Syndicate Your Blog the Low Tech Way. Submit Your Blog Entries as Articles.
May 21, 2006
This might seem a little strange, but I’ve started submitting my blog entries to article submission sites to gain more readers, and build links for SEO. Before blogs hit the mainstream website owners would (and still do) post articles on the large array of what I like to call “article dump†sites. An article dump website is one that accepts large quantities of articles without any real editorial review, only a “yes or no†check for the purposes of keeping the directory free of spam.
Besides article dump sites, there are lots of higher quality publishing sources, but unless you’re a professional writer, you’ll probably be posting your stuff on mostly article dump sites and maybe a few niche topic sites. For example if you wrote about shoeing horses, you could probably find a few specific groups etc to announce your stuff. So if you have a blog and you update it very regularly how do you find time to write articles and post them everywhere?
Blog Search Engines Are a Better Way to Sort Through the Blogosphere - Article Published at Associated Content
May 21, 2006
New article published at associated content, check it out (READ MORE link opens in a new window):
Blog SEO: Tips to Make Your Blog More Search Engine Friendly
By Solomon Rothman, May 17, 2006
Using regular search engines is GREAT, except for finding blogs. If you only use the regular search, you may be missing out on one of the most powerful ways to get the latest news and information, as well as see what “real people” are blogging about.
READ MORE » ( Article on Associated Content)
[tags]blog SEO,blog search engines,blogosphere,blog search engine,blog search engine optimization[/tags]
Blog SEO: Tips to Make Your Blog More Search Engine Friendly - Article Published at Associated Content
May 21, 2006
New article published at associated content, check it out (READ MORE link opens in a new window):
Blog SEO: Tips to Make Your Blog More Search Engine Friendly
By Solomon Rothman, May 17, 2006
Tips on how to improve your blog’s search engine rankings and optimizate a default blog installation to be search engine friendly. List of the easiest and most important blog updates.
READ MORE » ( article written for Associated Content )
Free Places to Distribute Your Video Online - Article Published at Associated Content
May 21, 2006
New article published at associated content, check it out (READ MORE link opens in a new window):
Free Places to Distribute Your Video Online
By Solomon Rothman, May 17, 2006
Each video distribution website has it’s own unique audience and currently traffic levels for user views are spread out, so if you want your video to be seen by as wide an audience as possible, you’ll need to list it everywhere.
READ MORE » ( Article on Associated Content)
Why Most Video Blogs Suck - Problems with Video Blogs and Video Bloggers
May 21, 2006
By now everyone knows about blogs. The crazy online journals complete with spelling mistakes and gorilla news . I still remember the special on the Katrina blogger who broke the “in the water†stories and was interviewed live on CNN. Currently most blogs consist of text and pictures with the occasional audio clip, but with the popularity of broad band and increased storage capacities, video blogs are the new rage, and why not? Who wants to scan through pages and pages of small text if you don’t have to right? Unfortunately there are some serious problems with most video blogs making them almost unwatchable.
Wikiepedia? No Wikipedia, Typo your way to new visitors!
May 14, 2006
My previous posts on contributing to Wikipedia contained an interesting and apparently well searched for typo. It says in the paragraph 2 “wikiepedia” instead of Wikipedia.
What’s interesting about this typo, is the post (typo is now fixed) ranked number 1 for the misspelling wikiepedia on google and brought some new visitors into my site. I just checked my analytics and it appears the visitors who came to site using a search term of wikiepedia viewed an average of 2.25 pages, meaning they clicked around at least somewhat. So that brings me to an interesting question, should you purposely put typos in titles and/or descriptions to bring new customers to your site? Or maybe just list a few common misspellings at the end of your posts?
What do the search engines consider relevant about you? Analysis of a name search.
May 14, 2006
I admit it, I search for my name a lot. Firstname Lastname, click, send, wait, smile! It’s exciting to see what the search engines find most relevant about me. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should. Everybody likes to feel important or at the very least less obscure and more accessible online to friends, loved ones, fans, viewers, colleagues you name it.
What’s interesting is the distinctly different types of websites and information that the top 3 (Google, MSN, and Yahoo) return in response to a firstname lastname search. Now a lot of these differences are not specific to a name search and would fit in the categories of convtionial SEO, but the reasons why I think it’s important to talk about this specific search separately from regular SEO are:
1. This search is one of the most important to an individual emotionally. Your first and last name appears on everything you create. It can represent your reputation, your family heritage, your professional image, your expertise, and your experience, all at the same time. Give me another two search words that cover all of that.
2. People use their first and last name in documents and websites in similar ways that differ extensively from other words Most of us, for example, don’t have social networking accounts, blogs, press releases, work history, personal comments and video files all attached to a string of keywords like “buy movies nowâ€. Read more
Thoughts on Minimalism in Film and Movies
May 12, 2006
When you search on google for "minimalism in film", "minimalist film", and "minimalist " it’s surprising how few relevant entries I found. In fact I don’t even see those words being used much online.
The definition of minimalism from Wikipedia is:
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. Read more
My Most Popular Article "What you should know before joining the army"
May 12, 2006
This one surprised me, it’s not about SEO, or web design, or film, or a rant about any of my regular topics, but the most popular and well received article I’ve ever written for the internet was about the ARMY.
orginal article on associated content titled - What you should know before joining the army
For those of you who don’t know I served 2 years in the US ARMY (1999-2001). Two years was my full enlistment and I went to college afterwards at the U of O on the Army College fund. hmm.. maybe I’ll post a picture in the future. Anyways, I wrote an article on what you should know before joining the army and every time I give people the url to my article list, it’s always the first one they read and the one they comment on.
It’s rough, I didn’t even do a lot of editing to it, it was something I just wrote in one sitting and then sent in. I’m thinking about writing an updated article and spending more time on the structure and form. What do you think?
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Portfolio Item: New Website Design for Aurora Mae Professional Writing Services
May 12, 2006
Aurora Mae Professional Writing Services has just been complete redesigned and now includes an interesting blog on effective writing. The design is eloquent and professional with a touch of minimalism. I can’t take credit for the blog design though, It’s based off the plain text wordpress theme. I’m going to add a case study to my profile when I have some time. I added the blog link to my blogroll (list of blogs) on the sidebar.
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