Monday, July 21st, 2008
Duplicate Content — Don’t Worry Be Happy
The Sphinn Exposé — One Man’s Story About Social Media
City/State Landing Pages — Also Serve as Doorway Pages
Icahn Settles with Yahoo! — Joins Board
URL Design Failures — Top 10 Famous Websites That Have URL Problems
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/211/seo-daily-reading-issue-89
Friday, July 18th, 2008
SEO: Not a One-Time Fix
With demand for SEO increasing day by day there are many SEO charlatans who climb on the bandwagon to make a quick buck by doing less than stellar work. Unfortunately, unsuspecting clients wooed by the seemingly knowledgeable SEO’s are taken for a ride and quite often their website ends up in worse shape than it started. Chris Boggs at Search Engine Watch outlines the value and importance of organic optimization and dispels the myth that SEO is simply a one-time quick fix.
21 Ways to Make Your Blog More Sticky
Running a blog is time consuming – it ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/210/raven-seo-weekly-digest-issue-34
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Digg is Pushing More Traffic to Traditional News Sites — Becomes More Mainstream
50 Ways to use Social Media — Grouped Into the 5 Social Computing Objectives
Linkbait 101 — School’s In for the Summer
Producing Great Search Results — Harder than it Looks
5 Copywriting Keys to Landing Page Credibility — Build Your Credibility
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/209/seo-daily-reading-issue-88
Monday, July 14th, 2008
SEO for Semantic Search Engines — New Generation of Search Engines
Google Now Displays Code Search Results — Displayed as Search Snippets
Google Sitelinks — Do They Influence Your Search Rankings
Google Add Search Volume to Keyword Tool — Now Includes Approximate Number of Monthly Search Queries
The 10 Worst Findability Crimes — Committed by Web Designers and Developers
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/208/seo-daily-reading-issue-87
Friday, January 25th, 2008
We were lucky enough to get access to the MyBlogLog API (Web Service), which is currently part of an invite only beta. The API allows you to pull public information associated with your blog visitors and members and then integrate that data into a custom feature or service. We thought of several ways we could use this service, but settled on the creation of a “Blog Members” directory for our first project.
The Blog Members directory was designed to showcase and promote all of the active MyBlogLog users that are members of the Raven Blog (via MyBlogLog). We also wanted to ...
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Dosh Dosh, a quickly rising personality in the world of search marketing, recently posted a blog entry announcing over 10,000 subscribers. Dosh Dosh’s simple advice was to “Minimize noise. Maximize signal.” The blog entry listed eight (accidental?) strategies that were used to achieve this. They included:
No Feedcount
No Guest Posting
No Contests/Projects
No Advertising
No Incentives
No Guest bloggers
No Digg frontpages
No Frequent Posting
One thing that I felt was missing from the list was “branding.” Dosh Dosh has excellent branding. From the name “Dosh Dosh” to the Japanese influenced anime girls, Dosh Dosh has built a strong and interesting brand.
However, there are things in the list ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/93/8-ways-to-get-thousands-of-blog-subscribers
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID — Yahoo! Now Supports OpenID
Google.org Announces Five Strategic Initiatives — Google’s Focus for the Next Five Years
Selling Ice to Eskimos — Four Copywriting Steps That Will Sell Ice to Eskimos
How to Market on Flickr — The Marketing Opportunity That Flickr Provides
Five Steps to Become a Better Social Media Marketer — Be More Effective in Driving Traffic To Your Website
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/86/seo-daily-reading-issue-16
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Three thousand dollars. Think about how much money that is. It’s a lot for anyone. Now think about what you would normally do with that money. Pay off debt, use it for a down payment on a car, make a couple of mortgage payments perhaps, possibly put it in your kid’s college fund or even a help pay for a family vacation. All of those would be worthwhile uses of your money.
Now how about one year’s worth of exclusive access to SEO tools and access to seasoned search marketing gurus? I don’t know about you, but I can find an ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/68/internet-marketing-ninjas-and-their-value-to-seo
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
SEOmoz hosted a Werewolf game last night — with a twist. Instead of having Werewolves, they had Black Hats. They also renamed the game to Search Spam.
The game was played with a special deck of cards. Each card represented either a White Hat or a Black Hat, along with two special cards. Those cards were the Gracious Granter of Re-inclusion (aka Danny Sullivan) and the Revealer of Hats (aka Matt Cutts — who was also there playing the game!). The rules are too tedious to explain here, but if you’re interested you can check them out at the Rules for ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/33/a-fun-night-at-seomozs-pubcon-werewolf-game
Monday, November 26th, 2007
For those who don’t like to use RSS Aggregators — like NetNewsWire, Google Reader or Bloglines — but still like to keep track of the latest news, Feed Buzz is perfect for all things SEO. All of the usual suspects are there, like Wolf Howl, Bruce Clay and Matt Cutts. There’s also a few feeds from people who know SEO, but don’t necessarily make it their daily routine. A perfect example is incrediBILL’s feed, who spends a lot of his time as a bot crime fighter with his software, CrawlWall.
Feed Buzz makes for a good SEO landing page that also ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/19/seoposition-aggregates-the-usual-suspects