Blog Questions Answered by ShoeMoney.com
Welcome to my BQA series as I begin my very first interview with ShoeMoney.com founder, Jeremy Schoemaker.
Current Rankings
- Technorati Rank – 134
- Alexa – 1,768
- Page Rank – 6/10
Blog Questions Answered:
When did you get into Blogging and why?
I started blogging shortly after attending my first SES conference back 2 years ago in August. I met a lot of people there who had blogs and it just seemed like a cool easy thing to do. I wanted a place to put down my thoughts on the search engine/ affiliate industry and also my pictures.
What is your favorite thing about blogging?
The readers
! Also so many people tell me I have made a difference in there life reading from my experiences. That is pretty cool!
What is the most important lesson you’ve learned regarding your blog?
Watch what you say. Ive made some comments about some people that I never thought would actually see them. Some celebrities and even top people at search engines have reached out to me personally and I felt really bad about what I said …. On one hand I was stunned that someone knew someone who pointed them to what I said but then when you talk with them you see they are just a regular person like you.
What’s the Best Internet Marketing Advice you can give to up and coming young bloggers?
Just find something you like and work with it. If it feels like work it probably is not going to be very successful. My blog for instance is something I do when I take a “break” from normal work.
Where do you think the future of blogging will be in 5-10 years?
I think as spamblogs increase on the web there will come a point where search engines will throw up the white flag and start to just lower the value of all blogs they can fingerprint. For this and many other reasons you should always write your blog for your readers and not search engines.
What do you like to do away from blogging and the computer?
I like to spend time with my daughter, juliet and my wife, J.
Wolf Stone 9.28 am on 07.05.2007 Permalink
Your first interview huh…….Mr. Gary (Celebrity) Lee!!
Gary Lee 10.07 am on 07.05.2007 Permalink
haha . just trying my best!
Daniel B. Honigman 11.35 am on 07.05.2007 Permalink
Congratulations. You should show us a screenshot of your Technorati page tomorrow.
Gary Lee 11.51 am on 07.05.2007 Permalink
why is that?
Scott 12.25 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
shoemoney.com is pagerank 6….
Nathan Drach 12.26 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
Watch what we say he says? I thought the internet was built to make fun of others ;P
Daniel B. Honigman 12.35 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
Because you’ll probably get a ton more traffic tomorrow. Well, if everything goes according to plan.
Check out my updated Web site. I added your Google Shadow button on my right nav.
Gary Lee 2.21 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
Good Catch Scott . . . . I must have been looking at the wrong part of the page or something! I knew his PR couldn’t have been that low!
Saman Sadeghi 3.24 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
You asked some great questions – Great job Gary!
Hannes Johnson 6.06 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
Cool – congrats on your first interview. And you got a “big shot” like ShoeMoney – not bad
Armen 8.27 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
Sadly, I think he’s right about the spamblogs. It’s just getting completely out of hand. Someone has to come up with a way to stop them.
Nice review Gary.
msdanielle 9.39 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
when they’re no longer free…..
Saman Sadeghi 10.03 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
No kidding, either that or you create a password system for RSS readers….
Saman Sadeghi 10.04 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
My to show your improved rank after interviewing such a big name?
Gary Lee 10.29 pm on 07.05.2007 Permalink
I seriously doubt he’s gonna link back to me! hahaha . . . but i have to say he was really responsive! Really great to see that from a “A-List” blogger!
Armen 12.06 am on 09.05.2007 Permalink
Yeah…that would help, and it would probably be worth the sacrifice.