Why You Should Listen to the GoodKarma on WebmasterRadio
Posted on January 15th, 2007by Michael Gray in SEO
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Ok so I can get a hold Greg Niland almost anytime I want to. I can email him or give him a call, heck I had lunch with him and Rae on Saturday and am going to an Internet Marketers of New York dinner meeting with him tonight, so why the heck would I download and listen to his podcast on my iPod?
Well you see last week Greg did a show going over the basics. He devoted a whole show to the low level easy stuff everybody should be checking or monitoring on an ongoing basis. One of those happened to be checking that your contact form is working and people are answering. Well I answer all my own email here and I don’t outsource it to a legion of Graywolf Groupies (although if there are any I’d love to meet you). I get tons of email so I’d never notice my contact form being broken. It just so happens that someone wanted to get in touch with me tried the contact form and it didn’t work. However that person was smart enough to use my email address and go direct (they were also nice enough to tell me the form was broken). Fortunately I was able to fix my broken wordpress contact form and later that same day I got an email from a very major corporation (more about that later this week). Who knows how much mail I missed and how much business I lost because of a newbie mistake (BTW if you were trying to get a hold of me to sign that multi-billion dollar multi year deal, could you please resend it). So even old dogs are forgetful and make mistakes, so check out Greg’s podcast for some helpful tips.
PS: About 2 hours after fixing my contact form I started getting spammed to death so I upgraded to Secure and accessible PHP contact form for WORDPRESS
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January 15th, 2007 at 4:46 am
I couldn’t agree more. There are lots of good shows on WebmasterRadio but Greg’s GoodKarma stands out (and not just the one’s you’re one)! Greg always gives out useful tips and genuinely seems to want to help and inform his listeners, regardless of their level of expertise.
January 15th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Dude, if you buy graywolf groupies dot com, I’ll be president. You can be my Davy Jones!
January 15th, 2007 at 11:20 am
awww, you guys are making me blush
thanks for the nice comments. i would also love for people to let me know how i can make the show better for them, if anybody has suggestions feel free to let me know.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Can I be the guy off stage watching the Graywolf band and saying, “Why didn’t I think of that!”
January 15th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I second this.. I don’t know if it was the same show you referenced but one of Greg’s shows got me motivated to finally audit my personal sites. I am glag I did, it revealed some serious holes ( from a search perspective ) in my blog.