Top Ten Items in SEO and Search Marketing
1. Pre-SEO questions that you need to answer
These long lists of questions are the ideal ones to ask yourself before you launch your SEO campaign. A total of 61 pre-SEO questions are presented to anyone willing to develop their campaign. The questions are categorized in two groups. The first group is if you will do your SEO yourself and the second group pertains to the questions that you should be asking if you are outsourcing your SEO.
2. Using or abusing the new Digg bar
Digg, being one of the more popular social bookmarking sites, is coming up with a lot of improvements and advancement in their system. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how you can abuse this new toolbar so that you will be available on Digg all the time, increasing your availability and increasing your site visits. This fiery, angst-ridden writer seems to have a lot against Digg and would want it to go down. With all that said, this article is one of the more controversial ones this week.
3. Is Guy Kawasaki ruining Twitter?
This question is being asked by Andrew Goodman and it concerns the way Guy Kawasaki talked about Twitter last week during the SES New York. The writer criticized some points that Kawasaki raised, pointing out that it was very condescending of Kawasaki to say that ‘nobodys can be somebodys in Twitter’. The writer further writes about Kawasaki also criticized the non-followers in Twitter, as well as the huge disparity between those who are using Twitter to further their social lives against the ones who are using it to benefit their business or career.
4. List of the best niche social media news sites
Generally, this is a list of the best social media news sites under different categories like business, products and commerce, sports and leisure, art and design, programming, entertainment and celebrity, women’s news and style and environment.
5. Twitter as a link builder: valuable or not?
Everyone seems to be quite taken by the Twitter bug and the world of social media won’t be left behind. In this blog entry, the main focus is Twitter being a link builder and gauging its value in that role. One point being argued is that having your site seen by all the hundreds of thousands of Twitter members does not constitute to link building. An effective link building process would entail having a Tweet containing a URL being sent to your page. That is how link building works.
6. Another look at search ranking factors
This article written by Todd Mintz offers a new perspective on how one would look at the different search ranking factors of local SEO. Some of the ideas mentioned are: citation is a new link, using city centroid correlation to local search rankings and ways on how to knock your competitor off the listing.
7. Using Wikipedia Visualization Tools
Wikipedia is a great site that can be used for keyword and topic research because of the variety of content it holds. Different Wikipedia Visualization Tools that you can use in achieving this goal are WIkipedia-roll, VisWiki, EyePlorer and WikiRank. Generally these tools will help you generate related keywords and promote topic development.
8. Dealing with annoying commenters in social media
This can’t be avoided in any social media site. Someone annoying and obnoxious will surely want to make their point across at your expense. According to this fun article, there are 11 types of comment saboteurs in social media and these are: know-it-alls, first fanatics, content hater, elitist, jealous one, fanatical fact-checker, hijacker, troll, agenda spreader and shameless spammer.
9. Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference
This conference held recently in Iceland was chronicled in this blog site by ‘Randfish’. A truly memorable experience both SEO-wise and travel-wise, the internet marketing conference brought together distinguished SEO experts to Iceland. Keynote speakers include: Sion Portman from Nike and Mark Killingley from NFL. What sets this conference apart is that it targeted the newbies and provides and introduction to internet marketing.
This article re-iterates the well known fact that success in SEO will not happen overnight. There is no secret sauce or secret formula involved. This article further debunks different SEO myths like there is an SEO secret formula, the need of a scientific formula in SEO and achieving a sense of authority before gaining success in SEO.
