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Friday, February 3, 2012

I want @klout in snark #WWTFIFLF

Adventures in Estrogen


Okay, first let me start off by explaining the weird hashtag in the title: My pervy (I don't judge) bloggy sister friend Lady Estrogen has created this fantastic, uh.... linky? I don't exactly know what it is, frankly.... And it's called Write Whatever The Fuck I Feel Like February. Here's how she describes it on her blog:
Why? Because it's wonderfully pointless... and it has a swearzie, so it's automatically awesome.
RIGHT??? So.... even though I've already linked up with the post I wrote about my shit cookies, I'm going to link this one, too. And you should write some crap and link yourself up, also. Why? Because awesome. That's why. The linky thingy-ma-bob is at the bottom.

Okay! So.... now let's talk about Klout.

WAIT! Before I talk about Klout, you need to see this screenshot I took yesterday of my blog site stat page:


I am so goddamned proud of myself. I have arrived as a blogger, my friends.

Okay! So.... NOW let's talk about Klout. What the fuck is klout, you ask? Well, klout is a completely meaningless, totally stupid website that claims to measure your "social media influence" and gives you a pointless score based on some algorithm that nobody has any fucking clue about. They also will give you a list of "topics" that you are apparently "influential" in, and "people" are supposed to "come by" and "give" you "+Ks" in said "topics," thus increasing your meaningless score, based on that mystery algorithm that nobody can or will even try to explain.

With me so far???

So, I think it's kind of fun to go over there every once in a while and check on my score. As I write this, my score is 67.01. No, I have no idea what that means. No, I don't get anything for it. No, I don't know how that compares to people with any actual social media influence.

I have "influence" in a number of topics, which include Autism (makes sense), Blogging (also makes sense?), and Vodka (perfect sense). I ALSO, however, have "influence" in Homework and Baking and I used to have influence in fucking Beyonce, of all things, until I discovered that you could delete topics from your topic list. (yeah, sorry everybody who loved to give me klout in Beyonce.... You can't do that anymore, suckers!!)

So, I was lookin through my topic list when I discovered that I could add my own topic!! How exciting!! So, naturally, I tried to add one... and LOOK WHAT HAPPENED....


Snark is not a valid topic, klout? Well why the fuck not???? Is it because they're afraid that if they were to validate snark as a topic, I would dominate every other motherfucker who even tried to compete with me?

Yeah, no, that not only not the correct answer, that's actually kind of stupid..... but we need to fix this!

So... this officially starts my campaign to get klout to make snark a valid topic!!

Who's with me????

*crickets*

Somebody once told me that the way you get klout in stuff is to tweet links and have lots of people retweet them. I can't tell you who told me that, because for some reason I think it was supposed to be a secret, although I don't remember why that would be a secret at all, but you can totally trust this anonymous source, because she was at BlogHer. So, I guess let's re-tweet the shit out of this post, okay? What do you think?? This will be our social media experiment, and I, for one, am very excited about finding out the results.

I fucking swear to god, though, if I end up with klout in klout after all of this? I'm going to be really really mad.....





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I give @klout a +K in being a dumb fucking website. Oh, there's no snark category? Yeah, doesn't surprise me. Beyonce? Yes. Snark? No. GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, KLOUT.
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Your blogging skills are way too advanced for me. I guess I have no klout when it comes to blogging. PS I'm glad you ditched Beyonce. I liked Jay Z a lot more before they hooked up.
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i used to have Klout in plastic. PLASTIC.

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I somehow made "Idaho" become a thing of influence, thanks to a lot of retweets.

Keep pressing!

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Okay, it's official. I still don't klout. Or bloghops.
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Hahaha - YEAH!!!
It's like an anti-bloghop though, for real!

Thanks for the shout out, sincerely :)
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You have arrived. And you totally suck. Wait, I mean Klout totally sucks. According to that fascist popularity poll, my friend with 16 followers and 23 tweets is better than me - 20 POINTS better than me.
After doing some extra research, I now know what Klout is. Unfortunately, I still don't have any.
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That's pretty messed up how you lure in innocent rubes with reckless promises of cactus fucking how-to guides, but never deliver. Shame!
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It's all part of my plan and one day it will be made clear to you.

One day.
I have klout in Barry White, Taco Bell, and Superman. Why? I don't know, I'm on the internet, no one can actually see me eating Taco Bell in a red cape and knows I have a deep baritone voice. So strange!
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1 reply · active 686 weeks ago
That IS weird
If you talk about Klout, you get Klout in Klout. I learned that the hard way. Sigh.

Also, you can't add ANY good topics. You know what's not a topic? Cheese. How is cheese not a topic? I have a friend who is VERY influential in cheese. I refuse to acknowledge Klout until it acknowledges that cheese is a valid topic. EVERYONE loves cheese, Klout. Come ON.
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2 replies · active 686 weeks ago
How the FUCK is cheese not a topic?????
I KNOW. But "cheesecake" is. We had to give him Klout in "cheesecake." He has NO INFLUENCE in cheesecake. It's embarrassing, really.
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Jill ~ Are you wanting to be up there in the SERPS? You can use social networking sites, like your fave, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. This along with Tweeting/Retweeting. Let me know if you have more questions about this... it's what I do. :D
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I don't know what SERPS is :(
Search Engine Results Page ~ so say when you google something (keywords) you will get ranked in the search engines... it will give you a broad match and exact match for the key phrase that you just typed in. A lot of bloggers, marketers, etc. use keywords or phrases to help get to the top of the search engines. We want to be #1 in Google, MSN, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

Without getting crazy... here's an example:

make money online - there are About 2,070,000,000 results (you will see the words make money online everywhere in the title or the paragraph below the title. This is called a broad match.

Now if you looked up that same phrase "make money online" in quotes, you will get an exact match. This will tell you who your competition is... how many competing pages there are out there (if you are trying to compete that is).

Now... if you want to target your audience even more... you want a highly targeted keyword phrase with not a lot of competition.

So say your new phrase is "make money online from home fast". (This is going to be extremely high because it's the make money online niche, but for example purposes, it's easier to say it this way).

So anyway, this is how you can get more "clout" in the search engines - if you want more eyes on your blog so to speak.

Did this help? LOL

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OH, I gotcha. Well, I don't really care much about search engines, frankly. I mean, I'm already getting found when you search for "how to fuck a cactus," and I'm the #1 result when you search for Bookkeeping porn. I just think it gets any better than that?
It totally makes sense that you have klout in Fucking Beyonce. You influence me to fuck her every day. Wait...
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I would totally give you a +k in snark. You are the queen of snarkiness. I still want to write a post with the word snark in it as many times as I possibly can. Maybe this snarky comment about snark is a great beginning.
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OMG, am I too late for the RT party? Well I hope not cuz I'm gonna!
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I still don't get Twatter... Am not going to try to understand fucking Klout.

Also? That blog hop makes me wish I was actually consistently blogging again....
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Klout? For goodness sakes I just cannot even begin to keep up with it all, I do give it half a shot but that is all I got in me, so I guess I suck in Klout!

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