SEO 2.0

A Guide for Online Leadership

Photo Credit: Carf 

These are the things I learned:

Share everything

Play fair

Don’t hit people

Put things back where you found them

Clean up your own mess

Don’t take things that aren’t yours

Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody

Wash your hands before you eat

Flush

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon

When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together

Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK

Understand that SEO 2.0 is really just going back to your childhood

Many thanks to Robert Fulghum for the inspiration and Happy New Year to all from SEO 2.0

This is a guest post by Lid from BlogWell

You might not be interested in succeeding with social media.

Boosting traffic, being bookmarked, getting new visitors, increasing RSS subscribers and AdSense revenues might all conflict with your blog’s growth plan.  If you prefer to stay away from this hype and grow organically, follow this procedure that I named: The Bonsai Blogging Strategy; results are almost guaranteed.

Bonsai Blogging is the art of miniaturizing traffic by blogging into an isolated container.  This method has proven to be efficient for stopping growth, allowing you to fail with dignity.

The Bonsai method is not yet available in ebook, however there is a serious project of mentorship currently under writing.  Just as a teaser, here’s some guidelines to help you implement Bonsai Blogging.

Register To Social Media Sites

This may sound contradictory, but yes, the very first step would be to register multiple accounts at some of the most popular social media sites.  I insist on multiple accounts because we will use this strategy later to boost the votes of our stories.  Start your registration process with the following sites:

Digg
StumbleUpon
Del.icio.us
Sphinn
Mixx

Submit ALL Your Own Posts

Ok, you are now ready to start mass submitting your content.  From now on, each time you publish a new article, whether it is junk or not, you will submit it to the sites listed above with your master account, i.e. the first one you created.  This is important because we want to make sure to leave clear evidence of the Bonsai pattern.  Then, logout and log back in with your other accounts and vote your stories like hell. 

The more accounts you have, the better chances you have to reach your Bonsai goal.

Submit Only Your Posts

Now please, pay attention here.  The whole concept of social media sites resides in the fact that you are “socializing”.  Do you think this fits well with the Bonsai?  Not at all.  If by mistake you submit someone else’s post, the person might return the favour, and this would seriously compromise your goal. 

This is true for your entire network of social media user accounts.  See, your blog is like the Sun and your accounts the planets gravitating around.  Just make sure they keep turning around your blog focusing on your own posts.  Remember, content is king, and so are you, so just submit your own material.

Remove Social Media Widgets

Have you tried, or worse, installed the ShareThis WordPress Plugin?  If so, get rid of it, now!   This gives you enormous potential at your fingertips.  It’s probably the best social media plugin available, linking your readers to most of the top social media submission pages.  Installation is a piece of cake and you can even customize the colour palette so that it fits your blog’s theme. 

Bad, very bad for Bonsai.

Beware of Power Submitters

When reading digg’s front page, don’t pay attention to Top Diggers.  These persons are known to be trustable sources for submitting content to social media sites.  StumbleUpon calls them Top Stumlbers.  Imagine the damage these persons could do to your work.

Because they are recognized as Power Submitters, everything they submit gets more attention simply because it’s coming from them. You should neither contact them nor add them as your friends.  To stay away from Power Submitters, I recommend doing the complete opposite as what’s being said in this article from Maki at Dosh Dosh: How to Influence Powerful Social Media Users for Traffic and Attention.

Unsubscribe from SEO 2.0

The Bonsai Blogging Strategy goes in a totally opposite direction than the great tips you would find here on Tad’s SEO 2.0 blog.  If you follow my mentorship I promise you will fail with dignity, and once you are done, why would you need Tad’s expertise anymore?

Finally, if you need proof that submitting your own content could get you banned, I recommend reading the following article: Ever Stumbled Your Own Post?

This Guest Post was submitted by Patrick from Piggy Bank Pie.  If you are looking for guest or ghostwriting services, visit Piggy Bank Pie’s Writing Services.

I don’t live in a house, town, province, or country anymore.  I live in the blogosphere.

I don’t belong to an ethnic group, profession, religion, orientation, political affiliation, interest group, or educational background.  I’m a citizen of the blogosphere.

I don’t write E-mails, make phone calls, or write letters anymore.  The blogosphere is my communication medium and my blogs are transmitters.

These three statements that I’ve written above are, of course, false.  I do have a home, a family, a job, and I have a number of attributes which came to me either by birth or by chance.  Yet, in some virtual or idealistic way, I shed these physical trappings and exist as an independent soul in the blogosphere (or cyberspace, or the ‘Net, or the Web, or whatever else you want to call this medium).

I decided early in the process of becoming a blogger that I wasn’t going to make a big fuss about my background, my geographic location, or personal situation (with one notable exception that I devote a second blog to).  I’ve noticed that a few (or more than a few ) of my fellow Canadians or Maritimers (that term refers to people who live in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island)  strongly identify themselves with their home geography.  There are a number of blog directories, groups, or blogrolls for people who live in Canada.  I’ve been a member of one or two of them.  They’re full of good people and they write good stuff. 

My focus is a bit different, however.  I’m aiming my blog at the English-speaking world (or the entire English-speaking blogosphere, whichever you prefer).  Don’t get me wrong.  I like where I live and I take a certain pride in being associated with my home country.  A potential market of over 30 million people is nothing to sneeze at.

However…  I think I can successfully communicate and entertain a much broader audience.  I’m estimating this audience to include about 1 billion people (assuming they can read English).  By limiting my on-line identity to the specifics of my physical life, am I limiting my potential audience and my potential range of topics that I can write on?  I don’t know, but I worry that I might.

My goal is to write about thoughts and ideas that might interest everyone or anyone.  Yes, that’s a pretty big challenge.  It might be impossible.  However, I feel that if I represent myself as a citizen of the blogosphere, rather than a specific cultural or interest group, I stand a better chance of appealing to a large audience of people.  Isn’t this what Web 2.0 and social media is about – the ability to communicate freely, flexibly, and broadly?  Haven’t many of the historical barriers and boundaries that hindered communication fallen as the democratizing forces of globalization and Web technologies have spread?

By thinking of myself as a citizen of the blogosphere, I attempt to set my biases and preconceptions aside.  I attempt to communicate simply and clearly to a potentially huge audience.  There is no doubt that my knowledge, experiences, and environment not only shape my writing, they will appear in my writings.  That’s fine and it’s certainly useful.  I just don’t want my cultural programming to limit who I talk to or what I say.

So, welcome, fellow citizen of the blogosphere.  Got any ideas that you want to share?  I sure do.

This is a guest article by Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman is an IT professional who really enjoys writing about cool stuff. He broadcasts from his brain several times each week at The Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog while trying to address the questions and needs of introverts at The Mighty Introvert.

Do you remember the bad guy from the early James Bond movies? The one with the white cat? Blofeld was his name. If you really want to become a popular blogger you must aim for world domination! Imagine yourself to impersonate the typical villain 007 fights against. What do you need to make a global audience aware of your evil plans?

I strongly recommend not to use nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction the typical movie villain would use. You still want to keep your audience and not to annihilate it do you?

So you have to use tactics to capture the imagination of a global audience that are less destructive while at the same time as spectacular. Also remember that your message must spread globally. In order to achieve this you have to take heed to several aspects of online publishing that others can ignore. Most notably you have to break down language barriers.

English
Write in English. This might be obvious to you if you already write in English or rather if you can only write in English in the first place but for non-native speakers like myself it isn’t. Germany is a very tough place to blog. Most people do not take blogs seriously and blogging is very limited due to laws similar to China. For instance you are not allowed to blog anonymously anymore. You are forced to give away your street address etc. so many bloggers have already been targeted by lawyers or some even by fascists.

A German court ruling even says that you are not allowed to publish comments on blogs before checking them for illegal activities like potential slander.

That said the German blogosphere is small and not really beautiful. If you blog in German you are quite lucky if you have more than 100 subscribers or more than 500 visitors a day. The local social media isn’t of much help either.
Besides the fact that while you have around 100 million potential readers you only reach thousands if you’re lucky in German you won’t even reach the people a few miles away behind the border. For instance I live and work in Berlin, one hour away by car from Poland. Nobody will read your blog in Poland if you write it in German. So if you want to write for an global audience you have to write in English.

Plain English
This might be evident too but while most of you will imagine to write in plain English already most of you aren’t. I did American Studies in college and started learning English back in fifth grade so my English is quiet good by now, but still I do not understand everything people write. Plain means you should use

• short sentences,
• simple words like do, have, is
• no idioms, “dark horse” is one, everybody will wonder why you write about horses
• no colloquial language, like with idioms, colloquial language is even more of a problem, a while ago I had to look up what “crack me up” means
• no omissions, instead of writing “hybrid” you have to write “hybrid car” as outside of the US most people won’t even know what a hybrid is

Read a novel by Paul Auster to see how plain English is used to convey complex meaning.

Translation
encourage translation by writing in English, plain English and expressing gratitude towards those who translate your postings. In fact some of my posts have been translated in multiple languages and I am very proud of it. The last one to be translated was the SEO vs SEO 2.0 comparison. It’s available in Spanish, Polish and Portuguese by now.

Images
The use of images can effectively bridge any language barriers. This might be the most obvious thing but if you have an image in your post even a visitor who does not really understand English might wonder what it is about and translate it.

Open mindedness
While the Bush administration only agrees with Iran on the death penalty and that nuclear weapons are vital for self defense Iran and Iranians are vilified to an extent I remember from my history lessons about world war II. I do not buy into this. Iranians are people like us or rather they are even more friendly than we are it seems.

SEO 2.0 was twice on the front page of Iranian Digg Balatarin. If you want to be read all over the world you can’t ignore the cultural differences while acknowledging that we are all part of the same human “race”. You have to be open minded enough to accept difference as something valuable.

Topics
Choose topics that unite people all over the world, topics that matter all over the world. Arts, photography, peace, love, astronomy, technology and yes money are just a few of them. I even sometimes “read” Iranian Web 2.0 blogs.

International social media
Do not limit yourself to English only social media like Digg. On Digg non-English sites fail They are buried and banned. We have very strong social media in Spanish, French or Polish and these will also feature English posts. A front page appearance on Polish Wykop for instance can bring you more than 10.000 visitors although Poland has roughly a population of 40 million (I count poles abroad like myself too).

Do not ignore the rest of the world while publishing online or blogging! It does not make sense. The Internet is hailed as one of the positive driving forces of globalization while it’s becoming more and more nation or language oriented again, partly due to Google promoting local results from each country.

You must be a citizen of the world to aim for world domination! Conquer the world without nuclear weapons. Fascinate the people with what matters most to them, universal human values.

Btw. did you know that I will conquer the world and enslave the global population with my advanced SEO 2.0 hypnosis? Meeeooow!

How to manage your daily routine with a schedule that enhances productivity and makes you as happy as possible

Did you know that researchers found out people shouldn’t work more than 4 hours a day as their productivity diminishes if they work more? In capitalism sadly we are far from achieving this ideal. In fact so called progress made us work more and more and longer hours in recent years. Despite automation being introduced in more and more areas people are forced to do more work to survive.

It’ not only the young girls who assemble your iPods in China in a 60h work week for the Chinese minimum wage. It’s also you who sits in front of the screen all day. This won’t last forever, as this unfair system is inherently flawed and based on some people being excessively rich, while most others are struggling to survive to some degree. Here in Germany for instance the middle class is melting down while the number of working poor skyrockets. At the same time the filthy rich get richer.

So the money is distributed more and more unequally. Accordingly the time is distributed in a similar manner. As time is money you will surely also notice that you have less time for your family, friends or your rue interests.

As we can’t just go away to some other planet and I guess Cuba is not an option for most of us we have to deal with this situation.

Being a freelancer, and not a wage slave who as slave master who will force you into submission, you are your own slave master.

You have to force yourself everyday to leave your family, friends and real interests to go to work.

I struggled for years with doing that. Now after more than 5 years of being a freelancer and more than 3 working full time on my own I have found ways to be a good slave master and to enhance my productivity with a daily routine that both motivates me and makes me more efficient while not making me a dumb robot only performing tasks for the sake of money.

I want my work to make me as happy as possible even as I acknowledge that family, friends and other “real” not monetary interests are solely able to make you truly happy. Unless you’re Bhagwan/Osho who got rich by healing rich westerners. In this case the pursuit of happiness was part of the work I guess. So here we go:

1. Start early, do not sleep until 10AM or your day will be messed up already, it was tough for me, but I learned to get up in the morning. If you have kids you have to wake up early, so at least then you learn. In Berlin many freelancers work at night though.
2. Do a work out, go for a jog or take your kids to school before work. You need contact with yourself and your body and also with other human beings before starting to work, ideally the beloved ones.
3. Work at an office, do not work at home if you can afford it. Walk or go by public transportation to your office. Look at the surroundings or read something to wake up.
4. At the office: Read the news at first. Start with general news or news not directly connected to your trade. Researchers have found out, that you need to know what’s going on in the world for a stable identity. Don’t read everything about wars, catastrophies and misery though as this might make you go suicidal.
5. Do something creative at first, for instance blogging. On days where I do not write a blog entry, I lose motivation. Do not start with checking and replying your emails.
6. Start with the nicer and easier tasks. I do web analytics, ranking checks and ego surfing for myself and my clients at first. I guess that stats are boring for many of you or not easy to look at so you have to think about something that fits for yourself.
7. Check your emails before going to lunch. Just sort them. Sort them accordingly to priority and which ones need a reply which not. Reply only to those that need an immediate response and make it short, do not spend more than 30 minuets to do that. The rest of them must wait until evening.
8. Go out for lunch. I mean go in the sense of take a walk preferably. It’s very important that you take a walk as sitting at a desk all day is not very healthy as you can probably guess. If you don’t move a little at least once a day your body will retaliate. Read a newspaper before or after eating. Do not read industry news as your mind needs a break too.
9. Now after you finished lunch start with the most difficult tasks. Those that need your attention most. Try to perform those tasks for at least 2h in a row, better 3 or 4 with just standing up from time to time to move a little. Some people might argue that it’s best done before lunch. Yes it does, depending on what type you are. You have to decide yourself.
10. Now pause and surf the web for half an hour, or better engage in some social media activities, especially if you have no one else to talk with at your office.
11. Now, at the evening you can reply to your emails, make the paper work and all the other boring and annoying stuff.

• Eat and drink all the time. Researchers have found out that the body absorbs nutrition best if you have something like 6 to 8 meals a day. Of course that’s too much to cope with so just eat all the time, each time you sense appetite or thirst.
• Get up, stand up. Do not sit all the time. Move a little from time to time.
• Switch off all the annoyances like instant messengers while you are at your main or most difficult and creative tasks.

Now you might ask, does it work for you? For me it works. It’s not perfect, but I’m not bankrupt or insane yet. So apparently it’s OK.

You can’t trick capitalism completely this way though. Of course you will be tired afterwards as well and sometimes you will think that you can enhance your productivity by skipping the reading of the news, going out for lunch, taking a walk and similar parts, but it doesn’t work. You’ll degenerate after a while. You can’t live without having a body or identity.

Ventriloquists? Yes. Beware of the attack of the ventriloquists!

• They are everywhere.
• They are spooky.
• They have power.
• Supernatural powers in a way.
• Some of the are politicians,
• some of them artists and magicians it seems.
• They’re on YouTube,
• they’re on Google, they’re hot.
• They’re ventriloquists.

Ventriloquists are spooky because they speak without moving their lips.

It’s as if someone else is in the room who you can’t see. How can that be? That’s intriguing, isn’t it? Who does not want to meet or even be a ventriloquist by now after I described them in such a great manner?

Do you want to know why I refer to the ventriloquist technique? I’ll explain tomorrow below. For today now suffice it to know: I’m not Tad, I’m a ventriloquist. I’m the voice from his gut! So beware! As you see ventriloquists are seemingly everywhere lately, even here.

Andrew of Local SEO Guide wrote about taking advantage of Google hot trends to get some additional traffic, just click the “explain” link above. I tried with the term ventriloquist, which was #6 yesterday but overlooked that the term has over 1 million search results at Google.com so you can’t rank that quickly for it.

Why did it overlook it? I wrote this at night and overlooked one digit so it appeared to be 100 thousands not 1 million…

This way it didn’t work. It was fun anyways.

Orwellian Newspeak is abundant nowadays. We speak about “collateral damage”, “ethnic cleansings” or “human resources”.

In SEO/SEM we have also terms like this. Quality traffic is an abominable term which for most marketers means something like visitors who are interested in your subject matter, stay on your site for a while and at best buy something. Nothing ugly here you think?

Well, I prefer to treat others and be treated like myself like a real human being.

It’s the same story with link bait, a term I despise, as your visitors are not fish.

So what’s the underlying problem here? Isn’t it just a term like dozens of others in SEO nobody else would understand anyways? Well, no. It’s a word that shows that you don’t care who or rather what your visitors are. They are human beings, not numbers and certainly not amorph traffic. What’s really most despicable about this term is the “quality”.

Quality is such a nice word, isn’t it? No! Not here. I’m not a fucking product to buy or sell, I’m not a slave on the Web 2.0 market to be priced and sold!

So do not talk about my quality! I was a linguist and poet before turning SEO so I still care for language and the usage of words. Some of you might wonder how come I express myself so clumsily then at times. Well, English is my third language. Polish was first, my mother tongue, German was second and then came English. So from this point of view my English is great! Besides I also learned Spanish and French but I suck at both, c’est la vie.

So what’s the point of this? You should treat your audience like real people, like human beings not numbers. You should visualize them, treat them like real human beings made of flesh and blood. Also you should strive to make them your friends. Not in the loose Web 2.0 sense of “adding friends”.

You really should befriend them or at least you should make them feel like the

• mothers,
• Americans,
• dreamers,
• farmers,
• Buddhists,
• bloggers

they are. In many cases they are many of those at once.

I hate it when people treat me like an SEO, or rather like the cliche of an SEO they know.

They don’t know anything about me personally, but they label me already somewhere along the lines of beggars and terrorists.

In SEO 2.0 you harness the power of people’s compassion. To do that you must accept as and treat them like human beings not numbers.

Then there is a hierarchy like in real life outside the family. You have

1. mentors,
2. friends,
3. partners,
4. colleagues,
5. acquaintances,
6. guests,
7. clients,
8. casual visitors,
9. strangers.

So to succeed online, like in real life, you need to classify your visitors and other people you “meet” online.

You probably notice that clients are very low in this hierarchy. Imagine yourself to be a book shop owner sitting all day in his shop. Who do you want to sell something? Your mentors, friends, partners, colleagues? Unless you’re into Amway you probably will not target them specifically.

So let’s categorize the people who visit your blog according to this hierarchy:

1. mentors - people who are leading in their area of expertise and you look up to, Danny Sullivan, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Maki of Dosh Dosh e.g. in my case
2. friends - fellow bloggers like Fred, Shana or Pearl who I often cooperate with
3. partners - people who not always share your interests or preferences but work together with you like Wayne
4. colleagues - people who do the same work as you, other SEO bloggers e.g
5. acquaintances - people I will encounter a few times on StumbleUpon, Sphinn or Pownce
6. guests - people who will visit me and we chat a little, other bloggers
7. clients - people I have only money relations with, I also have money relations with some of the above though, but this is important to see that clients are usually treated like being very low in this hierarchy (this is not to say that they should be treated like that), SEO company represenatatives
8. casual visitors - they won’t talk to you, they are just there, stumblers
9. strangers - you won’t even notice them most of the time, Google visitors

Successful blogging is about talking to strangers. You should make them feel like your friends though without feigning it.

So let’s take a second look at the hierarchy:

1. mentors - Aaron Wall or Maki visits my site, I rol out the red carpet
2. friends - fellow bloggers I really appreciate visit me, I offer my best sweets and some refreshments
3. partners - I am respectful but I don’t say yes just to be friendly
4. colleagues - I am polite and helpful
5. acquaintances - I say hello
6. guests - I smile
7. clients - I ask “can I help you?”
8. casual visitors - I make eye contact (difficult but not impossible on the Net today)
9. strangers - I may ignore them or not

Now this sounds a little like a status quo. Now you have to promote each kind person visiting you to the next level. So I make eye contact with strangers, I ask casual visitors if I can help them and I smile at my clients, saying hello. At best I talk to strangers.

You do not have enough red carpets for all of them but many more than in real life. Make your visitors your friends!

Blog monetization without alienating your audience is a very difficult task. It’s no secret, you probably already know that I would like to go problogging on my own full time at SEO 2.0 if I could.

Right now I earn my money mostly with SEO 1.0 client work which is rather tedious and repetitive.

Basically it’s still fun, but I have outgrown this pair of shoes! They do not fit anymore. Although I also offer SEO 2.0 services like “blog boosting” where I will set up a blog for you, write the content for it and make it known, so in the end you have a 100/100/1000 after three months. 100 subscribers, 100 Technorati authority and 1000 visitors daily. If a blog reaches this point it can survive without me or thrive with a little assistance of mine.

I want to be completely independent though. Now today I checked my RSS subscriber stats. I have already almost 350 of them, or rather of you. So now I have a question for you: If you could get more of SEO 2.0 than you get now, would you be willing to pay for a premium subscription? If you would have to pay 10$ a month for more content, exclusive premium content, delivered via email?

Already my idea is taking shape very fast so I have by now some tools and methods on my mind how to both accomplish this and make my premium subscribers feel it’s worth it. And do you know what? In fact it’s ridiculously easy. In order to satisfy you, my premium subscriber, I can easily guarantee you a return on investment of 200%! You only need to earn 20$ a month due to reading the premium version of SEO 2.0 to make it happen.

Basically if all of my subscribers would make this commitment right now I would get 3500$ a month just for blogging. That’s even enough to feed me and my family in Germany. I could quit my client work right away! Oh no! I forgot that my clients read my blog too! No, of course not nearly 100% of my subscribers would do that. I guess 10% would be realistic. I would rather need at least 50% to pay the 10$ to make SEO 2.0 not really profitable but to make it worth it.

So I want to get some feedback from you, would you be willing to pay the 10$ for some premium content delivered daily 5 times a week? Just imagine: I manage this blog with more or less 2h per day (if I write a post), not counting my social media activities and my stats addiction, I would spend the time anyways. Of course you noticed that I did not write every day last week (only twice, that really sucks!). So imagine I could write for 2, 4, 6h daily!

So please comment or write me an email to onreact at onreact.com if you would invest 10$ monthly. I want to know how many people already would now.

Due to popular demand, 5 votes, I now present to you the 15 most important differences between SEO and SEO 2.0.

They are 15 because 10 were just not enough.

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It’s consise but it’s clear enough I hope. SEO 2.0 rules!

Am I paranoid? Probably. Nonetheless, what I see at Mixx currently is exactly what I would expect at Digg. Of course on Digg you wouldn’t see it, as there the bury brigade can destroy the community while hiding behind anonymity. I would only see the consequences. Not at Mixx though.

Today I want to introduce to you the typical social media loser-abuser who destroys the community, any community, but I really support Mixx so I won’t sit still and do nothing about it this time.

In fact as negative votes or buries are displayed at Mixx you can look up who buried you. At first I thought that I will just reverse my usual social media strategy of being friendly to those who vote for you, blog about you, or support you otherwise online. I thought I will just bury their stuff too if they bury me for no apparent reason but it didn’t work out, I’ll tell you why.

First, let me tell you a little about me once again so that people can’t dismiss this too easily:

I am an online publisher for more than 10 years by now. I was very active in online literature, media activism, politics, avantgarde, web development etc. etc. long before starting to do SEO in 2004.

I explain that because people tend to see the word “SEO” and then cease to think showing signs of something you could call online road rage.

SEO? Most people who hate it do not get it, either they’re ignorant or they’re Internet newbies so they will attack people who explain SEO to others instead of, say, criticise wacky SEOs (many of whom exist and I criticise too).

I contributed to multiple mailing lists, forums, websites, ezines, blogs, web 2.0 communities of all kinds for free for ten years. So people who assume I am some kind of parasite because I do SEO, and SEO equals Spam for those slow minded people, couldn’t be more wrong.

I contributed more to the Net of altruistic motives and still do than they will manage too in the next 50 years.

Now many people will still be quick to judge me thinking something like “he’s only in it for SEO and submits only his own stuff etc.”. Well, it’s the other way around. I submit non-SEO stuff, mostly art, photography and news while I rarely submit my own stories, did once I think because someone submitted a page which stole my content so I submitted the original.

Nonetheless I admit on my user page that I am a SEO so that there nobody can say I’m sneaky or something. I’m more like a doctor. I’m a doctor without practicing medicine at Mixx

That said now I want to present to you the typical “I bury you for no reason”-social media loser-abuser at Mixx or rather 7 typical traits of such a person:

1. Does not contribute to Mixx, has either no stories submitted, or predominantly his own.
2. Most of the social media abusers at Mixx have very low and insignificant numbers of Karma Points, around or below 50. In contrast I have already above 400 after just a week of contributing.
3. Has more stories buried than voted up or more or less the same number of both.
4. Buries stories without any reason given. Whenever I bury everything I will comment why I did it: For instance: Stolen content, duplicate, abusive, advertising.
5. Does not comment and in most cases has no avatar.
6. Will bury several stories of mine in a row, although they have different sources and topics
7. Has no friends on Mixx or if he has, he only has those he befriended but none or very few followers.

Now that said you probably think it happened at most two or three times. I can’t be that bad. But no, I just picked out 5 most recent social media loser-abusers who damage Mixx’s reputation and community. All of them started burying me yesterday.

Now what does this sound like? Sabotage? Are you paranoid? or are Digg users swarming in to destroy another community after they fucked Digg? I see plenty of them at StumbleUpon already. They abuse mostly female bloggers btw.

Now don’t get wrong, if those people change their destructive behaviour and start to contribute I won’t have a problem with them, but as of now they have to be exposed as the abusers they are before they destroy the nascent Mixx community which is by now still full of beautiful people I highly respect.

Here are the 5 Mixx lose-abusers of yesterday:

maestro: 17 Karma Points; Submitted 1 (a Google Maps pic of a huge phallus)
Voted against 4 of my stories in a row: While a dumb pic of a huge phallus seem to be OK, he does not like a satirical art video where aliens abduct cows. He does not like a story from Israel’s Haaretz about Bush lying, not admitting that the Iranians have ceased their nuclear weapons program back in 2003. He also hates a hugy ducky on display in a European harbor, an oustanding art piece. Last but not least he hates female lips.

alakazam:1 Karma Point; Submitted 0; Voted Up 1 (A story about Digg); Voted Against (more than a dozen)
He hates art or giant ducks, unable to explain why.

StatiK: 58 Karma Points; Submitted 8 (5 of them his own forum featuring some dumb “fun” videos)
This guy is really prolific, he buries so many stories I had to view several pages to find mine of 3 days ago. He buried 4 submission of mine in a row, 3 of them art submissions and one a hugely popular activist website and video, The Story of Stuff. I do not expect everybody to appreciate art the way I do, but 4 in a row?

kbilling2: 7 Karma Points; Submitted 0
He does not like a story at Salon.com about Bush lying, this time pretending to offer negotiations to Iran

drew.streib: 14 Karma Points; Submitted 0;
Does not like lips, or does he hate women or art photography? Sadly he didn’t bother to explain what was wrong with my “Lips” submission.

So you guys, go back to your caves or Digg or whatever but stop destroying Mixx you bastards! If you’re unable to contribute, stop sabotaging Mixx! Just go away!

Even if those guys are not paid by Kevin Rose himself they are exactly the breed I already expected to appear on Mixx sooner or later. Such people make the Digg experience so obnoxious. Don’t let them diggify Mixx! Please!

PS.: Of course I looked the guys up at Digg. While some have completely anonymous profile names others can be found on Digg as well.