent for satire. Age has a lot to do with this as well; parents don’t like kids to satirize life, especially when the kids have not lived long enough to have the wisdom that comes with age. Read on: Geriatric Surfers – Should We Pull The Plug?
This is the second post in the series of guest blogging success stories (the first one was by Glen on how he earned 5-figure income with guest blogging). The series is dedicated to my new venture My Blog Guest, the community of guest bloggers. I am building the site where you can build links and your brand completely for free and by providing real quality, so go ahead: join, participate and help me build it!
The following is the guest post by Brian Carter
I’ve written around 300-400 blog posts in the last 5 years. Blogging is cyclic for me; sometimes on my own blogs, sometimes a corporate blog, sometimes on multi-author industry blogs. I love to analyze and theorize, and blogging helps me think through in depth about ideas that occur to me in the course of work. I tend to turn those into lists of useful tips and I try to make them funny. I use quality images (often creative commons attribution license images from flickr) and create my own SmartArt charts and graphs to add value.
I started with my first blog back in 2004 when I was an acupuncturist. Before that I used to write alternative medicine articles for my own static HTML site. Later I created blogs about my original music, basketball, and comedy. I really hit my blogging stride with my AdWords consulting blog in 2005, which has a total of 122 posts. Read on: 6 Benefits of Guest Blogging + 9 Tips for Better Guest Blogging
*The following is an awesome guest post by Forrest Whaling, my new friend I found at MyBlogGuest. Psst, if you want to find new blogging friends and exchange cool guest posts like the one below, join MyBlogGuest 
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By the age of 8, I should have been keen on the idea that my parents’ generation was doomed. While they barely trusted me to pick out my outfit, I certainly could not trust them with the TV, VCR, or any other device that had buttons and required electricity. I guess I just mistook them for being stubborn at the time. Read on: The Roast of the Silver Surfers
