Get People to Click your Shit
You want people on Twitter, Stumble, Digg or wherever to click through to your articles, images, YouTube videos and blog posts?
Here is one avenue people appreciate:
- Be funny.
Have a funny title or caption if you can spare one. Keep in mind the funny might not be as useful for SEO purposes.
Take, for example, my title here:
- Get People to Click your Shit
I think it’s funny. Does it have excellent keywords?…well, no. An SEO friendly title would read more like: How to Attract Click Throughs. How to Attract Readers to your Articles. How to Get Readers to Click Through to your Articles. Boring stuff like that.
If I was writing an article for a website I would have done just that. I would go with the keywords and get the SEO goodness from search engines. But this is my damn personal blog and I will do what I like with it.
If you really want to be smart, you can have an SEO friendly title AND still get the funny across. You can have a subtitle that’s funny. Or make a funny description. Or have funny tags.
In this case, I could have written:
- How To Convert More Readers: Click My Shit.
Convert, Readers and Click are all decent search terms. How To is a good search phrase. And the most important thing: Shit is still in the title. We’re really all just monkeys laughing about feces.
Or, I could make a Twitter post about eating brains, which always sounds funny. For example, Dan just sent me a zombie video. Zombies are funny on their own, but you can phrase things to sound even more enticing. Here is my recent Tweet on Common Craft’s video about surviving zombie attacks:
- Save Your Brains. How to identify, escape and eliminate zombies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVnfyradCPY&feature=user
I could have just said, “How to identify, escape and eliminate zombies” - which is certainly funny on its own, yet so earnestly serious. My playful brain eating touch is sure to get Common Craft a few more readers, which they deserve, as their video is cute, funny, and provides useful advice about surviving zombie attacks. The best of all worlds! Just like this blog post!
So what have we learned today? That zombies, brains and shit are funny. That we’re monkeys. And that, yes, there ARE benefits to possessing an irreverent mind, despite what my teachers said about me.
Filed under Defies Categorization, mind clutter | Comments (7)We Have to Fly, But Now We Hates It
I unfortunately have to fly next month. We officially now hate flying, so we tried hard to come up with an alternate plan:
- Driving from CA to FL was out - too much time, too much hassle, too much gas.
- We figured we’d try a sleeper car on the train. Well, there we inexplicably would have to go from FL via CHICAGO to CA, adding a lot of time to the trip. Plus the sleeper compartments cost about the same as a vacation on a cruise ship. So, no go.
- Then we saw the first class flight tickets also cost more than a cruise.
- We even considered renting an RV to drive back so we would only have to fly one way…then got wrapped back up in the ungodly expensive gas situation. One can’t win.
So, yeah, we gave up and bought plane tickets on Expedia, which sneakily tacks on booking fees and massive taxes. We’re forced to change planes in Atlanta and can’t even sit together on the last leg to FL. We have a three hour stop-over in Atlanta too. I hope it’s got WIFI, or decent shops.
I am afraid to check and see which airlines we are stuck with. Some are stingier than others: I wonder if we will be charged now for water and coffee. If so, all the more reason to just get drunk on tiny bottles of wine in-flight. I am by now trained to bring my own darned pillow, so they can’t nickel and dime me there.
Am NOT looking forward to this. I always catch a flu bug when I fly. I’m going to try really hard not to this time, even if it means wearing gloves and a mask. Sheesh. Flying. Bah.
Filed under All About Me, mind clutter | Comments (7)Next Blogs on Tap, updated
bettasandmore.com
businesstravelerlife.com
budgethomestaging.com
cosmeticreviewjournal.com
dentalmedicalspas.com
Filed under mind clutter | Comment (0)Next Blogs on Tap
Actually Dentalmedicalspas.com, budgethomestaging.com and bettafishandmore.com are coming along next. 
Dan wants to move my fish work and monitize it. He also wants me to take a look at my entire body of article work, over the last decade. I just wanted them all rounded up somewhere, cleaned up and ready to show in an online resume, rather like what Lisa has done with LisaShea.com.
My main areas of existing content: houseplants, dog grooming, cleaning, science fiction, betta fish and other fish, living simply, hiking and other outdoors activities, traveling, beauty, reviews, moving tips, organizing…and misc newspaper articles from features to hard news.
Filed under involvaholic, mind clutter | Comment (0)Blog Development
Blogs On Tap - Currently writing:
- Hippygeek.net - updates, notes and misc to myself. for family and friends?
- Jillflorio.com - online resume, repository of past articles.
- Involvaholic.com - notes as I clear up the details of my condition, fix the ducks, fix the pigs, etc.
- 10×12.info - developing plans for the small perfect ingenious house.
- Business Travel at Suite101.com - now award-winning, sorta
Blogs to Start:
- DentalMedicalSpas.com -review spa dentistry and medical spas.
- BudgetHomeStaging.com
- Businesstravelerlife.com (if I close out Suite blog…move Dan’s stuff from Suite as the year comes up. Post more as we go. Make an ebook).
- Imissthesun.com or Seasonalaffectivedepression.com - all about handling SAD
Blogs in the Backlist:
- bettafishebook.com
bettasandmore.com
bettafishandmore.com- move my fish and betta articles, load ebooks - Bestbrunchplaces.com
Blogs to close out:
- BellevueWashingtonblog (blogger)
- 989elementsblog
