SEO Zeitgeist

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 [...]

Matt Cutts on Social Media Marketing & Widgetbait

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Recently Rebecca Kelley, from 10e20, did a nice interview with Matt Cutts on widgetbait and any current social media headaches challenging Google in 2009. I did an article a while back that shared a part of an interview between Matt Cutts and Eric Enge, where Matt highly endorsed Social Media Marketing as a quality link [...]

WordPress for Social Media on ‘Press This’

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: SEO

WordPress is by far one of my favorite CMS and blogging platforms. Mostly because I am not a developer and WordPress allows me to put up a high quality site quickly with enough plugins and information to implement all the features and design functions I require. However, when it comes to social media marketing, looking [...]