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I Used To Have A Life now I Have An Internet One Seo Pro Is Also The Internet s Top Offbeat Cartoonist
as this ever happened to get too facinated or obsessed
you? You are washing dishes with anything that has any-thing
or feeding the dog, or to do with technology but I just
changing diapers or finishing a couldn't help myself.
term paper and suddenly, it's as
if your body has been taken over On the Internet, I could become
by what I now call the "Outlook whatever I wanted. Well, that is
Express Demon". I have to check what I thought anyway, until I
my email. Come on. Be honest. once read an insightful piece,
"Never make up a fib, especially
Ok that is not really the jest of on the Internet... the Internet
my story here. I want to write a will always find you out." And
bit about how the Internet those are really words to live
changed my life. I was not a very by. So I decided to go back to
good student growing up. I came college at age 48 and major in
from an upper-middle class family business information technology
in south Ms. I did not like being with an emphasis on e-commerce.
in an upper-middle class family I'm still there by the way and if
(at least mine), and I don't all goes well will finish next
think they particularly cared for year.
me being there either, but we all
put up with each other. I was But before the Internet, I was
expected to amount to something just another one of "America's
big. I was on my way there (to corporate layoffs"; mid-level
something big....not sure what, management with no golden
but I am sure it was big), and parachute. I knew I had to land
then I discovered the Internet. on my feet but how?
I had been warned by PHDs and It was 1997 and nobody wanted to
professors of technology not to hire a "Willie Lohman-type" 42
year old salesman. syndicate us. Then I opened a
clothing line and a private label
So I started my own cartoon cartoon gourmet coffee line. This
because I knew how to write week, after the phone wouldn't
funny. But oh, I forgot, I can't stop ringing (no kidding) to
draw that well. So I recruited a raise my seo, I decided to make
team of illustrators who took a business cards.
risk with me and guess what?
I have other ecommerce sites and
(Shameless bragging rights); Our a few more opening, but they seem
cartoon became the top to take a life of their own and
independent cartoon site on the it is automatic cash flow. I like
Internet according to Alexa and that. I was a starving writer for
Netcraft and in the top 100k of a very long time. Now I'm a
ANY genre websites. Not bad for a neurotic comfortable writer who
rookie, eh? But a little secret. thinks at any minute he will
I learned about organic seo just forget his skills and go back to
when it was beginning. So rather being a starving writer who at
than make a living at it, which least is not neurotic.
would have been a very good one,
I decided to focus it on my own But I am also a third year 52
cartoon site. It gets about 4000 year old (serious) business
hits per hour or 6.5 million hits student at one of the best
since Jan. 2005. business colleges in the country
(more shameless self-promotion)
Then I opened a cartoon but I say that for a reason. I do
superstore with a manufacturer have fun with the cartoons and
who produces and distributes my e-stores, and now my Affiliate
products. Then Blish, the top toolblog and such, but I
content syndicator decided to seriously love helping others
(especially those who have had have met them if not for the
the awful experience of "quick Internet and really learning
result" SEO and then their search engine optomization.
letdown (Google hates that stuff
as do other engines); and when I There are a lot of folks out
show them how to be patient and there that call themselves SEMs
let me do my work, they laugh (Search Engine Marketers). They
(all the way to the bank). And I claim to be experts and many are.
love making people laugh and they But when they solicit me I always
tend to laugh more when they have go to the analytical ]\ sites and
money in the bank. At least that see their own site history. Nine
has been my experience. times out of ten they are not
even on the Alexa or Netcraft
So somewhere along the road map. That tells you something. My
rarely traveled (on my way to original website, that I launched
being big for sure), I discovered before affiliate programs, seo,
the Internet and I am happy as a ppc or anything else but banner
lark helping others with their ads existed, has remained on the
seo and even have a super Alexa top 200k since 2005 and
affiliate program for those who Netcraft Top 100k since about the
like my cartoon products. I'm same date.
having fun on the Internet, and
to be fair and honest, I have met In other words (he humbly added),
many of the people in real life "I think I might be doing
(people who have enriched my something right for a change!"
life) and I probably never would
About the Author:
Rick London is a 52 year old student, e-entrepreneur, freelance cartoonist and writer, SEM, and jack of all trades. http://www.londonstimes.us
http://www.seostreetsmarts.com
http://www.londonstimessuperstore.com
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