November 13, 2007 on 10:12 am
Filed Under:Web
One of my favourite Old West SEOs, Andy Beal from Marketing Pilgrim is currently teasing me with a contest of some variation, and this is my effort at entering…
For starters, I open up about 10 SEO blogs every day, religiously, and sometimes even extend that into another 12-15.
- Online Marketing Blog
- Matt Cutts
- SEOmoz
- Graywolf
- SEO Theory
- Stone Temple
- Marketing Pilgrim
- Stunt Dubl
- SEO by the SEA
- Tropical SEO
These folks seem to get it right most days and always seem to offer some sort of insight into a realm that I either A) hadn’t quite thought of yet or B) HAD thought of but hadn’t documented my thoughts about.
This is a fantastic opportunity for networking as I can now comment on the uniqueness and brilliance of the things I previously hadn’t thought of or at my own brilliance for agreeing with the things I had thought about (but hadn’t written about yet).
Win-win, I do believe. Either way I get to sound brilliant. My comments, as any of the folks above can attest to, aren’t always brilliant, I accept this, but when brilliance is less than graspable, reach for funny.
So, Why do I read Marketing Pilgrim Every Day?
Simple, it’s a quick and easy way to either expand my mind in a new direction or expand it in an established direction, all while dropping my name in the mix and making some new friends.
That, and the immortal words of The Duke:
Good Bloggers Know.
November 12, 2007 on 12:14 pm
Filed Under:SEO
Bill Hartzer wrote a great column titled, “Corporate America Can Learn a Lot from Bloggers” in a recently received email newsletter from SearchDay (from Search Engine Watch) and I thought I’d use his insights and advice to further my own stance on blogging.
From an SEO standpoint, blogging is great, but not the be-all/end-all that many think it is. I recommend it for my clients as a way to boost their SEO absolutely, but that isn’t the sole reason I do it.
As you can probably tell from this blog, I’m a firm proponent in using a blog as a way to reach more users in a much more informal manner than the rest of my site. Search Engine Optimisation will get a site to #1 in Google if done correctly, but without a few different ways to engage that user, they’ll never convert to customers.
One quick look at my user traffic and I can tell you which folks came through because of some markety-type text on one site and some informally-written braindump ranting on another.
The point is, and Bill’s point as well, is that blogging is about networking, rubbing e-elbows with each other, and getting our name out there. Without networking, most small businesses would never make it, and of course… there wouldn’t be much of an Internet then would there?
An example of a Jex Analytics blog for SEO purposes.