Link popularity should not be underestimated as a way to increase your search engine ranking. There are many different ways to increase your link popularity including purchasing text links, people naturally linking to you, directories, and creating buzz.
Archive for May, 2006
Web Analytics: Blogs
Not all blogs are created equal. Blogs can be for personal use, business, and others somewhere in-between. Depending on the purpose of your blog you may require different types of stats.
Catchup – 5/25/06
del.icio.us redesigned their homepage and added some new features. The homepage features a hotlist which is updated every hour to show the three most popular links at the moment. They will never show you the same link twice. So everytime you visit the homepage will see something new that’s popular.
The Kevin Rose Story
Copycats are all over the place and Kevin Rose (founder of digg) is no stranger to them. We have seen tons of digg wannabies crawl out of the woodwork but none of them were able to duplicate the digg success story. Probably because when it comes to ideas like that, there just isn’t room for one more at the top.
Google Buzzed
Do you remember when you heard from your friend, or that notorious “somewhere”, that Google gave better search results? Next thing you know, you are going to Google.com to look for things on the Internet. Now, people are telling each other to just “Google it” when trying to find some information on the web.
Web Analytics: RSS
There are a lot of new toys out there for your website that can do a variety of different things. RSS feeds are one thing you can implement that are great for notifying subscribers that there has been new content added to your website. This can help keep you visitors “hooked” and coming back for more, or just make your website more valuable to them.
Follow the leader
People are notorious for following the leader. Doing what other people do is one of the easiest decisions to make, especially if those people are leaders or respected figures. As a company, you should always have some focus on getting people to follow the leader when it comes to buying your products.
Catchup – 5/18/06
Google Notebook officially launched this week. With Notebook you can clip text, images, and links from the web. Notes are easily organized by creating multiple notebooks and dividing them into sections. Like most of the other services Google has launched lately, I personally think this one’s a dud. I am however a big fan of Google Trends…
Blog comments and SEO
Written by Neil Patel on May 29, 2006 | Comments are off for this post
Blogging has come to the point where my mother actually heard of it. That means that it is not only popular but becoming somewhat mainstream. As a result, people are really starting to voice their opinions by blogging and commenting on blogs.
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