SEO Zeitgeist

The Need for an Adult Filter on Twitter

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Twitter is not the first online entity to be plagued by porn spammers, as it is an unfortunate and unavoidable part of the internet. As soon as a social site becomes somewhat popular, adult outlets will try to exploit it. I’m sure many of you had some questionable followers as soon as you joined twitter. [...]

Cashing In with Other People’s Content: The Benefits of UGC

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

A lot of folks still don’t quite understand the benefit of having user-generated content on your site. It seems logical to have someone else do the work for you, doesn’t it? They create the content and you reap the benefits of indexed pages, better rankings and more sales…or, in growing cases, a book deal. Below [...]

The Social Media News & Bookmarking URL Shortener Breakdown

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

In the past, I have talked in depth about Digg’s URL shortner.  While Digg gets the majority of the criticism for their shortener, both Reddit and StumbleUpon (the two next largest sites) have also joined the party.  In lieu of these newer shorteners recently hitting the streets, I wanted to breakdown the various shorteners by [...]

Is Digg the Google of Social News Sites?

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

BusinessInsider.com has a chart stating that Digg received 17.4 million unique visitors in August 2009, easily eclipsing other social news sites. Its dominance in the social news sphere brings to mind another company… Top Search Engines According to a July 2009 comScore Search Report: Google (65% market share) Yahoo! (19.6%) Microsoft/Bing (8.4%) Ask (3.9%) AOL [...]

Link Building Through Virtual Relationships

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Last week Jake wrote an awesome post about leveraging relationships for link building and it got me thinking.  Seeing that I am a hermit who lives in front of the computer, how the heck do I build links without those daily “real-life” relationships?  Well, believe it or not, I do actively build links with relationships [...]

Social Media Marketing Continues to Grow in Priority

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Last week I attended and spoke at IMC Vancouver. It was a nice little conference that featured a lot of different speakers from the SMX/SES shows. While my sessions focused on SEO, there were a number of panels that discussed social media marketing. I heard a lot of feedback from attendees praising the social media [...]

Link Building through Relationships

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Ah, relationships. Good relationships are strong, meaningful bonds that act to hold people or objects together.  Like the furniture maker’s forgotten “dovetail” joint that once held a strong piece of furniture together and is now replaced with weak staples between faux wood fiberboard, relationships seem to be the forgotten glue that once held the business world [...]

StumbleUpon Lag Issue Finally Solved

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Over 6 months ago I blogged asking StumbleUpon to please stop lagging me. Ever since they had launched their redesign into beta, I was being plagued with insane performance issues in which my entire browser would lag to an almost stand-still after visiting my profile or inbox at StumbleUpon. Here is a video capture I [...]

Social Media for Reputation Management at SMX East 2009

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

We all know reputation management is important, but it still remains something most of us think about only as an afterthought. It is some Thursday afternoon and you head over to Google to search for your name or brand and the next thing you know someone is saying some pretty nasty things about you, and [...]

Digg Adds No-Follow to Combat Spam

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Digg made a change to their site today, adding the no-follow attribute to all external links until they felt sure the link was safe. They also issued a statement about the change on their blog and even went as far as to speak directly to SEOs, saying they would indeed lose some of the authority [...]