Malcolm Gladwell’s Book Outliers, states that you should have 10,000 hours of practice before you should consider yourself an expert (Ok, I REALLY paraphrased that and there is SO much more behind that statement). In the spirit of that, and to combine a couple of hobbies, I started an Inexpensive Wine Reviews and Tasting Notes Blog called Nate’s Wine Reviews (See, my blog so I can control the Anchor text all I want…as the inner third-grader comes out).

While writing and practicing SEO and SEM is one thing (not that I don’t do this for this blog as well as a dozen other clients on a daily bases), also taking that same discipline and applying it to a hobby is another thing. I have been into wine since my dad started to teach me when I was a kid (mainly be allowing me to help him pick out wines for dinner and events). To help add to the number of website I can “practice” on, I have included Nate’s Wine Reviews into my growing list of hobbies and growing active SEO client lists. I will be taking a slight break from Intellect Interactive until I can get that blog humming along. That should only be a couple of weeks, given that I have a tone of old notes from some old wines that I can add to the scheduled content list. Check out the blog if you’re into wine. I have at enough content to launch a post every day between now and the 1st of the month. I’m hoping to get enough backlogged content to get me through February.

The platform I’m using on that blog is blogger, which doesn’t have ½ the SEO control as WordPress (which is what Intellect Interactive is on). It will be interesting to see how the engines respond to each of the platforms (always practicing what I preach).