Internet Marketing Strategy & SEO Techniques

Blog Comic Friday - Your Link Here

TYPELiFE — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:57:20 +0000

Big Oak delivers seo comedy gold once again in their latest comic, Your Link Here. If you hate how people sell targeted and/or keyworded links in their posts and content, you’ll get a kick out of this one.

If you’ve got an SEO, or even a general Internet / Technology related comic, and you would like to be featured on Blog Comic Friday, leave a comment or contact me.

Social Bookmarking & Social Network Diagnostics

TYPELiFE — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:07:12 +0000

Here is the math behind the major social networks, the formulas worked down from analyzing their inner mechanisms and just exactly how a submission gets a “popular” status. Hopefully, these social networking statistics will provide some insight into how they work, and which ones might be easier to manipulate for your particular niche.

Social Network: Digg
Digg takes, on average, 60 - 300 “Diggs” to become popular, and you can expect to receive around 10,000 to 100,000 unique visitors if your story makes the Digg homepage.

Social Network: StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon submissions take about 30 - 50 “Thumbs Ups” and/or reviews to become popular, and you can expect to receive anywhere from 2,000 - 50,000 unique visitors in the first round, and you will probably receive more traffic over time, in residual waves.

Social Network: del.icio.us
del.icio.us submissions take around 100 - 130 bookmarks in a relatively fast time period to achive popular status, and you can expect around 20,000 unique visitors if you make it to the del.icio.us front page. Expect this number to go up, due to the recent redesign of del.icio.us!

Social Network: Reddit
Reddit submissions take anywhere from 30 - 300 votes to become popular, and you can expect just as wide a range of incoming traffic, which could be 3,000 - 30,000 unique visitors.

Social Network: Yahoo! Buzz
If a Yahoo! editor chooses your submission for inclusion in Yahoo! Buzz, you can expect to receive 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 unique visitors initially, and expect to have higher authority in the search engines now that you have an official link from Yahoo!’s website.

Social Network: Propeller
Propeller stories take around 40 votes to become popular, and you can expect to receive anywhere from 1,000 - 20,000 unique visitors. If your story gets chosen for inclusion on news.aol.com, you can receive upwards of 100,000 unique visitors, and a nice authority link from AOL.

Social Network: Mixx
Submissions to Mixx take about 30 - 50 votes to become popular, and you can expect to receive anywhere from 100 to 1,000 unique visitors, as their network is still expanding and growing their userbase.

Cheers, and remember, if you liked this post, feel free to submit it to your favorite social network! Don’t forget to subscribe to our feed as well!

Del.icio.us 2.0?

TYPELiFE — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:54:08 +0000

Many of you probably already know, but in case you didn’t … Delicious has undergond a nice, overdue makeover, and it’s residing at it’s own dot com domain! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand its new design is totally gorgeous. Head on over and check it out now! Don’t forget to bookmark DaftSEO as well!

Delicious!

Cheers!

SearchMe … Google Video Killer?

TYPELiFE — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:40:04 +0000

I’ve been noticing alot of start up companies developing more and more interesting concepts when it comes to search technology, and evolving it into a more aesthetically pleasing and less metciulous process getting your desired search results.

Sure, you’ve heard about the advancements in user powered search engines like Cuil and Stumpedia, but the only search engine that REALLY has made me give it a double take is SearchMe.

SearchMe’s interface is already visually stunning, and after a few modifications to the interface (and of course after they have a comprehensive database of search results) … I think I might actually switch from Google! Be careful, if you go to the video search engine, you might fall in love! SearchMe has truly innovated video search interfaces with their carousel display style that you can see.

Other features available make SearchMe truly unique, such as the ability to group your searches into “Stacks” … which allow you to categorize your searches and keep them organized, making it easy to delve into past searches and find an old result with efficiency, instead of retracing your steps on the search engine itself.

Get ahead of the game and submit your websites to SearchMe today!

Blog Comic Friday - Turnkey Websites

TYPELiFE — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:18:24 +0000

Once again, it’s Blog Comic Friday! (What did you expect, it’s Friday!) I’d like to take this opportunity to showcase a new comic by Jeffrey Rowland. If you like this comic, head over to his site, Overcompensating.

Cheers!

The Reason Why I Don’t Use Dreamweaver

TYPELiFE — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:07:24 +0000

I’ve made it a point to never use Dreamweaver, ever. I never used it as a Macromedia product, I never used it as an Adobe product.

Please join me in a round of laughter as we make fun of everyone who uses it!

Boy, I sure am glad I use PHPDesigner.

Find DoFollow Links in Forums

TYPELiFE — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:23:38 +0000

While on the manhunt for DoFollow blogs and websites that are related to your site (that also have nofollow disabled, and commenting enabled) … you probably have come across your fair share of nofollow’ed blogs, as well as repeatedly finding the same DoFollow blog over and over again.

Well, what would you say if I told you that you could find sites that have NoFollow turned off, completely related to your niche, and never have to look at a nofollow attribute ever again?

Yeah, I thought so.

Check out Find in Forums … it’s similar to a DoFollow Blog Search Engine, but instead of searching blogs, it searches various forums and message boards across the world wide web. Most forums have no follow attributes turned off by default, and very few choose to turn it on.

So, enjoy the wealth of back links that you will now be raking in!

Cheers!

Blog Comic Friday - SEO Has No Future

TYPELiFE — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:21:35 +0000

If you’ve heard Jason Calcanis speak, or keep yourself updated on his conferences, you might be familiar with his catch phrase, “SEO has no future.”

I think Jason might be right though, SEO has no “FUTURE” … but only a “PRESENT” … it is often too hard to look and plan a significant distance ahead of yourself.

PS: Sorry for the post drought lately, my boss has been working me dead the past several weeks!

Google Fesses For Freaky Favicon

TYPELiFE — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:55:29 +0000

Following up on my earlier post (actually, currently the most popular post on DaftSEO) … Google’s New Favicon Sucks.

So, Google recently updated their blog with a word to the masses about the new Google favicon, and the process behind (and reasons for) the development of the horriffic atrocity. (Sorry Big G)

If you’re really interested in their yadda yadda yadda, go ahead and check out “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” on the Google Blog.

I just have one thing to say, Google.

Cheers!

Which Amazon Affiliate Widget Converts Best?

TYPELiFE — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:08:38 +0000

I’m currently running experiments with different link sets and widget types for displaying products from Amazon’s catalog.

Currently the widget that converts to the most sales is using classic links placed within a well worded review with a nice picture of the product. Link them twice to the sales page in the text, and make the product image link to the sales page as well.

I’ve gotten a couple of conversions from the “My Favorites” A.K.A. the “I Recommend” widget, but I wish it was more customizable.

What’s your favorite Amazon widget? What works best for you?