Everything I need to know about blogging I learned from Andrew Carnegie

My daughter, Mia Mei, has her own blog. She writes there somewhat regularly. What can I say? They don’t make 4-year olds like they used to.

Yesterday she wrote a post “How to get to car engine, um, Carnegie Hall.”

It got me to thinking about what I have learned from Carnegie that has helped me to be a better blogger.

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie and the Blogger

Carnegie made a killing in oil and steel after coming to the US at the age of 13 and getting a job as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory for $1.25 week. I used to work for $1.25 an hour, but never that cheaply for a week. But, then at the time, I could buy gasoline for .25/gallon. Let me see…I worked for 5 gallons of gas [Read more...]

Podcasts versus Video casts versus Blogging for SEO

Should I podcast? Should I video cast? Or should I blog? You know. Write. Hit publish. Rinse and repeat.

podcast versus videocast versus blogging

Blogging beats podcast beats video

Podcasts are cool. Unless you sound like me - tweezers on the nose, all nasally.

Videocasts are cooler unless you look like me. I mean, most people if they had a dog with a face like mine they’d shave the dog’s butt and make him walk backwards.

Blogging – the coolest. Just write. And hit publish. Images and links, too, of course.

But what is really cool about blogging is that it is searchable. Findable. Search engines can’t search video and podcast content. These mediums work best… ONLY work?… when they are embedded into a blog post and surrounded by searchable text.

Bottom line…. blogging wins IF you want to be searched out and found. Podcasts and Videocasts are what you serve up AFTER the reader gets there.

In short, nothing is better than the written word when it comes to wanting good search engine optimization.