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Thank you, Danny Sullivan

Well, I've finally done it. The "last person in SEO without a blog" now has...yes...a blog.

I blame (and thank) Danny Sullivan.

Earlier this year, Danny, along with Joe Morin, Elisabeth Osmoloski and Jen Slegg attended Search Engine Watch Live! in Seattle. After the panel. Danny had share our blog's URL with the audience.

I didn't have a blog. That is, not a blog that was SEO related. I was blogless.

Adding insult to injury, Danny sidled up to me later that night and said, "You SO don't have a blog!" And laughed. As I recall, it was an evil laugh. It was a laugh people use when they pity the blog-free - yet find them completely amusing.

Yeah, I know, I know.. If this was still high school, my lack of blogging would demote me to the lowest of the low social class. It wasn't that I was anti-blogging. Heck, blogging is just writing content - I can do that. I just didn't feel like I had much to say that other experts hadn't said.

But, the blog peer pressure continued. First, I started thinking about blogging a lot. Then, I started hanging out with bloggers- I wouldn't blog myself, but I would watch them blog. They'd offer a guest blogging spot, but I always just said no. Then, one fateful day, I found myself scoring my own Movable Type account. I started telling my other blogging friends that I was "one of them" now.

It was bound to happen.

So thank you, Danny Sullivan, for being my blog pusher. I'm in the lifestyle, now. And man is it fun. :)