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Classifying User Generated Content

User Generated Content (UGС) is a very popular theme nowaday. All related aspects are very interesting: SEO - UGС, Social Marketing - UGС, but question is - what methods for classifying User Generated Content we can use.

• 1. Volume/Scale
• 2. Publicness/Privacy
• 3. Frequency
    How regularly is the content created?
• 4. Reach
    Defines the size of the audience impacted by the UGC.
• 5. Purpose
    a) Commercial - with the eventual objective of generating interest in selling a product or service;
    b) Social - intended to connect to other users for the purposes of establishing or fulfilling a relationship with them;
    c) Transformational - containing information or ideas intended to educate, inform or influence the readership.
• 6. Validity
    a) The credibility of the content generator established through reputation, tone, qualifications, or depth of research
    b) The quality and accuracy of the content
    c) The appropriateness of the content to the audience that receives it, does it answer their needs?
• 7. Medium
• 8. Message
    How user generated message correlates to auditory from the point of Sociology. The Purpose is pragmatics. Message is semantics.
• 9. Tone - negative, neutral, positive
• 10. Cites - adopted quotations, references to the extraneous resources

As SEO Freelancer I look forward to find anything promising of UGС metrics.

User Generated Content And SEO

User Generated Content, especially, high-quality User Generated Content (UGC) is what we all need for successful organic SEO. UGC brings us healthy traffic, low level 'long tail' keywords, free promo. For that we can hire freelance copywriter, buy ready-to-fly articles on any theme, put our boat on water of 'dofollow' fashion, do anything just to invite hungry users to generate that holly USG. Recent study shows 58% of the users, 18-25 years old, browse to create their own content.

Well, you made very appealing nice site and users come to leave you its raw user content 2 tons everyday. From SEO point of view you can't ask them to write search engine optimized text with bold keywords, but you can rule them into right direction with a smart category listing. So, Topically Focused Content is our next hero.

Some say UGC will destroy SEO. I don't think so, because the connective filament from you to UGC is still Search Engine querie.

Social Bookmark Inspiration

If you seek for a new shiny idea for your next article, try that - Social Bookmark Inspiration. Lets see Digg Most Popular Top5 Words in January 2008:

1. how
2. you
3. new
4. your
5. why

Now we type:
"How Did You Get New..."
"How Are You! A New Day Of Your..."
"How To ... Your New..."
etc.

Hope you got it. Probably thats a joke, but real 100% Social Bookmark Inspiration for your next Top5 Digg article.

Digg With Drupal

If you are into social bookmarking revolution and know what Drupal is, you can create Digg and Pligg-like web sites based on Drigg - a Drupal module that allows voting a'la Digg. To see open source social bookmarking in action visit drigg.org