Recently, I received an email from the John T P, from the much popular JohnTP.com.

It said if I would be interested to guest blog on his domain, since he is not well.

I thought it’s a good offer as more than any other benefit, JohnTP.com was a pretty popular blog and getting in to it’s writer’s board would definitely mean something good to me.

How John sees it is like this - I can get a free PR 6 backlink from the articles I’m writing. Well, that’s his pitch so I didn’t think twice about it.

Meanwhile the searchcamp came up and I was not available for the two days.

John had also asked me to send him an article or two through mail. I don’t know why he insisted it because he already have seen my articles on dailySEOblog as well as Bloggingtips.com. Now, I replied back to John saying if it’s OK to send him the articles after the even to which he agreed.

Okay, long story short - I did not accept the offer.

Reasons
I don;t think John was good in his emails. Good in the sense, the way he talked to me sounded very bossy (unlike Kevin at Bloggingtips.com, who’s a really good chap!) and did not really ignited the passion in me.

It wounded to me more like he is trying to do me a favor.

I could’ve easily taken up the offer and got the PR 6 link to this blog (which incidentally have very few incoming links).

But the moral of the story here is that, when talking to people over e-mail, you got to be very cautious and polite. Don’t you think so? I’m not talking about listening to every shit the other guy is talking but you have to be polite and firm at the same time. Just the right kind of etiquette required to communicate well to others.

See the email transcript between me and John below. I think John needs some improvements in his email etiquettes seriously. Nothing personal John. hope you take it in the right spirits.

JOHN 

Hi Mani,

How are you? I am currently looking for guest bloggers for JohnTP.com as I am having fever. By guest blogging on my blog you get a free PR 6 backlink, new readers and traffic for your blog

If you are interested, please write one or more posts on Bogging or SEO and email it to me at this email address.

Thanks,

JohnTP

ME

Hi John,
I’m keeping well. Sorry to hear that you are having fever. Wish you a speedy recovery.
Can you please let me know if you are you looking for guest blogging for a particular amount of time or not?
I’d be happy to accept the offer, John.

Best,
Mani

JOHN

Hi Mani,
I am currently looking for guest posts until I recover from my fever, I may also post if I can.
Regards,
JohnTP

ME

Sounds Great John,
I’m flying to the Searchcamp, Chennai early morn tommorow. So shall I post the article to you by sunday?
If you’ll agree to it, I think everything else is OK.

JOHN

Sunday is fine

ME

Sounds cool John.

John, Since I was at the Searchcamp, Chennai (and they had a broken wifii there) I couldnt write to you. I was thinking if you’d take a loot at the articles i write on dailyseoblog as well as blogging tips, so that you know what my style is and if its acceptable to you? Makes sense right?

ME

Hi John,
I have the post ready. Please let me know how you’d like me to go about it.
Sent it to you or access the dashboard?
Best,
Mani

JOHN

Hi Mani,
Send it via email.
Regards,
JohnTP

ME

Hi John,
Many thanks for the offer.
But I don’t think I’ll be taking up this offer at the moment.
I appreciate your efforts in contacting me.
Best,
Mani

What are your thoughts on it?

UPDATE
I think this has gone a bit personal and I seriously did not want it to be. If you think so, please shout!

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This is my boy - Dhruvan. He turned 6 months old today. I love him.
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With the new Windows Live beta release, more and more bloggers are using it these days. A manifestation of which can be found from the rising number of - Temporary Post Used For Style Detection - posts on blogs.

While setting up WLW, it asks the user to post a style detection post that should be deleted later. But many do not delete it. Amit Agarwal even has a post on How to delete the style detection post.

A google search on “Style detection post” gives you an alarming 1,690,000 pages!!

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I had to write about this. There are lot of fraud SEO’s around. No doubt. Many of them somehow downloads a pirated copy of some popular SEO book ( there are many around ) and becomes SEO’s overnight (That’s not my idea - I read it on the DP forums ). Now they go on to set up a one - page website with a Google, MSN and Yahoo logo with a dart picture (un-licensed) saying something like “The world’s best SEO - Rank No.1 guaranteed “. Have you seen one?

It’s easy to make them out as frauds from their overly detailed testimonials and super-duper client list (Some even have Yahoo on the client list - what the..?). It’s essential for genuine SE optimizers to make aware the public on these frauds and hence this post.

This post is inspired from this article by Philip Lenssen. I thought this post might enlighten you to make out between fraud SEO’s and genuine one’s from their claims. Though Philip has mentioned many white-hat terms here, I think it’s OK to assume that many of them are used by fraud SEO’s than genuine ones.

He says

In the SEO industry agencies, experts and even bloggers have adopted a special mode of speech not to say slang that might be misunderstood by outsiders like clients, website visitors or the general public. To help you understand what search engine optimization experts really mean I devised this real glossary of SEO speak:

And here is the article -

What they say…
What they mean…

We offer Search Engine Optimization/SEO
We assume you are the Google bot and want you to index this page for both keywords

We offer Search Engine Optimisation
Our SEO company is based in the UK

Guaranteed top positions
We place Google Adwords for you

We do SEO, SEM, PPC to increase your ROI
We do not want you to know what we do

We stick to the Google Webmaster Guidelines
We only break them in a way that we assume Google won’t notice

We tell you how to make money online
We want you to click on our ads

10 ways of making money online
Those are our 10 affiliates, please click on the respective undisclosed ads

We offer social media optimization
We got several accounts banned at Digg

We offer link baiting services
We want to put those drunk naked ladies video on your site

Our network
Our link farm

Authority sites
Sites that do no SEO

Black hat SEO
We do anything to get rich quick, even if your site gets banned

White hat SEO
We only cheat Google where we have to, others do it too, come on!

We optimize for Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask
If we fail in Google you still have to pay

Search Engine Submission
We need your mail address, those guys offered us $$$ for each 1000 verified addresses

Partners
People we never heard of until we exchanged links

PageRank optimization
Sorry, we just started doing SEO and do not have a clue

SEO India
We offer 1000 links for 30$

Alexa optimization
All our employees have the Alexa Toolbar installed, it really works!

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One of the traffic building methods in the blogosphere is commenting!

Oh! Great Mani, I’ve heard it a million times from others already!!(Did you just say that to yourself?)

I know, i know - you’ve been commenting around at blogs all the time, and all it gave was that tiny bit of increase in traffic - after all that eye-straining and spell checks.
I completely agree.

On a normal day, i spent a major part reading blogs - for “inspiration”, another few hours writing on my blog, and the rest of the time researching and doing my work(Daamn.That’s very less!).

It’s not surprising - i can’t write more than a few valid comments on a blog. First - you got to read the article thoroughly to write a valid comment. And i don’t have the time to do that - everytime i read an article, i’m impatient and is more likely to click on another link and surf along..
I’ve seen comments like -

Good post there - Keep up the good work!

But isn’t that spam? It does not make any sense. I don’t think any author would take such comments.

Okay - so what’s the point here talking about comments?
Today on - I’m going to allot a day a week only for commenting on other blogs. And I’ve chosen friday.

Reasons for a friday.
- I dress casual.
- I’m in a jolly mood.
- Saturday is around.
- I have some lovely plans for the weekend and..
- I can see people talking

Stupid reasons they may be, but i’m going on commenting spree on Fridays. So if you have a great blog, please do let me know.I’m starving for quality articles…

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I’ve moved to a new domain today - Dailyseoblog.com, Hope you like it.

Many reasons for this

1. A domain name related to the content - seo(search engine optimization) that is.
2. Shorter domain name - easy to remember.
3. Is more recognizable.
4. Easy for readers to suggest the site to others.

Sounds lame? let me know what you think about the domain please.

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