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Forget about top 10, my site is at #11 and I am getting a well better click through, then was at 9 or 10.
Maybe my biz dir would send some traffic if it wasn't minus 40 spanked. Sorry about saying that everyone, reading the article re-opened the old wound and rubbed a bit of salt in.
I had one of my clients Dads who was like 70 doing pretty well on propeller when it was Netscape. I wouldn't have shown him digg or anything LOL. I think an old person could possibly enjoy mixx as well.
My site breaks SEO down like this:
Website optimisation - which covers a lot of stuff
Link building
Linkbaiting
Social media marketing
@Roland I remember selling what you just described, they were called realnames and they were shit hot, Microsoft took away their backing and it got disabled. That was after I had sold over £100,000 worth and made my commision, so it was not too bad. I long for a new realnames, I was just selling words, do you know how easy that is?
Digg is a big waste of time, unless you are one of the few sites that regulars on the homepage, or willing to build a new site designed specifically to do just that and then put a hell of a lot of time and effort in. SU is a safe bet for any site, stumblers are easy to please!
You can't go around saying things like, o'h you can only vote so many in a minute. The beauty of social voting sites is that you can vote for whatever you want, if you want to sphinn something without reading it because it is on your friends site, then that should be your choice. If you want to sphinn someone because you think they have a cool URL, or title, again that should be your choice. There should be no rules to voting, you should be able to vote for as many submissions as you want to, as fast as you want to and for whatever reason, no matter how silly it may seem to anyone else.
I think 'getting a link from the BBC will boost your google ranking' would be a better message.
Story: Stumbleupon Goes Dofollow
I saw this yesterday but I think the dofollow links cannot be seen by the engines, as you have to click a optiion to see them, the engines do not see the thumbshot pages.
Yahoo! Need to get with the cloaking IP delivery and redirect UK .com visitors to uk.com if they want to gain share in the UK. Also the UK Yahoo! Results are a mess at the minute, SEO Inc. are on the 1st page for SEO, at least the polish spammers are gone now.
The new little thumbshot thingies look rubbish if you are photo blogging, I have disabled them.
Great tool, Aaron is there anyway you can add uk.msn.com and uk.yahoo.com to the tool? I could give my clients ranking reports then. Some of them have asked for these, I usually tell them to get bent and say what would you rather me be doing working on your rankings, or checking on them? This tool could make it easy though.
When I am doing stuff for my clients a loose connection is good enough for me.
I just don't get this, you are allowed to submit your own stuff to most social bookmarking sites including digg, devaluing links to sites that constantly submit their own stuff would be one thing, but penalizing the websites of site owners that do it sounds extreme. I don't see it as being a major problem; non disclosed paid posts and paid links own the top money phrases on Google UK. Digg etc. doesn't even come into it. Digg are pretty swift in banning most e-commerce sites that get submitted anyway. Non e-commerce site or sites that sell advertising don't really care about Pagerank, they are in it for the traffic.
Iv'e just had a good think about this and I am going to call BS. Wise up sphinners this is linkbait.
Story: Should You Be Ranking For [SEO]?