WordPress WordCamp Notes Dec

WordCamp Phoenix Dec. 2009
WordCamp Phoenix Dec. 2009

Please disregard today’s post if you have no interest in learning how to blog or how to be a better blogger using WordPress. For about $10 per year you can own a GoDaddy domain name and add a free WordPress blog.

Some notes from a December 2009 WordPress Wordcamp streaming video feed.

  • Don’t use pronouns
  • Use nouns
  • www.DaveMoyer.org
  • www.wordcastpodcast.com
  • feedburner
  • WordPress.tv
  • Jim Christian, head SEO guy @ GoDaddy
  • Title Tag – make sure your keyword is first
  • Title Tag – it’s the first thing that shows up on Google
  • Title Tag – always make it 65 characters or less
  • Description Tag
  • (Keyword Tag) Link
  • SEO Press Releases
  • Caphyon Advanced Search – $100-$200 per year fee
  • Adwords Keywords Tool
  • Use Exact match
  • Google Trends
  • Touchgraph Browsers
  • Backlinks Analyzers
  • wpe.plugin
  • kungfugrip
  • tubemogul
  • wptouch = wp theme?
  • JohnHawkinsunrated
  • Merlin Mann 43folders.com
  • Write about everything but your company
  • Lorelle Van Fossen – wtfblogclutter
  • Blog Rules 1. There are no rules
  • H Tags
  • blogcluttermagazine
  • plagurismtoday.com
  • Lorelle on WordPress
  • 1. Blog for yourself
  • 2. Blog for like-minded people
  • Publish content with intent (her most important msg)
  • godaddy.com/wordcamp
  • godaddy.com/wordpress
  • Branding – It’s you. it’s your voice
  • Jason Cote WPCOOP.org
  • elance – php is #1 , wordpress is # 9, content writing #3 (WPCOOP.org)

Are You Getting This?

The Difference?
The Difference?

Many great thinkers, game changers some call them, have had to deal with ridicule and doubt most of their lives.

There comes a point, however, when something clicks, something comes together and others finally embrace their crazy notions:

There is one significant difference between the people who make the list and those that don’t.

Five A Day – Part Three

“Why did you create five blogs in the first place, knowing that you’d never be writing in all five everyday anyway?”

Two logical reasons:

  1. My model for balance had four parts, not two
  2. I’d link each of them to all the others, for SEO

Mid Life Celebration is about balancing life’s big choices, and there are four:

  1. Mind
  2. Body
  3. Spirit
  4. Money

This fifth blog, jeffnoel.com, was created because I thought there should be an “office” or “headquarters”, so to speak – one that didn’t have a theme and wasn’t part of the model.

And when the previous jeffnoel.com didn’t renew after having that domain, www.jeffnoel.com for seven years, it was a natural choice to pick my given name as a dot com.

That’s it.  That’s how it happened.  And now, I can’t stop myself.

In a sea of blogs that drone on about whatever, I’m carving out a space among the few who have five-a-day, droning on about whatever.

Got Book?

“Don’t die with a book still in you.” jeff noel

“Outside a dog, a book is man’s best friend.  Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.”Groucho Marx

How many people want to write a book?

How many believe they can write a book?

How many actually do?

Two days ago, I said to my wife, “You know, depending on your definition of a book, I’ve already written five.”

And you know what Cheryl said?  And by the way, this is one of the million things that I love about Cheryl, because she’s so smart, she said, “I know.”

Tomorrow, I’ll share a free link to Roger Parker’s checklist for getting a book published.  That is, unless you have no story to tell. But I sincerely doubt that.

Everyone has a story to tell.

Don’t die with a book in you.