Hi everyone. Wow, this week was really packed with a lot of new stuff in the sphere. Google has acquired PostRank (last week), immediately after launching the +1 button (what does that tell you?), Apple announced iCloud (competitor to Microsoft’s Free SkyDrive?), SEOMoz releasing their bi-annual and most important SEO ranking factors for 2011, and yours truly being featured as Blogger of the week by non other than famous e-junkie (shameless promotion, lol).
Also, there is a confirmed buzz that Google might be preparing another Panda strike very, very soon. Keeping an eye on that one, and don’t forget to spend 57 seconds of your time to listen what Matt Cutts has to say about how much content should be on a home page (video below).
Anyway, and as usual, in no particular order:
SEO/Blogging
- New Edition of the Ranking Factors for 2011 is Now Live! (Must Read)
- Want To Transform Your Boring Blog? Try The ‘James Bond’ Method
- CommentLuv 2.9 – Guide for Blog Owners & Commenters
- Pros and Cons of Co-Authoring a Blog
- Interview with Julie Joyce – The Link Specialist
Social Web/Engagement
- Google, Postrank and Social Engagement
- Google +1 Button: 31 Things You Should Know
- Google Acquires PostRank, An Analytics Service For The Social Web
- The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Marketing
- What You Can Learn about Gaming from Klout +K
Online Business/Marketing
- 5 Top-Notch Survey Tools For Powerful Marketing Research
- 7 Ways to Make Testimonials Work Harder for You
- 8 Words That Should Never Appear in Your Twitter Bio
- 20 Great Youtube Features And Tricks You Need To Know
- Interview with Tom and Joe Hobbs (15 yr old Twins, making it big)
- The Truth about How and When you Should Market your Business on Facebook to Increase Sales
How much content should be on a homepage?
That’s it! Have fun, enjoy and a great week ahead.
Gini Dietrich
Hey! Thanks for including my post about gaming and how Klout is doing it well (if that’s the only thing they’re doing well). Social media is here to stay…long live gaming! π
You are most welcome Gini. Loved the article and Yeah, long live gaming π We’ll see how all this stuff plays together..
I also enjoyed your article Gini, I just don’t understand the hype about this service though. Besides I’m sure we all can make better use of our time then playing games. But that’s my opinion π
Thanks as well DiTesco for mentioning my Facebook Marketing post.
I’m also excited about having you jump on for a guest post on my blog.
Have a successful week !!
Zarah Alvie
Hi Di! It’s been very exciting to see so many new faces and read so many awesome posts. I’m honored and proud you’ve done a fantastic job! Thank you and God bless.
Welcome Zarah. Hope to see more from you here in the future. thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it..
Sonny
I hope, unlike SkyDrive, that iCloud will allow you to upload entire folders at once…
Hi Sonny. Could not tell but I do hope that it will be a much better option. We’ll just have to wait and see. Thanks for stopping by
Patricia
Hi DiTesco
Wow, plenty of posts to choose from. I’m not blog hopping so much these days as working hard on writing articles for my new site that should be going up soon.
This saves me heaps of time as I can choose the ones relevant to my journey and what I need to learn to grow my business.
And thanks for adding Matt Cutts video. I like to keep up with what is required of us and that was helpful. Thankyou DiTesco. Appreciated.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia. Same here. I have been working on some new projects (eBooks) and some other like the one I have started with Michele, WordPress Junkies. I know what you mean and one must give priority to important projects. BTW, I am curious with what you are up to. Any chance you can give us a hint? When is it going to be born, lol…
Patricia
Hopefully be up in couple of weeks time. A friend will be helping me with the techie stuff.
Will be a health site and I’m hoping it will be really helpful to heaps of people once it’s up.
Thanks for asking. And hope your projects are going well too.
Patricia Perth Australia
That’s awesome Patricia. Health is something that concerns everyone and while it can be a very broad subject, I am sure that you got that under control π Looking forward to it.. and Good Luck!
Patricia
Mine is very specific. Another niche site but done differently to my lavender blog.
Have learnt heaps with my blog but as I want this to be part of my business plan, needed to look at monetising and moving my biz forward.
Patricia Perth Australia
Dennis Edell@ Direct Sales Marketing
Nice video, I have 30 on the home page, it’s a real good sticky, not to mention comment capture. π
Hi Dennis. yeah, I really liked what Matt has said here and that is really a relief, because I heard a lot of commentaries elsewhere that you should limit your content on the homepage because of the size and links. Have a good day
Dennis Edell@ Direct Sales Marketing
Content no, links used to be an issue. Google told webmasters for years not to go over 100 links per page, i don’t remember why.
It’s my understanding recently though, that they have retracted this statement.
Hi Dennis. You are right about the “suggested” amount of links on a webpage not exceeding 100 links. While I think it is no longer an issue, maybe it is still interesting from a users perspective not to have so much links to “decrease” distractions. Thanks, you made me think about analyzing my links and see how many there are π
Dennis Edell@ Direct Sales Marketing
As with everything else blogging Di, the user experience should always be forefront in the mind…more so then Google.
Dennis Edell@ Direct Sales Marketing
I missed something, how did we go from links to guest blogging?
LOL, Dennis. So sorry about that. The response was meant to be for the other post (guess blogging) and for some reason I thought I was doing that π This is why I sometimes hate replying to comments via the dashboard of WordPress. … again I apologize for the mess
Dennis Edell@ Direct Sales Marketing
LOL no worries at all.
Hi DiTesco,
First I want to report that CommentLuv is showing me Luv this morning and I’m happy about that π
I’m really anxious to read the Facebook Guide and the YouTube tricks post. Thanks for sharing!
Yay, Ileane. Glad that CommentLuv, luvs you again, lol. Nice choices to read. I knew that the YouTube trocks will not escape your grasp, haha. Enjoy and have a good day.
Devesh @ Technshare
Hi Ditesco,
Some great resources. Will going to check that interview and facebook guide. Thanks for sharing this great collection.
~Dev
Hi Devesh. Yeah, that interview is actually very inspirational. Thanks for stopping by.
Karen
I can always be sure, that there are posts I haven’t read yet when I stop by your speedlink and yet again, there are quite a few articles that I’m off to read when time permits π
Hi Karen. Thanks for stopping by, and I am glad that I can fill the void about providing you with some “good reads”, which I know is very difficult to stay on top with all the time. Have a good day
Jane | Find All Answers
Congrats on being featured on ejunkie DiTesco! That’s awesome. A nice compilation that has some interesting posts; not to mention that our lines do cross every week being in a similar niche. The Twitter bio post is loading on the next tab.
Thanks.
Jane.
Hi Jane. Thanks for noticing about my interview on e-junkie π And you are right, our paths seems to be crossing often and that is actually good.
BTW, did not quite understand what you meant about the Twitter bio?
Jane | Find All Answers
I meant that I was just about to read the post from bnet.com on “8 Words That Should Never Appear in Your Twitter Bio” π
Jane.
Haha, sorry about that. Got it!
brian speer
Congrats for being featured in the blogger of the week that is really cool. I hope another update doesn’t go through. I am still trying to manage the last one.
Andy Bailey
I love that Matt Cutts video! I’d like to do something like that on my site, all my videos go on for far too long!
LOL, Andy. Your videos are long because they need to be π Matt answers specific questions so that makes it easy to be short, but not necessarily simple, as most of them are normally for the intermediate to advanced level… You explain your stuff on a broader terms so that makes it difficult to make them very short π Thanks for stopping by.
Dale
Good video and information. Some people don’t know how a website should be run, how much content to have on their pages or anything. This should help everyone out a little bit. Cheers!
Connie
Geez! Another Panda update will take place? Thanks for this update, Ditesco! Though I am somehow positive that this forthcoming update will not affect the ranking of my site, I still think that it’s worth the time to check the site for some unfavorable issues that may hurt the website with this forthcoming update.