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- Image Search Optimization
I’ve been looking into optimizing images for the various image search engines and I’ve found 4 major points to address:
- Keywords in file images
- Keywords in ALT tags
- Keywords in caption text below image
- Image size
It seems at least Google’s image search uses image dimension to identify duplicate images, so if you’re working with an image other sites also use, it would be helpful to modify the image size by a few pixles, so as to not get…
- Social Media Optimization: A Buzz Timeline
- 8/25: I post my list.
- 8/29: Danny Sullivan “announces” it.
- 8/29: Randfish offers up his list.
- Trendspotting with Search: Billy Talent
You ever heard of Billy Talent?
Me neither, I just found him in wordtracker’s short term top 1000.Turns out he’s pretty well known in Canada, but never really broke in the US. You can see that in the bottom graph on a Google trends search of all regions. If you use another, international, keyword for scale you can compare the all reigons graph with the US only one.
Big difference.
The keyword list for Billy Talent is predictable for a new…
- Clickfraud is Really a Problem
From The Alphamarketer:
So when we use Google Adwords, or other advertising methods, we need to not only look at what we are paying per keyword, but also to build into the cost what we project as fraudulent clicks.
The problem with click fraud is not just that it artificially increases advertising costs, PPC is still way cheaper and easier to measure than nearly any other type of advertising (including direct response) if you “build in the…
- If you stop, you’ll die
Lemme get my meta on for a second.
As I mentioned yesterday, Ming visually remixed some art and a quote I wrote.
So tonight, I’ll return the flavor, working off his Finding Nemo riff here’s what I’ve got:
oh and Ming? just FYI. For SEO purposes, I’d recommend making your post titles the link that goes to the rest of the post.
- They’re Posts, Not Blogs
Here’s a little pet peeve of mine when teaching new bloggers. They refer to posts as “blogs”.
I’m not sure why, but that just makes my skin crawl.
- Social Media Optimization Traffic Sources
I wrote this as support material for a speech being given by our VP. Its a list of non-SEO or PPC methods of building traffic (with an emphasis on blogs and social media)
- Social Networking Sites (Myspace, Friendster)
You can setup profiles for your website or yourself and use in-network messaging and bulletin systems to promote your site. - Digg
Writing digg-friendly content, like lists and howtos, and optimize your tags to gain traffic from…
- Social Networking Sites (Myspace, Friendster)
- Optimizing Blog Post Titles For SEO
Cool post from Blog Business World:
How to feed your healthy dog
Dog food: Selection and feedingNote that the first title style is straight forward. The second title places a keyword phrase at the important front end, and expands on the topic after a colon. Both title styles are effective for blog SEO. I suggest you try using both styles on your blog. Note that this post uses the keyword phrase colon phrase format.
Personally I’d go with the…
- Content is Dead, and Resource is King
A few days ago, I wrote Content is dead and resource is king.
A few people liked it (or disagreed with it but found it interesting) and ran with it.
Now comes this:
Suhweet, nice work Ming.
- Listen Before You Talk
Just had a meeting with a client who is getting into blogging as a method of promotion for his site. One of the best customers I’ve worked with in this niche. He understands that since he doesn’t have a lot of money to throw at buying traffic, he’s going to need to put time and effort in, and he’s not afraid of the work.
Once he got familiar with the technical features of his blog, we started getting him into the conversation of blogging,…
