Archive for September, 2007

On Link Love, Link Baiting and Link Carelessness

I Make You Smile
and you give back so much!
I would like to thank Kim for the “You Make Me Smile” award and give back the link love.
And this reminds me to write an entry about blog awards… with their pros and cons - particularly why you should be careful with some of them. This will […]

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Naked in a Public Garden

“You are what you post” says Jay Ovittore in his personal blog. And what great words these are! The more I think about it, the more I see their deep meaning, veracity… sense. So why don’t we all make them a motto of sorts and start living under their shield. Because this is what these […]

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Secrets of Blog SEO: Conversation

One of the saddest so-called SEO advices is “don’t pass link juice” to other sites. Many bloggers still use “rel=nofollow” in their entries to prevent their page rank from dripping away. This is one of those selfish acts many webmasters do to please Google. And the WWW revolves around Google (?!)…
What these webmasters don’t know […]

Monday, September 24th, 2007

10 Ways to Make Your Fellow Bloggers Hate You

Make an account at MyBlogLog and start spamming everyone by leaving a message that says: “great site, visit mine http://www.yourblog.com/”
Go on every blog you find and post a comment that says “great entry, visit my blog http://www.yourblog.com/”
Join forums and add your wise comments to each thread “I agree, visit my blog http://www.yourblog.com/”
Join Blogging to Fame […]

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

SEO and the VS Dilemma

Some “vs” articles are pointless and pretty confusing. The very definition of the term points to a fight of sorts. And usually where there is a fight, there must be a winner.
We could talk about truce, yet truce doesn’t really happen when the sword of discord gets buried, but when one loses the power […]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Building Trust, Reputation and Rapport – A “How To” Perspective

When our clients make an inquiry for SEO services the first thing we want to know is who we are dealing with. We send them a set of questions, some completely unrelated to the service we provide at the first glance.
The questions are not always the same. If we get some of our answers by […]

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Who Are You? Or Why SEO Means Nothing If You Lack Reputation (part 1)

We talk about respect, we talk about making your visitors trust you in order to trust what you sell, in order to convert. But we forget along the way the simplest principle of the human nature: people don’t just go around trusting strangers.
On the Web you are a stranger, no matter how hard you try […]

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007