When you spend all day online, you come across many good articles that pertain to blogging and blogging for business. This is my short list that includes the top four articles that I came across this week.
5 Reasons Why Article Submission Is A Poor SEO Tactic
I get the feeling that Aaron is not a big fan of using article submission for SEO and neither am I, here are 5 good reasons why article submission is a poor link building tactic and why you should publish your best articles on your own site as opposed to article sites:1/ If you submit the article to an article site and market the article on social media sites, the links will be going to the article site and not your own.2/ If you submit the article to an article site and it attracts links from other websites, blogs etc. they will be going to the article site and not your own.3/ If you submit the article to an article site then the search engine traffic will go to the article site, the readers may or may not click the link to your own site.
SEO.com Announces the Top 10 Internet Marketing Strategies of 2009
The best Internet marketing strategies of 2009 revolved around establishing credibility and targeted exposure. The search engine optimization company says similar tactics will work in 2010.
SALT LAKE CITY — In response to an eMarketer.com study stating that businesses will spend up to 75 percent more on Internet marketing this holiday season, SEO.com – a full-service Internet marketing company in Salt Lake City – announces the top 10 most effective Internet marketing strategies of 2009.
“Businesses want to make sure every penny goes to something that produces results,” said Dave Bascom, chief executive of SEO.com. “For that reason, more and more money is being allocated to Internet marketing because it’s measurable and has proven to increase ROI.”
There are a wide variety of Internet marketing methods, the most effective being the ones that establish credibility, trust and directly target a demographic.
via SEO.com Announces the Top 10 Internet Marketing Strategies of 2009 | SEO.com.
Facebook Publishes 2009′s Top Status Trends
Facebook users are a pretty important group of people; after all, in recent months, it's been established that there are more of them than there are individuals in the United States. So to wrap up 2009, Facebook's provided a list that helps spell out what its users have been thinking about all year.
You can view the list of top status trends below. It was made possible thanks to something termed “Facebook Memology,” and as you can see, has been a bit simplified (condensing Farmville, Farm Town, and Social Living into “Facebook Applications,” for example).
via Facebook Publishes 2009′s Top Status Trends | WebProNews.
Google’s Youtube Caught Cloaking to Spam Google Users & Increase Ad Revenues
Google claims they try to be pretty fair with publishers and publishing business models. They are fine with indexing preview versions of a page and just showing a user that, you can make the full article free, you can make the first x clicks free.
OR you can put it all behind a paywall and not get any search exposure.
UNLESS you are Youtube.
In which case you can put whatever you want behind a subscribe wall, still have that registration-required/paywall content fully indexed in Google, and then force users to sign in to view the content.
On the cache copy of pages people still can view the pre-roll ads, but not the content
Search Google for “poker face”, observe all the Youtube data in the search results, click the top Youtube listing, and watch them send you to a login page so they can better track you and target ads against you.
via Google’s Youtube Caught Cloaking to Spam Google Users & Increase Ad Revenues | SEO Book.com.
