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Great study. I remember a post by Aaron Wall over a year ago which was titled 'How to get SEO clients'
Well, one of his tips was to do a study of the Fortune 500 companies to see how well their SEO is, then you will be seen as an expert. I wonder if they read that post.
Am I the only one who finds this super annoying? I wouldn't call it 'dominating facebook'
No offence Brian
I have to agree with the above, despite some of the negativity in comments (slightly some from me as well), it's great that many of the top industry experts can get together and discuss things like this.
The title came at perfect timing but I was expecting a little more to be honest.
Some of you may know all of this but I wanted to put all the basics in one place. It's simple things like this that have really helped me get my brand out there and rise to hundreds of feed subscribers in new niches very quickly.
Very useful post. It was a good reminder of what I often take for granted.
Thanks, that was mainly the aim, I'm going to be doing a mini-series over at SEOptimise :)
@dswiese Great basic article, these are all things I do on some level for myself, but as I learn and develop stratgies for clients, I tend to get wrapped up in some of the higher impact items, and forget these basic steps.
I'm so glad people could see that side of things as that is exactly how I wanted this to come across :)
i like everything you suggest for blogs but i think this article should be "5 Simple, Effective Tactics to Promote a New Blog" instead of "website". Most of these tactics - mybloglog, gravatar, blog commenting - won't really work for most traditional websites.
Thanks for the comment, although you can still drive traffic to a site and get links using blog commenting, it certainly will work for a traditional website if you have something interesting when a visitor lands on your site.
I responded on the blog but just incase anyone is confused:
Basically I had to do some smart maths on this one. There is a bit of dilemma as the higher the Google PR the better, but the lower the Alexa and Technorati the better. Therefore I told the programmer to give each PR a certain score.
PR 10 = 0
Pr 9 = 1,000
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Pr 1 = 9,000
PR 0 = 10,000
So, now if you have a PR 9 (which is great) only 1,000 points are added to the final score. Then overall you just rank the sites by the lowest total score (all 3 added together).
This isn’t perfect and probably not exactly fair but it means if two sites have the same T & A, although unlikely, the one with the higher pagerank will rank 1st.
Your welcome Chris, I recommend everyone try a new niche for a while. You learn so many new things whether it is SEO, Blogging or even affiliate marketing.
Thanks for the Sphinn, there are so many niches that can benefit from this so easily.
If you are sneaky you just 301 the page after a few weeks to your homepage :)
It feels like yesterday i was reading the 2007 version. I've been here too long!
I put it in networking by accident, meant to put it in social media ;)
It was a small sample, but I still think the results hold true
Story: UK SEO Personalities Line Up
Sadly I fear the title might have made less people vote for it, hopefully they do go through to the great article though
I've actually noticed some holes in the current set-up in terms of being able to see some information of others. I'm going to email Chris now and then I'll update the response as I think this is a great tool everyone should enjoy, I just hope data isn't available for everyone.
We had it set so if you got logged out of your stats it defaulted to BLVD's stats demo and there were occasions where when you scrolled over a referrer it would show a refferer from another site, but never where you can see anyone elses full stats as far as we know.
Yeah that was the issue, emailed you about it yesterday just to make sure it wasn't a glitch. It is quite strange though as I have a direct link to my analytics and keep seeing that of BLVD Status. I noticed a few pages where there is no link back to home etc so I'll send you another email
Great service though guys, I recommend everyone to use it, really loving it
James Duthie - We're destroying and abusing the very nature of social media. Which is ironic when so many of the articles we produce ourselves describe processes to leverage social media.
Mass - We're destroying and abusing the very nature of social media. Which is ironic when so many of the articles we produce ourselves describe processes to leverage social media.
I assume this is a bot?
I've been trying to click it as often as possible on Spammy submissions. Is there any chance that we could change it so that only one person has to click 'report as spam' for a story to get moderated
Actually, that's probably a bad idea as it's so easy for people to abuse the system. Maybe it's time to give some users a little extra power so we (not saying I should be one of those users) don't need to wait for others to report as spam before a topic goes into moderation
Just my thoughts
Sorry to go against the grain here (and nothing against you Mike) but I don't think he offers anything of value in this interview.
He obviously rushed some of his responses:
"I was very late to blogging because I thought it was inherently
arrogant–that is, that you had to believe cared what you thought about
everything." - What?
"You need to ask Neil Patel or Darren Prowse about
this stuff." - Prowse?
I'll admit I originally Sphunn this because I'm a big fan of Guy's but I didn't really take anything out of this
Just to add, I 'desphinned' it because I had Sphunn it originally, usually i would just let it go :)
Seriously though, if this wasn't on the verge of going hot I would have also just let it go. I'm sure this will go hot regardless.
I'm sure it will, I love how submitter / site owner is thumbing down our comments as well ;)
Story: Study: Fortune 500 Doesn’t Get SEO