What Are Your Best Link Opportunities? (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an old but still active thread on SEOchat forums discussing most useful link building sources. Here are a few ideas described there (please add your own in the comments!) Develop Your Own Site Create great content: “in the Internet world, superior content creates a lot of luck”. “Build it and they will come – […]
How Was The Twitter Hashtag Born? (Weekly Q&A)
Social media site Twitter is known for many things. A unique live search algorithm that was the first to really utilize the concept. A format of low-word count quick thoughts great for sharing links or quickly updating friends. A place where celebrities can actually run their own social media profiles instead of relying on someone […]
How To Intelligently Use Social Media Hashtags
I won’t bother to say I am a fan of social media. I am not sure there is anyone out there that doesn’t love it in at least one of its incarnations. Whether they use Facebook, Flickr, YouTube or Reddit, they have been sucked in by the glamor of these sites. I know I was […]
HOW TO: Create and Use Twitter Search Widget (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an interesting question being discussed at SEOChat forums: "How do I add Twitter search widget to my blog". While that was once quite a complex task, it’s now quite easy to do thanks to a quick widget-builder on Twitter official "Goodies" page. It offers you an array of all possible features you can only […]
Ninja Song Parodies
Song parodies have been a long standing part of Ninja Tradition. When you work in SEO long enough sooner or later everything becomes about search engines and links, and you get inspired to re-write songs. Or at least we do. So to carry on the Legacy of Jim’s early work like “The Linker” , “Linking […]
HOW TO: Increase Your Following on Pinterest (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an interesting discussion over at SEOchat forums around various ways to increase the number of Pinterest followers. I can’t say I am Pinterest power user, but I like playing with it when I have a free second (as if I have it). 1. Smart Following It’s an old social media relationships rule: if you […]
Productivity Fun
There are some days when trying to be productive sounds about as appealing as repeatedly slamming your face into your desk. Other times you would love to be productive, but you just can’t wrangle your mind into submission. Your minds seem to have a mind of their own as you type “cats with sunglasses” into […]
How Do I Increase Traffic from Twitter? (Weekly Q&A)
Today’s Q&A is a quick, but a very popular question. One of the threads at SEOchat forums is discussing ways to increase traffic from Twitter: The user has been on Twitter since 2008, so must have some established following but he is still not sure how to obtain traffic from his Tweets. So, apart from […]
Social Media Versus Productivity: 5 Tips
We have all been there: the day is starting out a little slowly, and so you hop onto Twitter to do some social marketing. Before you know it, lunch has come and gone and half of your day has been wasted. What you thought would be a productive means of reaching your target base has […]
Win a Trip to SES San Francisco or Pubcon!
Wanna go to SES San Francisco or Pubcon Las Vegas? Well we want you to go too! So we’re giving somebody an opportunity to win a pass to one of this year’s events. Getting in is pretty simple: We love the internet, we’re geeks, but we want to know why YOU love the internet. That’s […]