These are the top articles that I came across during the week. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas – now, back to work!
Building Online Communities: Are We Preaching to the Choir?
A couple of weeks ago, I had a wonderful phone conversation with Mark Stelzner. Most of our discussion centered around the building and cultivating online communities. During our conversation, I suggested Mark, and anyone else who is building an online community, stop preaching to the choir.You see, your community is already sold. They joined your Facebook group, they’re following you on Twitter, they’re rocking your Ning, they participate in blog and forum discussions, you had them at the hello. They want to be there for you. By all means, keep up the good communication, but don’t stop there.
Matt Cutts Talks Google’s Caffeine Update
via Building Online Communities: Are We Preaching to the Choir?.
Are you ready for Google PageRank Update of 2010?
Do you know that Google updates its PageRank every three months? Maybe you know this one, but do you know that we are at the end of year expecting a PageRank update soon? It could be at the beginning of the New Year 2010, and Matt says that maybe they will include page speed to be a ranking factor.
via Are you ready for Google PageRank Update of 2010?.
5 tips to avoid becoming Search Engine Ostracized
Over the last few years, I’ve written extensively on how you should optimize your website. Changing page titles, alternate keyword research methodologies, redirecting domains, and eliminating duplicate content are just a few. But what happens when you get a little out of control and start over optimizing your site. How do you know when you’re doing too much SEO? Below I’ve included 5 tips to help you know when to say when.
Everyone should see the same content
One of the popular techniques that used to be used to trick search engines into giving undo ranking is called Content Cloaking. Content cloaking allows for you to detect the user agent arriving at the site (browser, search engine spider, etc.) and display one version of content for one user and a different version for another user. For example, I may present a page laden with keywords to the search engine, and a page with a few images to the user, thereby “tricking” the search engine into thinking I have much more content than I actually do. Of course, this is an ill-advised tactic and Google (and others) specifically outline that this is not allowed. Frankly, it seems like more work than it’s actually worth.
What’s Happened in Social Media Over the Year | WebProNews
As we did last year, we have gone back through our archives and picked out some of the most noteworthy social media items we have covered since 2009 began. Now that 2009 is almost over, it was worth going back and seeing what all has happened.
via What’s Happened in Social Media Over the Year | WebProNews.
Hi buddy. I like the post about pagerank update in 2010. However, today is only a few days before 2010 yet my friends on FB yesterday said his pagerank was already reduced. Mine's still the same. Have you checked yours?
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Yes, two of my political blogs went up by one point. This site is only 30 days old, so I was not looking for page rank here. Next time around I'll probably get a two or something like that. They do it about every three months or so. Your site should be fine, you post good content on a regular basis and I'm sure you have links coming in. That I think is the biggest factor with page rank.
Thanks buddy. Yeah, I post a new content every 2 days on a scheduled hour. It feels great. I use the rest of my blogging time to make connection with other bloggers and building online profile. That's my strategy for now
about pagerank update in 2010 . off course ready for it , many of my friend said that google with their new rule has reduced all the pagerank . but i think this is the right time to show us , which blog is real valuable
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