I’ve been back in Scotland (Ayrshire) for slightly over a year now and I must say that when I arrived back I never expected there to be as much SEO/Online Marketing activity as there is.

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Firstly when I joined Equator in Glasgow around February I had the great pleasure of meeting the techie geek Michael Briggs, it was great to meet a code/server side SEO guy to compliment my sell, sell, sell style of SEO,  even better news was that the two of us would be working together on most projects for Equators clients.

Michael persisted that I get a blog many times, but he always got the same answer “Blogs are crap, how do you sell stuff on them?” After a while he convinced me that it’s all about the community and meeting similar like minded people. The first step for me was to setup this wordpress blog and sit around thinking of something to write, now the idea’s are flowing for mini networks and niche social networks ( I’ll hopefully launch my first niche social network in January 2008)  and for someone with a “Sell First” attitude to everything online it was easy for me to find way to monetize social networks in a non intrusive manner which many social networks have failed to do in the past.

The people you meet via blogs, linkedin and mybloglog are simply amazing. Who would have known that one of the best affiliate marketeers comes from Girvan in South Ayrshire and that there was another SEO guy from Kilwinning (where I’m originally from) I’m still surprised that they have broadband in Kilwinning.

Along the way I have also meet some interesting Scottish SEO people and learned  new ways of doing things that I’d just never thought of before and would probably never have thought of.

It’s a growing community, maybe someone should build a social network for it. Opps! There’s another idea.