History
David Rosam on May 10 2007
Why the name?
Dangerous Thinking has been online since around December 2000/January 2001. That’s after when the real frontiersmen (frontierspeople?) started mapping out the blogosphere, but amongst the first wave of those who used the early blogging tools. In fact, I started playing about with the original Blogger service - from an outfit called Pyra Labs, if I remember correctly, way before Google came along, brandishing its corporate cheque book.
To be honest, I didn’t know what to call my new site, but the only template I liked at the time had a bright red banner. Obviously linked with danger and my old nickname of Dangerous Dave (don’t ask), I Googled dangerous thinking, and found all kinds of people railing at the concept of dangerous thinking.
Hmmm. Domain sold to that man in London! (as I was then).
What have I been thinking about all this time?
A lot of the earlier posts reflect an earlier time on the blogosphere with personal stuff about me and about blogging itself. Back then, I specialised in writing copy for technology companies, and Dangerous Thinking soon evolved a role in supporting a book about Web Services that never made it to publication as the corporate sponsors canned their budget.
SEO Copywriting, SEO and marketing
More recently, Dangerous Thinking has been about business, marketing and copywriting, and now that my food writing has been placed on its own blog, Meals on Blogs and my photography on The First Cut, Dangerous Thinking is my professional blog, 100% about SEO Copywriting, SEO and marketing.
I hope you enjoy my Dangerous Thinking - and dangerous it is, for your competitors.
You can contact me from this blog if you want to discuss your site.
David Rosam
Sussex
United Kingdom
PS Sometime in 2006, it became obvious that Dangerous Thinking just wasn’t working at its old host, and we moved it from a broken Movable Type platform to WordPress. Unfortunately, the archive structures of the two platforms are radically different from each other, and the blog dropped from PR6 to PR2, partly due to the original technical problems, partly due confusing Google with a huge pile of 404s, and partly from removing the pages people were linking to. Thankfully, my friend and co-founder at Web Positioning Centre, Paul Silver has done some fantastic stuff with redirects and, at the time of writing, Dangerous Thinking is up to PR5. Paul is threatening to write up the whole gory business.
