Apologizing for not blogging enough
How many blog posts start with something like "It's been a while since
I posted anything, sorry about that, I promise I'll be posting more
soon bla bla bla..."?
Apologizing at the start of anything really takes the shine off
things...
* Apologizing for being late to a meeting
* Apologizing for your hourly rate being so high
* Apologizing for software being in beta
* Apologizing for...
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SEO Blog vs SEO Forum
It occurred to me today that I don't visit SEO forums very often
anymore, but spend much more time on SEO blogs. After giving this some
thought, I came up with 2 reasons why I prefer SEO blogs.
SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO
Here's a couple of typical conversations you might find on a SEO
forum...
THE "BEEN SAID A MILLION TIMES HOW TO GET LINKS" THREAD
USER 1: Hey, does any1 know how to...
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Do Follow - would you like anchor text with that?
A lot of blog authors are joining the dofollow revolution, and are
hacking their Wordpress installs to remove the ugly rel=nofollow
attribute from comment links. I'd like to announce a new feature of
this blog, and other blogs based on Jojo CMS[1], where a good comment
is rewarded with not only a...
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Buy Propecia - How blog spam brings you traffic
I was having a look at my site stats from yesterday, and came across a
result I wasn't expecting.
Apparently someone found me for "BUY PROPECIA"???
This seems odd, because I don't sell propecia, and because it seems
like a really good profitable phrase to be ranking for if you do
happen to...
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Some comments on comments
One of my new year's resolutions has to spend more time trolling
forums and blogs. To interact more, learn some new tricks and (ahem)
build some comment and signature links.
Many blogs use nofollow to prevent spam, but we all know this doesn't
work. This has never stopped me from commenting on...
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