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Instant Testimonial Page, Just Add Blog Post

Posted by Michael D Jensen on October 22nd, 2007

Recently I noticed a few backlinks to our blog coming from HitTail, a long tail keyword tool. Instead of being some spammer that puts up a temporary post that pings our blog, HitTail is collecting “testimonials” about their service from virtually any blog (that pings it), and delivering this list in a nice clean way. Even a link in the comments will trigger an “entry” into the HitTail quotes and testimonials page.

I love the idea to automatically collect who talks about your site, and then to post it as a quotes and testimonials page. I track what people say about SoloSEO using Google Alerts, but maybe this is a great way to not only track it but also share it!

This is also a great way to create “user generated content” without users having to directly interact with your site!

The only downside is they are essentially giving away a free link from a PageRank 4 page.

Update: Although it appears to still be very automated, there is definitely someone weeding out the entries that get on the page.

3 comments Visited 1120 times October 22nd, 2007 Michael D Jensen

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Hey Businesses… Its about Blogging time.

Posted by Aaron R Stewart on September 7th, 2007

A good friend of mine, Thayne Peterson, called up yesterday and asked what he should do with his website to just help it perform a bit better. As you can imagine we get that question quite a bit around here, especially now that more people have kind of figured out what SoloSEO is about. This friend owns an auto dealership in Provo, UT (free link alert) and deals mostly in high-quality, used BMWs. He also has a repair shop as well, where they specialize in repairing most German made cars (this needs to be stated more clearly on the website). He, like many of us, just wants to be a bit more visible online.

In our conversation he mentioned he was considering signing up for a local online business directory, and perhaps purchasing some advertising on their site. He wondered if I thought it was a good idea, so I took a look. After some initial poking around, it was soon obvious that signing up was free, and the site existed solely on ad space it sold on the site. So I had no problem with him signing up, at least it is a new link to him, and this directory is well put together and has quite a comprehensive overview of local business, organized by category. I didn’t tell him if I thought purchasing an ad on this site was a good move or not, I don’t know enough about this directory’s traffic mix, or his business to understand if online advertising will provide a high enough ROI to make the ad price worth the investment. I will leave that decision to him.

But after a quick review of his site, I just gave him a few ideas that I think will help its performance in the search engines. First off, he does an excellent job of keeping the inventory of current cars up to date. As soon as they receive a new car, they clean it up and takes some nice pictures of the car, and then put those up with a simple description of each car on the site. I suggested that they should spend a bit more time on creating content for each car, focusing more on some keywords they are targeting, as well as the specifics of each car. These keywords should come from what they feel their strengths are, with local references included, like Provo, UT, Northern Utah, 40 South of Salt Lake City, UT, as examples. Additionally, I would have them use SoloSEO tools to analyze other local automotive sites doing well in the search engines, and then start targeting those keywords as well. Finally, they should also make sure the photos for each car are labeled clearly, and using an occasional keyword here and there, in a picture description, isn’t going to hurt rankings either.

Once a car is sold, they currently take the content and the pictures of that car off the site. I think this is a mistake many of us make. Rather, I would suggest they create a sold page, or past inventory page, then organize all the cars by model and year on this sold/directory page. Keep all that content written about each car, and the descriptive photos for each in play for the search engines. If they spend time creating the content, then they should continue benefitting from it. Plus, it might help potential clients find a model of car they are looking for. Thayne does a great job finding cars according to a potential buyer’s specifications. He did this for me, and it worked out great. So, if a potential buyer found a car on Thayne’s site by browsing the past inventory, which takes no time from Thayne’s sales people (truly a major benefit of any well conceived site), and Thayne gets a new client to work with, along with all the specs he needs to find a similar car, it is a win/win for everyone.

Next, I would suggest they start a company blog, it is another easy way to add content. We of course love WordPress Blogging system, we use it ourselves, and highly recommend it to everyone. On the Independent Import’s blog I would have them blog about sales they are having on certain cars, about automotive tips, about information on recalls, about new performance parts or options to “pimp our rides,” and even about the new innovations BMW is coming out with all the time. The automotive industry is one of constant innovation and change, and this provides excellent and frequent topics for a blog. Keep the blog fresh, with one or two posts a week at least, and also let his current and new clients know about the blog. Many new car owners are passionate about their cars (especially BMW owners), and reading new info about their brand of car and possible improvements/options, is very interesting and will increase business. I’ll bet Thayne could get quite a good subscription base fairly quickly, I know I would sign up.

I would guess there are many of us who feel like we need to do better online. Our site is there, but we need it to perform better, if at all and bring us some new clients. This is most easily done through search. Look for ways to increase your content, adding new pages, and a blog. Then write about products, changes in the industry, and keep your content, don’t ever throw it away. It may need to be tweaked or placed on an archives page of some sort, but you worked hard to create it, let it continue to work for you, it will make a difference in search engine rankings. As far as all the free advice to Thayne, I will take it on trade for a M3 convertible, black… of course.

1 comment Visited 1656 times September 7th, 2007 Aaron R Stewart

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The Marketing 4 Ps and SEO

Posted by Aaron R Stewart on August 30th, 2007

Much of a discussion on marketing can be broken down into what is termed “The Marketing Mix, or the 4 Ps” namely; Product, Price, Place, Promotion. Product being the service or product we sell, Price being the retail price a customer will pay for the product, Place being the locale where the product is purchased and Promotion being how we get our message out to the masses, and what we attempt to communicate in order to convince them to buy. The goal of a marketer then is to properly address the 4 Ps for their specific situation and to sell as many units of product as is potentially possible.

The online world is a bit of a different marketing animal. Some of the 4 Ps haven’t changed much, and others have. Our Product essentially remains the same. The Price is also not changed too much, although with increase access to information, and more access to online resellers, economists would expect at least a downward pressure on price, if not overall lower prices altogether. Place can also can be a bit different, while many of us may still have a store front, there are some small business owners who only sell their products online. So presently, we either sell both online, and through a brick and mortar store front, or we just sell online which is a new spin on “Place.” Finally we have Promotion, which in some cases is very similar to how we promote offline. Using banners and Ads on webpages. As an example, at the top right of Andy’s Marketing Pilgrim home page, we see ads prominently displayed to Andy’s thousands of visitors. This can be a very good online advertising option, as we are able to target clients who we can predict visit sites with a certain theme, and we have a degree of control on the content, color and message of our ad. Advertising our revolutionary new socks for example, on a site developed to provide marathon running tips to novice runners would predictably be a good advertising opportunity/match.

In online promotion we also have the opportunity to start an ad campaign and purchase ad space on search engine results pages. Both Yahoo and Google have programs for doing this. So if we search for “marathon running” in about any search engine, we will not only have organic or unpaid results, typically found in the center of the page, but we will also see a column of paid ads down the right hand, and sometimes even across the top of our results page. Again this type of advertising allows marketers to target potential clients they believe would be most interested in their product. However, these results page ads are frightfully limiting compared to other forms of both online and offline marketing. The ads all look the same in color and size, there are limitations on what can be stated, and on how many words can be used to get the message across. So it is much more difficult to really stand out through ads on a results page, I personally rarely look at these ads. Imagine driving down a Freeway with all the billboards having a white background, with an underlined blue heading (sometimes it may be bolded, wow!), black text of approximately 10 words, and a green URL link at the bottom, that’s it. Not many keen marketers would pay the billboard owners for such a poor advertising opportunity, but it may be a good way to get rid of all the billboards. Now, I am not a big supporter of billboards in the first place, in fact, they don’t make much sense to me at all. It has nothing to do with whether they work or not from a marketing perspective, I just don’t understand why we want these colorful distractions taking the attention of drivers moving along at 70 mph, with other distracted drivers all around them. It seems smarter to keep all the attention focused on the road, hey, maybe billboards painted right on the road? And don’t tell me these billboards are mainly for the car passengers, the HOV lanes around the country prove there aren’t many passengers in all those cars.

Anyway, to make standing out or ranking well on search engines results page even seems more difficult, when we learned earlier this summer from Google’s Udi Manber, that 25% of all search queries are brand new, and never have been used previously. So how to do we target those evolving clients?

In this apparent increasing difficulty in search engine marketing, we should really be seeing an opportunity to become specialists at anticipating the keywords our clients will use to find what they need. I see a very interesting research project here. It would be cool to analyze the behavior of a test group when they are all given the same, random items to search for online. It would be amazing to see how each would construct their query to best find what were looking for. It is this intellectual process we need to focus upon as online marketers and small business owners, how potential clients are conjuring up their searchers, what is the basis of their search, how do current events and trends influence their queries? With these questions in mind, creation of new keyword phrases will keep things fresh and relevant. We need to remember that due to the thousands of pages thrown on the Internet each day, the process of search has become quite different and more complex. Many of us understand that our searches need to be more detailed in order for us to truly find what we want, quickly. Searchers actually use long-tailed, localized keyword searches to get around the garbage Wikipedia like pages, and the miserable “informational” websites only created to rake in Adsense revenue. My average search queries are now at least 5 words, and usually contain a localization aspect to them.

So if we are mindful that 25% of search queries are new, and potential clients are using longer and longer tailed searches to find what they need, then we understand our creative juices really need to get flowing to benefit from the new long-tailed keywords trend. And we need to be addressing these long tail keywords possibilities for all our sites on a regular basis. Whether we create a new web page, change some product descriptions, or add a blog post using our new keyword phrases, it needs to be done. It is actually quite amazing how quickly one can rank number 1 when the keyword phrases used are unique and well placed. And many will be surprised when some of these phrases not only start bringing in new clients for the specific phrase, but also start ranking well for just portions of the original long-tail phrase originally created.

Add comment Visited 1068 times August 30th, 2007 Aaron R Stewart

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The Increasing Importance of Content

Posted by Aaron R Stewart on July 24th, 2007

To really get an understanding of what good content is about and why it is so important, Copyblogger is a great site to visit. I subscribe to their blog and really find the advice and examples offered extremely helpful when it comes time for me to sit down and write. And because content will always be one of the most difficult and important aspects of site optimization, getting all the help we can concerning content is quite important.

Good content is simply a well written paragraph or page which communicates to the potential client, exactly what we hope to communicate, with no ambiguity, while it also offers info to the search engines so our site is categorized properly within their database. But the ability to write well isn’t something anyone can do without some training and practice. Writing is more than just using ones imagination, or creatively putting down ideas with nice verbiage, it also has to do with technical guidelines, such as proper punctuation, verb tense and sentence structure, etc. Online content is a very interesting animal, there is quite a bit of it, with more being thrown up everyday for a variety of reasons. All this new content is quite a bit of data for the search engines to process quickly and accurately, and then rank efficiently. However, site owners shouldn’t panic about all this new content, as much of the new and existing content if of questionable quality. In fact, I believe all this new content actually offers good writers an increased opportunity to shine long-term in the search engines ranking, if they continue to create high-quality content.

Let me explain, I personally subscribe to just over 50 blogs. And of these blogs, I would say there are only about 5 that could be considered well written. Most of these blogs are extremely informative, and good advice often abounds, but the sentences one needs to muck through to pull all the info out can be painful to read. I actually shudder at some sentences posted. In some cases reading poorly written blogs kind of feels like taking Nyquil to me. I really hate taking Nyquil, it causes me to gag, and the taste, as well as the aftertaste is putrid. It is a horrible experience. However, I will take it when I am really sick, even though I despise it, because I know I will feel better once I get it down. Reading some blogs is also uncomfortable, but I know by reading them I will learn something, but it sure isn’t enjoyable. (Which doesn’t bode well for their long-term readership numbers and growth rate)

Interestingly enough, some of the most knowledgeable SEO consultants seem to really struggle to write quality content. I originally found this odd, but it now kind of makes sense as I have had time to learn the history of SEO. Early on, when search engine marketing was in its infancy, some very bright individuals learned they could employ various questionable optimization tactics to get a site to quickly perform well on the search engines. One of these techniques was to simply fill site pages with random non-sensical text, then sprinkle in some carefully chosen keywords to fool the search engines into believing the site had some relevance on these keyword topics. Some of these individuals even had this phony content page creation technique automated, so they really had to do very little to have thousands of pages online in no time. So, in a very real sense, they simply used technology to employ their SEO tactics quickly, and frankly got good results with them. But now those days are gone, and they never thought they were going to need to really write something readable someday. Presently the search engines have become quite good at detecting and properly ranking these poorly written and non-sensical sites, while conversely awarding higher ratings to sites with quality content. And as the search engines continue to improve sniffing out poorly written sites, the importance and rankings of good quality content will increase. Think about it, with all the new content flying up online daily, how are site engines going to most efficiently deliver the search results most relevant as quickly as they need to? They are going to have to do better at determining the quality of content provided on sites, and award the well-written sites.

Above just the search engine results, there is also a more basic reason to focus on quality content, which is to give potential clients a good impression of the company. As a point, when searching for an expert on any given topic, it is much easier for us to feel comfortable with them, if we feel we understand them, and what they are about. If we can tell they have taken considerable care in presenting themselves in a professional manner, them we are more likely to believe they will take this care with us as well. Also, let’s face it, when search engines serve up quality sites, and reputable companies on their search results pages, it reflects well on the search engine’s algorithm and the firm’s image. However, when search engines frequently serve up garbage, irrelevant sites, no one will search with them anymore. So since search engines are going to do a better job of analyzing content, we need to make sure we are consistently adding quality content, or perhaps paying some professionals to do it for us. Many of you already know Michael and I started a content creation company, simply based on our understanding of the importance of quality content, and the difficulty to produce it consistently over time.

So how can we become better writers? The easy answer is to read well written content and attempt to learn by analyzing their techniques, but I am of the mind that this method isn’t always practical, possible or long-lasting. Case in point, I am historically not a good writer, I have been told as much by many a professor and teacher through the years. It is so bad, I was required to take various writing classes at almost every level of schooling, from high school, to college, to Master to PhD, each educational level was more challenging to write within, and I have struggled terribly to get my writing skill to a point where it was finally considered acceptable, even if it was only barely so, to some of my educators. But for me these courses were the only way for me to learn it. So, while I didn’t enjoy the writing courses when I took them, I am grateful for the stuff I learned now, and I strongly recommend writing courses to others who struggle as I do. There are many way to take writing courses out there; such as accredited online universities, local community colleges and universities, and even some good home study opportunities where you can move at your own pace. I am confident that any time spent learning to be a better writer will pay dividends in the future. And these benefits will far exceed any short term cost of time, or money required to make it happen. Even if writing content for a site isn’t what you plan do be doing in the future, becoming a better writer is still worth the time and can enhance your ability to communicate in the digital world.

Ultimately, I believe the future of quality content is incredibly bright, and it will continue becoming a more important measuring stick of a site’s quality. And as the search engines get better at properly analyzing the quality of a site’s content, and organizing accordingly, they will be able to more confidently recommend these quality sites to their search customers. It is kind of a cool turn of events, its like search has gone retro like everything else these days. For many years slick technology and automated tactics dominated the search engine rankings, and now we find out we need to draw upon the techniques and skills we were taught, and hopefully learned, in our 9th grade English classes. I guess all these English teachers were actually right, good writing never does goes out of style. Who would have thought that old codger, Mr. Burton, was actually correct all these years?

7 comments Visited 1163 times July 24th, 2007 Aaron R Stewart

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SEO “Blog Posters” vs “Article Bloggers”

Posted by Michael D Jensen on July 10th, 2007

Jakob Nielsen at UseIt.com has posted a thorough, authoritative article titled Write Articles, Not Blog Postings. I highly recommend the read for anyone who has a blog, hopes to have a blog, or reads blogs (did I leave anyone out?).

In the SEO industry, we definitely have both sides of the fence, some “Blog Posters” and some “Article Bloggers”. Here at SoloSEO, I would like to think we have a good mix of both. I find more satisfaction (and comments and links and traffic) from the “articles” I post versus the short blog postings, but I still think there is a role for the short blog postings.

So, who are the “Blog Posters” and who are the “Article Bloggers” of SEO?

Blog Posters

Andy Beal’s blog, MarketingPilgrim.com (although Andy has done some great exclusive articles, like on Google click fraud)

Lee Odden’s Online Marketing Blog, TopRankBlog.com (fantastic blog, always great posts)

Aaron Wall of SEObook.com (this was a tough one, each post is very well written and original, but not as deep as an “article”)

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger is one of the gold standards of blogging. Although he puts a lot of thought into his posts, I think most of them are still in the blog post arena (and rightly so, “pro blogger”).

Article Bloggers

SEOmoz is genius at writing authoritative articles. In fact they recently hit one million backlinks.

Todd Malicoat of StuntDubl. Todd has some amazing articles on SEO, if you don’t read his blog you better start!

Jim Boykin’s blog all about link building. Almost every post is a gem.

Neil Patel at QuickSprout.com is Neil’s personal blog about becoming famous. Neil puts a ton of thought into each and every post, it’s one of the purest “article blogs” out there.

I really think there is a place for both in the blogging world. I love to link to well-thought-out, thorough, researched, and authoritative articles, but I also love reading blog posts that in just a few seconds get me caught up or teach me something.

4 comments Visited 1797 times July 10th, 2007 Michael D Jensen

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Why You Should Love Yahoo! Answers

Posted by Michael D Jensen on July 6th, 2007

Just over a year ago Danny sullivan said “Look out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo! Answers”. Yahoo! Answers is becoming not only a great resource, but also a social network (who isn’t, right?). I like Yahoo! Answers because people ask real questions and often get a handful or more of responses.

Sometimes links are all about ranking, but in this case you can get a good flow of traffic (Matt McGee on why he loves it) from a bona fide link on Yahoo! Answers. Every time I’ve jumped onto Yahoo! Answers, I’ve had a fun time. Not only responding, but also reading other people’s comments and questions.

Yahoo! Answers Made Easy

For starters, let’s make following your favorite topic really easy on Yahoo! Answers. They have a RSS feed, just like this blog and other blogs, that you can subscribe to and watch as new questions are asked.

http://answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p=seo

Let’s say you are interested in GPS gadgets (i.e. you have a site/blog for GPS gadgets):

http://answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p=gps

The name of the game is get there first (or early) and answer the question. If you answer it well, correctly, and in a thorough manner, chances are you get most of the attention and are selected as the best answer. Then “forever” afterwards if that search comes up in the SERPs you’ve got a great chance of getting some traffic.

The best way to use Yahoo! Answers is to primarily be there to help others. If you have something on your site or blog that is helpful, then point them to it. If not, point them somewhere else. A good mix of those would be very natural.

Do you ever have a hard time figuring out what to write? Why not take a question, or part of an answer to someone’s question, and expand it on your blog? Better yet, answer someone’s question on your blog (quickly) and then add it as a response!

8 comments Visited 3066 times July 6th, 2007 Michael D Jensen

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SEO and Widgets, Review the SoloSEO Blog

Posted by Michael D Jensen on May 11th, 2007

Todd (StuntDubl - SEO Consultant) brought my attention to an interesting widget that lets you put in your own rating of a blog. The widget is still in beta but appears to be working well and to be a neat widget.

RateItAll.com appears to have some SEO sense as they are including two links at the bottom of the code they give you for the widget, and the text of one of the links changes based on the category you selected upon sign-up. Lawrence Coburn’s SexyWidget.com is a great place to keep up and learn about widgets. He spoke at PubCon last year and he definitely knows a lot about SEO and widgets. Creating a widget can be a fabulous way to build links quickly (depending on its virality) if you approach it the right way.

I’m going to wait on putting it in the sidebar for now, but please leave your own quick review in the widget below:

Add comment Visited 1139 times May 11th, 2007 Michael D Jensen

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Why I Blog (5 Reasons)…

Posted by Aaron R Stewart on April 10th, 2007

I have never liked tag games very much as a kid. It was mostly due to the fact that I was too fat and slow as a youngster to really catch anyone, so I frequently spent most of my early years as “it.” For the most part it was the mean, fast kids who would tag me, then taunt me as I awkwardly lumbered around trying to tag them back, it was never my friends who tagged me. So to have my dear friend and business partner Michael tag me in the “5 reasons why I blog” meme was quite a shock. Not to mention being tagged by your business partner seems to be like going to the prom with your sister, but if it was the only way to get in the game, oh well. I have never been brought into one of the previous link games before, so I guess it took less than optimal measures to get me in this time..

Anyway, enough whining, here we go. I blog…

1. To Learn. I am forced to go out and learn something in order to blog about it. Now SEO is such a widely blogged topic, you really have to get out there and dig (not DIGG) to find something new, or in order to put a spin on an existing piece of knowledge to make it your own, you need to read and think about it. If you can’t do either, then you will need to find something else to do.

2. To Communicate. I felt somewhat out of place in the SEO world when we got started. My background is business, that is where I am most comfortable, that is where the terminology makes sense. However SEO has become such an important part of doing business online, blogging about it from a primarily business perspective makes sense to me. Plus, my fellow business-minded associates seem to be lagging behind in their decision to implement SEO strategies into their firm’s marketing strategies, so I feel the need to communicate/motivate them to get on the ball.

3. To Rant. There is some stuff out there in online land that is just garbage, and it causes one to shake a head of frustration daily. From black hat SEO techniques, to link purchasing scams, to Digg, and a myriad of other items of stupidity. There is much to speak out against, there is always a fresh blog top. And frankly these topics are easy posts to work on, the words just seem to flow when you are angered.

4. To Question. I love to read the opinions of others, and the comments which inform me I am way off base. I want to learn, so if I have missed making my point, then I want to learn where I went wrong, and see if I need to change my viewpoint. There is no shame in being wrong, as long as you are willing to admit your mistake, and then go forward with the correct knowledge from that point on. Much of what we learn is from doing it wrong the first time around, so I take no shame in screwing up. In fact, I have become quite good at it.

5. To Convince. Obviously we want SoloSEO to be successful, and we think there is no better place for someone to manage their SEO project than online with us. So we tell people about ourselves, the trends in SEO, and where they can get the latest and greatest tools to SEO for themselves. Or we attempt to convince the SEO pros to manage all their accounts with us, not only to more efficiently provide their clients with the SEO services required, but to do it with more control and less trouble than they were able to do previously while using the numerous other SEO tools scattered across the four corners of the web.

So there you have it, 5 reasons why I personally blog. Now to tag others…

Jeremy Schoemaker - Shoemoney
Jordan McCollum - Marketing Pilgrim
Muhammad Saleem- Pronet Advertising
Brian Clark - Copyblogger
Dave Naylor - DavidNaylor

I find all of the tagged above excellent sources of information, and read these blogs often.

1 comment Visited 2616 times April 10th, 2007 Aaron R Stewart

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5 Reasons Why I Blog

Posted by Michael D Jensen on April 9th, 2007

I was recently tagged by Jaan Kanellis in a blog meme that has been circling around the blogosphere. The “theme” of the blog meme is “Why I Blog”, and as it goes traditionally, name 5 things and tag 5 other bloggers.

As with the last blog meme I have created a Blog Meme Tracker. You can edit it yourself this time, for putting in the final URL for your post and then adding those you tagged.

So, 5 reasons why I blog:

1) I Blog to Learn - I love how blogging makes me constantly aware of life around me, and keeps me always looking for a new angle or something new to research. I find myself always learning something new as I write my posts, and hopefully I’m sharing something new with my readership at the same time.

2) I do it for you, of course - Teaching is a passion of mine. I teach a religion class 5 days a week at 6 AM with no monetary compensation. I love helping others to learn and grow beyond where they are at now. Its of course hard to see the effects directly, but when we have a growing readership, with great comments, and tons of newsletter subscribers, it shows that its at least worthwhile.

3) Meeting new people - I’m stealing this one from Andy. It’s amazing when you “blog” that it’s really an industry-wide conversation. I will find things someone else says that I want to emphasize or elaborate on, and that connects me with them. MyBlogLog has been an awesome way to really get to know readers, seeing their faces even from the sidebar. I just wish LinkedIn would do a sidebar like this and blow us all away with true social networking goodies.

4) Rankings and Links - Obviously having a blog is fantastic for SEO. We rank well for lots of terms just because of our blogging, and sometimes our content will pull in a good number of links, which is always a bonus.

5) Marketing SoloSEO - Unlike other SEO bloggers who mostly do SEO as a service business, we have SEO software that we promote and market. Our blog isn’t huge on pushing you to our product (2-week free trial!!!!) but we hope that it helps people become more acquainted with SEO, helps them understand how to use the tools of SEO, and to get from point A to point B in the business of SEO. Then we hope that naturally they’ll sign up for SoloSEO.

Now to tag a few people:

Bill Slawski of SEO By the Sea
Greg Boser of Web Guerrilla
Dazzlin Donna Fontenot of SEO Scoop
Nathaniel Broughton of ENVISEO
Aaron Stewart of SoloSEO

6 comments Visited 2161 times April 9th, 2007 Michael D Jensen

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Blog Meme Tracker - Why Do You Blog?

Posted by Michael D Jensen on April 9th, 2007

With another game of blog tag coming around the SEO blogosphere, we have again created a page to track the blog meme. The first time we did this we created the blog tag tree for the “5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me” question. This time the question is “Why Do You Blog?”, and you can find the blog meme tracker here:

Blog Meme Tracker: Why Do You Blog?

There have been a few blog taggers that have mentioned me as being the initiator of all this, but to clarify I am just a facilitator in helping everyone know who has been tagged, as well as having quick access to posts on why bloggers blog.

The blog meme tracker is pretty slick this time, it is editable by YOU! Last time it got a bit time consuming, as you could imagine. This time I hope you’ll help keeping it up to date for your own entry, or for the entries of your favorite bloggers.

Some blogger favorites of my own to highlight that are found in the blog meme tracker are:

Andy Beal
Rand Fishkin
Barry Schwartz
Lee Odden
Michael Gray
Matt Cutts
Danny Sullivan
Vanessa Fox
Lisa Barone
Jim Boykin

The blog meme tracker tracks all of these, who they tagged, and who tagged them. It’s a lot of fun, be sure to check it out.

You can also find my reasons for blogging, as I was just tagged (see my tag tree)!

1 comment Visited 1354 times April 9th, 2007 Michael D Jensen

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