For all the longtime WMW members out there, you’ll know that DG has long had a fascination with words, their meanings and origins. Clearly, he is not the ONLY person in the world with such an interest, and now I’ve found another, who, frankly, interests me more.
So, if you read this DG, I’ve got a message for you - tits, or GTFO (follow the link, srsly. kthnx)
Having a good domain name makes SEOing a site a lot easier in many cases. Keywords in the URL are a nice boost to have in and of themselves, and if your key terms are there, it also means you’ll get a lot of good ancxhor text WITHOUT HAVING TO BEG FOR IT.
Look what’s going active - www.seoblog.com. Who wouldn’t love that for their root domain…? If the content is any good (and it should be), that should shoot up the rankings like a rat up a drainpipe. It’ll be interesting to watch.
I think there’s at least a slim chance soemone who reads this is, or knows Idetrorce. Please, please if you can get this message to them, do it.
SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP!!
It’s not just me who is sick of it. Even the Wikis aren’t safe.
I may be one of the few who wants him / her / it / them to shut up because they are going to give people too many ideas though. Shhhhhh
Logical when you think of it, but even comment spam has trends. That link goes to the Akismet spam Zeitgeist page - just top level data, but it confirms what a lot of blog owners already know.
It’d be REALLY interesting to see deeper drill down data as well. I’ve asked, let’s see what they say.
I’m trying to be more disciplined, I promise… Lots of half-done posts in process, and there should be some good ones coming soon. In the mean time…
… just been busy. I’ve got a few posts started, so there should be some more stuff along soon - it’s just a case of finding the time to finish them off to a decent standard.
My blog is worth $15,242.58.
How much is your blog worth?
I found an amusing tool from Dane Carlson via dontclickthis. It uses Technorati data to “value” your blog, allegedly “using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.”
Although I’m not TOTALLY convinced that this blog is worth circa $15k, it’s an interesting insight into how business deals work… If a 4 month old blog can come up with a nominal valuation in excess of $10k, somebody, somewhere is wildly overestimating the amount of value being created on the WWW. You get the occasional incredible success story like YouTube, “creating” in excess of $1b of value in under 12 months, but those are very much the exception, not the rule.
You can also make the case that what was paid for YouTube was a premium price to the founders for :
1) Identifying all the problems with Google video
2) Fixing them
3) … and doing it in a scalable manner
4) … and building the market share to PROVE it all worked
It seems that someone out there is trying to push the SEO blogging community into writing “more interesting stuff”. To quote the perp directly…
Why I’m doing this?
1. Because I want
2. Because I can
3. Because lately the SEO industry is LAME and BORING - Want a proof of that?
- The SEO industry is just a bunch of self-proclaimed gurus making more money from their “guru” status than from SEO.
- The blogsphere (God I hate that word) is filled with countless “SEO blogs” syndicating what other “SEO blog” syndicated from another “SEO blog” that syndicated some bullshit guru.
- The most insightful and fun thing that has happened recently in the SEO industry (and anyways It was a looong time ago!) was the freaking search engine spammer who indexed billions of pages in Google thanks to a bug in Blogger, some DNS wildcards and a PHP content generator. Oh boy, people over webmasterwold and digitalpoint where going crazy about it!. So I’m about to bring back some fun to your lives…
I get where he’s coming from, I really do. One of the reasons I started a blog was because I’d like to try and inject some more useful stuff into the mix. I’ve done, and published, some genuinely original SEO research (not much, yet, but some). Whether you actually like it / agree with it / were bored by it is irrelevant - it’s real research, freely available. If any aspect of it troubles you, go do your own!
OK, OK, it’s a bit late… but I’ve been busy. I saw Scott ribbing me over the Kubrick theme, so you may notice I’ve been and grabbed a new, spangly theme - like it?
I’ve been looking at my stats over the last few months. Interestingly, December was still on the same upwards slope as I’ve been seeing since launch, and the amount of SE traffic continues to grow. I’d have thought that December would have been quite quiet, so I’m pleasantly surprised to note the trend.
I think that may be related to the fact that I seem to be picking up some real links (ie 1 ways from other sites that I may not have heard of - real readers, in fact. Thanks to you all). I’m hoping I’ll actually get to write some more content this week, and justify the love.
Cheers
Well, it seems there’s a blogging meme going round - “5 things” Blog Tag. You’re supposed to post 5 things the world in general may not know about you, and then “tag” 5 others.
I was tagged by Scott Boyd, who was tagged by Aaron Shear, and I was tagged by Chris Winfield, who was tagged by Aaron Pratt and Kim Krause-Berg. The whole sorry mess mess (the SEO branch, at least) was started by Jeff Pulver, and you can track it at SoloSEO’s Blog Tag Tree.
Phew! Hope I got all the links right…