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Alright, so Saturday night I was alone, bored and forcing myself not to sleep. Somehow, I ended up at Wordle and started plugging in websites, just to see what was going on with them right now. Entering sites I normally frequent, I figured I would recognize most of them words that would show up, but many caught me off guard. I started playing a game to see if I could guess the top 5 keywords mentioned on each blog. I failed. Miserably.
Anyhow, I thought it’d be kinda cool to put together a visual type of post that showed what the top marketing sites are talking about rightnow. Feel free to berate me in the comments if your blog didn’t make the list…or if you don’t like the color scheme (they were randomly generated) of yours listed (FYI, I going alphabetical on this one).
Seems as though everyone these days is catching on to the social media bandwagon lately. Twitter was a huge one last week, what talk show DIDN’T talk about it last week, really?
Whether you consider yourself a guru (which you probably really aren’t…sorry) or not (most likely), you’re brainstorming and you’re putting together stuff that’ll hopefully make it in front of many twitterers, diggers and the like. Getting your piece ready to be launched and receive the proper attention is all about what you do beforehand. Preparing your linkbait, widgetbait, whatever is what will make or break the success of its outreach and exposure.
Here are a few things you should consider doing before pushing “submit” on your favorite social site.
It’s not difficult to find some of the crazy ads that have made it on to digg over the last year or so. Heck, just check out Flickr and Google Images and you’ll find plenty! According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Digg’s ads are getting more and more targeted, which is about time seeing as though it’s almost been a couple of years since Kevin said himself on Digg’s blog:
“…there won’t be anymore ‘dancing monkeys ads’ and the design will remain uncluttered.”
Which, if you remember, had a lot to do with those ANNOYING auto-playing audio ads!
You know…he’s right, I don’t believe I’ve seen any “dancing monkeys”, but I’ve seen some pretty disturbing and continually irrelevant ads still being popping up. The reason I decided to write this post was because of a new ad that I saw today for the first time (it had been a while since I’d seen anything tasteless). It was for a Forex Trading program, but if you look at where the wording is in the ad, you’ll see their main focus:
After reading Matt McGee’s awesome post on Why Trust Matters in Search, I saw some of his commenters talking about building trust with individual clients and it got me thinking about what I’ve done personally to retain my clientele. I’ve had my fair share of ups, downs and everything in the middle with my clients and although Primary Affect hasn’t been around all too long, we’ve stayed consistent and have even gotten busier which has been awesome!
Here are few pointers that I’ve found have worked real well for me:
1. Stay In Touch!
I hate waiting for emails. I hate it!! The funny thing about that is that I hate responding to emails…so it’s a catch 22, unfortunately. Whether you have one of those clients that doesn’t say much, or it’s one that sends you an email everyday asking, “so when do you figure we’ll be #1?”, you have to keep them in the loop.
In my contracts with my clients, I mention that they’ll receive 1-2 ranking reports per month (more if requested). The now expect that and I’m held accountable. I actually like to be accountable because I know myself well enough to know whether I’ll do it or not. I’m no control-freak, but I do like control.
I caught an awesome post by Cameron Olthuis that talked about what surfing has taught him about business. Now, I’m no surfer, in fact the last highly-rigorous physical routine I was a part of was high school football. I do, however, snowboard…and while the lessons that snowboarding has taught me about business may be similar [...]
There are times I’ve been reeled in by a great blog post headline and as I read on, I find I’m disappointed. The post doesn’t deliver what I thought would be posted. Other times I’m reading a post and I can tell that the blogger is just posting to post–rambling on without any purpose-or just [...]
A friend of mine on Twitter @melanienathan sent me these interesting questions to answer. I thought I’d post them on my blog which she is also posting on hers; CanadianSEO.
1. How long have you been working in SEO and what attracted you to it?
I have been doing SEO for over 6 years now. I was [...]
I’ve been bouncing around all over the social sphere these last few months. It’s been an interesting and enjoyable pursuit to learn what social outlet provides what type of visitor, link/buzz or referral to my site. I’ve seen and read dozens of posts recently about this same thing in regards to just twitter or another [...]
I’m one of those guys that has a hard time coming up with fresh content for his blog (at least something that hasn’t been regurgitated several times already, that is). It can be even more difficult to put together a good form of linkbait for readership or for viral promotion on Reddit, Digg, etc. Yahoo [...]
There’s no particular reason I would want to lug around a google search bar. I mean, technically I would have to be connected to the internet somehow, but just humor me here and believe that my imaginary google bar is more like a genie lamp. So with that said, here are my top five places [...]
After reading Matt McGee’s awesome post on 