Search Engine Optimization through Article Marketing and Distribution of Web Content

Wow… that title is a mouth full, isn’t it?

So this is the next big focus of the Computard’s day job. Basically I write informative articles about medical and health related products and technology, that the company I work for just happens to carry. It’s actually a blast because I get to throw the occasional dry humor and/or wit in my writing, and I get to research some pretty interesting shite.

But the main focus of me writing those articles is to drive sales to our web site. Besides being loaded with products that we carry, which happen to be the best on the market, they include links to our website and our blogs. Those links, coupled with links in the blog pages, boost the overall rankings of the web site. In the end, that makes our company show up higher on the list when you Google fascinating devices such “Aquaguard Pool Alarm System” (which, by the way, everyone with a pool should own).

If you’re reading this blog, chances are you have read my articles on internet dating here (and if you haven’t, then you should). I also do the same thing for work about health related issues and technology like Far Infrared Heat Therapy, Sleep Apnea/CPAP Machines, Stroke, and Back Pain Relief without Medication. All in all it is pretty interesting stuff, which is important for me. I have to be interested in what I am doing, or I can’t focus. Once I had to go through a 4 week training class for customer service job at a major credit card company – it was so boring, I actually fell asleep sitting right next to my supervisor.

Anyways, we’ll see how well this Search Engine Whatnot through Article Whodafuck Cares and Something-something of Web Content works out. If anyone has any tips, I am all ears.

Computard

I only have one thing to say about the Super Bowl…

Coworker: “Oh my gaaaawwwwd, did you watch the Super Bowl?”

Me: “No, I was busy knitting a new sweater and watching Antiques Road Show.”

I’m a red-blooded american male… of course I watched the damn game!! Naturally, it is the only thing everyone is talking about. So, I’ll spare you the pain of reading another long article from some author talking about why the Giants won and leave you with this:

Suck it, Brady!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!

Dealing with being “computarded”

“Hey, I need you to upload this MPEG to our FTP site, then code this description into HTML and link it to this PDF”.

Huh?

This is what a typical day at work is like for me. This is why I preach to everyone young person I come across to learn whatever they can about computers and how they work.

Anyways, I am learning more and more each day, and thankfully the people I work with/for are patient with me. I have begun to learn the intricacies of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. For those of you who are “not in the know”, that means making my website show up on Google before yours. There are actually people whose jobs are almost exclusively tied to this sort of internet chess game. Amazing.

I think the hardest part of my job is being the boss of people who know more about this stuff then I do. Granted, they lack the people skills and management experience that I have, and are complete dorks, but it is a complete pain in the arse to have the “minions” show me how to do something. It goes something like this:

Me: “Hey, can you please show me how to embed this video into this web page?” (note how I said “please”)

Nameless geek: “Hee hee… you don’t know how to do that yet?” (that little bastard…)

Me: “Look Opey, I don’t have time or patience for your wisecracks, and while you were playing Dungeons & Dragons or ma$turbating to the Victoria’s Secret catalog, I was getting this thing I like to call ‘vagina’. So show me how to embed the video before I get angry and show you the true meaning of the word ‘owned’.”

Like I said, they lack my people skills…

Stay cool,

The Computard