The Kid From Brooklyn Has Spoken, Again!!
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Loading ...I love this Guy. Not in some kind of weird infatuation type of way, but more like a deep respect you have for a really good beer. He says everything I wish I could say to the people down at Duke University. Not only them, but also all of the people down there in Durham, N.C. who crucified those lacrosse players. Not to mention all the leaders of various news organizations and religious groups who had these three Duke lacrosse players hung from the gallows long before they had a chance to refute any of the accusers testimony.
Check out The Kid From Brooklyn’s video below here:Up Yours Duke University!!
We shouldn’t be so quick to judge people! I can’t believe the media gets away with enabling this kind of public out-lash when there is absolutely no proof of these guys doing anything other than hiring a stripper.
Don’t Be Invisible, Dog!!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Hey…can people find your website?? Most likely not, since the majority of websites are stuck in the Invisible Web (aka Deep Web) vs. the Visible Web (aka Surface Web).
Check out this blog post for more info on becoming visible.
Funny Videos
(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...This is how I light all my candles!!
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Funny video of a guy trying to buy stuff with pantyhose over his head!!
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Top 10 Tips for Newbies at an SES Conference
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I attended my very first Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference last week in NYC. I learned a ton, not only about search strategies, but also about how not to act at one of these events. I spent the first 3 days trying to meet people in hopes of being invited to one of these famous after hours drinking functions that everyone raved about in the chat forums. After day 2, I still hadn’t received an invite to any social functions; I was at a loss. I’m a cool guy, why wasn’t anyone inviting me to have a drink with them??? Maybe it was the constipation-induced scowl I brandished for the first two days. Maybe the new brand of deodorant I switched to was being overworked. Maybe the blinding reflection off my ever-expanding forehead was causing people to quickly avert their attention from me. As I sit back and reflect upon the reasons I didn’t warrant an invite, I can’t help but zero in on my many unsophisticated actions that clearly screamed “NEWBIE”.
So, for any of you SEO’ers, rookies and pros, who are thinking about attending one of these events, below are my Top 10 tips on how to blend in and better your chances of getting invited to a social function.
10. Stick to the Fundamentals Track!!
- It’s easy to get ahead of yourself. If you are a newbie and you find yourself in the Robots.txt Summit, then you are clearly out of place; you may even start wondering if you are at the right conference.
9. Laugh when everyone else laughs!
- When the speaker makes a joke that you don’t understand, it’s a good idea to play it safe and laugh.
8. Don’t give out your contact info to anyone on the exhibit floor if you truly don’t want them contacting you!
- I thought they just wanted to be my friend…I didn’t realize that they actually wanted me to buy something. By the time I got back home I had 24 e-mails from potential business suitors eager to sell me their goods. I hate to say it but I really have no intention of buying anything from you, I just wanted to get invited to an after hours social event. 
Sorry!!
7. Bring business cards!
- After telling the 47th person that “I forgot my cards” I started to feel like a fraud. They all gave me that ‘you’re an idiot’ look.
6. Realize that lunch is provided for you!
- I didn’t read the itinerary on day 1, thus I didn’t realize that lunch was provided. I found myself wondering why everyone was rushing upstairs. I thought “this is the perfect time to hit the hot dog stand before everyone else does…suckers!!!”
5. Don’t complain about the crunchy cookies they serve at lunch!
- When I saw the pack of cookies, I expected them to be soft. I had a tourettes moment and blurted out some profanity about not getting soft cookies. Needless to say, nobody from my lunch table that day invited me to have a drink with them.
4. At the first session after lunch, be sure and leave yourself a one-seat buffer zone on each side (don’t sit right next to someone)!
- On day 1, I sat right next to a lady after lunch. I think she got a little scared when I started doing the head-bob, funky chicken between bouts of consciousness. The lecture was interesting and all, but why did they have to schedule it during my normal nap time??
3. Don’t carry around that sweet, and oh-so manly, canvas bag after day 1!
- The conference organizers issue you a “gift bag”, which turned out to be a bag full of advertisements. You’re expected to carry it on day 1, but after that you just stick out. I think the NYC investment bankers were a little jealous of my canvas tote…so feel free to use it outside of the conference.
2. Don’t try to impress the SES ladies by attempting to form a rap circle outside one of the session rooms!
- This one is self-explanatory really. I thought it would be cool to make up a rap about search strategies. Talk about your all-time worst backfires.
1. When attending the Danny Sullivan open discussion forum, don’t stop clapping until everyone else has!!
- I stopped clapping after the first 3 minutes (a carpal tunnel thing) and the girl next to me shot me an evil ‘how dare you disrespect him’ glare. I promptly put aside the pain in my wrists and continued clapping. Who knew he was so popular??
Follow these simple rules and you will fare better than me!! See you all at SES in San Jose.
Walkdiggler’s Web Experience is Up & Running
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Welcome to my website…which happens to double as my personal blog. This has been a long time coming. In honor of this historical event, I will pay homage the next Super Bowl Champions!!! Go Bolts!!!
The Diggler Story
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Diggler (aka I, me, my) was born in the lovely town of Bakersfield, CA. Before you ask…yes I have all my teeth and no I wasn’t raised in a trailer. Bako isn’t so bad! If you’re from there, then you really don’t know any better. I’m glad I made it out of there with my soul intact.
I spent the better part of my life in the Air Force. I joined right out of high school and got sent down to Fort Walton Beach, FL. Rough assignment, I know. After a couple of years of getting kicked in the proverbial ‘jimmy’ (i.e. I was an enlisted guy and I was tired of getting shit on) I decided to become an Officer. I remember talking to an officer once, when I was an enlisted guy, and I remember thinking “this guy is a dip shit….if he can be an officer, then so can I.” Plus, when I looked at the pay-scale I knew that I was getting railed. So, I went to college in order to become an officer.
The Diggler’s college years were spent in the small town of Prescott, AZ. If you’re a local, then you know it’s pronounced ‘Preskitt’…we could always smell you tourists from at least a block away. I attended a small aviation school called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. That was a hoot!! There’s a woman hiding in every igloo. Hindsight is 20/20…if I had to do it all over again, then I would have gone to a school where the girl to guy ratio was better than 200:1. It wasn’t that bad, more like 8:1, but usually those 8 were, how you say, bow-wow!! So, yeah…I graduated and all that happy horseshit, got commissioned as a 2Lt in the US Air Force…and it was off to pilot training.
Not so fast there sparky…remember that time when you got hit in the head with a softball. Yeah, apparently the Air Force doesn’t like their pilots to have brain damage. Whoddathunkit!! So, yeah…I got to live in Las Vegas for a little while until they decided what they wanted to do with me. Man…I pulled some tough assignments; first Florida, now Vegas. After losing more money than I had, they shipped me off to Los Angeles Air Force Base in beautiful El Segundo, CA. Boo-yaa…back in SoCal.
I made some good friends during my 3.5 year stint in LA. Some crazy bastards. I have a couple of buddies who would hit anything that moved (lets call them Bob and Steve). Kind of like Life and their boy Mikey, except in with women instead of cereal. Give it to Bob, he’ll hit anything. Nothing like a pal who will jump on damn near any grenade you toss him.
After that, I guess the AF didn’t think I was smart enough, so they sent me to grad school down in San Diego. I can’t help but think that I was one of the luckiest bastards in the entire military. Ummm…let me think…they paid for me to get my Master’s degree, at San Diego State and they paid me my full salary while I was there….suckers!! So, when deciding on where to live, I found this sweet little beach pad behind the local Hooters in Pacific Beach, a town that is more affectionately know as just ‘PB’.
So, yeah…living in PB on the government’s dime, going to school at a place where there are over 40K boobs, life is pretty damn good. Got the MBA under my belt and the AF decides that it needs to start getting rid of people…it can’t afford to pay a bunch of us over the next several years. So, the AF let me out. Paid for both degrees and let me walk away scott-free.
Since leaving the AF, I’ve immersed myself into this whole SEO world, it’s been good to me so far and I’m having fun with it. I haven’t gotten any of my clients’ sites banned yet, so they’re happy.
What’s next for The Diggler?? I will definitely keep referring to myself in the third person!! I’m going to make a shit load of cash…I haven’t quite figured out how yet; I do play the lottery from time to time. I’m going to marry this incredible woman who has found it in her heart to put up with my crap for the last couple of years. Then I’ll probably get balder and chubbier over the years…it’s a positive correlation thing.
That’s about it. Anything else you want to know??? Shoot….
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