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I’ll be doing a show with Cindy Turrietta and the e-marketing talkshow group tomorrow evening if you’d like to check it out. We’ll be talking about “SEO from all sides” - as a vendor, consultant, consumer, and DIY’er. I’ll post links to the podcast if I don’t suck. I talked about links with Todd Sarouhan a while back. The podcasts are now live for download.
I’ve been playing with digg quite a bit lately, and one of the big problems is duplicate story submissions - or power users walking over smaller users by resubmitting the same stories from different sources. In my opinion, it’s only right to give a digg to the person who originally submitted the story - assuming it is the same topic and a reasonable story (I didn’t digg the article that had “AMAZING STORY!!!” in the title today despite it having been submitted an hour earlier than the one I DID digg). So do digg a favor - if you submit a story and SEE those duplicates, don’t say “screw those guys” and submit anyhow. Give a good karmic digg, and keep hunting for another good story. Consider the time as well as the better title - if there’s 5 minutes difference, and the late guy has the better title - I vote that the better title wins. A good title (as all SEO’s know) goes a long ways, but time should generally be the main consideration.
I’m in need of a few copywriters at varying levels of expertise, and figured it would be worth trying a blog post to see who replied. If you or maybe a friend writes content - please drop me a line with examples of your work. Just like everyone, I would like A grade work with discount prices;) - but we can negotiate. If you enjoy copywriting, please drop me a line, and we’ll see if it would be a good fit.
I’m sure I’m not doing all the things on the list, but I’m sure you’re not either. Learn to Launch your blog successfully. There are some fine points in this post. If I have to point them out, you’re not looking hard enough.
Better. Stronger. Faster. It’s important to constantly redefine link training techniques. Understand the full value of links. Simplify the link value technique. After you have the fundamental understanding of placing a value on a link (which you should constantly revisit) - here’s some information to simplify it even further. I knew someday I’d have the opportunity to reference Edward Deming’s quality management ideas from my business school days.
Rand has a post on the Google algo that’s beautiful in it’s brevity. Don’t miss this one. In fact, print it out and memorize it, and cater all your decisions around it, and you will understand SEO as more than just a process. Rand has simplified his incredible search engine ranking factors paper (which I refer people to probably a dozen times per week). The Google algo IS complex, but there are some parts that are much more important than others. Create a strategy considering these google ranking criteria, and you’ll be well on your way to good rankings. There’s been some other nice discussions on the google algo in the past when part of it DID leak.
My apologies - and thanks to everyone who has written - I’ve managed to kill my comments again with my sub-par developer skills. It’s on the list of to-do’s. I’ll be sure to post when they are back.
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