Search Engine Marketing Blog: piloSEO

This is something I have wanted to get off of my chest for a while and since I have some free time now I guess I can finally do it. It seems that many of my relatives think that since I work in the Internet industry they believe that I am an IT professional. Whenever they have an issue with their computers they want me to fix them. Honestly, I have no problem taking a look and attempting to figure out their problem. I am always willing to help when I can but when it comes to more complex issues I am just not capable of helping. I can deal with most simple tasks and even some intermediate problems but just because I am a search marketing professional does not mean I can fix your computer when it blows up.

Just because I work in search does not mean I am the family IT guy

I am not Nick Burns and if I was you would probably not want to ask me to help anyway. The biggest issues is simply a lack of understanding about what I do. Many of my relatives simply don’t understand what SEO is. They assume that since I work in a tech focused field that I am a computer guru.  I suppose it is partially my fault because I have grown tired of trying to explain what it is that I do. It does not seem to matter though. No matter how much I explain it some of my relatives simply can’t grasp it. They can’t understand why I can’t help them fix their 6 year old spyware/malware/virus infected computers. So I have given up. From now on if I can’t help I will just tell them the Intertubes have been updated and they need a new computer to get there. If that does not work I can always send them to Geek Squad.

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I never thought I would ever see an SEO rap video but I was wrong. SEO has entered the world of hip-hop and we are here to stay. Time to break out the Courvoisier.

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Title says it all. As I become more and more immersed in the world of SEO and search marketing I am noticing that it is creeping into every aspect of my life. The following are by no means comprehensive of search taking over your life but they are the most common and prevalent signals that you may be living the life of a Search Geek.

• You look for and point out the SEO mistakes on every site you visit.
• Your friends and family have stopped sending you forwarded chain emails because they are tired of being accused of spamming.
• You use acronyms for everything even if there is no reason to.
• You forget that phone directories still exist until you see the new one on your doorstep once a year.
• Your 8 year old daughter will only use Firefox and tells her friends exactly why it is better than IE.
• Your friends and family have stopped asking about your work since they don’t understand what the hell you are talking about anyway.
• You get upset when people use Google as a verb.
• When you go out to eat you look for user reviews on the menu and can’t believe that restaurants have not embraced user generated content.
• You are always trying to figure out a way to copy and paste when writing with pen and paper.
• You start referring to telemarketers as Phone SPAM and junk mail as Mail SPAM.

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