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At my recent blogging/SEO seminar I went to great pains to explain what I called “the dark side of blogging”.

In a nutshell, I tried to explain my own personal experiences of how when writing and publishing under your own name can have huge benefits, it can also attract the attention of people with a lower IQ who can not only misinterpret your innocent and honest ramblings but also use the personal information you provide to attack you.

This is most serious, and one of the reasons I toned down my initial enthusiasm to talk about my family on here. It was used against me in the vilest of fashions by what I can only refer to a “scum”.

On top of that, I’ve also had to put up with online attacks from other SEO “professionals” hiding behind twitter anonymity. (If you are reading this: I know who you are. All the negative energy you are throwing out is coming right back ‘atcha, you fool).

It’s a real shame, because most of the people who read this are wonderful, caring and often brilliant. If you’re one of them I can only apologise for the fact that I’ve had to censor myself.

This morning, I had the joy of reading yet another brilliant and hilarious post from the mind of Drayton Bird. Take a look at it here.

Read it yet?

The funny thing about that post is that the author of the blog in question was at my seminar.

I did warn you

P.S. To find Drayton’s blog, I googled him and found an amusing lesson in SEO. Does Drayton realise he has optimised one of his pages for the phrase “Drayton Bird Ass“, I wonder?

I know it’s probably short for “associates” dear reader (or maybe there’s a whole other side to Drayon I’ve not seen yet?), but it does also bring up another point: don’t have too many characters in your page title. When you see the “…” at the end of a page title in google results, that means that page is not optimised (which is often a great indicator of how easy a market is to break into).