The 2nd Annual Bad A** SEO Guest Blogging Contest

This is an exciting time; we’ve just entered the contest period for the Second Annual Bad A** SEO Guest Blogging Contest! I’ve made my entry and it’s just been published. Check it out! Please tweet it, “Like” it, +1 it, share it, any and everything you can! I appreciate your support! Let me know if you enter the contest so I can do the same for you!

Why World of Warcraft Made Me a Good SEO

Sometimes you find something that you enjoy so thoroughly (or that helps you escape so well) that it robs you of your time and poisons your relationships. For some, it’s drugs, alcohol. For me, it was World of Warcraft. This isn’t a “MMOs are Satan” post, so don’t close the page. After about a year of being “off the stuff,” I’ve had some time to sit down and really think about WoW and its effect on my life. This post is a rational look at how playing the game the way I did made me into a good SEO. In fact, the hardcore WoW raiding environment could almost be a training ground for potential SEOs, assuming they’re good at breaking meth addictions.I suppose in a way, this is a cathartic exercise for me, as I can’t recall hardly any positive memories from this time period, and this is some way of extracting some benefit from it. Either way, the principles still apply.

So why on earth would wasting life playing a video game make you a good SEO? There are several parallels that legitimately surprised me when I investigated them… Read more…

The contest runs until the 12th of October, so if you think you’ve got what it takes to win, submit an entry at http://sem-group.net/search-engine-optimization-blog/2nd-annual-bad-ass-seo-guest-blogging-contest/

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