Seo for your living

Frank Schilling’s blog is a great read.

What You Can Learn from Comment Spam
I just deleted about 10,000 comment spams from a blog. What could one learn from going through all that spam?

Blog Comment Spam to Search Spam to Email Spam
A friend of mine found out about a product that was first seen by them from a spam comment someone left on my site. The product helped automate content generation and syndication, aiming to help new webmasters distribute slightly unique spam across the web. My friend gave that person his email address and they email spam him non-stop. Marketing offers are no better than the marketing method they use to find you.

SEO: New Wordpress Link Directory for Blogs (PR Web)
The Australia seo and web design consulting blog, eBrand marketing has announced its latest in-house tool, Wordpress Link Directory for all Wordpress bloggers. WP Link Directory is the first and only Wordpress plugin on the Internet that allows wordpressers to create a powerful link directory for seo. The plugin allows bloggers to perform many powerful tasks such as creating categories, checking …

Turning a Hobby Into a Passive Income Stream
As ads and content continue to blend eventually there will be some type of blowback where websites that are driven by passion will keep taking marketshare from sites that lack passion. If you have a hobby the odd are you are passionate, spending a lot of time on it, and may also be spending a lot of money on it. Why not align work and play? If you turn your hobbies into businesses at the very least you get a tax write off, but on the upside you might create a sustainable profitable business model.

Even the Search Engines are Bad at Optimization
Yahoo! allows paid inclusion members to buy quick links in the search results and indexes sites more fully if they use Yahoo! for their site search.

Rules of Engagement for Social Media
Many of us laughed or felt horribly betrayed or eventually both when we discovered the truth about such social media mistakes as the Wal-Mart fake blogs or Sony s failed attempt at a viral campaign on YouTube. We would have winced if we had made those kinds of mistakes on behalf of one of our own sites. Wouldn t it be great if there were some rules for social media …
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The Ups and Downs of Socializing Your Content
Post about the value add and costs of adding a user generated content section to your site.

SEO - Working for Clients or Yourself? (WebProNews)
Early last week Brian Provost of Scoreboard Media Group posted The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant . That question according to Brian is If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why would you do it for clients instead of for yourself? It s an interesting question and one deserving discussion. Brian gives what he considers are the only three honest answers to the …

Bad Plan and a Bad CMS Implementation (WebProNews)
One of the biggest mistakes really large publishers make today is doing SEO like it s 1999. They throw up hundreds, thousands, and sometimes millions of pages, with the belief that more is better. This has grown exponentially with web 2.0 and blogging apps and cross-tagging, listing and publishing content in multiple spots. Here s an example that s pretty typical of a problem I see with alarming …