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I'm buying a bike. Forget that noise. I have people to see and places to be.
We pretty much "Virtual Biography" anyway if we hold a personal blog, have a myspace account, twitter, and flickr. Thus is life.
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These are all good points. As someone in social media, we should all be wise enough to MySpace research who we are interviewing with, and make our own profiles private. Yes? In addition, having 2 profiles (your personal and your professional) and making the personal private, they will be fished into seeing what you want them to see.
It's not wise to mix business with pleasure. Pleasure must stay locked and hidden away.
As SEO's we should also be wise enough to create ego sites. Heck we can create press releases highlighting how great we are. I can be my own #1 fan. But this is a whole different ball game. It gets messy on this field.
Story: Real Estate SEO is a Joke
I've been through the SEO real estate ringer for a company that I used to work for. I know the bad and the ugly with these types of companies. 100+ clients, 1 account rep, and 1 solid push through process.
Currently I do have 1 real estate client and she is preforming very well. As what I do for her IS custom and pertaining directly to her industry. As Wallace mentioned, it's about having the biggest, baddest, reputable site out there. Not only that, but there are so many Real estate websites out there that are having handfulls of traffic thrown at them without leads. That's where I find my niche. Turning traffic into leads. Thats where these types of companies fall short.
It drives me insane when others use Yahoo as a verb. I don't know why, but every time I get a tense feeling in the back of my neck.
I'm aware of similar sites but they are more on a paid basis, not an exchange program. It's really not a bad gig if you find quality blogs.
Cheers to this. I've had clients tell me they 'know' marketing, but still view it the same way they did 15 years ago. The times have changed buddy, time to get onboard. Great post.
I totally feel you on this one! I swear by the time I am done blogging on my own blogs (SEO blog and another personal blog) plus my online journal, plus my works blog, plus checking my SEO emails to keep up with the trends and those articles, PLUS then working for my clients and keeping up with their social media interactions. By the end of the day, I am "sphunn" ;)
Cheers to that. :) We feed it to them for breakfast. The only problem I can see resulting in this type of demographic data gathering is on PCs that have multi users. Logging into our Google Accounts may be the best way to go. That will fully feed our results to our specifications. :) Can you imagine? It's all so exciting. But these are all things we should be focusing on regardless.
Too cute. Very clever. I wonder if my dog will get jealous tho. Puppy needs attention too.
Story: Google 3.0 = Wikipedia²
Sadness indeed. It's really sad when you find a .gov or .edu link under all the wiki articles.
I fully agree the tool is useful if utilized properly, but as it was prior to their "performance placement" unveiling, it was useless and a waste of money. Looking at the pages, they were far from the subject my client was using keywords for. And I mean FAR from it.
All in all, Google now has a good thing going here. Top Google profit will always be achieved with relevancy. I hope they continue on their path to find great matches. Then this whole content network will bring on a whole new meaning to PPC.
Ya, I do see how it could be abused. But abuse causes penalties eventually.
I can see how the spam comments can get out of control, but we as website owners are supposed to keep an eye on the activity our website produces. Forums would also be stuffed with links left and right.
But all the lost juice in the big league sites like online newspapers, and journals (health and medical type journals), would be of great use. They're probably the most creditable sites out there.
So I can see how text links could be abused, but URL links should be given a chance at least.
I use the meta keyword tag. Only because it gives me a personal guideline of what keywords I should be optimizing the page for/creating anchor text to. Do I think they have any weight in the SEs? No. But it's used as my mini note card.
I have to agree that it is rewarding. Helping people succeed on the web is the main reason I love SEO. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Just venting my frustration.
"Though your own company (record label, restaurant, t-shirt, etc.) may not have the six or even seven figure advertising campaign budget of these large corporations, you can still take advantage of the free profiles MySpace offers its users and entertainers (bands, comedians, and filmmakers)."
I think this says it all. As a company, having your own personalized myspace page allows you to build an internet presence with generation web 2.0 users. Plus it allows you to be a little more personal and interact with your audience. And that is good marketing.
What I want to know is if myspace domain extensions will run low to a point you have to purchase them from users. Such as http://myspace.com/cocacola is owned by a 17 year old girl named Breanna. Sprite is taken in the same manner. Think Coca Cola will purchase it from her for top dollar? Wouldn't that be neat for her?
New business owners will need to make sure the company business name isn't taken domain name wise and myspace extension wise.
I ponder all of this in my dreams.
Google knows what color your underwear are. Honestly tho. Especially if you have a Google account that you are logged into during search. Just like vanessa mentioned, they know if you're planning a trip, looking to sell your dog, dieting, looking up porn. Google knows all. It's all logged. We're all just another statistic to build Googles all mighty algorithm.
Isn't it neat?
But this doesn't just happen online. I mean when you go to Vegas and have player cards, they track you around that city. Credit card companies know way too much about you and your family. It's all in databases.
Just tattoo my SSN on my neck, chip me, and get it over with.
Well yes and no. I mean as I mentioned before, search engines are not giving away any information they were not 'given' so to speak. They crawl anything that they weren't denied access to. If a website owner does not want these pages displayed, there is code to stop it.
I do see that being in a search engine is not an 'opt in' situation, and in that case, website owners may become upset if certain articles are dug through and indexed. There is only a way to 'opt' out.
But yes, I do see the concern. However, it's something web designers and website owners should be made aware of. Web security, now more than ever, needs to be looked at as being secure.
I'm not a hacker by any means, but being a "stalker" is a whole different subject.
Harm? If the system truly wanted to keep us out of the back end of 'log in' type pages, they would just need to add that into their robots.txt file. It's the lack of education in search that both makes it good for who knows it, and harm for who doesn't.
Smaller sites like Vault.com can afford to have people sneek into the back end. Banks and universities on the other hand, it would cause some harm. It's really about website security.
"One of many reasons affiliates use this technique is that it allows them to show a different display URL to the actual click-through URL on the ad."
I'll admit, I do this. Not to the extent they argue in the article, but if I'm doing SEO for let's say a real estate website, instead of having the plain URL, I'll spice it up with domain.com/listings. It does seem to help.
As for copying competitors ad's, I can't see that as converting really well. My goal is always conversions. Users expect to go where they clicked on.
"CattMutts, an admitted Google basher"
I just think it's funny how you talk about yourself in the third person.
Now that's sexy egh? Let's face it, just like Wikipedia, Craigslist.org has a ton of creditability in the SERPs. Google will tweek and alter their results soon enough, and your client will climb back to where he belongs.
The click through on the Craigslist ad's can't be that great. Where's your client ranking by the way? Page 2, or further? Has his traffic dropped according to analytics? I'm curious to know.
Ya know, I think that you do. Not necessarily your personal photo, but at least a 'logo' or image that shows skimmers who wrote what article. Personal photo for networking is stronger.
Graywolf has an awesome one and it's not his personal photo. There is no mistaking his icon when you scroll down the page. When you see Danny Sullivan's face, it's obvious who he is too. So if you want to strongly market yourself, a static photo is the easiest way to get known.
Plus when they see you around all these search engine conferences, it's easier to notice people.
It's all about networking.
I wish I could attend! Hopefully they do one at Pub Con Vegas. I'm keeping my eye on that one.
I say design on ugly websites is preferred over pretty websites only in certain industries. I'm curious to know which type of site you were trying to promote (e-commerce, informative, services?). As with a web design company, you will want a pretty site and it will turn over more leads. If you are selling "discount" items an ugly site will convert over a prettier one.
I've seen with real estate agent sites, an ugly website converts better. Why? Because it has more personality to it. A unique feel. People are unique, so those looking for services online want a homely feeling website.
At least that's my opinion. Comments?
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