Broadcasting Brain

Catch the Brainwaves is our ongoing series of interviews with a variety of folks participating in blogging and social media. I ask them ten questions and they respond with their brilliant answers and insights! Today’s Q&A features the uncanny SexySEO!

1. Why do you use Blogger as your platform instead of a more powerful platform?
It seems you are a bit prejudiced against Blogger, and I have my own prejudices too. sexyseo.blogspot.com was set up as part of an experiment with an aim to test LZZR’s theory about Web 2.0 SEO. In his own words “… Web 2.0 SEO isn’t about unique content at all. It’s about social interaction in online communities.” So it wasn’t really a question which platform to use. I decided to use Blogspot as my primary home on the net since it’s one of the oldest blogging platforms with very simple interface and it gets spidered quick (and no wonder, it’s owned by Google, mind you).

2. If you could live in a different country, which one would it be and why?
I think that I know why this Q was asked. Hm… I would prefer to rephrase this Q and go straight to the point: Where do you live? It’s #4 in my list of top asked questions. It was terribly annoying at first but after some little thought I realised that this wasn’t about “how I can get you in real life?” but rather about “who are you?”, “let me know you better!” I’m quite happy to live online where I could easily interact with all sorts of Internet users within different online communities who are located in all sorts of different countries. No borders there, (except “walled gardens” – I don’t like them), I’m absolutely free to talk about what interests me and the most important I could build my own happy place.

3. You seem to be quite active on Sphinn. What value do you get from Sphinn?
Networking and most importantly the current knowledge of mainstream SEO. Not much more, really with all due respect to Dunny.

4. Do you think that a woman could be successful on the Web if she went by the name RepulsiveSEO and used pictures of an old hag as her avatar?
5. By the same token, do you think a man could be successful on the Web if he went by the name RepulsiveSEO and used an ugly man’s picture as his avatar?
I would join these two Q in one: could you be successful on the Web with ugly avatar and nick? My answer is YES, but it will take a little bit longer and of course it’s a pain.

6. Do believe in life on other planets? Why or why not?
Yes, I do believe, believe because a thought that it is only on the Earth that life has occurred is too painful for me.

7. What makes a blog good?
I’ll answer not as a SEO but as an ordinary user: it should be at the right place and at the right time and the most important thing it should be unique in every single detail: visual, verbal, contextual and generate a large amount of positive feedback. I will reveal my little secret – the first page of any blog I read is not the homepage but… “About”. The author(s) is the driving force behind any blog. You have to be pretty cool to attract people to read what you actually write and it’s not easy. It’s personality after all.

8. Are social media and social news providing more than entertainment value?
The real value is defined by user depending on his/her circumstances and intentions. So if you want to be entertained, you will be, even reading stock exchange news.

9. Pretend the Internet is destroyed overnight. What do you do the next morning?
Have my sleep out and after that I’ll just sit down in my thinking chair and think, think, think about the Ideal Web3.0 how it should look like and work. And definitely I’ll try not to loose such a wonderful opportunity to start building a completely new Internet structure from the scratch.

10. What one piece of knowledge, advice, or wisdom do you have to share with our readers?
Because it’s SEO blog and most of readers are SEOs (ED:  it is?  they are?) I would give a small advice: be more sensitive, interested in global problems of the Internet and become an active and influential part of all the newest trends. You, my dearest SEOs are smart enough to have your own vision of how the Internet will look in the third millennium. Make your opinion counted!

Thanks to SexySEO for sharing her brainwaves!

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