User Generated Content And SEO

22-02-2008

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.

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Viva La Open Source Music!

18-01-2008

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.

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Social Bookmarking Statistics

02-01-2008

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.

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Where social networkings go?

07-08-2007

Social networking panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit.

Travis Katz, SVP of My Space -
'networks going international and mobile, so people can take it anywhere.

Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook -
'ubiquity is a big change. For instance, e-mail has been around for years, but only recently have people assumed everyone has an e-mail address.

Rich Rosenblatt, CEO of Demand Media -
'social network profiles will all get their own web sites; more smaller social networks will go up

Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning -
'there would be many more social networking sites

Karl Jacob, CEO of Wallop -
'there won’t be social networks in 10 years. It will just be part of our daily lives.

Conclusion:
Older people are now joining social networking: vertical markets would help in attracting older people. Mobile technology would be very important going forward, people would be doing more social networking within businesses. About a million sites would have social networking within 2007, there would be a lot more Internet-made content in the future. The term “social networking” is not good, but no one came up with a better term.

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Social Networking CMS

02-07-2007

The creating of social networking site means more than script power, platform or number of embedded functions. If you understand what social networking is, you can realize that social networking software built around members communication. If you build ocean fishers social networking, functions and interactions will be different from taxi-drivers social networking. Therefore, the most valuable piece of SNS is hidden admin part. But then a real configuration of inner 'rooms', such as individual gallery, calendar, notebook, contact list, etc.

Choosing the best social networking site platform can be difficult as there are different opinions. We can choose custom prepared:

anything you like, though all our heroes hadn't been specially written for social networking field. Some say 'write it yourself', some prefer to wait for 'folksonomied' Open Source Software, kind of 'WP for Social Networkings'.

One of contenders we know is Drupal. Drupal already fuels community driven sites, such as podcast sites twit.tv, artist communities like Terminus 1525, large media sites like TheOnion.com, MTV and even sites for NASA. I hadn't test it latest version yet, previously versions looked heavy and slow for me.

I believe in short time a social active online community will have a new generation of Social Networking CMS with GNU, Open Software License or Open Source License. This is matter of time. Sign of that, for example, Pligg CMS, which is 'socially' activated 'from-the-box'.

Try latest:

  1. PHPizabi - is a match making system for online dating sites. It support intelligent searches, messaging, real-time and delayed chat, customizable profile data, advertisements, friend lists, hot lists, rating, pictures, custom themes, online/offline support, events calendars, horoscopes, news articles and more.
  2. AROUNDMe - the free social networking and group collaboration platform available today, that has three central components: a social network, groupware, and activities and task management.

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On a low budget? Ning is free to build your own social network.

The principle is: even with Wordpress you can build highly respected Social Networking platform, but who said your social networking will become social in some days?

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