Archive for October, 2007
Sometimes You Just Need to Laugh
Oct 26th
One of the main reasons why I love the internet so much is how I can instantaneously pull a video for free and let it crack you up. Here’s one of my favorite videos. FYI, there’s language and sexuality in this video (so you know it’s good):
In order to make this post qualify for the subject of this blog (SEO/SEM marketing), I should mention that funny videos are great link bait for your website. Link bait refers to content that most web publishers or bloggers would want to link to you. Everybody loves to laugh, which is why CollegeHumor.com has such high link authority, page rank, and rank highly for most competitive keyword terms. I’m not talking about simply embedding funny videos into your website, but making your own. It takes time, but it has a high success rate.
Blogrush Sucks
Oct 23rd
The idea isn’t half bad, but the Blogrush platform blows.
So I signed up and entered my blog details (url, feed url, description, etc). When I hit submit, it gave me a parse error. I emailed John Reese, the creator, and got no reply.
Once Blogrush entered what they called “Phase 2″, I was able to successfully submit my blog for review. Hooray!
24 hours later I got an email saying my blog was accepted. Cool. And the blogrush widget was already displaying content on my site. I go to sign in to my blogrush account, only to get a message telling me that I can’t access my account because my blog is still in review. Wait, what was that email then?
I understand that Blogrush is a start up site/company, but that’s a pretty crappy start up. A crappy web platform on top of crappy service. I’m not alone.
TLA’s Text Link Price Calculator
Oct 19th
TLA’s Text Link Price Calculator requires you to enter your website address, website category, # of text links to be sold, and to choose between site-wide or single-page links. To the right of this form is a “map” of a standard website layout. You choose where you plan on placing the text links and the price is weighted accordingly.
The results aren’t that accurate – as in, the tool doesn’t consider many other factors that might affect the price you might charge your advertisers. There is definitely room for improvement. Right now it seems their algorithm for finding an estimated price is based on link popularity, link position on page, single or site-wide, quantity of links being sold, and possibly some other calculations made behind the scenes. For noobs or semi-experienced people, this tool might give a good example of the “going rates” for text link these days.
You might also be interested in Patrick Gavin’s Link Building Blog.
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