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@pageoneresults "This site doesn't display properly in Firefox. Also, do ya'll really need another topic with WordPress Plugins. Some of you are throwing over 1MB of Plugins already, stop it!"
I for one think the post was well written and listed some really good plugins. Also displayed perfectly fine for me in FF... try upgrading or getting rid of all those addons?
Also I don't really get worried about 1MB anymore.. It I need the plugins I may just get dangerous and use a whole 5MB..... of my 6000Gig space...
Here is where you can upgrade to the current 3.0 version.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Story: SEO’s Still Dominating Digg
Should probably note that Shoemoney's blog is not the post that was submitted to Digg and not the post that got 3k diggs...
Attention to detail folks.
Story: SEO’s Still Dominating Digg
@seobro
Why would Google give a penalty to sites that require user voting and moderation to reach a front page?
Commented on site but not approved:
‘If your content is good enough, the search engines will find it and place it in the search engines where is really belongs.’
Nope… Search Engines are robots. They have to follow a formula to determine what your site is about.
SEO is not about manipulation… although some SEO’s manipulate. It is about understanding what questions the search engines have for your site and answering them. It is about providing them information in order to understand what your site is about.
This whole rant just sounds ignorant and angry.
‘I hate using search engines knowing somebody has paid to be placed there at the top for a keyword I am searching for.’
Ahhhh… so your really ranting about PPC (Paid Search Advertising)? Of course that is not SEO at all…
If you mean you hate that people are paid to teach people to understand how search engines work… then you also hate lawyers, accountants, personal trainers, and teachers… to name a few. I mean if a kid was smart we shouldn’t have to teach them right?
‘For the seo company’s/seo consultants reading this, I have a few things to say to you. If you don’t stop solely doing seo for clients instead of a full range of Internet marketing services, I will personally hunt you down and tare your mother fuk’in head off for ruining the search engine results pages for everybody else on the Internet.’
Anytime… any place.. it is real easy to be tough online
I actually was super impressed with their new local section and use it a ton.
Story: Is Desphinning rude?
It just needs to be anonymous in my opinion. Too often birthday posts and posts about someone popular's contest that have nothing to do with SEO make the front page... why?
Well who here is going to desphinn my stuff ... who is going to desphinn somone who we all know who had a birthday..
Sure one or two of us will desphinn once in a while but with all the complaints of spam and crap content do you honestly believe people are really using the feature near as much.
I think Desphinn should have a reason and i think it should be shown only to moderators.. We can decide if it is being abused or not.
PS - This post by Brent was the result of a prank, but we suspect tags will be one of the first features developed...
posted by steve [spez]
What would be priceless is if you could all push it to the Front Page so we could say how every broken rule ever made a Digg front page.. Hah
@patrick You make the assumption that the company knew what was going on but Lyndoman alludes in most of his artciles that they should have known and that they should have checked to see if it was true.
That would indicate to me that they didnt know. Being as they fired Lyndoman and moved to correct the problem that occured, i would say they had no idea a person they hired to created viral content was going to write a hoax and propose it as news.
On a further note how is that actually impressive. If you Patrick had access to a top level authority site domain and you wrote a story that could be as extreme or wild as you wanted, because it was bullshit, then you too could have the same success.
Hell anyone out there who is willing to destroy their name can get away with 1 winner.
I think the real successes are when people take a company that doesnt have an authoritative domain and doesnt have a super extreme "fake" story about kids, sex, and crime, and get the same result.
Taking an example that violates all the rules and uses the absolute best viral points, being sex, drugs, and crime... how is that some expert skill? It is kind of like the SEO who finds a PR7 site that just wont rank well because they never added title tags. He says "you know, you should add title tags" and poof they rank..
I will tell you one thing.. only the people who are not succeeding in social media found this whole story about Lyndoman impressive at all... :(
@DVOLA @Lyndoman - Never said the piece was not successful and i absolutely expect Lyndoman to pimp it since it equals dollars in the pocket.
As for do mine succeed.. Go to a conference once or ask around. About the only way you would know for sure is to hire me or talk to someone who has.. because I am not so arrogant that i would risk my clients future so i can brag to a bunch on non-social media folks to suck them into a seminar.
My point was that anyone in social knows it is not hard to push super viral stuff. I mean i stuck a damn picture of a police officer pulling over a truck and hit front page of digg a few hours ago.. Took about 15 seconds and yay... but that crap is a dime a dozen..
This is all stuff you should understand... to have this debate.
@lyndoman I really don't have a problem with the baits or the skill or any of that. Most of my comments are never direct responses or directed at you personally. Most... I think...
I just thought that outting the client and the image it gives our industry is not worth the positive side you can get out of it.
If you wanted to do your seminar or social media work, I would have sent you so many signups and clients over time, if i knew you were looking, that you would be set.
But by outting clients and the tactics you use then you make it harder on me and the industry to get clients to understand that Social Media is not all about black hat tricks.
It is not about the one bait... that is not even a tactic really to begin with. You actually never spoke about the tactics that I read and that is good... My complain is just about the public outting and declaration of a darker side of linkbait.
I may come off as heated or emotionally invested but I am not. I am just speaking my mind and I would love to sit around and debate it 1 on 1 with you sometime in private and non-prying ears.
PS.. I also told Rand and Shoe to STFU as well, both of whom i respect and am very close with.
Cheers...
@DVOLA...
There is a slide presentation or two on my blog with some case studies. Check em out if you like.
A successful social media project can yield different results for anyone. The question is flawed so the answer is bound to be flawed as well.
If you are a smaller company and need only 100 links versus a company who doesn't care about links at all...
However, I have had campaigns that yielded from 100 links to 10,000 links... some having no PR6+ and others have over 30 PR7-PR8 links...
@mvandemar - I just didn't approve the comment as it really wasn't helpful or valid.
I talked to Digg when it occured. While still speaking with them they fixed it in 10 mins time.
It was absolutely a bug and the submissions where unlimited until they fixed it... sorry but you don't know what your talking about.
Did it happen in May.... yes it did.. see where i blogged about it in March... http://www.brentcsutoras.com/2008/03/28/digg-extends-the-time-limit-on-upcoming-submissions/
However when that occured in March and in May it was seen as testing and a possible change more than a bug. This one was clearly a bug as even crap submissions with only 1 digg also remained in the system.
The point was never that it was fake.. The campaign was F**cking awesome and very successful. That was not the point.
I sphunn based on the attempt.. But half the don't do's are nyahhh.. :9
@vsiler - it is simple and you can reset your preferences to return to old view.
Umm.. well duh.. But how do you propose we get inclusion into Yahoo Buzz??
Story: The SEO Rock Star 'How - To'
Especially since this article has nothing to do at all with being an SEO Rockstar and it has only one section on basic social media.
No offense to Maki but he doesnt obviously count his time as a cost. Social media is not low cost by any stretch of the imagination.
Story: The SEO Rock Star 'How - To'
I am not debating how time is spent. I am debating that anything social requires time. A lot of time. Time is valuable. If you try to hire a social media consultant it is expensive because it is a constant time sink with social.
Maki spends all day every single day in social media. So if you want to succeed like Maki does you have to spend all day everyday.
:)
Story: The SEO Rock Star 'How - To'
"What I'm saying is that it is low cost *if* a small business owner decides to get involved in social media on his/her own - without bringing in a consultant."
The time it takes for a small company to effectively engage in social media is very time consuming.
Time = Money..
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