Pest Blogging vs Guest Blogging: A Word of Warning
Posted: September 22, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, Content | Tags: blogging, Google, Google Penguin, guest blogging, myblogguest, outsourcing, penguin, SEO, spam 3 Comments »
Beware of who you email when it comes to guest blogging
For sometime now I have been trying to guest blog as a means of not only gaining links but increasing brand awareness with relevant audiences. However, I have recently been a victim of bad practices at the hands of a “summer intern” and been faced with the very same types of links that I have been in the process of removing for clients that have suffered from the Google Penguin update.
Although the problem has now been resolved (I have managed to get all of the links removed) I have learnt a valuable lesson about guest blogging. See below for my thoughts:
36 Content Strategies: Cool Content Curated
Posted: July 3, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, Content, SEO Reading List | Tags: business2community.com, content articles, content creation, content strategies, curated content, dynamic content, searchenginejournal.com, searchenginewatch.com, SEO, seomoz.org, useful articles Leave a comment »I’ve been thinking about content lately, I’ve been writing some guest posts and wrote a few pieces in order to attract readers/followers on Twitter for some clients.
And I’m starting to see how valuable, content can be and that when done right it can attract a lot of readers and can even gain natural rankings within Google. It is also good for attracting “trackback links”, which might not necessarily be the best type of links in the world (and are reciprocal) but nevertheless are extremely relevant.
Something I have realised is that great content takes more than 90 minutes to write, so put your stop watches away. If you want to write an amazing blog then you have to dedicate as much times as is needed in order to get it right. I recently spent about 3 hours writing just one blog post (for IT Rentals) and I think this post took just as much time.
So with content in mind here are some of the articles that have recently caught my eye.
What Is SEO Content? A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Content for SEO
10 Types of Helpful SEO Content - Search Engine Watch (SEW)
Microblog – Guest Blogging
Posted: June 3, 2012 Filed under: Content, Blogging, Microblogs 1 Comment »I’ve been working on some guest blogging opportunities this weekend, so that’s why I haven’t written a blog. But I may put up my SEO Infographics post for the week, as I know it’s been a few weeks since I’ve done one.
Next week, business as usual and I’ll be back on the blog and on Twitter.
Comment Evaluation: The Good, The Bad and The Fugly
Posted: April 28, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, Content, SEO, Social Media, Social Sharing | Tags: bad blog comments, blog comment evaluation, blog comments, community engagement, community involvement, genuine blog comments, good blog comments, Google search commands, link building, social metrics 18 Comments »
I was asked the other day about blog comments and the difficulties in writing something genuine that adds to the conversion. So, I thought I’d compile a list of comments as examples of good, bad and downright ugly blog comments.
And I thought the best way to do this would be to write this article and then actually post comments on this post (see below) along with an evaluation of each. But first, I need to write something to comment on.
So here are a few tips on how to find blogs and how to comment on them in the most authentic way:
YouMoz Article Submitted
Posted: April 15, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, Guest Blogs, Microblogs | Tags: link building, SEOMoz, Social Shares, Youmoz 1 Comment »Just a micro blog today, as I’ve just read a full blog for Youmoz.
I’m exploring guest blogging, so I thought where better to write a blog than on SEOMoz. I just wanted to see what impact a blog could have and whether it can generate traffic, a bit of a test really.
If it gets accepted I’ll write a blog on my findings a few weeks after it gets published.
But here’s an image that accompanied the article, as a sneak peak:
SEO Infographics: A Week in Pictures #3
Posted: April 14, 2012 Filed under: Social Media, SEO, SEO Infographics, Blogging, Social Sharing | Tags: social media, blogging, Google, linkedin, seo infographics, PPC, Social Data, Social Job Search, Web Design, Android Market, Facebook Likes, Brand Posts, Ranking Factors Leave a comment »
Peer Review: Matt Cutts, Rand Fishkin and Eric Ward Discuss Link Building Strategy
Posted: March 22, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, Content, SEO, Social Sharing | Tags: black hat SEO, bought links, eric ward?, link building, link building strategy, Matt Cutts, Matt Cutts Google, paid links, Rand Fishkin, Rand Fishkin seomoz, SEO, seomoz.org Leave a comment »
Link Building Discussion from Matt Cutts, Rand Fishkin and Eric Ward
What follows is an aggregated discussion on link building from the following sources: seomoz.org, ericward.com and mattcutts.com.
Hopefully the quotes compliment each other and you can gain some insight from three of the experts within our industry.
Matt Cutts: Firstly, don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank.
Infographic – The Advantages of Guest Blogging
Posted: March 3, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, SEO Infographics | Tags: blogging, guest blog, guest blogging, infographic, link bait, link building, SEO 2 Comments »Guest Blogging Infographic
An Infographic on the Importance of Guest Blogging
Ok, I’m just getting into guest blogging (see my next post, for my first guest), so I thought I’d give a run down of the benefits of guest blogging.
Here’s an Infographic from myblogguest.com that is really useful. I’ve just signed up for the site and it is a great place for connecting with potential guests or site owners.
Anyway, here’s the infographic.
SEO Infographic: How to Build Links
Posted: May 6, 2012 | Author: Tudor Davies | Filed under: Blogging, SEO, SEO Diagrams, SEO Infographics, Social Media, Social Sharing | Tags: articles, authenticity, banners, blog comments, blogs, community engagement, directories, forums, guest blogging, link building, online community, referrals, SEO, social bookmarking | Leave a comment »I’ve just added a new page to my blog “How to Build Links”. It contains an infographic that took all morning to create. Hopefully, you will like it.
To save you time, I’ll insert it here as well. Any feedback is more than welcome.