Even blackhat world wished me happy birthday... What up SEOmoz?

[JasonJackson]

Blackhat World:

"We at Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO would like to wish you a happy birthday today!"

SEOmoz:

crickets

Happy birthday indeed

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[matbennett]

I love the keyword stuffed forum name in that email BH to the core!

Happy birthday.

[JasonJackson]

lol thnx!

[KeriMorgret]

Probably because I don't think we record your birthday anywhere.

[JasonJackson]

September 7/1986

queue epic music

A day may come when we forsake our friends,

and break all bonds of fellowship,

but it is not this day.

An hour of wolves and shattered shields,

when the age of men comes crashing down,

but it is not this day!

This day we celebrate!!

By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,

I bid you hence, mark your calendars!

[SEOKeith]

Personally I find those forum automated birthday emails annoying, why would you care if a forum (or more specifically a php script) wished you happy birthday?

Happy Birthday any ways...

[JasonJackson]

Thanks Keith.

This question was more of a subtle suggestion for more personalization

[KeriMorgret]

One person's personalization can be another person's tracking and invasion of privacy. On a serious note, do you have some ideas for personalization that aren't as intrusive?

[JasonJackson]

Sure do! Read to have your mind blown?  I've seen the struggles you have been having with getting new users engaged.  I get it... SEO is tough stuff after all - I'm here to help.  Watch the attached video before continuing.

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How about combining gaming elements along with leader board type tracking of progress.  Kind of like launching a campaign for a site (but now it will be called a game).  You progress as if playing a game and the result is your site gets "SEO'd."

The beautiful part about this, you track where other users get stuck / give up and how others have overcome these difficulties - share this data as part of the game.  Build a big enough user base and what do you get?  Precise answers to the hardest of SEO questions -> e.g. why did my rankings fall?  because you did this, this and this!  incoming thunder cats reference Machine learning Ho!

I wouldn't suggest this idea to anyone but SEOmoz - it's hard but is totally doable for someone who created open site explorer.

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