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Getting Pingback Links Approved For Your Blog Riffs

Antone Roundy — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:09:26 +0000

The other day, Robin over at Profit Blog shared some good tips on how to ensure that your blog comments get approved (rather than getting junked because they look like spam): The reason so many marketers are unsuccessful with blog commenting is because they cannot understand what it means to add value. So below are a [...]

Inside the Google Quality Raters Handbook

Antone Roundy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:41:23 +0000

I found an interesting post from PotPieGirl this morning that included a link to Google’s 2011 Quality Raters Handbook. I’m not going to talk about the same things that she talks about, so I recommend clicking over there and reading her post. Near the end, she writes: …if we can each train ourselves to be Google Raters, [...]

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Content Curation Blogging for Workgroups of All Sizes [Video]

Antone Roundy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:18:35 +0000

I just finished posting a new video to YouTube demonstrating how workgroups of various sizes can divide up the work that’s needed to do high volume content curation or Blog Riffing using SEO Content Factory, and how to make adjustments as you bring more people onto your team to produce more content. You can watch the [...]

Content Curation in an Info-Overloaded Market

Antone Roundy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:36:45 +0000

Content curation is often promoted as a “lazy” blogging technique. On its surface, it seems that way: instead of writing your own content, you simply republish excerpts from and links to other people’s content. And in fact, it is very easy to fill a blog with curated content. But filling your subscriber list is a completely different [...]

Google, I Hope This Isn’t Permanent (Make Your Content Flow)

Antone Roundy — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:05:05 +0000

The other day over at BoostCTR, Ryan Healy wrote about a change to Google’s search results format that’s been bugging me: If you look closely, you’ll notice that the URL is now appearing under the title instead of underneath the body copy. … Is the title even more important than before — because the URL “cuts off” the [...]

Google Launches the +1 Button (+1++?)

Antone Roundy — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:14:10 +0000

Back in March, Google started rolling out “+1″, their competitor for the Facebook “Like” button. At the time, it was only available within Google search. Yesterday, they launched a +1 Button that you can put on your website (you can see…and click…it at the top and bottom of this article). At the time of the original [...]

Shoemoney's April Fools Backlink Getting Secret

Antone Roundy — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:48:42 +0000

I’m listening to an interview with Andy Jenkins and fellow Nebraskan Jeremy Shoemaker (a.k.a. Shoemoney) this morning, and just heard something funny I thought you might enjoy. Jeremy is talking about how he uses controversy to get links. One key, he says, is to take a controversial position on things that other people have a strong [...]

Google +1 vs. the Facebook Like Button

Antone Roundy — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:45:37 +0000

Google has announced their own rival to the Facebook “Like” button: +1. Which is better? Let’s give them a look. Facebook “Like” The Facebook “Like” button appears on a webpage. When a Facebook user clicks it, their name may be listed next to the button, and a note about it will appear on their Wall. Google +1 The Google +1 [...]

Duplicate Content or the Original: Which Should Rank Higher?

Antone Roundy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:12:47 +0000

When an original webpage is outranked by a page that copied its content, the author usually cries foul. At first glance, it seems they’re right — the original source should get the credit for the content. But when you look deeper, it’s not nearly so clear cut a question as you might think. Let’s talk about [...]

“Is Google Gonna Slap Me For [Insert Name of Content Generation Method]?”

Antone Roundy — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:00:09 +0000

Google caused another ruckus online a few days ago when they laid down the law against content mills. Some people are complaining, others are wondering what took ‘em so long, and still others are getting nervous, wondering whether their favorite content generation method is going to get Slapped next. While nobody knows for sure where or [...]