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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Search Engine: Key Capabilities of Next-Generation Project Managers
Key Capabilities of Next-Generation Project Managers: "Project managers might just have the toughest job in IT, responsible as they are for ensuring that high-stakes IT projects are completed on time and on budget. According to a new report from Forrester Research, the project manager's role is getting even more demanding and difficult to fill."
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
SEO Expert: Five Tips To Avoid Getting Burned When Starting Social Media Campaigns
Five Tips To Avoid Getting Burned When Starting Social Media Campaigns: "If you’re not already tapping into social media, you should, as the channel offers brands tremendous opportunities to foster community and engagement. But many marketers jump into social media efforts with little more than a “cool” idea. This is a mistake. Not only could it pose serious implications for a brand, but it could also [...]
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Good Wine and Books: "We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right direction to make a difference as both a technology and a business.
For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read, a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.
Together we'll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @roomtoread, and with each case sold they'll be able to supply about 60 local language children's books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can't read.
You can follow us throughout this initiative and even participate in barrel tastings and other activities along the way thanks to the folks at Crushpad. If you want to get a bottle of our limited Pinot Noir or Chardonnay, visit the Fledgling Initiative and contribute. Good wine has never been better!
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For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read, a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.
Together we'll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @roomtoread, and with each case sold they'll be able to supply about 60 local language children's books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can't read.
You can follow us throughout this initiative and even participate in barrel tastings and other activities along the way thanks to the folks at Crushpad. If you want to get a bottle of our limited Pinot Noir or Chardonnay, visit the Fledgling Initiative and contribute. Good wine has never been better!
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Search engine marketing expert: What Makes a Link Worthy Post - Part 1
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This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.
I was recently inspired by a post by MikeTek, Examining the Top 150 In-Linked Posts at SEOmoz. While the information was very informative, it was taken from a limited sample of the over 3,800 post on SEOmoz. Along with the small sample size, the data was not proportional to other categories and posts. Mike encouraged anyone with a little automation skills to look into all the data on SEOmoz and really look into what makes a post link worthy.
For this post we will be looking only at In Linking Domains (ILDs) which is a great way to determine if a post is popular throughout the net. For example if you have a site like dummy-domain.com that links to your post 1,000 times throughout its site, it would count as 1 ILD. A great viral post will have a large number of ILDs along with a large number of links.
LET'S START WITH THE DATA
Much like Mike’s data, there were some categories that collected more links than others. In fact there were five categories that have the most domains linking to them, Link Building (1,448 domains), Google (1,419 domains), Technical Issues (1,243 domains), Miscellaneous (1,215 domains), and Whiteboard Friday (1,044 domains). See the graph below for the top 30 of the SEOmoz categories.
The data in the chart above can be a little misleading because some of those categories have many more posts than others do. To make all the data proportional, I took the total number of linking domains and divided it by the number of posts. The chart changes considerably when the data becomes normalized. From the chart below you can see that the top 3 categories are Webdev (19), Technical Issues (14), and On-Page Issues (10).
From the charts above it’s easy to say that “Link Building” is a very popular blog topic but it doesn’t always draw in the links like other topic can. Part of that could be because of the difference in options on link building techniques. Topics like “Technical Issues” and “On-Page Issues” the types of content that most people will agree on and possibly want to share with others in the business.
To take the study a little further, I stored all the post’s title’s and created a title word cloud for the top 10% of the 3,800. This hopefully will give you an idea of what topics could have the possibility of being link worthy in your future post. I was going to try and come up with a “Super” title based on the words in the cloud but couldn’t come up with anything catchy. Maybe one of you Mozzers can come up with something amazing from the cloud.
Like Mike did in his previous post, let’s take a look at the content in the posts: images, list, and videos. In the chart below you will see that having a just a list in a post compared to just text, doubles the average number of linking domains. Have a video compared to just text will almost triple the average number of linking domains. A post that has an image and a list will also triple the average number of linking domains to the post.
I’m sure many of you are like me and do a quick scan of the post before actually reading it. By adding images, videos, and lists, it makes it easy to get a quick synopsis on what the post is about, encouraging people to go back and do a full read along with a possible link. Adding Images and Lists are easy to do and could result in a post that is more link worthy.
I also recorded the length of the post to see if it had an effect on the average number of linking domains. The length recorded was only that of the post and not the comments or other areas of the page to keep the data accurate. I’ve read that most blog post should be kept to 500 words or less. That information seems to be incorrect if you are going to post on SEOmoz and want it to be link worthy. The chart below shows that posts with 1800 or more words have a much higher average of linking domains.
BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS
I feel the real take away from this post is in the last two graphics summarized below:
The first part of this study was only with SEOmoz data and in the next part of this study I have decided to take on a huge project and taking a look at some of the top SEO/Internet Marketing blogs on the web. With a larger sample size we may be able to find out if the information found during this study will hold true in other areas. Stay tuned!
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Posted by chenry
This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.
I was recently inspired by a post by MikeTek, Examining the Top 150 In-Linked Posts at SEOmoz. While the information was very informative, it was taken from a limited sample of the over 3,800 post on SEOmoz. Along with the small sample size, the data was not proportional to other categories and posts. Mike encouraged anyone with a little automation skills to look into all the data on SEOmoz and really look into what makes a post link worthy.
For this post we will be looking only at In Linking Domains (ILDs) which is a great way to determine if a post is popular throughout the net. For example if you have a site like dummy-domain.com that links to your post 1,000 times throughout its site, it would count as 1 ILD. A great viral post will have a large number of ILDs along with a large number of links.
LET'S START WITH THE DATA
Much like Mike’s data, there were some categories that collected more links than others. In fact there were five categories that have the most domains linking to them, Link Building (1,448 domains), Google (1,419 domains), Technical Issues (1,243 domains), Miscellaneous (1,215 domains), and Whiteboard Friday (1,044 domains). See the graph below for the top 30 of the SEOmoz categories.
The data in the chart above can be a little misleading because some of those categories have many more posts than others do. To make all the data proportional, I took the total number of linking domains and divided it by the number of posts. The chart changes considerably when the data becomes normalized. From the chart below you can see that the top 3 categories are Webdev (19), Technical Issues (14), and On-Page Issues (10).
From the charts above it’s easy to say that “Link Building” is a very popular blog topic but it doesn’t always draw in the links like other topic can. Part of that could be because of the difference in options on link building techniques. Topics like “Technical Issues” and “On-Page Issues” the types of content that most people will agree on and possibly want to share with others in the business.
To take the study a little further, I stored all the post’s title’s and created a title word cloud for the top 10% of the 3,800. This hopefully will give you an idea of what topics could have the possibility of being link worthy in your future post. I was going to try and come up with a “Super” title based on the words in the cloud but couldn’t come up with anything catchy. Maybe one of you Mozzers can come up with something amazing from the cloud.
Like Mike did in his previous post, let’s take a look at the content in the posts: images, list, and videos. In the chart below you will see that having a just a list in a post compared to just text, doubles the average number of linking domains. Have a video compared to just text will almost triple the average number of linking domains. A post that has an image and a list will also triple the average number of linking domains to the post.
I’m sure many of you are like me and do a quick scan of the post before actually reading it. By adding images, videos, and lists, it makes it easy to get a quick synopsis on what the post is about, encouraging people to go back and do a full read along with a possible link. Adding Images and Lists are easy to do and could result in a post that is more link worthy.
I also recorded the length of the post to see if it had an effect on the average number of linking domains. The length recorded was only that of the post and not the comments or other areas of the page to keep the data accurate. I’ve read that most blog post should be kept to 500 words or less. That information seems to be incorrect if you are going to post on SEOmoz and want it to be link worthy. The chart below shows that posts with 1800 or more words have a much higher average of linking domains.
BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS
I feel the real take away from this post is in the last two graphics summarized below:
- Content is most important thing to a posts but posts with extra visual content attract extra links.
- By adding simple visual content, like lists and images, can increase the number of ILDs by good percent.
- Posts with videos included will attract almost 3 times more ILDs than a plain text post.
- Posts with all three media types (videos, images, and lists) will attract almost 6 times more ILDs than a plain text post.
- Contrary to common beliefs, large posts seem to attract more links than posts with 900 words or less.
- Posts with between 1800 and 3000 words will attract more than 15 times more ILDs than a post with less than 600 words.
The first part of this study was only with SEOmoz data and in the next part of this study I have decided to take on a huge project and taking a look at some of the top SEO/Internet Marketing blogs on the web. With a larger sample size we may be able to find out if the information found during this study will hold true in other areas. Stay tuned!
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Usman Farooq: Mozilla unblocks one sneaky Microsoft plug-in
Mozilla unblocks one sneaky Microsoft plug-in: "Mozilla has unblocked one of the two Microsoft-made add-ons that put Firefox users at risk from attack and will probably unblock the second in the next 48 hours, the company's head of engineering said today."
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Attribution Wars: In Defense Of The Last Click (Part I)
Attribution Wars: In Defense Of The Last Click (Part I): "I went to a party last week. It was put on by a big online player, mainly to thank agencies who buy large gobs of display ads for their clients. And strangely, one of the hosts began apologizing to me (over the gurgling sounds of me thanking him for the free drink—how they let me [...]
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Preparing For International Link Building Success
Preparing For International Link Building Success: "The majority of international link building projects or RFPs I see are based on existing successful projects—so why do so many fail when they expand internationally? The simple answer is that international link building requires a different type of preparation than national link building.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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Five Rules For Running A Successful Pay-Per-Call Campaign
Five Rules For Running A Successful Pay-Per-Call Campaign: "Although it’s been around for years, pay-per-call advertising may be finally hitting its stride. Greg Sterling, a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land, recently wrote:
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There’s No Debate That Local Search Has A Role to Play in Healthcare
There’s No Debate That Local Search Has A Role to Play in Healthcare: "Congress’ debate on healthcare has sparked many different opinions about the right path for the future of healthcare insurance. Regardless of where that debate is headed, all Americans share the same challenge at one point or another: finding good healthcare.
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