Mixing Business And Pleasure (Blogs)
It’s been said for years that we shouldn’t mix business and pleasure. That old adage has also been ignored for many years. How many business deals have been made on the golf course or informal functions?
That leads me to wonder about our online blogs. Do we hurt our brand when we publish a personal blog? What about allowing too much personality to show in our posts and comments? If you are like John Chow then I guess the question doesn’t apply because you are your brand but it is something to consider for the rest of us.
My personal views can be considered extreme, arrogant, self-righteous, opinionated and a whole bunch of other adjectives. I used to run a blog ThatsRightISaidIt.com (now off line) and those posts were designed to get people going. Some of that controversial attitude spills into my personal blog posts. I would never apologize for my opinions but I wonder if it’s bad for business. What do you think?

















Brad West on January 24th, 2009
Well Brian, don’t know if I can speak with any authority here, I don’t personally own a blog.
But then again I build the Blogs the girls have and I’m pretty intimate with them. As a matter a fact when we set Sheryl’s Blog up a few years back her insistence was to defy the SEO laws. She now has 7 blogs on the same domain, no keyword URL, just slerylloch.com.
Her Alexa keeps dropping just over 200 K right now. But after the last Google ranking her front page dropped to a 1. Her front page actually went backwards. She Was Hot to say the least. Then she got looking around. Due to the testing that we had been doing on the Blog Co-Op we had been submitting perma links that lead directly to articles. Knowing yourself a little about how the Blog Co_op works, I will just highlight a little. When submitting to the Co_Op you submit a mini post or the first paragraph of your blog article with a perma link in a topic specific thread.
Look back at what I just said, you are submitting content not just a link to a topic specific area. I will just let your imagination take care of the rest.
The result on Sheryl’s blog after looking closer was a big increase in PR on the interior pages there are now a minimum of 6 pages with the PR of 1 and one page at 2, weird enough that is the sales page. Also a bunch of pages went from an NR to a rank of 0.
People say well it’s only a zero, Don’t be fooled my friends a zero is 100 times better than No Ranked at all.
Take a look at some of the blogs out there that the front page rank at 6 or 7 they have worked so hard at pushing the domain. they never thought to hook up the content, there interior pages allot of times are not even ranked.
What is more important the site or the content.
So the theory of following strict SEO laws goes on. Do you stay focused on one subject and don’t contaminate your blog with anything fun. or do you have fun and increase your keyword count so you get not so targeted traffic coming to your site also.
I may not have answered any questions, I got a little off topic. I think it is a personal preference of where you want to go, and using your educated imagination to get there.
Hope I helped a little Just creating another question helps sometimes.
I am totally crazy I am out writing this stuff on everyone else’s sites and neglecting my own. Sorry I’m stealing this for a post. LOL
Brad West ~ onomoney
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