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Alcohol and popularity. What’s the deal? How are these things related? The only way to find out is to join the ultimate facebook group, Drinking Your Way to Popularity!
All the cool kids are doing it.
The best thing about it? You’re safe inside the walled garden that is Facebook. Nobody has to know your little secret… which is that you are a total drunk and so are your friends.
“This group is for all kinds of people who use beer, wine, or liquor to make themselves larger than life. Recreational drinkers, frat boys, business people who liquor up their clients and vendors, party animals, this is your home away from your home away from home, which should be your local bar.
Post pics and videos of puking, embarrassing photos of your friends (or enemies!), or any other alcohol related awesomeness. “
Sounds like the place to be! And the best part? If I know you, and you are my friend, you are automatically appointed an officer with a really cool name which undoubtedly will follow you around for the rest of your life.
Here’s the current role call of officers!
So get off your butt and get down with the crew. Facebook is in the house, drinks are in the house, Doctor DrinkBait is IN THE HOUSE! Get moving people!
read comments (11)My good buddy Dana (aka SKORP) is #1 on MySpace’s most popular blogs again!
Keep bangin them out Dana!
BS-1 Behind the Conference traces the rise and fall of the most prolific boy band in SEO history. The first group of SEOs ever to travel outside the typical conference circuit and into the dark underworld of pop music made their debut after they met at Webmasterworld’s PubCon 2006. Their first single, “Use the anchor text: love”, quickly rose to the top of the del.icio.us popular chart, giving the band instant notoriety, fame, and wild success.
SEO Boy Band initially started working the conference circuit in early 2006 where SEOs, CEOs, and even SEO Fan Girls have been spotted throwing their underwear on stage as the band performed public link analysis sessions, which often ended in public riots. The thought of the buzz gave band front runner Chris Hooley the idea to take the show on the road.
After a grueling dance rehearsal, the band agreed the choreography and timing was right. SEO BoyBand began touring all over the greater San Jose area. After a few sell out shows, it became apparent to the crew that their newly found fame would get more than they bargained for.
In a rare interview with BS-1 Hooley says: “I was just doing it for the buzz, these free pairs of underwear are just another perk!”
Greg “Web Guerilla” Boser chimes in “not to mention the 600 backlinks I got from Digg yesterday” as he Hi Fived Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz who says “I’m a bad ass SEO“.
Meanwhile, the absence of these high profile SEO rockstars on the conference and blogging scene created a void, which some more crafty web marketing experts quickly exploited.
The release of their second single “Rollin’ Wit da Bloggerz” brought even more fame and backlinks. However, the grueling 7 day a week schedule of blogging, singing, and dancing began to wear on the super group. This didn’t stop the pop marketing powerhouse, they continued the media craze by releasing “Link Pop” and following it up with their smash hit “Love me, Leave me, then Link to me”
Eventually the media craze became to much for the SEO Boy Band to handle. Chris Hooley spent countless days DrinkBaiting, while Greg Boser and other band members stayed up night all night using the harder stuff to keep going.
“I just, really love the purple ones” said Boser after a long night of pounding yoohoo and snorting pixie sticks. “I don’t know what I would do without them”
The increased exposure and sugar consumption eventually started to tear at the band. Bitter rivalries between members of the back up dance crew eventually led to disaster. SEO BoyBand stopped touring after an incident where Tim Mayer and Adam Lasnik nearly choked each other out. Danny Sullivan tried to stop the violence, but ended up instant messaging the police.
Back up vocalsit Matt Cutts saw the transgressions, quit the banned, er.. I mean BAND, and applied a minus 30 penalty to the whole crew. That was the last time Mayer and Lasnik spoke, and ultimately the end of SEO BoyBand.
After the dust settled, nearly a fortune in backlinks was amassed. Chris Hooley, as the owner of the domain, currently controls the link equity created by the band. “It’s a time in my life I’ll never forget. What’s your name again?”
Although the experience might have been a blur to the band members, the memory of their rise to #1 on the SERPs, I mean charts, will never fade.
I’m Not a Player, I Just Blog a Lot!
People have different motivations for blogging. Some do it for money, some for creative expression, some for their corporation, and some just do it all for the nookie.
Enter the MySpace blogosphere.
Combine the flaming of the politics and religion forum at Digital Point and the subtle passages of a true romantic with the class of a low budget fluff girl and you would have a phenomenon similar to this little corner of the Internet. The scene is odd.
At first I couldn’t understand the motivation. Why would you blog so hard only to serve somebody ELSE’s ads? I just could not comprehend. That is, until I met the man who OWNS this crazy environment, Super Jabs and the Mighty Ball Sack, at my brother’s house the other day. For those who don’t know Jabs, (his real name is Ted) he is a perennial #1 blogger on MySpace’s Popular Blogs section and he has a huge following of mostly hot girls who consistently show him their boobs.
Me and Ted sat outside having a beer, just shooting the shit talking about how we use the web. Even though we both work our butt’s off pimpin’ the web all day every day, it was almost like we spoke different languages. We even tried to coach each other, but I’m still not sure if either of us gets each other’s perspective 100%. Each sentence I said went something like this:
“Dude if you just [blah blah] you’ll make like [blah blah] dollars. You could do it so easily!”
To which he responded:
“huh, I dunno man. I’m not sure if that would work for me”
Then he would say:
“Dude if you just [blah blah] you’ll get like [blah blah] chicks to [XXXXXXXXX]. It’s that easy!”
To which I would respond:
“huh, I dunno man. I’m not sure if that would work for me”
As we swapped stories about our experiences, I realized something. All of my stories were basically about business successes or opportunities, and all of his were about crazy chicks and crappy bloggers.
At this point, I began to wonder if I was gay or something. WHY the HELL can’t I leverage MY blog-O-liciousness into girls sending me pics of their boobs? I mean I’m good at “web stuff”. I have a certificate in desktop configuration and everything. This dude has women THROWING THEMSELVES at him every day… and I don’t mean those fake women who are “new in town and want to meet new people” who’s profiles will be banned by the time I get done with their webcam. I mean real girls who want to fly to Arizona dressed in latex to rub his feet while he plays X-Box.
On the flip side, this guy just wants to get paid for the effort he puts into his blog, and is having a tough time with the fact that I have a fraction of the readership, but I monetize the web like a peyamp.
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side eh?
Anyways, all this crap gave me a few ideas. And for those who’ve seen how bloggers can sometimes get treated like rockstars… just wait until this next post coming up. I’m gonna get all Timberlake on yall, with the help of my good friend Dana. (AKA Skorp, the MySpace A-list blogger who introduced me and Jabs)
Just wait and see, this next one is gonna ROCK!
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