Another technical posting generated by exasperation, but with a purpose…
Since I started this blog, I’ve been so happy to see that I’m connecting with people who like the content here. As I keep admitting to you, it’s easy to write because this isn’t just content to me. It’s about creation, freedom, and inspiration for my beloved style of writing. Typically, you can’t stop me from finding something to write about as this world is huge and full of things to marvel at. But I’m still really looking forward to other reader’s suggestions for more creative inspirations, so that I can go out there, experience it for myself, and share my thoughts with all of you. After all, it’s why this blog exists: to share the creative journey that inspires us all. It’s my personal diary of things that fascinate me and inspire my own thought chain that will hopefully generate conversations and maybe even new ideas from others. Creativity is so beautiful, and all creations are as unique as their creators. I don’t ever want to see it stop or be controlled.
But there’s one thing that I do not marvel at, and that is SEO speak. While part of my profession is technical communications, I’ve still had a tough time getting involved with SEO. I understand its economic value, but I just can’t seem to bring myself to the point of actually caring about it for my own personal site. It’s like winning an award but being the only contestant that counts (or worse, faking the entry), which doesn’t seem fair. I’ve seen so much of it coming through the comments that it truly boggles my mind to think of the size of this industry. Because this really is a thriving business whose sole purpose is to find ever new and infuriating marketing gimmicks that will trick the omnipotent search bot and web crawlers from all those search engines that we use. These search bots go out incessantly and do their honest little journeys across the net to find new content to link with. And search engines are what makes our lives so easy, as they are the white pages of the Net, so these bots are our friends.
Well, we bloggers also have to be infected by SEO Speak. And although I consider myself to be pretty good with foreign languages (I can speak Japanese, French, and Russian with varying degrees of fluency), I can’t figure out this non-language. (see I can even do SEO if I have to) Writers thrive on language. It’s our building block for every new word creation that we make. But the words that are strung together in SEO Speak do no even come close to the reality of any human language. Now, SEO Speak was designed for those bots. But conversation happens between humans. Please be kind to us poor bloggers (especially novices like myself). We love what we do, or most likely, we wouldn’t be doing this. It’s not fun when we’re scratching our heads trying to understand something that we’re not meant to.
Here’s a comment from a marketer who also doesn’t seem to care for SEO. I’ll let him talk to the mechanics as it’s an ever-present part of his work.
In closing:
So, I would like to make a request to all of you readers: I want to hear from you and have a two-way conversation. So can we please do it in normal English (or any other human language)? I’m willing to learn new foreign languages. After all, the next languages on my list to learn include Italian and Arabic, while I also strengthen my knowledge of those languages that I’m familiar with. And I don’t plan to stop learning any time soon so that list will continue to expand. Here’s my commenting criteria:
Easy to understand format: Hi there. I agree (or disagree) with ________________ (<-fill in the blank) because…
Confusing format: Nonetheless, you command get bought an nervousness over that you wish be delivering the following… (actual excerpt of a comment I’m still trying to decipher! – if this is real, then sorry because I’m not trying to pick on you. I’m just trying to understand you.)
And if you’re planning on speaking an alien language, then please specify the language of origin so that I can create my Rosetta Stone to translate.
Thanks and keep those comments coming. I want this blog experience to be interactive. And yes, I still do read all of the incoming comments.
Final thought:
No, I don’t need Levitra, Soma, Ultracet, Valium, or any other pharmaceutical help. Unless you know something that I don’t know? Here’s the plug that you’ve been trying for. No, I don’t like medication so please don’t ask me to link with you. And again, no, I also don’t smoke. Thanks for trying – you won’t see this plug ever again in this blog.
