Hello everyone. Hope you all had a great and productive week. On my end, I decided to do some house cleaning (getting rid of less profitable sites) and focused more efforts on better performing ones. I also launched a new niche site experiment this week, that hopefully will answer a lot of my questions when it comes to site promotion. We’ll see how that goes.
Anyway, it seems that Google also has been doing some house cleaning of its own. They are getting rid of several projects like SideWiki, Notes, Image Labeler, Subscribed Links, etc.. Do any of you even remember or used sidewiki? I think I might have used it once π
So, another week packed with great articles and before going to the roundup, I want to call your attention to the video below. Matt Cutts rants about “keyword rankings”. Listen to the “between the lines”. He’s giving some real good info about what you should be worrying when optimization is concerned.
As usual, in no particular order:
Blogging/Online Business
- What the Top 10 Blogs in Content Marketing Are Doing That You Probably Aren’t
- Is Livefyre Destroying the Value of a Blog Comment?
- Did You Encounter Seasonal Blogging Disorder?
- HOW TO: Use Your Social Media Skills to Earn Extra Money
SEO/Marketing
- Why Big Marketers Are Dying Off, And Little Guys Can Win
- Mobile Blogging – Top WordPress Plugins For Smartphones
- How Google Reads Your Blog
- Bounce Rate: 16 Ways to Make Your Blog Sticky
- 20 Often Forgotten Website Traffic Tips
- Yes, You Really Can Build Links With Twitter – Whiteboard Friday
Social Web/Other Stuff
- 7 Tips for Dealing With Upset Facebook Fans
- Complete Guide to Customizing your Facebook Fan page
- 10 Ways to Use Google+ For Promoting Your Blog
- How to Time Your Tweets Like a Scientist
- 3 Steps to Develop a Branding Strategy for Social Media
Best way to check your own site for keyword rankings
That’s it! Enjoy and have a great week ahead.
mitz
Thanks for mentioning one of my posts DiTesco! The funny thing is I just mentioned your blog in a guest post I have scheduled to publish on Comluv… Ha ha you beat me to it! π
Eugene
Wow Francisco, thanks for including my post this week! It’s a real honor! I’ve only read a few of the other posts listed here, so I’ve got a lot of catching up to do ahead of me.
But again, thanks so much!
Extreme John
Great round up. The posts under blogging interest me a lot. I guess I have a lot of blog reading to catch up then. Thanks for the share.
Mark
DiTesco,
Great list. I will be subscribing to some of these.
Additionally, looking forward to hearing your results on the niche site.
Just curious. What promotion techniques will you be trying out???
Mark
Jane | Find All Answers
Awesome collection as always. Since I was away the whole week, you’ve helped me a lot to catch up with the stuff.
The video is cool and adds power (as always).
Well I’m on to moving findallanswers to a new domain this week. Hope everything goes well. Wish me luck π
Karen
SideWiki, now there’s something I haven’t heard for ages! Loved the article on Bounce rate π
Matt Slair
Nice article, Great list and an awesome video! I agree with that we should not run after the ‘trophy phrases’, the min emphasis on the over all traffic that are turning to your site, and a constant check on how, why & where they are coming from?
I personally target the long tail keywords only, as google suggest has become a great source for any body who is trying to search on a particular nice.., With little efforts you can start getting good rank for your long tail keywords
Faissal Alhaithami
loving the list!! my fav was “Complete Guide to Customizing your Facebook Fan” by live you love.
thanks alot diTesco.
Thank you for sharing this video Francisco! I like Matt Cutts and It’s good to know what’s Google doing with SEO because sometimes we get confused and we don’t know how to search or rank for!
Have a great day,
John