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What do these 7 names have in Common?

They are all people that where duped by their friends into posting “One more Meme”.
After the last Meme that was passed around the SEO community, I vowed that I would wait at least a lifetime before I did another.

But it is hard to say no to friends, and the appeal of free links and being on the same list as some of these fine people, is too much to resist.

The latest Meme is a “Trust Transference Game” started by Greg N. at GoodRoi.com

Its basically a game/social experiment where you have to name 1 person that you trust within the SEO community. That person then chooses someone that they trust.

The rules are that you cant choose someone already on the list, and you can only choose one person.

This is actually harder then it appears; choosing one friend out of a group is very tough. Not to mention they must own a blog and be willing to post a Meme on. and to top it off they must be in the SEO community.

What to do, What to do….

Then out of the blue comes Chris Hooley (a.k.a SearchStudent) with a message to me through MyblogLog, telling me that he is more then happy to “help me continue the list”

Chris is one interesting character. I just met him last week for the first time at our first meeting of the Arizona Search Marketing Group (a.k.a Phoenix Pubcrawl). It was a great time. The guy definitley understands how to build trust. He knows that all it takes sometimes is a Pint of a some good brew and a handshake.

Don’t let me down Chris

If you have spent more then a passing moment browsing through my blog, you’ve probably already figured out how awful it is. I mean seriously, the last time I wrote anything more then 50 words was when I was ranting about how I hate domain squatters (July 2006)…. btw I no longer hate all domain squatters… the ones you can get ahold of can be of great value. More talk about that later.
So why the hell do I even have a blog?

Well, for a few reasons.

1. I already owned the domain name and figured, why not put something on it.
2. I am a web developer from way back and figured it would be great to have a blog to play around with from time to time.
3. I am an SEO, and there is nothing better then ranking #1 for your own name.. I mean come-on, how can I sell SEO services if I cant even rank for my own handle. Luckily it isn’t a very common name I would hate to have the name “John Doe”. Not that I couldn’t rank for that. I am one of the best damn SEO’s out there
4. I love to write. And though I have no time to do it. It is one of the few things that keep me sane…
5. I love to interact with people. One of these days I hope to have more then 2 members
6. I love to keep a journal of things as I run into them.
7. Someday I would love to go back in time and read through everything I wrote, putting it on a blog makes it real easy..
8. If I ever have Kids, which I don’t plan on at the moment, I’m sure they would love to have a journal of my life, if I ever die
9. I am internet marketer and having a recognizable name is one of the most important things.
10. Why not have a blog, everyone else does…..

Yep, I’m an astronomy buff. I’ve been looking to buy a new scope for a while now, but it has proved to be a difficult decision. I’m pretty sure this is the one I’m going to go with though. It’s big enough to see some friggen crazy stuff, yet light enough (only 90lbs, heh) to pack into my cars trunk to travel out of the city. Which is absolutly required if you live in a big city.

Meade 10 Inch LX200R Meade 10 Inch LX200R Advanced Ritchey-Chretien - UHTC Coatings

For those of you just getting started in Astronomy, be sure to check out CloudyNights.com’s Forum. It’s an excellent spot too get advice, learn about scopes, and see some incredible amateur photo’s, like the ones below which were taken with a 10″ LX200 and a 12″ RCX400. Both Scopes that I am looking at.