SEO for the Sleep Deprived

Keywords, Keyword Phrases, Writing, and the Accessorized Boppy

Melanie Zoltan

Melanie Zoltan
Birthday
March 13
Bio
Melanie Zoltan teaches for a women's college in Massachusetts. Clients and publishers have included Boston Globe Magazine, PC World, HomeStars.com, Lerner Media, nSightWorks, W.W. Norton, Prentice Hall, Brain,Child Magazine, EBSCO, and more. With three sons ages 3 months to 11, a husband, teaching, writing, and an ever-increasing virtual life that threatens to take over (Cafe World? Now my 7 year old wants me to join WHAT?) she tries to sleep when she can.

NOVEMBER 16, 2009 5:35PM

SEO for the Sleep Deprived

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So I'm trying to decide what to write about for my first post as I sit here eating chocolate cake with a 3 month old nursing on a boppy in my lap.

A piece of cake fell on his neck and I cleaned it off and realized that I will write about dropping pieces of food on your tiny infant while he acts as a boob tick.

Why "SEO for the Sleep Deprived"?  Because I'm working my way through learning to write even better search-engine optimized content these days.  Back in the Middle Ages of the Internet (2004) I had a rare opportunity to be coached through metatagging and keywording and all sorts of neat SEO work that I...stupidly turned down. 

 In favor of working for the equivalent of Internet snake oil salesmen on a 9 month quest that ended in (shock!) the client going bankrupt and stiffing me for $267.50.  Ever see "Better Off Dead"?  Yep--I still want my two dollllllaaaaarrrsss.

I didn't take that SEO job, and if I had, I would be Seth Godin right now.  Maybe.  Well, the female Seth Godin.  In a nursing bra, with a Medela Pump in Style to the right of the computer. 

With a baby with chocolate smears on the back of his head.  At least, I think that's chocolate.

So now I write for a variety of websites, blog about it, and hope to get rich when my amazing SEO blog is optioned by a major movie studio for $750K and the right to choose the actress who will play me (anyone but Megan Fox, please).  In the rare event that this doesn't happen, I plan to write about various topics that appeal to my undisciplined mind.

 And talk about it here.

 

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The closest I ever came to chocolate cake was pushing my son in a stroller and trying not to slosh hot coffee on his skull. Do they have cup holders in them now? (Strollers, I mean.)

Good luck with the writing, and reconsider Megan Fox. She brings in the cash.
Yep--they still have cup holders, and I'm guilty of spilling (lukewarm) hot chocolate all over the baby's blanket when we hit some bumpy sidewalk construction. No more of that!