Comments on: How to write a winning blog for SEO

By: anharris

anharris — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:04:05 +0000

Bob, thanks for writing. It would be great if you’d ask the gentleman who gave the talk about this. (I’m just reporting on what he said–which, I have to admit, left me scratching my head, at times). Anita

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:40:43 +0000

Well, I would like to see some proof that keywords in domains are not important or have no weighting in the ranking algo of Google. If that WERE the case than how would you explain the fact that you can buy a brand new, keyword domain – let’s call it best chiropractor miami .com for example. Then let’s throw up a quick WP install and one post about “best chiropractor miami” with an H1 heading and a couple instances of the keyword in the post.
Let it sit for a week or two – then check the serps. You WILL find it on the first page of Google more often than not.

By: anharris

anharris — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:09:03 +0000

Thanks, Sonali

By: sonali sen

sonali sen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:36:36 +0000

its really good and informative site. thanks

By: anharris

anharris — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:11:44 +0000

Mike, thanks for this. This company has built its entire business model on giving customers a myriad of similar pages based on the belief that Google has changed its model. I wonder why they think that.

I know that when searching for articles mentioning my clients, I find it incredibly irritating to come with 100 of the exact same pages. They do come up at the end of whatever google lists, however. AMH

By: Michael Morisy

Michael Morisy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:53:27 +0000

Be careful how far you take this approach. Inbound links are incredibly important to PageRank, which is how Google chooses websites. And more and more, traditional SEO tactics of keyword sowing are backfiring because web traffic is moving more towards “shared” than “search” (although Search is still incredibly important!). If something reads like it was written by a robot, nobody will re-Tweet it, e-mail it to their mum or share it on Facebook, but if it’s great content (even more than 150 words!) it will get shared and shared again.

By: anharris

anharris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:46:41 +0000

He thinks people only want to skim to find solutions to particular problems…and that to “win” top placement on Google and such, that it’s important to have as many blogs with the same key words as possible. Hence–he advises not wasting time or energy on long posts. In fact, the Compendium platform divides content into specific keywords–and depending on how much you want to spend, will launch hundreds (possibly thousands) of blogs focused on particular keywords—with no content–which his customers can then fill over time. Quantity over quality, as far as I can tell.

By: Susan Weiner

Susan Weiner — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:11:19 +0000

Anita,

Only 150 words? Why is that?