Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 18th, 2007 in SEO Tips
I think I’ll try to mention milestone forum posts more often, because 9 times out of 10, these posts are filled with words of wisdom. I’m talking about a forum poster’s 1000th or 3000th or 5000th type of posts. The poster generally puts a great deal of time and thought into that particular post, to “give back” to the community he or she has been a part of. So here’s one that cropped up today at SEOrefugee - Robert Paulson’s 1000th post.
Robert lists 19 bits of advice and I’ll quote a few of my favorites here.
Timing is everything. I never…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 17th, 2007 in SEO Theories
Wired News has an interesting article about an experiment called Assignment Zero, which is a collaboration between Wired, NewsAssignment.net, and well..ordinary folks. It’s a long piece to read, and the Assignment Zero experiment adds even more detail, but it is incredibly interesting. I haven’t even clicked through all the links yet, but I’m getting there.
The experiment is one in which a news story’s many angles will be covered by volunteer citizen journalists, with professional editors pulling all the pieces together. The particular story being covered in this experiment is that of “crowdsourcing” or “How the Web makes it possible for the…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 17th, 2007 in General
Back on January 11th, 2007, I posted about an upcoming review service called SponsoredReviews. I’d discovered the site, which was still in Beta, from a link in Jarrod Hunt’s (of TextLinkBrokers) email to me. I was intrigued because it sounded as though it had taken the best aspects of currently running review sites, and added some new features that would be beneficial to all.
I was right. SponsoredReviews has launched and I believe it will be a worthy contender in this fast-growing space. Let’s first go over some of the main features.
- Automated Rating System that rates the quality of the blogs
- Bidding…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 17th, 2007 in SEO Tips
Graywolf’s first video blog is entitled “SEO Bloggers Step Away from the Keyboard“, in which he tells SEO bloggers to forget about posting SEO news. He basically says that there are already a few sites reporting the news and they have the industry contacts and good writers to do so. Everyone else should find something else to talk about, because no one is reading them anyway. He then got a couple of negative comments about it.
To be honest, he’s not wrong, and that’s why I stopped reporting SEO news a while back (pulling from my really bad memory, I’d say…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 16th, 2007 in SEO Theories
Joel Bresler emailed me this morning and since his email is self-explanatory, I present it here (slightly modified):
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I have recently launched a web site dedicated to the American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd." The site presents an interesting test case, for the following reasons: First, there has been virtually no new research on Follow the Drinking Gourd in twelve years. Second, this site represents the most comprehensive research published on the song. Third, some web pages that recently ranked highly on a "follow the drinking gourd" search just a few weeks ago were removed in February. I analyze search…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 14th, 2007 in General
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Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 14th, 2007 in SEO Theories
- Constant changes, which may involve a number of factors coinciding including data refreshes, different datacenters using different datasets and/or algos, filters being tweaked, knobs being turned up or down. These changes are seen several times a day, every day, for months now. Forget about personalizaton making it difficult to track rankings. The constant changes alone makes it difficult to track rankings.
- Pages suddenly becoming uncached, that have previously been cached for a long period of time; most recently, with pages that are a root of a subdirectory, such as mysection/, products/, etc.
- Different pages other than the "best match" being returned in…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 12th, 2007 in SEO Lingo
In a comment on WMW, walrus used a term that cracked me up, but I think it’s a great one. He said, ” I have been plutoed as well”. I’m not sure if he was the first to use the term or not, but I’m giving him credit for it unless I hear otherwise.
LOL. What a wonderful way of referring to being kicked out of the Google SERPs. Just as Pluto was kicked out of the list of major planets, so too are people often kicked out of the list of results returned from a search engine query. So, from now…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 8th, 2007 in SEO Tips
Wow, the list of SEO interviews just gets longer and longer. Ok, everyone, my original list of 75 SEO interviews is now up to 151, and I’m pretty sure I’ve STILL missed some. So, please, if you know of any I’m missing, let me know. In the meantime, read these interviews till your eyes bug out. 
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 8th, 2007 in SEO Tips
eComXpo is a fun little online event that you can virtually attend for free. (You can also pay to have access to special presentations). I attended it last year (I think it was last year), and it was a fun business-oriented way to spend my time. At that event, I stuck with the totally free options, but I will probably choose to pay for some of the special presentations this time around. At $4.95 per session, I don’t mind springing a few bucks to see some hopefully good SEO speakers.
Just like in the real world, this virtual trade show lets…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 7th, 2007 in SEO Tips
The latest interview I did is now up on the ViperChill blog. Speaking of SEO Interviews, the last time I updated my master list of SEO interviews was October 31st. There’s somewhere around 112+ listed now, but I know there have been more since last Halloween. If you had an interview that isn’t listed, or know of someone who did, please list them in the comments below so I can update the list. Thanks.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 6th, 2007 in SEO Theories
I wrote an article for the Spring edition of Search Marketing Standard, in which I coined the term MAD SEO, which stands for Moderation and Diversity. Because the editors wanted a short summary type article, I didn’t list the many aspects of Internet marketing that have woven their way into SEO’s lives over the last few years. The polls you’ve been taking over the last week here, have been an attempt to both list some of those diverse SEO tactics, as well as gauge whether or not we are actually using them. Some of the feedback I received from the…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 5th, 2007 in General
Last week, you participated in the first of a series of polls. Today, I have the second in the series available. The second is very similar to the first, but instead of asking which activities you have not yet focused on, this one asks you to select the TOP FIVE activities that you believe search marketers should focus on today. (Once again, if you use Firefox 1.5, you may have trouble selecting items. Some kind of bug…).
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