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Thanks for the Sphinn G.Suvorov. I tried to click your profile so I could send you a message but apparently you don't exist! Oh well, thanks anyway!
Story: My XML Sitemap Hell
That's a real eye opener. I had no idea that a poor site map could have such an effect on your business - but I'm glad that I now know. Kudos to the company for sorting it out quickly - they were lucky that they only made one change and not a stack of changes at the same time otherwise they would have been in serious trouble.
Thanks for posting.
I noticed this 2 weeks ago but didn't have the guts to make a blog post about it and try to predict anything! It seems to have settled down for me over the last few days but other people may have different results.
Useful list - not sure I have time to read them all though!
Bookmarked!
Gregor
Surely this will lead to a whole stack of blackhat flash techniques? Hidden text in Flash files - can Adobe's plug-in deal with that? Tiny flash files with loads of links, keywords, the works?
And how on earth do we, as SEOs find out why out competitors are ranking so highly when they have a blank page with a small blank flash movie on the page if we can't read it ourselves.
I foresee some hasty revisions going on before long!
Thanks for the kind words. It's my first Sphinn hot story so it's great to get the feedback.
Interesting. It's a very delicate balancing act because if you tweet too much about your sponsors or a product or whatever, then your followers will quickly desert you.
Also, I wonder just how much you could endorse or review something in 160 chars.
Thanks for the post though - not something that I'd even considered before!
Does it matter that it only has 200,000 users? It's only really taken off in the last couple months and 200,000 is still a lot of people to have listening to your tweets!
Good news for the SEO market. Lots of highly competitve organisations fighting for highly competitive terms.
Will be interesting to see how this develops. I wonder what will happen when one of them steps over the line and gets banned from the SERPs?
Just treat it like a micro-blog and you won't go far wrong. Content is the most important thing.
Make it worth reading. Every now and again post a useful link or something personal but that shouldn't be the main focus.
Story: A Problem with StumbleUpon?
I find it difficult to believe that stumbling someone else's website many times could punish it. Otherwise we'd all be offering SEO services that stumble someone else's website out of SU.com!
IME, SU success depends upon the size of your own network (fans), so stumbling your own work won't do too much good unless your fans also consider a decent piece of work. The problem would be if you have a large network who are willing to stumble whatever you stumble.
Perhaps StumbleUpon should just ignore the first couple of votes and only promote a piece with > 5 votes?
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