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.
Comments (0) 22-02-2008
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
Comments (0) 19-01-2008
Viva La Open Source Music!
Music is over. Viva la Open Source Music!
Thats cool to watch the musical open source revolution. I have nothing to tell. Please, read impressive interviews about future of music business by Trent Reznor and David Byrne. Absolutely nice reading.
Comments (0) 18-01-2008
Social Bookmarking Statistics
What about Social Bookmarking Statistics (SBS) of your site? How popular is your site and can you tell how many times pages of your domain were bookmarked by visitors with a help of Social Bookmarking Services, such as del.icio.us, digg, reddit, simpy, furl or stumbleupon and others?
For my recent SEO project site with 20.000+ pages I wanted to get Social Bookmarking Statistics. I started with a simple queries, kind of http://digg.com/search?section=all&s=www.mysite.com just to see how many times site was digged. Besides I'm tired, that approach showed that the stats, which popular social boookmarking services generate, has dynamical unconsistent human behaviour and can't be used as the foundation of a solid practical analysis.
Soon I googled resources which try to be all-in-one SBS aggregators:
Unfortunately no one delivers correct results.
Comments (0) 02-01-2008
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Eric Schmidt, CEO of GoogleMobile phones are cheaper than PC's, there are three times more of them, growing at twice the speed, and they increasingly have Internet access. What is more, the World Bank estimates that more than two-thirds of the world's population lives within range of a mobile phone network. Mobile is going to be the next big Internet phenomenon. It holds the key to greater access for everyone - with all the benefits that entails.