Monday, December 10, 2007

December search engine optimization - SEO updates

December search engine optimization - SEO updates

Decreased SEO importance:
  • Updates (new content) importance decreased
  • Text quantity importance decreased
  • Link directories links droped to the very minimum
Increased SEO importance:
  • Anchor text in link/s(exchange) importance increased
  • Related backlinks importance increased

Updates valit through December-January

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Getting visitors from social networking article sites?

This may come as a shock for some lifeless administrators out there who spend half of their days submiting website articles to social networking/article sites and hoping to get some real benefit.

Just a small note: by social networking sites I mean also to sites like digg, delicious, etc...

As some of you already know or don't know your website won't benefit in terms of pagerank from submiting from social networing sites.
Even bigger thing is that half of the social networking sites are puting no follow tags on the links your write.

Now getting to the website traffic this is also now a myth, in order to get some small traffic from digg for example your article needs to have at least 1000 digs in the first place which means you already have to have thousands of unique visitors to your site every day to get such a number of diggs yet if you have that much traffic i don't know why you are still wasting your time with submiting.
Anywyas the benefit is little to none and even that little benefit is only temporarily and not long term. Overall I can assure you there are more creative and better ways to use your time to bring trafic to your site rather than submitting to social networking sites.