DazzlinDonna’s take on SEO news, tips and theories.
Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality! … So I decided to put the traffic quality assumption to the test myself, and find out how social media traffic compares to organic search traffic.
A year or so ago, I checked out LinkXL and considered selling contextual link ads through them, but for some reason I never did. I don’t remember why I didn’t. I probably just got busy with something else and forgot about them. I do that alot unfortunately.
Nevertheless, I was alerted to them again recently, and when I found out that they offer the ability to sell contextual links with nofollows on them, my interest was peaked. Say what you will about nofollows, but I learned my lesson last fall when Google slapped me upside the head, and I promised Google then…
It got me thinking, on many differing levels, on how our industry could /
should be held-up as a level modern day playing field where men and woman
get paid on their worth and not because of their gender. Plus, I also have a
personal interest in talking about woman in search, but more of that later.
SEO Scoop is having its 4th birthday (or would that be anniversary?) today. In the blogging world, that’s fairly old. Are the gray hairs showing? 
To thank everyone for their loyalty in visiting, guest posting, interacting, and commenting over the years, I’ll be holding a random drawing tomorrow morning and will be giving away one of my products - the online press kit template. To enter the drawing, simply comment below on this post before midnight tonight (CST). One lucky commenter will be the winner, and I’ll announce the name of the winner tomorrow. (The product will be sent to…
The central essence to predictive copywriting: Picking something that doesn’t exist yet, but will soon. The cleverer the choices you make, the easier it will be to do. Only 10 people are going to rank on page 1 for Iphone 2 and I’m willing to bet it is not going to be you (or me for that matter).
Ok, maybe I’m easily pleased, I don’t know, but when a tool can save me a long, long, long, mind-numbing boring amount of time watching files slowly ftp up to a server, over and over and over again, for what feels like forever…I tend to fall in love with that tool.
And when it’s free…with no strings attached…I purrrrrrrrrr like a very satisfied cat.
If you’ve ever had to upload WordPress to a server more than one time, or you ever expect to have to do it again, stop. Wait. Grab the EasyWP Installer first.
Installing a new WordPress blog (or upgrading an existing…
Yesterday, Andy Beal tweeted the following: “In case you missed it: Google Toolbar for Firefox 3 is out at http://ping.fm/lzr9f - works perfectly for me” and I tweeted a reply, saying, “@andybeal and u use the google spybar for what reason?”
Of course, that led to a series of tweets back and forth, such as:
Andy: easy access to site search, cache, highlighting keywords.
Me: *shakes head in wonder* wow, that’s mighty trusting of you. *makes sure tinfoil hat is firmly in place on top of my dazzlin head*
Andy: Google has my email, RSS, analytics, docs, and my search history. I gave…
List of search bloggers:
The following is a list of bloggers who routinely write about search-related topics. I put out a call to all search bloggers to send me their info, so that I could include them in this list. I know that this list isn’t comprehensive, but I’ve included everyone who heeded the call. If you didn’t email me your info, you didn’t get included. Luckily, you still can be. Although it’s a fairly time-consuming task for me to put this together, I’m happy to continue adding to it, so if you want to be included on the list, send…
If you are a blogger that routinely writes about SEO or any search-related topics, I’d love to know about you. Even if I already know about you, I want to include you in a list. So, big or small, A-list or Z-list, if you want to be included in the list, please email the following information to scoop [at] seo-scoop.com
Your name and/or nickname
Your blog name
Your blog url
Your avatar and/or photo
Please pass this information to everyone you know that should be included in this list. Thanks!
Added: People are asking about photo image size. 100 pixels wide is preferable, but I’ll make…
Anyone know when the All in One SEO Pack plugin went belly-up? I recently noticed it now says this:
This plugin is no longer supported or maintained.
Does anyone know the plugin author, uberdose? Anyone know why he’s no longer supporting or maintaining it? Anyone want to try to get him to allow someone to take the project over? It’s a nice plugin, and I hate to see it go bye-bye.
I know it still works, but that may not always be so in the future. I would think it would need someone looking after it to keep it updated as needed.
Just thought…
Last week I ranted about a couple of things that Google did that just really got my goat. (That means they annoyed me, for anyone who doesn’t recognize that old slang). So as I do, I ranted and raved and moaned and groaned until someone decided to solve the problem for me.
Ok, so first let’s refresh your memory on why I was annoyed. Here’s what I wrote back then:
Google recently told all Adsense publishers that they had to have privacy policies that had to meet certain Google requirements, but they couldn’t actually spell out those requirements. Ok, fine, we all…
When I made the switch to Linux, Ubuntu automatically installed the beta version of Firefox 3. When I then replaced Ubuntu with Kubuntu, I was given Firefox 2 as an additional choice, but I’ve stuck with the beta of FF3 nevertheless. This did mean, however, that I would have to do without some of the extensions I’d used with FF2, because not every extension is FF3-ready. Luckily, I needed to pare down my extension usage anyway, and this forced me to evaluate what extensions I really, really need.
Now that the final version of FF3 is about to be released, I’ve…
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