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.
When you have every social media marketing blog loaded in your RSS reader, you soon come to identify a problem within the space. The problem is the term Linkbait, it is overused, misused and stretched to cover almost all content ever published on the web.
Different definitions of linkbait I have heard:
So I previously made fun of Twitter, but there was something about it which kept my attention. One thing which kept me connected was the fact that my peers were spending time there and a conversation existed. Not knowing what the conversation was about became painful, so I had to keep dipping in.
And, there are bits and bobs and nuggets of gold in there, sure you get the, “I’m on the bus”, type twitter, but what you also get is an insight into “the conversation”. I use it professionally, so all the people I follow have something to do with my business and being able to know what is the “thing of the moment” can be very useful. [Read more…] about How Ed Dale Hammered in the Final Nail of my Twitter Coffin
How much time do you spend working on your Web 2.0-cross voting network? Don’t get me wrong, a network is vital, the right network can propel you into social media marketing heaven. But, there comes a point where watching your story rise on digg and constantly plundering your IM contacts becomes notworking, not networking.
You become so desperate you ping the weird stalker you hoped would go away, but you are so desperate to squeeze those extra votes out of the tube you are willing to dance with the devil.
The law of diminishing return kicks in at some point, where you would get more out of working on your content than doing the ping-tango with your IM crowd. [Read more…] about It's Not Networking it's Notworking
In my comments from digg is Not Social Media Marketing someone asked me, what is a linkerati?
In my arrogance and blinkered vision I expected everyone to know who the linkerati are. But not everyone spends most of their waking day immersed in the murky world of getting eyeballs to websites. Obviously I have to as I am a blogger whose goal is to teach and coach my readers to social media marketing nirvana.
But not everyone knows the jargon and as this is a pretty new industry there are a lot of fresh new faces. So lets get down to basics. [Read more…] about Who are the Linkerati?
A recent IM chat session went like this,
“btw, digg is broken. i didnt get front with like 215 diggs, 107 comments”
It’s a shame isn’t it. is the party really over?
But what’s that I hear?
Music?
You mean the party is still going?
Digg used to be so easy to get to the front page, easy in the sense of after studying it for a year and spending more time devoted to it than trying to figure out what “Lost” is all about.
But it looks like those easy days by the pool are over. [Read more…] about digg is NOT Social Media Marketing
OK, something has been bothering me.
When a piece of web content, be it a blog post, a picture, a pdf, gets called linkbait simply because it gets a bunch of links.
Is the term “linkbait” overused?
Yes.
But why is it important, I mean, who cares? [Read more…] about Why it's NOT Linkbait, Idiot!