While I was twittering this morning I happened to see a tweet by Perry Belcher. Perry had posted a link to an article about something funny that happens when you type ‘twitter is’ in Google [you can see the article here: http://mashable.com/2009/08/11/google-twitter-search/]
I thought it was pretty funny. And it gave me an idea. I wanted to see what would happen if it did the same thing only substituting ‘Perry Belcher’ for Twitter. for those of you who don’t know Perry is something of a guru in online marketing, a social media genius, a mentor of mine. I think he is heroic. Like many of us, he’s not perfect.
Check the screen shot below AND then read on to get some explanation.
You see in the list a few ‘peculiar’ listings. As it happens Perry got in a scrape. More than a few people have tried exploit his hardship by publicly slamming him. I think it is compeltely undeserved. You can check out Perry’s explanation in a video that he made on the subject: Perry Belcher Explains
I’ve gotten a ton of great information from Perry. I can vouch for him interms of knowledge. As far as character, he appears to be as genuine as they come. I’m glad to be associated with him. Check out his "Get Money from Google" which is top notch.
Glad you guys are here! I’ve been doing the blogging thing for a number of years now, and even though I’m just a passable writer, I’ve managed to put into practice some tricks that have made my blogs pretty successful. I’ve also taught a number of my clients these same tricks which have helped their blogs and websites get highly ranked in the major search engines.
Most SEO guys will tell you that one of the most powerful elements of ‘importance’ to search engines is links that point back to your site. This links and their anchor text is what accounts for your site being indexed and ranked for the keywords in the anchor text. The more links pointing to your site with anchor text that consists of keyword phrases that you are targeting, the better.
This is what makes blogs such a great thing. You can get links pointing back to your site almost at will, if you know how to do it. There are really three main ways:
Now what most people don’t know is that the first two are generally a waste of time (at least as far as search engines and indexing go) for 95% of all blogs. That is because the blogs are using ‘no-follow’. So the hyperlinks that are pointing to your site, that you so carefully, lovingly, and laboriously added to your list of related blogs by commenting and linking from your posts are nothing but a big waste of time.
“Why are most blogs ‘nofollow’ anyway?” you might be asking. Good question. Peole thought it would be a good way to fight comment spam by the comment spambots. What they forgot about what what the web is about in the first place… people helping one another and linking back and forth. There are better ways to fight comment spam than punishing bloggers who take the time to post thoughtfully on your articles.
That’s why I put together a little training video for people. Totally free, it shows you how to add a neat tool to your browser that will help you detect if a blog is using ‘no follow’ of if the blog owner has been smart enough to use the Do Follow plugin. Plus I show you how to install the Do Follow plugin on your own site.
After you watch the video I’d like for you to do three things for me (well really do them for yourself)
Here is a list of some blogs from various fields that you might find helpful to post to, all of which use Do Follow
Hope you have found this to be helpful.
You should have a blog instead.Now that you’ve found a web host for your business / marketing website you have just one question – “What the heck do I put up on my website?” My very best suggestion is is that you put up a blog and not a regular website, at least at first. I would suggest that you use WordPress as your blog software. Here are my 7 reasons you shouldn’t have a website but should use a blog for your website: [read more at my other website]
This is a subject that many people are interested in but few understand.
There are two goals that you want to accomplish with your title.
First, you want it to be search engine friendly and be something that will be displayed in a lot of searches.
Second, and perhaps most important, you want the title to encourage people to click and read YOUR post as opposed to the other links that are presented in the search.
Check out this handful of articles to get some great ideas for blog titles from some of the best blogs.
John Chow has a good article about writing great blog titles: How To Write a Good Blog Title for High Website Traffic
Ten formulas for great titles from copyblogger: 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work
5 tips for writing great blog titles: 5 Tips For Developing Great Post Titles for Your Blog
A list of 33 ways to write a great headline: 33 Foolproof Headline Strategies
Hope you find these ideas helpful. Remember a title that doesn’t get clicked doesn’t bring you any readers.
by Philip on March 16, 2007
Great posts are hard to do consistently on a day-to-day basis. Probloggers really have to work at it. I thought about all the different ways and angles a blogger can approach choosing posting topics. Here are 101 different ideas that I think are great to stimulate your mind and jumpstart your blogging.
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If you are looking for posting ideas for your blog I highly recommend the ideas that Philip discusses here.
I’ll do this as long as I don’t get any death threats… ;o)
To get the joke of the day, you’ll have to follow me on Twitter: @CarlChapmanSr
One of my really good friend’s [‘big Daddy’ Don Shilesky] sent this to me in an email. I love it!
OMG – I couldn’t help but laugh my butt off at this story.
Topless Coffee Shop Reopens After Fire – http://tinyurl.com/l34dt7
My wife brings me my coffee [such an angel] in the mornings while I’m wokring, but not like that. ;o)
