Ten Questions with Danielle of Pink Internet Marketing

1. Describe your blog in five sentences or less.
Random, overly enthusiastic, and even whimsical at times, my blog is anything but serious, because funny is better than dull and utterly silly is better than stern. An all around link love blog where I promote sites on a whim, I give links away in the spirit of Pink Hat SEO. I always respond to my comments, and like a nosy neighbor who always has to peek over the fence into your yard, my blog is always “alive” and sure to come visit yours.

2. Link us to one post from your blog that best defines who you are.
I wrote this post with myself in mind – thinking what would it be like to date me at this point in my life and what the poor fellow have to put up with. I pity the fool.

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3. What sets you apart from other bloggers?
My “blogging attention deficit disorder” is what really sets me apart from most bloggers. I have changed my blog design about 10 times in 3 months, and post on topics such as Google PR, my unsent love letter to Prince William and my scooter. I would like to say that this is because I am a “renaissance woman” but I know it is because I jump to new thoughts and ideas without any regard for the ones I had previously. I am constantly forming new opinions, and devising new plots, and hopefully that is enough to make my blog special.

4. When and how did you first discover blogging?
I had tried blogging over the past few years, and it was about as interesting to me as speed skating. Last March when I entered a search engine optimization contest, I started blogging to help grow my site. About one month into this it dawned on me that I was really enjoying myself, and since then I have been having a sweet love affair with my blog, and now I want to post “I love my blog” on 1 Million Love Messages.

5.What is your biggest pet peeve related to blogging or the internet?
Having my content scraped or stolen. Just imagine my dismay at seeing my great post about promoting yourself on Yahoo! Answers on someone else’s blog with a comment from the lead designer at Yahoo! Answers thanking the blog’s owner for writing the article. This blog linked to me, but did not clarify that the link was to the author of the post. Keeping in mind that I am a big fan of search engines in general and their associated products, imagine how much more exciting it would have been if Yahoo! staff had commented on my blog.

6. Name one plugin, blogging widget, or service that you can’t live without.
I would probably go on living regardless of plugins, widgets or services, and I would also go on blogging without them. But if I had to be dramatic about it, I would likely say I could not live without Google products like Analytics and Webmaster Central. I love being able to see how my blog was found and what keywords I show up for in the search engines, and I love seeing how Google crawls my site and what it “thinks” about what I am doing.

7. If you could choose anyone, living or dead, to write a guest post for your blog,who would it be and why?
I would like to see my mother or father do aguest blog post for me. Partly because I am interested in what they would post on my blog, and mostly because it would be funny as they would hate every second of it and apparently I am evil. If they did a guest blog post on my blog it would mean that pigs could fly, and I have always wanted to see that too. Tell you what, if I ever go to the emergency room because I crashed my scooter, I will make that happen, because how could they say no to me then.

8. How has blogging made you a better person?
I don’t believe that people can become better, they just become different, and I further believe that we are constantly in a state of becoming. With that said, blogging has not made me nicer or more conscious of the world around me, however it is helping me get over this ultra shy and nervous phase I appear to be going through. And though this does not make me a better person, it does make me feel better about myself.

9. What are your tips for becoming a better blogger?
Post what interests you, not what interests others because your readers can tell the difference between what is genuine and what is contrived. The rest is just gravy.

10. Name one great blog that you read on a regular basis. What makes it unique?
There are so many I could mention, so eeny meeny miny mo – The Shrub Blog. This is a great feminist blog that speaks from and to all perspectives, providing its readers with all facets of what it is to be a woman. It is intelligent and well-informed, and features a blogroll that reads like a map of the feminine experience. In a nutshell, it’s the Second Sex of “new media journalism”.

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