I am a student, blogger, lazy entrepreneur....
I write about: Analytics, blogging, search engine optimisation and social media marketing.
If like me, you want to fully embrace and participate in social media/news etc. and also learn a thing or two along the way, you have to read lots of blogs!
So here, just for you, is a large list of all the interesting blogs I’ve been reading. I’ve categorised them in the same way they’re categorised in my feed reader, it’s not perfect because some blogs cover multiple topics!
I just saw a Tesco Compare (a new moneysupermarketesque site - for car loans) but weirdly the URL they promoted in the advert was to tesco.com not tescocompare.com.
I just thought that was a bit odd…
When it’s a website that has been built using wordpress for convenience. Wordpress is a great CMS system and I love it. It’s so easy to set up and equally easy to use. There’d have to be a very good reason for me to NOT use wordpress on a web project these days otherwise I will, because I’m lazy and it’s easy.
I’ve recently launched a new small project, and it’s built on top of wordpress. The only thing blog like about it is that the content presentation is time based but really there are many non-blogs where the content is ordered chronologically by time.
Why am I rambling/ranting away?
Out of 304 impressions I got 2 clicks. Woofuckinghoo. 0.66% click through rate. I guess it could be worse… perhaps?
It would actually be pretty cool if you were able to filter out some of your content for syndication because I don’t know how it chooses what to display but some of my content is certainly not my best and I’d rather only syndicate what I think is most likely going to grab others attention.
Eitherway, I have about 300 ‘credits’ left so I’ll probably leave it until they run out and then delete it unless I think of a compelling reason to keep it.
Some people have had more success with it, surprise surprise. It clearly works hugely in favour of big name bloggers who already receive loads of traffic.
So I was still unsure what the deal was with relative vs. absolute links from a search perspective so I’ve decided to dig around a little deeper for some answers.
Lot’s of people blindly throw statements around such as:
While hitting it big on one of these sites is a great way to gain links, traffic and exposure, what these people neglect to tell you is that it is very tricky to do so.
Writing great content is unfortunately not all it takes - it’s a little like the old saying “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”.
A new service has been launched called blogrush. It’s a system aimed to increase blog exposure and traffic for bloggers. You can see it in action in my sidebar over there ->.
So, I just took the SEOmoz SEO quiz (see the previous post) and one of the questions I got wrong was to do with absolute/relative links.
I think the question was along the lines of:
Why is it better to use absolute links (http://www.domain.com/page.php) rather than relative links (/page.php) when doing cross site linking?
Check it out, I’m an SEO Master!
Go try the test yourself, it’s good for wasting 20 minutes!
I recently came across a blog about making money online by a guy named Angel.
I’d came across a post discussing the recent slapping Google seem to have given directories and I left a comment with my thoughts, I also said I wasn’t so keen on his navbar or post titles and here is why.
