SEO Predictions for 2008

December 28th, 2007 by Alan

Predictions, theories and controversies for 2008 in the Search and Social Media industries.
1. PageRank
The real marketing behind Google will be deemed worthless since the last update to stop the buying and selling of PageRank. Unfortunately the prevention of it from becoming a commodity will decrease the marketing community from talking about it as valuable. This [...]

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Technorati Widget - Blog Top Tags - Tagcloud

April 10th, 2007 by Alan

Thanks to a new widget at Technorati, anyone can now add a tagcloud to their site, that links directly to the Technorati tag on Technorati.com.
I have added the code below as a preview:
View blog top tags

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Traditional SEO vs Social Media Marketing

April 6th, 2007 by Alan

One very good topic of discussion when considering the most effective campaign for a client to maximize the clients Return on Investment (ROI) is to determine whether to consider targeting Social Media Marketing (SMM) aka “Link Bait” or to use traditional SEO link building and advertising.
With as much hype as Social Media is getting, even [...]

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Quantity vs Quality and Blog Spam or Linkbaiting for Fame

March 26th, 2007 by Alan

One obvious route to fame and blog celebrity status is somewhat related to two factors, the quality of posts and the quantity of postings. One tends to feed more on the fact that people are always looking to aggregate news or re-syndicate content for ad purposes. The other is geared for serious readership.
Looking at the [...]

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Apple’s Popularity on digg, How many digg users own a Mac?

January 10th, 2007 by Alan

It seems Apple is so popular on digg that there always seems to be a digg on Apple on the homepage of digg, at lease every time I go there. Considering Macs make up about 6% of the computer industry, I can only wonder if almost all diggers own Macs or are diggin Macs for [...]

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Google Suggests Yahoo! Answers is the Answer to Top Google Rankings?

December 22nd, 2006 by Alan

In a recent post on the Official Google Blog, Googler Stefanie, has suggested that answering questions on sites like Yahoo! Answers will get you link popularity acceptable by Google.

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Digg vs. Google Which Top 10 ranking is better? Official Poll

December 21st, 2006 by Alan

We’re in a day and age where buzz travels online faster than the speed of search. Is news and buzz becoming more desired than static search results?
Here’s an interesting topic for discussion from a marketing perspective. Is it Google marketing gone haywire and sending millions to Digg it! Where do you become famous? Which Top [...]

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