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Good post. This is where the copywriting end of SEO really pays off. Literally.
I agree completely. The value in social media is that these conversation create a very powerful permission-based form of marketing. It makes products/services better and created brand advocates. All of these are more important than links in a traditional marketing sense. And when you have this, the links will naturally follow.
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Solid information for those who think, "If I knew then what I know now". Also written with a good sense of (practical) humor. My favorite quote: "[Get worried when] your designer or developer 100% agrees with everything the search team suggests. Either the search team is clueless, or the designer/developer is quietly shredding every suggestion."
So true.
Though I use Twitter, I don't kill whole days with it like some people have confessed to doing. Still, even for a limited use like myself, I found this article useful. I even downloaded the firefox add on. Great post.
While SEM is not my specialty, I believe the end of Panama would be welcome news to many.
Wow. Fantastic list of tools. I tend to be more of a stumbler, but these tools are making me take another look at Digg. Awesome post.
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This looks very interesting. I think I just found a weekend-killer.
It's not about trusting sites, it's about the ability for webmasters to have greater control over the flow of link juice of their sites both internally and externally. If you trust a site, by all means, don't use a nofollow.
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Haha, more about site architecture than SEO. I haven't had those types of dreams since my "Tetris phase", though.
I'll sphinn it for the headline alone. I'm having a hard time actually going to look.
LOL, I'm so addicted to StumbleUpon I'll never leave.
Ever.
It's almost a sickness.
I sphunn this article for one primary reason: there has been a SEVERE lack of articles and discussion about SEO here lately, which I find really odd considering the backgrounds here. I'm so tired of blog articles and social media articles! I have nothing against them, it's like you can only hear a great song on the radio before you get tired of it, you know? I blog. I do a ton of social media, but damn! Gimme some SEO discussion already!
Which is what we have here. And I love it. I sphunn the original article and I sphunn this one because both make valid points. SEO, as we know it, is continuing to change and evolve. Discussions like Vinny's that break it down to a "where do we start" type of scenario are gold. And Gyutae's further discussion that challenges those assumption is equally important.
Every client is different and every competitive space is different. And, hell, the Google algorithm could be different every day.
No black or white. Lots of gray. That's what makes discussion so valuable and the job so fun.
It still has some kinks to work out, you know...the kinks that come with any relaunch, but my blogs gets more traffic from Propeller and Reddit that Digg and Delicious.
I'm just sayin' is all.
I think this is because the ultimate goal of a charity and a business change their respective approaches to ROI. For some charities who focus much on education, getting a read is a conversion - return on their investment. For businesses they wants sales or leads. Much harder to get. As such, their ROI is considerably less. And the brass doesn't usually like negative ROI in any capacity.
Number four is the big one in converting potential clients. Great post.
Before coming to SEO, I spent 5 years as a copywriter. While I love digging through code to help clients position, I feel it's my strength as a copywriter that helps me turn those positions into sales. Good post...but I'm a little biased.
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