Cameron Olthuis

Up to you to decided if I’m trying to fool you or not.

Submit Worthy - My homie Chris Winfield wrote a good post on Search Engine Land today about making your content submit worthy. Chris is a social media genius so when he says something just shut up and listen. The one-liner that stood out in his post was… “In order to be successful on social media news and bookmarking sites, you have to think like a typical power user”. This is so true and it’s so common sense it’s not even funny. It never ceases to amaze me the content people pass me for social media advice - the stuff that would never in a million years appeal to the 20 y/o geek who spends his lifeless life on Digg. Come on people, it’s not rocket science. If you want to be successful on social media sites you need to think like a 20 y/o nerd and what appeals to them.

SMX Social - I know I’ve already mentioned this but SMX Social is approaching quickly. You should come, it will be fun and you might even learn something too, and it will be fun. I can’t wait to show all my lush friends how we party SoCal style. Seriously guys, leave your panties at home cause we’re doing it proper. I’m especially calling you out party boy.

Hawaii - I’m going in a just a few short weeks. Can’t wait to surf, not that I don’t already do that everyday, but this is Hawaii, come on. I’m also going to the Kokua Festival… Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Mason Jennings…. wow, can’t wait. This also serves as my warning to Kala, watch out pretty boy, I’m coming for you.

I’m seriously turning off all news feeds right now. I’ve started to post like 5 different news stories here only to realize they’re all stupid April 1st jokes. I don’t want to be that idiot sucker who falls for them. PS, am I the only one who likes this song? No, that’s not a joke.

I wish I had a good joke for you or something but I don’t. But if I did, I’m sure it would make for some good linkbait and all 5 of my readers (4 of which are family) would link to it. I wrote about this strategy last year on the TLA blog and it works. Seriously though, even though most of these jokes are beyond lame and they’ve become increasingly easy to spot, people still eat it up and link to it like crazy. There is something about the April Fool’s Day joke that just gives the geek bloggers a chubby. Extra bonus if you sue or get sued.

Now excuse me while I start rolling these out for my clients

It’s another beautiful sunny morning here in San Diego…I seriously love this place. If you’re wondering what this ‘Coffee IV thing’ is all about, read here. There’s even a new category for it appropriately called ‘coffee‘.

WordPress 2.5 - I upgraded one of my sites (not this one) to WordPress 2.5 yesterday and I have to say I like it a lot. The most noticeable difference to me is the improved UI on the admin dashboard. The rest of my sites will be upgraded this week.

Kelly Slater - If you surf then you know what I’m talking about. This dude is simply an amazing athlete and continues to dominate his sport year-after-year. Kelly Slater’s legacy continues to grow with two wins (out of two) so far this year. He deserves to be mentioned among other greats who completely dominate their respective sports… Tiger Woods & Michael Jordan are a few that come to mind.

Yahoo Shine - Yahoo’s new women’s site caught my attention, mostly because I’m in the process of rolling out a women’s specific site myself, although mine’s way more vertical so there’s really no competition. Our favorite guy who we love to hate, Jason Calacanis, thinks they’re competing with their customers. Jason, where have you been bud? Yahoo’s been in the content business for MANY years now. This really isn’t much different than any of their other verticals… and yes they already have celeb gossip and tech verticals.

n00bs - My older brother has been here for the last week shadowing me to see if SEO is something he’d like to get into. I really enjoy teaching n00bs and watching them learn what I do - but only if they put a genuine effort into it. I’ve had a lot of friends/family ask me to teach them what I do and just about everyone of them has put 0 effort into… that’s frustrating and a waste of both people’s time. I’m down for teaching whoever but you better give it a solid effort or don’t bother. My brother who is here is super computer illiterate but it’s been fun because he’s giving it his all. If he sticks with it he’ll be good at it, we’ll see. On a side-note I find it very cliche that no one (friends/family) gave a damn about what I did for all those years I struggled to make it big - but now that I am somewhat successful they all want in.

That’s it folks. I’m on my last sip of greatness.

I’m starting something new on my blog. So every morning when I wake up, like many of you, the first thing I do is brew myself a nice cup of coffee. In fact, I’m pretty much to the point where I can’t function if I don’t have my coffee in the morning. I don’t just drink a cup either, I drink a bowl of it. Well, not really a bowl but the coffee mug I have is easily the size of a bowl and fits about 4 regular cups in it.

When I’m drinking my bowl of coffee it’s usually the time when I’ll skim through my feed reader, check analytics on my sites, or perhaps just sit outside and enjoy the San Diego sun. My coffee addiction is so bad I often joke that I need an IV of coffee hooked up… hence the name of this new series, ‘Coffee IV.’

So what I’m going to try and start doing is writing a post every morning (that I can) while I’m enjoying the deliciousness that is otherwise known as coffee. It will mostly just consist of random thoughts, interesting thing I find on my news binge, etc. Here goes…

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Goog referrals…

I love it when charts look like this. Been working with this client, who is also a good buddy, on SEO since Jan 1st.