Posted by rebecca
To cap off this gray, dreary Monday (in Seattle, anyway), I thought I’d share a hodgepodge of news, tidbits, and other things that have been brought to my attention by bloggers and colleagues lately:
- Kris Farmer from RazorGator won Greg Boser’s SEO Vanity Plate contest, which is uber-lame because I took second place and was actually ahead in points but missed the bonus question (note to self: appease the Boser and visit the crew in California for Beer Friday).
- Shoemoney announced his Party Like a Rockstar at Pubcon contest (of which I am a judge). Post a blog entry on your blog by November 10th convincing the judges why you should roll with the Rockstars. If you win, you’ll get paid roundtrip airfare to Las Vegas, paid hotel lodging from December 4-7, a Pubcon conference pass, and $500 spending money. And no, bribing or schmoozing me won’t help you win (okay, maybe a little…).
- How big of an ego Googler are you? Big enough to sport the Google vanity ring? This little wonder displays the number of results on Google for your name. Think of it as bling for bloggers.
- My buddies at Get Elastic brainstormed Larry and Sergey’s Halloween costume: "ghoul"glers. They’re also giving away a $100 gift certificate for Amazon.com if you can come up with the best caption in the comments thread.
- Tamar shared her top 6 ideas for incredible viral content. Fun fact: the Zombie Apocalypse quiz was created by none other than former SEOmozzer, Matt Inman.
- For a good laugh, I recommend heading over to the Worst SEO Blog Ever. If you think you’re having a bad day, head over to this guy’s blog and read some of his posts. He’s funny, angry, un-PC (uh, so don’t go there if you can’t take a joke or don’t like swear words), and apparently likes to rank for "poop porn." Good on ya!
- Finally, some of you have been asking me to put up my link bait presentation from SMX Social Media, so here it is.
Feel free to share any other interesting stuff in the comments below. We’ll have more topical posts throughout the week (such as what the Mozzers should be for Halloween, how many drinks it’ll take to coerce us to do Whiteboard Friday dressed as KISS [hint: a lot], and how suspicious it is that Rand and Gillian snatch up the exotic conference speaking spots [SMX Stockholm, SMX Sydney], leaving the rest of us to vie for, uh, less exciting locales [who even knew there was an SMX Hoboken?]).
