Monthly Archives: November 2009

30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 13 - Scribd

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 5, 2009
Filesharing and Linkbuilding The simple sharing of files (which granted, can become quite complex) represents a significant opportunity and challenge. The complexities are as follows and raise the question of the value of links and link-building: A link as a reputation verification opportunity (aka PageRank) A link as a traffic generating opportunity (aka visitors) A [...]
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CSS Font-Family and Installed Fonts in Linux, Windows and Mac

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 4, 2009
Web Typography, Fonts, CSS, oh my Web typography aka CSS font-family relies on installed Fonts which are handled by the operating system. Boo. Even more distressing is the multi-platform diversity of fonts out there. To be more precise, it's not diversity that is the problem, but the lack of diversity. For example, a recent linux/unix [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 12 - The Facebook Page

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 3, 2009
Facebook, The Monster Social Network Even if Facebook didn't have all the advertising inside of the platform, the amazing demographic data, etc. one thing it does have for the SEO in all of us is PageRank. Freaking PageRank 9. That's like Superman on steroids. Only Yahoo, Google (day 2) and Google (day 11)and YouTube (day [...]
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How to really grow your SEM business in Asia

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 3, 2009
This is a comment on Dennis Yu's article How to grow your SEM business in Asia. His commenting system didn't seem to work, and the beauty of having your own blog is that you can make comments on your own site (also, the comment got a little long). Asia is Big For one thing, Asia [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 11 - Google Local Listing

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 2, 2009
Ah, the Google Local Listing. A thing of beauty and portent. Discussed in such edifying tomes as the Google Webmasters Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Where to begin? Google Local is the new Yellow Pages Actually Google is the new Yellow Pages, but Google Local is essentially an overlay of additional information and listings when [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 9 - Wikidweb

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 2, 2009
Wikidweb is one of a few actual web directories that we suggest our clients use in their linkbuilding campaigns. Why? Several reasons. Why use Wikidweb? First, it is a basic wiki using WikiMedia, the wiki software that runs Wikipedia--namely it is easy to use. Second, you do the editing, not some anonymous (or non-existent) bot [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 10 - Blip.TV

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 2, 2009
Blip is Big Blip.TV is one of those online video sharing sites that could be termed one of the dwarfs, aka Snow White and the (how many?) Dwarfs--Snow White being YouTube, of course. Along with many other sites that could be mentioned (but why bother), Blip.TV has a special place for a few reasons. Google [...]
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