Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 29th, 2008 in General
A couple of months ago, I posted a discussion over on Sphinn, in which I revealed that I was hoping to let many of you guest blog here on SEO Scoop. What I said there:
I’m hoping to open SEO Scoop up to many guest bloggers, especially those of you who may be just getting started. If you want your name to become a little more well known, guest blogging is one way of achieving that. I’m not saying that guest blogging on SEO Scoop is going to rocket you to fame and fortune, but it’s a place to start. And…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 27th, 2008 in SEO Theories
Let me start out by saying I absolutely don’t have the answers to the question of how to deal with hackers crackers who attack our websites. Because there are so many different ways that these jerks attack, and so many different things they do to the sites once they attack, I suppose it’s impossible to come up with a one-size-fits-all answer. Still, I see more and more of this type of thing happening every day (even to security experts sites), and it just seems like there must be *something* we can all do if we just all put our minds together.
Obviously, being faithful about…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 24th, 2008 in SEO Tools
At least as far back as 2 years ago, I’ve been advising people to try to be the first person to do something. Being the first person to capitalize on some new trend is often one of the most important things you can do for good search rankings. Being first means getting attention, getting links, and sometimes getting that “gold-standard” domain name. Today, I was invited to try out a new Firefox extension that aims to help you nab that domain name before anyone else. I tried it, I liked it, and so now I’m telling you about it.
Very often,…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 20th, 2008 in General
Only 11 days to go before the SEOsFightFat challenge is complete. I’d like to remind everyone that each of the SEOs participating in this event are doing it not only to better their health, but mostly to help raise money for his or her favorite charity. Now that it’s coming down to the wire, I wanted to remind everyone where everything stands.
First off, it looks like this will probably be a contest between David Wallace and Scottie Claiborne, but we’ll have to see how the race stacks up at the final buzzer.
What about the charity pledges? How are we doing with…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 18th, 2008 in SEO Tips
Is it just me, or does it suddenly feel like there are more search conferences this year than there are weeks in the year? For those of you who attend most or all of them, when do you get any work done? I don’t expect an answer to that, btw, I’m really just thinking out loud. In any case, what am I doing instead of attending SES-NY today?
Today’s task is one that I think everyone should be tackling on a regular basis. Today, I’m creating new content solely based upon what my visitors are apparently extremely interested in. (No, not this…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 14th, 2008 in Guest Posts
Blogging. People have been preaching it’s benefits for some time now. And the reason articles about blogging - and in particular small business blogging - are so popular is because they are true. One of the best things that a local small business can do is start a blog.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 13th, 2008 in SEO Tips
If you subscribe to blogs, you probably see the occasional post in which a list of quotes from respected leaders of the niche are displayed. A quick example off the top of my head would be a post in which I would list 10 quotes from respected SEOs on the topic of linkbait. Now, I’m not talking about an interview format, in which a question is specifically asked and the answers are displayed. Instead, I’m talking about quotes that you may have stumbled across in your daily web surfing travels, that you took note of and later compiled into a…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 6th, 2008 in General
If you run a blog, you’ve seen spam comments by the thousands arrive in the Akismet spam basket. So many of these are filled with dozens and dozens of links to porn/pills/etc. type sites. I mean seriously, each of the spam comments is just a huge long list of keyword-rich anchor text. Although Akismet catches most of them, I still have to manually mark a few of them as spam each day. This monotonous process got me to thinking. What would make these spammers stop? (If anything). And then I thought…well…what if Akismet shared all of this info with Google and…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 5th, 2008 in Guest Posts
The Google Website Optimizer is a relatively new tool. You can use it to test different versions of your webpages, to see which one will generate more conversions. Bill Slawski discussed the patents of this tool and you can find even watch one of the introduction videos.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 3rd, 2008 in SEO Tips
Over the years, I’ve come across some really good guides that would be perfect for newbies to get the information they need, without having to dig through lots of blog posts or forum threads. I decided it was a good time to do a quick roundup of ebooks and guides, both free and paid, that would be useful for anyone wanting organized how-to info to study.
Start with Google’s Webmaster Help Center
Before you do anything, you should become intimately familiar with Google’s “rules”, so you won’t accidentally get yourself penalized or banned. Start with Creating a Google-friendly site paying special attention to…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 1st, 2008 in General
Yesterday, I was assimilated, but it’s a good thing! In case any of you have been living under a rock for some time now, one of the best search related forums ever created is Cre8asite Forums, with Kim Krause Berg at the helm. I frequent many forums, and each has its own special quality. Cre8’s special quality, I believe, is that very word “quality”.
Because of that, I am honored to have been asked to be a moderator there. Truth be told, I’m a little scared of being able to live up to the reputation of the high-quality mods that have…
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