Content Marketing Blog
How this blog goes about the business of SEO Cornwall is found within this category. Learn that mistakes have to be made to learn anything real. I try to be as honest as I can with my attempts to optimise Cornwall. But for every one thing I do which works, it's after trying ten things that fail.
I hope you learn from my attempts to increase the web traffic of Cornish domains. Plus websites from further afield.
Looking through my website stats I noticed refreshthing.com showing a number of times. This is a service where you can open a web page repeatedly by setting the url and regularity of the refreash.
Here is the evidence and what to look for.
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I took a screenshot of the Mybloglog widget I have on my blog. I have highlighted 5 people I think are worthy of mention.
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So are we seeing a new term in the making. Widget spam. Mybloglog.com is now on the front line of fighting spam. But it’s a new kind of spam. Widget spam is where you continually load up a website so your avatar is displayed on the blog that is being targeted.
the idea then being that people will click on your picture and fo to your mybloglog profile, then on to any blogs listed clicking on adsense ads on the way.
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All this talk of using social media or social media optimisation made me rethink the basics.
You can’t get more basic than the title tag, I blogged my thoughts on how we can use the title tag over at web-design-book.com sure it’s basic stuff. Web-design-book.com is meant for beginners, but as a long time user of seo techniques we sometimes get dazzled by the new new thing and forget the fundementals.
Take time crafting your title tags, giving them the love they deserve and they will give you love you back. Although there is debate raging about how important on page optimisation is for seo. Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land pretty much nailed the debate shut with this post. I mean, what can you add after that.
Using social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Reddit, Netscape, has made me more aware of my title tags . Making me reach for my copywriting books a bit more often.
As John Carlton says it’s all about the “incongruent juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated ideas, facts or events.”
In fact, another thing Carlton teaches is that if you want to know how to write headlines go read the National Enquirer.
Think how enticing the headline, “Boy Eats Own Head” is. Also, womens magazines are great for how to write a cool headline. Next time you are at the magazine stand looking for Linux magazines check out the front covers of Allure, Cosmopliatan, Vogue. They all have snappy, enticing, irrisistable – to the target market – sub headlines that say the maximum amount in the minimum amount of words.
Michael Fortin also blogs Carltons quote
As I said in an earlier post, Mybloglog spam is too easy and too worthwhile.
SEO solo has an article about how he set up a spam experiment.
Simply buy opening a new acount, seeting his Opera browser to refreash every minute, he opens 20 top blogs that display members avatars and lets it run. He notes that he received a lot of contacts and traffic for the website he listed on the fake account spiked whils the experiment was running.
First, good job on making this public SoloSEO and not trying to benefit from it.
Of course you can ban members pictures popping up on your blog, but who has the time to monitor these things.
It should be easy to fixe, anyone staying on a blog for over an hour refreashing the page every 60 secs is easy to spot. But what if someone makes a script that varies the refreash rate and randomises the top 100 blogs.
Techcrunch talks about it from their point of view from the victim of spam.
You can vote for all three stories at Iseekstuff.com a social bookmarking site about social media
Ok maybe not the worst, that award would have to go to Myspace, unless of course you’re a 15 year old girl.
First let me say, I love Mybloglog.com, it’s my kind of social network.
But the problem I have is not that it’s been bought by Yahoo, which will hardly effect me and yes I know everyone is getting excited and sweaty about it, but from my point of view I can’t see the big deal.
No, the problem is is that it is too good, it’s too easy to add contacts, I joined a few days ago and had a couple of hours free so added a few hundred contacts. All within my sector of web development. I notice that I had more contacts than Shoemoney so was feeling pretty good about myself and thought I would brag about this in the webmaster.fm chat room.
I was then informed that when I can get over 7,000 contacts in 24 hours, then I can brag, actually they were a lot nicer but it’s more interesting if I spice it up.
It was then explained to me that bots are now being built to game Mybloglog.com
It would be quite easy to track the pages that have Mybloglog code on them and record who visits, this is useful data as you can then set up an account to target people who visit one type of website.
Your account then links to a nice Splog you have just set up.
Most people you contact visit your website to see what you’re about. So, add 7,000 people, get 7,000 people visiting your site and make a few dollars.
When people place the Mybloglog code on their website as I have done here, the picture of Mybloglog members who were the last to visit is displayed. So to get your face, or picture to display is visit the blog.
So what’s to stop someone to set up a script that will visit the site every 15 mins – or higher for more trafficked sites – and get their picture in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Yes there is a function where you can ban people being displayed, but how do you know if it’s real or not?
On a members page is a list of all the communities they belong to, again this data can be gathered and members targeted. The pages on these communities have lists of all the members, so again another place where data on communities can be gathered.
Messages can be posted on a members account page, so once you have a targeted list of people and a nice splog set up, a bot could send mass messages to members based on their interests. Not of the “check out my free ringtone” variety that you get on Myspace, but a more cleverly crafted message that appeals to the vanity of the member. I am sure I have already had some spam as the messages praise me for things I have not yet done.
You could set up a bot which monitors a community and when a new member is added an automatic “add contact” goes out.
So yeah, brilliant idea for a social network, but how are they going to stop the spammer and bot action?
What people have to say about myblog from around the web.
Shoemoneys’ predictions correct
Why Yahoo Needs MyBlogLog, and Vice Versa
The MyBlogLog Blog
Bloggers unite! Yahoo! joins forces with MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog has finally been acquired by Yahoo!
Yahoo Buys Networking Site For Blog Junkies
What does Yahoo want with MyBlogLog?
Om Malik on the sale to Yahoo
Mashable talks about the Yahoo sale