I wondered if it would be possible to promote some posts from some of my Twitter followers so on Saturday night (yes I was home), I asked:
From your own blog if u could have ONE post on the front page of Digg which would you choose, @ reply me the url pls!
A list of great SU post’s with some great resources from beginner to advanced techniques, I for one am seeing that SU is giving consistent traffic and repeat traffic as opposed to the likes of DIGG, Mixx etc that will give you some bursts over a few day’s and then tail off.
What’s your favourite? Have any link’s or techniques to share? Drop a comment!’
This is the post that actually got me started on MY post! About 40 great link’s from starter’s to Advanced, The Definitive StumbleUpon Resource List. Continue Reading
Yesterday afternoon I made a call out on Twitter for any suggestions for Good SEO tools. Some people kindly answered. Two responses were;
A quick post about a new tool I found for managing Multiple Accounts on Twitter.
SplitTweet could be the answer for many peoples headaches who are trying to manage more than one Twitter account! Continue Reading
Thesis are offering a Black Friday discount! Now normally I wouldn’t bother about this but the hype surrounding this theme is true it is simply one of the friendliest, easiest and most wonderful themes (especially with great typography) available on the market. Continue Reading
This will be a three or four part series outlining some basic and key point’s regarding WordPress and Search Engine Optimization.
The title ‘See with your Eyes then Optimize’ will basically represent the mission of continuous optimization and we will use this blog as an example if it fails then you know not to follow these steps! ;)
A brief outline and I hope to have the first in the series of posts up within the next 24-48 hours…
I was prompted into this by a recent post from a so called ‘expert’ who clearly didn’t think out his post and what reactions would come before he posted!
Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing along with other concepts and techniques to achieve specific behavioral goals for a social good. Social marketing can be applied to promote, for example, merit goods, make the society avoid demerit goods and thus to promote that considers society’s well being as a whole. This may include asking people not to smoke in public areas, for example, ask them to use seat belts, prompting to make them follow speed limits.
So what makes an expert in these fields an expert?
A lot of companies lose momentum because they fail to see the opportunities social media could give them. They fail to react to the opportunities they do notice, and most of those who react, are doing it all wrong.
Forget expensive trendwatchers. Most of them are now discovering Facebook and god forbid if you mention Twitter. As soon as someone calls himself a trendwatcher, he/she is a late adopter at best. You’ll pay a lot of money for something most of your competitors already know.
Managers don’t have the time or the skills to do the necessary research. That’s why they hire employees, but they all have a job to do. Being creative online takes time, and face it, with smaller budgets, fiercer competition,… time spent on something that doesn’t immediately adds value to the company seems like time wasted. Continue Reading
Many developers have turned to the social network to create contacts and business opportunities, there are of course many to choose from; Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and my personal favourite Twitter. Many now use Twitter; according to TwitDir an estimated 3,287,083 people use the network and that’s just the people TwitDir follow!
There are many clients and plug-ins available to get you onto Twitter but my own personal favourite is TweetDeck (TD), an Adobe Air application. I’ve been using it for a couple of months, amongst others but I found it to be the most flexible having both single and multi-column formats.
For those of you that haven’t seen it before; you can see some snapshots in both single and multi-column styles below;
After a final rush of development activity at Google HQ where they pulled an all nighter in the Labs a statement was released this evening by Matt.
Google recently announced amongst the inner SEO circle headed up but Matt Cutts that they have developed a way to penalize video bloggers who are ‘Stuffing’ their video blog posts with keywords!
Blackhat SEO techniques are the bane of our lives at Google and it has been brought to our attention that after year’s of work from the Google team our endeavors have to take a new twist. We recently started indexing Video posts and have been very concerned with the results from some authority figures using ‘Keyword stuffing’ and other subliminal techniques to hypnotize their visitors into action’s that they would not normally take like buying that blogger’s latest sensational ebook!
A few hours ago (OK 24 ish) this popped up in the RSS;
Direct link to post: How I added the Twitter ID field to comments on Twitip.com
A couple of days ago I added the ability for those leaving comments on my TwiTip Twitter Tips blog to add their Twitter ID as well as their URL to comments. Since doing this I’ve been asked time and time again how we did it. In this guest post Sean Walberg (the guy who actually made it happen and who is my server admin on TwiTip) explains how he did it.
From a post from Darren Rowse on Twitip Continue Reading
I’ve been a Sphinn user for ohh a couple of weeks it wasn’t until today I checked out the Greatest Hits section where there are some pearl’s, along with a few dud’s!
Direct Link: Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn to top 400
If you worked in Sales a while you may or may not be familiar with this movie, it’s not an epic but in particular one scene rings true.
I was introduced to the movie in 1990 after a started work for a new software company selling Graphic Development tools. My immediate reaction, OMG who is this new sales manager and WTF does he want from me, my soul?
Take a look first and then we’ll discuss some elements (WARNING:there is some use of profanity in this video clip):
Some interesting answers from some key bloggers in the industry if you don’t read the whole book at least check out the links to their favorite posts!
The Millionaire Homeless Guy – Jamie Harrop
Killer Flagship Content – Free Ebook to Download – Chris Garrett Continue Reading
These people have Twitter landing pages do you?
Well bugger me thats the only one I could find that looked any good this is going to be a short post! Add your link to the comments if you have one! Continue Reading
Step 1
You see her across the room!
You know Google but she doesn’t know you, you’ve put up your content but what to do first you don’t want to go straight in and mess it all up with your big mouth so you need to think about your first steps carefully!
I would suggest getting yourself looking good before you even think about that first contact! If your breath smells or your hair looks bad your not going to get a second chance!
Check your Title tag’s, read this post to help with that ‘Quick and Easy SEO Tips – Title Tags’
Also check your META and more META and ALT tags. Continue Reading
Win what?
Don’t know yet I’m going to surprise you and to see if anyone actually bothers to share any links without knowing what the incentive will be….
Share with us your favorite Ebook or post about SEO (have to spell it out also Search Engine Optimization), Social Media or Marketing that gave you that Ahhhhh clarity of purpose or vision, I know mine which I’ll share at the end.
You can find the highly successful Part 1 ‘Who to follow on Twitter for Social Media & SEO tips’ here.
These people to follow are not necessarily going to follow you back so don’t expect but they do in my eyes give you value for you to then pass on to people following you so it’s worth the number’s!
After reading the post ‘SEO Company, SEO and Search Engine Optimization Google Results Are a Disgrace’ by @onreact_com Tad, I came up with the notion that if the search results for SEO and Search Engine Optimization are so bad, who can we trust? and asked fellow twitterers to suggest some people / companies that THEY would trust with their SEO… Continue Reading
I recently shifted my interest not totally but more expanding my horizons from Design to SEO and Social Media.
As an avid Twitter user I searched for some interesting people to follow and listen to concerning these subjects, what I found that many people have keywords in their @username but never tweet a single thing about SEO or Social Media so I thought I would make a list of the people I found that are sharing tips either directly from Twitter or via posts that they tweet to Twitter.
In no particular order;
Owner of Yoast, making WordPress all Google friendly with some nice free plugins, has a tendency to waffle about his train rides and such but some gems in between ;)
New to Twitter but shares some nice link’s to Social Media posts.
Full time blogger who shares alot of good stuff, you might get upset with the fact that he tweets links to his blog comments via Twitter but some of them are pretty interesting. Continue Reading
