You’ve heard the old philosophical question: “If a blogger posts in The Cloud and no birds are there to Tweet him, does he make a noise?”

Well, it goes something like that.

Bloggers are always looking for ways to make more noise and get more listeners — more traffic. Blog Riffers was created to help. And today, [...]

Over at the Official Google Blog today, Matt Cutts wrote a little about what they’re focusing on in his neck of the woods:

…we recently launched a redesigned document-level classifier that makes it harder for spammy on-page content to rank highly. The new classifier is better at detecting spam on individual web pages, e.g., repeated spammy [...]

Once upon a time, there was a chicken. This chicken loved to win. As luck would have it, the pigs on the farm where he lived sponsored competitions of all sorts every week. He competed fiercely, and often won.

After a while, the chicken got cocky. :-) One day, a cow dropped by to tell him [...]

Yesterday, at the end of my post about how to connect with other bloggers, I hinted that I’d been stewing over an idea to help bloggers connect with each other. After that, I thought about it some more, got motivated, and now it’s ready to go.

It’s called “Blog Riffers”. It doesn’t cost anything — in [...]

The blogosphere isn’t supposed to be like the universe, where each blog is a star, twinkling at it’s neighbors from several light years away. Instead, it should be interconnected like a group of islands with bridges between them. If you feel like you’re sitting alone on your star, this post is for you.

When you’re a [...]

Dan Thies and Leslie Rohde are launching Link Liberation 2.0 today. It looks like a great product, but the price tag is going to be hard for a lot of people to swallow. Scratch that. It’s going to be impossible. Fortunately, you have an alternative.

Link Liberation is a combination of SEO/link building training and software [...]

In yesterday’s post about the importance of good timing (or the lack thereof), I made an assertion that deserves to be backed up:

In the rare cases where someone manages to automate real value creation, they’re usually better off keeping the tools to themselves, so you won’t often find them for sale.

Let me share my own [...]

In a guest post about Google Instant at Tech Crunch, Eli Feldblum wrote:

It’s been nearly two weeks since Google Instant launched, and … we’re finally starting to see some real data about how the new Google search experience is affecting organic traffic levels and other facets of SEO. … Google Instant is slowly changing how [...]

If you’re like most bloggers, you don’t post nearly as often as you’d like. Why? My theory is that a few little speed bumps are stopping a lot of ideas from turning into blog content before it even occurs to us to write about them. Remove the speed bumps, and the content will flow.

In his [...]

I’ve been listening to the Stomper Net DVDs. They’ve got a TON of information packed into them. Honestly though, I wonder whether it’s too much of a good thing.

Don’t get me wrong — these guys know their stuff, and if you want to be an SEO Grand Master, their course if for you. But what [...]