Category: Rant

It’s all about the girls

Just been having a look a my video views for my first video post “vID 001: Hello’s and Mushrooms” and it looks like the girls are digging it… I just don’t understand why!?!
First off I would like to thank everyone that took the time to watch it and even more so to the people that commented on it.  One of the things I have learn very quickly when it comes to doing something people might want to read, watch or look at; is feedback.  Understanding what people like or dislike will always help me to improve the quality of my online content.
So how did the video do.  Well as I write this – SMLP: 102 – Viddler: 16 – You Tube: 28 – so that’s 146 views in 5 days.  Not  bad for the first time I have published a video post.  So what about the girls?
You Tube provide a brake down of who is watching your videos (You Tube Insight); including their sex.  I know that not all my views have been from women but all of my views on You Tube are, well; that’s what their telling me.


Now I’m not to sure if this is a good of bad thing (my girl would say bad thing) but for now I’m going to bask in my own self worth that for once in my life the girls are digging it.

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Video Blogger

No reason could justify looking at my ugly mug for any length of time and to subject the world to it is nothing less than cruel.  That said I’m can a cruel guy at times; so here is my first video post.

The idea behind it is that…. Well the truth of it is that I talk lots and because of that I find it much easier to talk about something I have done than to write about it.  Sitting in front of my laptop and type up what I’ve been up to on my latest photo outing, a news stories that is driving me round the bend or trip I have been on is always enjoyable the only problem is finding the motivation to sit down the type it up.  Any one that knows me will know that I need no motivation to talk.


I’m still playing around with Viddler at the moment but expect my first video blog very soon.

SMLP: Rebranding

Just been playing around with a few things lately to try and do one simple thing. Brand everything I do on-line.

For a long time I have used a very similar user name for all of the different websites that I use.  I’m sure most people do this;  your “sign up” email address will normally match the user name you register when you head over to a new social network site.  twitter.com/bob  digg.com/bob etc etc.

For a long time I used “biscuit” which was great to start off with but lets be honest there is no way I would ever show up in a Google search with a user name like that.  So I have been moving everything I do across to “smlp”.

My goal was to make it easier for people to find some of the crap that I put on the interweb.  Basically I wanted to get things to the point of when you search from my avatar/name you would easily find some of the things that I do.  Now there is no prize for doing this you understand, it was just to see if I could do it.

Turns out.. it was easy.  I basically changed (where possible) my user name for sites that I’m registered to match my website address (i.e. smlp.co.uk or smlp) and I’m starting to re-register to all others using “smlp”.

Six of the top ten searches in Google now find my different networks and also just typing “smlp” into the address bar in most browsers take you here. Before I did this it was only one in ten on the search results and finding my site was a nightmare unless I pointed people straight here.

Basically I have set-up my own online brand.

or have I?

Let me know if you don’t think I have even come close to Branding my on-line stuff or if you think I’m just full of shit… I would love to hear from you in the comments below.

Also if anyone out there want to help me with a bit for wordpress theme editing….  I want to use a 3 column layout just @smlp me.