The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Figures as low as a response in hundreds of thousands of emails can still make an email spammer rich, and with comment spam to engineer search engine results, it doesn’t even need someone to click on a link – just by appearing, it’s mission accomplished. The usual example is Fred Wilson’s community at avc.com.

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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

I like to focus on building search engine traffic to my sites because once you have rankings you can usually sustain them with little effort and the traffic they send is very targeted. Health, gambling, forex and gaming industries for example, are very competitive online.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

As I use the software so much and make a lot of my income thanks to search engine traffic, I have come to learn what works best in terms of optimising your Wordpress setup. Title Tags The title tag has long been thought of as the most important on-site factor in telling search engines what your site (or a page) is about.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The latter example, surprisingly (or not) is what I’m going to look at today. SEOBook Authored by my friend Aaron Wall, SEO book is the top resource online about increasing your search engine rankings and getting more website traffic. By having people “talk about&# your content, I simply mean people sharing your content.

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Razor Social

APRIL 4, 2018

Over to Helga: Google, as well as other search engines, consider links the primary factors for ranking websites and pages. So a link from a high authority site like The New York Times will be more powerful than a link from a low authority site, for example, a new site with no inbound links of its own. Nofollow links also matter.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 1, 2010

The top 10, were: ViperChill: 894 viper chill: 280 guest blogging: 162 viral marketing: 110 viperchill.com: 54 glen allsopp: 44 wordpress seo: 29 internet marketing: 28 www.viperchill.com: 23 viperchill minimalist marketing: 18 Last month the search engine traffic grew by 33% and this month it has grown by almost 50%.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The top results for most keyphrases are either a Wikipedia page, a site that is very focused around community, or a clear leader in an industry. On-Site SEO There are two aspects to Search Engine Optimisation: on site and off. These days however, things are very different. SEO now is far less robotic, and far more social.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 12, 2010

If you use Google Reader in a list format for example – like I do – then your headline determines whether myself or anyone else using the service will click on your listing to read the post. There’s a great example of this kind of post at Copyblogger, where the author asks: Is Commenting on Blogs a Smart Traffic Strategy?

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

You can use the settings option for WP RSS Aggregator to configure features such as limit the number of posts shown on each page, limit the number of feed items stored from each feed source, make the links nofollow, and whether you would like the new links to open in a new page. When you get to your author page, look for an RSS feed link.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. Tweet Spinner also has a “nofollow&# user list that will algorithmically never follow users who meet certain criteria. Tweet frequency.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

The blog platform, as an open source community, is collectively shared by anyone and everyone who contribute code and provide feedback about what works and what needs improvement. When a search engine robot visits this blog and wants to know how different posts and pages are interconnected, a plugin creates that sitemap.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

Here’s the primary example that I’ll give (and I have refrained from talking about this, but I just can’t resist any longer): EzineArticles experienced the second highest percentage change in search results. Search engines have traditionally given them a nod of approval, pretty much across the board.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2012

40 Examples Of Creatively Designed Twitter Backgrounds by Tripwire Magazine. Community manager Jen Lopez explains how SEOmoz increased its total Twitter followers by 250% to over 27,000 people. Hint: it helps to have a community manager. 5 Ways Twitter Can Be Leveraged for B2B Search Engine Marketing by Search Engine Watch.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Make Other People Care When I was 16, I received an email from Google Engineer Matt Cutts. For example, if you mention the comments you’ve been leaving on recent blog posts (which you really have) or the relevance of your post to one that the blogger wrote recently, you’re giving them a reason to care. Again mindblowing.

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Viper Chill

JULY 25, 2016

For example, when I want to see how my football team, Newcastle, have fared against Liverpool, I literally don’t have to click anywhere. They have undoubtedly created the world’s most sophisticated search engine. It’s just an example). They Have All The Answers. Big Brands Dominate the Long Tail.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

User Friendly SEO : These are the tactics that search engine optimizers should use to optimize for search engines and user experience. Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. Wouldn’t you want your image to be associated with local places?

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I’ve been interviewed about marketing using guest posts over 10 times, I’m mentioned on the homepage of a guest posting community and I’ve written far more of them than I care to remember. Google Blog Search – Google blog search , if the name doesn’t give too much information away, is a blog search engine.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

your initial examples are problematic in my opinion: (A) If you or your client does not have an advertising budget, then how *are* they paying you to email people? As such, you deserve to call the shots within reason, and the first illustration you gave is a fine examples of this. My focus with this blog has always been community.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

Roundup of the Top Internet and Social Media Statistics by Awareness Community. For example, women (63%) are more likely than men (56%) to post comments and likes to their profile, suggesting that women show a greater tendency to engage in personal communication. Young adults (but not teens) are fueling growth on Twitter.

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Viper Chill

MAY 17, 2010

I’ve seen so few examples of this that I wonder actually how many people know about it. To really cement this idea in your head, allow me share an example from the personal development niche. Blogging Duo Example in the Personal Finance Niche Two of the biggest blogs in the world can be found in the personal finance space.

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Viper Chill

MAY 26, 2010

As I write about marketing, for example, I wanted to share the stats of this website on a monthly basis because I know that people building websites will be looking at their own. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 88 Comments Vinay says: May 26, 2010 at 11:07 am Great tips Glen! Yes, I’m being sarcastic).

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. That means setting aside time to answer community questions, point people to resources, and find ways to be useful to your audience – whether that’s educating or simply entertaining them.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

You can find ideas in literally any niche, with some examples being their marketing , finance , gadget and humour sections. As an example, you can see the most posts you all enjoyed the most at ViperChill by going here. Simply change the tag in the URL to whatever you write about and you’ll find popular content around that topic.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

This is very different to the usual method of finding news by going to your favourite blogs or entering a search query into a major search engine. With StumbleUpon, it’s all about the users and the content that the community enjoys. Both are acceptable and about as popular as each other. Want proof? Or, test it out for yourself.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 19, 2010

The last point is also something important to remember if you launch a product, for example. The best type of traffic for blogs is search engine traffic and mentions from other blogs. The other side of the coin is to focus on getting traffic from search engines or other forms, and monetising them in different ways.

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

They are simply the top 10 blogs in the world…according to the Technorati engine criteria. TMZ, for example, was a robot hobby site up until December 2005 when it started to cover celebrity gossip as it still does to this day. I personally don’t care for their constant posts about Twitter, but the Twitter community does.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 22, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 148 Comments Benny the Irish polyglot says: March 22, 2010 at 11:17 am Great post as always! I’m starting over again with blogging and I want to do it better this time around. =) Reply Sava says: April 19, 2010 at 8:40 am One example is JohnChow. The best rule is that there are no rules!

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 19, 2010

My Own Example When I had the idea to create Cloud Living, I had just finished giving away a free eBook on blogging. I use some nice covers ( example ) on my eBooks so that they look like real physical products. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 125 Comments Steven Aitchison says: January 19, 2010 at 12:47 pm Wow!

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 9, 2010

viperchill anchor text: 99 glen allsopp: 98 seo wordpress: 90 While search engine traffic is still a tiny portion of the traffic that arrives at ViperChill, it is growing steadily month on month with the number of referring keywords increasing by another 25%. Look at Hugh McLeod as an example of someone who shined through images.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Instead of dwelling on the sale, I want to praise the growth of such a big community and share the steps involved in duplicating my success. Photo Credit I Dominated Search At 16, when stumbling around the web looking for ways to get more traffic to my websites, I discovered Search Engine Optimisation.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 30, 2010

For example, if I find a site on Flippa that is ranking well for a certain keyphrase in Google and it’s making a lot of money, I might not always be able to purchase it for what I consider is a fair price — some bidders are happy to wait over 3 years for a return on their investment.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

1 in 4 search queries have never been typed in the history of the search engine – every single day. The site only has 5 pages right now, but that’s all it takes (and this is just one example, of which I have many). target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 170 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 8, 2010 at 11:09 am Woww.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 26, 2009

For example, I’ve managed to build a top 10 personal development blog in 12 months and I was voted the top social media marketer under 21. There’s a good chance you’ll find groups focused around topics you want to cover Ning : You can think of Ning as a Facebook but for niche communities.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 3, 2010

Finally, comments also help you drive more search engine traffic to your site thanks to the long-tail traffic that the words in them generate. Anything that shows community on your site is also a good thing in my eyes. When I write a really good post it can spread naturally and get in excess of 100 tweets. Good to see you here.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 15, 2010

For example, I’m currently writing this on a Sunday and plan to schedule it for Thursday. However, if you’re not that confident in building your own website and simply want to get started then writing articles around certain industries and products can make you a lot of money if you can get them to rank in search engines.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 18, 2010

The rest of this post is totally based on my opinion, but hopefully there are enough examples to help you see that you do need to adapt, if you want your blog to thrive. at Get Rich Slowly is a good example of this. I could list many more examples, but there’s a reason why it won’t help. “Good luck!&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright?? It’s important to understand the communities you contribute to and to understand the rules of the sites that you target. Isn’t your name actually Alan?

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