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Food for Thought: Google Juice

Published by Amitai Givertz on December 18, 2007 in Blogging and Recursion. 2 Comments

An impromptu addition to my Food for Thought series…

Mon asks a recurring question on my Hungry Blogger post:

I am wondering whether blogging makes a noticeable difference to your SEO. I have been blogging for my company for a few weeks and have no idea whether i am causing any real differences. Are we appearing higher up in google? No idea, but am having a bit of fun while i am doing it at least.

There is plenty of stuff online that will help you understand how to make the most of your blogging, get some Google juice.

Here are a couple of resources you will find helpful, sites you might want bookmark if Google itself isn’t good enough:

You should look up Michael Specht — he is an Australian blogger like you, closer to home if you want to try and make a human connection. I don’t know what platform you are using but here are Michael’s earlier experiences trying to get some lift off a WordPress platform.

Have you considered joining a community like RecruitingBlogs.com where asking these types of question will get you a more varied response? If not, you should.

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I could have answered Mon in the post’s comments but I need the juice, you know, to gargle with!

Food for Thought: Recursion Excursion

Published by Amitai Givertz on November 30, 2007 in Blogging, Post Pickings and Recursion. 1 Comment

Part 3 in my Food for Thought series…

Like most short posts a quick read can leave one happy that one’s brain has not been taxed too much — blah-blah-blah, click-click-click and move on. After all, its only blogging…junk food.

Sometimes — depending on your mood or interests perhaps — short posts can leave you hungry for more. Some posts may even show you were to find something chunkier, albeit on a self-serve basis. Whatever, empty calories — however delicious — will leave you malnourished if that’s all you digest.

Today, my present to you is the gift of choosing what you want to do with this little morsel. You can click-click-click and move on. If you like you can bookmark this page, bury it like a bone and dig it up later. Maybe you’ll enjoy the joke tucked away behind one of the links, even if it’s on you! You pick, it’s your post now.

The series so far…

Chew ‘em over again. I’m told my blogging is an acquired taste.

The Recursive Nature of Recruiting Blogs

Published by Amitai Givertz on July 26, 2007 in Blogging and Recursion. 11 Comments

A presentation inspired by my conversations with friends Michael Kelemen, John Sumser and Don Ramer.

Reflux or Redux?

Published by Amitai Givertz on June 2, 2007 in Blogging, Post Pickings and Recursion. 1 Comment

RecruitingBlogs.com – a recruiting blog about recruiting blogs – how delicious.

Now I have a place to apply some of what I understand to be the value in the recursive nature of blogging which was difficult to grasp when I flirted with the not-quite-so-self-referential RecruitingBloggers.com and the issues of cross-posting. I think I also understand now some of the payoff for “digesting” as opposed to ruminating, giving back more than I am taking I hope. We’ll see.

I was rather pleased with my first post on RecruitingBlogs.com, The Virtue of Short Posts. Unfortunately, it seems only John Sumser got the joke. Maybe.

The Cross-Post Conundrum

Published by Amitai Givertz on October 24, 2006 in Blogging and Recursion. 2 Comments

What do Recruiting.com, ERE blogs, the HCI Blogosphere and RecruitingBloggers.com have in common with hot chocolate, a good daily read, relativity and talking heads?

The answer is simple if you care enough to give it a little thought. Can you solve this recursive riddle? Click here now…

The Voyeur

Published by Amitai Givertz on September 18, 2006 in Blogging, Outlandish and Recursion. 14 Comments

Well, well, well. What do we have here? Recruiting.com 2.0, eh?

Having a strong sense that recruiting bloggers are unwittingly making Jason Goldberg and Jason Davis fabulously rich simply by thinking about their blogs, I shall start to suppress conscious thought and coherent writing on mine. I have no problem with Jasons Goldberg and Davis becoming fat-wallet media tycoons – I aspire to being one myself – but, if I am going to work hard to create original content, they are going to have to work just as hard to understand it, capitalize on it. Oh, I know, the favors of communal love are reciprocated if I want to attract more readers and/or monetize my driveling blog. But I don’t. It seems the more I want the privacy of my very own weblog the more people want to see what I’m up to. I think it must be the Recruitomatic-Lavatory- Webcam syndrome. For some reason there are people – but not you of course – who want to observe me struggle with a thing, like making sense of what this new-fangled Recruiting.com is really all about. How odd.

The unfortunate part of this struggling with issues – words as art not currency; content for reading and analysis not syndication, incorporation, blending and bludgeoning to death; struggling with correspondents parroting each other instead of posting original work, fact blurred with fiction; individual voices versus corporate mash-up; the issue here – is that you, my reader, will no longer be able to make any sense of what I’m writing. I’m terribly sorry. Really, I am.

But, I see it now: as part of my survival strategy for autonomous thought, my writing will change into a random cut-up, a montage of repurposed content, rehashed thinking, rumination of original rubbish. Meaningless words will take on momentary meaning –“diggolicious,” “jasonotize,” “contentragious,” “popsidasical,” “blogrollable,” “ballotable” – and yet, the words will mean nothing in reality. My posts will celebrate nihilistic gobbledygook, Dada-blah-blah. So, there you have it. You might as well switch off now. Gorge on the live feeds, nothing here but a snake charming sideshow. Oh, dear. What’s happening? Has it started already? Bloated with tautological pleonasms and constipated with word-play, squeezing out another contentragious post for my buddies Mssrs. Goldberg, Davis, Reed and Elsevier, and you – my victimized reader! Going, going, going…

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