SEO Dance

Internet marketing experts Aaron Wall, Lee Dodd, Dave Taylor, and Jeremy Schoemaker will be holding an online business event namely Elite Retreat Conference. The conference, which will cover a wide array of search engine optimization, social networking, and monetization topics, will take place on December 18-19 in Marriott RiverCenter San Antonio, Texas. Attendees have to pay a whopping $4,850 each but will acquire business wisdom from the top four internet marketing gurus AND get the following stuff, too:

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Compete came up with the Top 20 top domains ranked by unique visitors. Here’s the chart:

The top three include the 3 major search engines and suprisingly Google’s AOL nudged down MSN.

Know about Compete’s interesting key observations on this data.

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From leaving Search Engine Watch to coming up with a new search engine blog, now Danny Sullivan ventures into holding a search marketing conference called Search Marketing Expo, SMX for short. Its first event will be held in Seattle on June 4-5, 2007 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center.

Together with the announcement of this new search marketing event is Danny’s new company - Third Door Media

Read full press release here.

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Abraham Olandres or Abe, together with UK-based blog network Bloggy Network Ltd. has just acquired Blog Herald. Blog Herald is one of the most influential blogs that Blog Media now known as Problogging Inc. used to own.

Abe is one of the most popular Filipino bloggers and he’s the brainchild behind the various successful Pinoy group blogs - PinoyTechBlog, PinoyTravelBlog and PinoyUrbanBlog (PUB, where I blog, too).

Here’s a fragment of the welcome note of the new blog owners:

We appreciate that, being a very young blog network, we have much to learn, and we understand that running the Blog Herald is by no means a small feat, as many people look up to the Herald as a premier source of news and commentary on the blogging industry. We hope to keep up with the Herald’s tradition of high standards and interactivity, building on the foundations established by Duncan Riley and further refined by Problogging Inc.

Blog Herald, with its new owners, will definitely go to greater blogging heights. This I’m sure of because Abe, even with all of his great accomplishments in the blog industry, is definitely not one who sits on his laurels.

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AdGridWork is a contextual advertising network similar to AdWords. Only, it is FREE!

AdGridWork claims to solve…

The SINGLE biggest problem that any startup faces is finding a balance between promoting their site and managing advertising expenses.

If you want to try this free contextual ad network:

Want to Get Started?:
1. Register (takes about 30 seconds).
2. Add your site to the ‘Network.’
3. We’ll provide ‘Ad Code’ that you insert into your website markup.
4. Once it’s established that you are serving ads, we will start serving yours to other related sites on our Network.
5. You can track each of your Campaigns using our detailed metrics and modify your ads as appropriate.

Here’s how an AdGridWork ad looks:

Will this model of ad network survive? We’ll see…

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The end of the year calls for lots of resolutions, and I don’t know if Search Engine Journal included impressing its readers with its new layout. But it sure did impress me.

I find it now more online-news-site’y than blog-ey-looking. SEJ’s new layout’s been designed by none other than one of the most discerning designers today, Chris Pearson, who was also behind TLA’s Link Building Blog and SEOBook. Chris Pearson’s seo-friendly web designs didn’t rely mostly on the Web 2.0 trend this time but gave in more to SEJ staff’s request for a more journalistic feel.

Now if only Loren Baker post a fresher mugshot. Hehe..

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Search Engine Strategies is a grand search engine marketing and optimization event organized by Danny Sullivan. It will be held in Hilton Chicago on December 4-7.

SES Chicago 2006 will be tackling the following topics:

- How search engines list Web sites for free and through paid placements;
- How to get free “organic” traffic by building a site that pleases search engines and your visitors;

- How to efficiently purchase listings guaranteed to rank your company at the top of search engine results;

- How to calculate the ROI of your SEM and SEO efforts by tracking your visitors from the time they hit your site until they buy, and get tips on improving conversion if they don’t;

- How to build links that generate traffic to your Web site, and how to avoid the penalties of “spamming” the search engines;

- What’s coming next in the constantly evolving world of Web search, and how you can profit from these changes.

Here the profiles of the SES 2006 Exhibitors.

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SoloSEO, an SEO project management service for small businesses to perform their own SEO requirements, has been launched last November 29.
Advanced and beginners in search marketing are offered a chance to manage their own search engine optimization tasks with the help of SoloSEO.

Among its key features are the following:

Keyword Management
It has keyword research tools (Keyword Finder and Keyword Site Scan) and allows exporting keywords for pay-per-click campaigns.
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Aaron Wall, an SEO expert and author of SEOBook has just announced his additions to his ebook. Among the updates he has included are mostly about link baiting.

The part of the link baiting post that caught my interest most is the method of formatting a link bait, which Wall has discussed in utter detail.

It’s not rocket science how a list becomes so viral in no time, but here’s how Aaron Wall puts it:

By creating ordered lists of factoids an incomplete story can look well researched, even if it is not. For example, if you make a list of 101 ways to do x people may give a few ideas and some feedback, but nobody is going to sit and list 383 ways to do x.

The power of a magnetic headline can’t also be discounted if a successful linkbait is one’s goal. According to Wall, it’s the behavior of the social news users like of Digg, that makes effective or interesting headlines trample those with great content but lame headlines or titles.

More link baiting wisdom from Aaron Wall.

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It’s been a month since I posted the details of the Philippine SEO Contest 2.0. So what have all the Pinoy SEOs brewed to earn a good search engine position for this contest?

No screenshots this time. One of the Ituloy AngSulong participants was geekly cool enough to provide a quick count of this SEO contest topnotchers.

3 months to go! Good luck, everyone!

Will be posting some of the participants’ unusual SEO techniques soon, if any.

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One of the most popular link brokerage services Text-Link-Ads has released shiny new features mainly for link buyers in the form of:

RSS/Email Inventory Alert System

Link buyers can sign up to be alerted of new TLA inventory additions directly throug their RSS readers or e-mail inbox. An inventory watchlist is made available, which could be helpful to SEO people aiming to acquire more inbound link juice options.

Previously Purchased Inventory Marking

Link buyers previously purchased links are now marked red to avoid duplicate purchases.

More from TLA’s Link Building Blog

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Social news sites have become great allies to traffic-loving bloggers. And Digg is just one of the most preferred social news site because of its ability to make traffic cause a stampede when a post gets dugg the right way.

In pursuit of digg-a-licious traffic, will you pay to get dugg? If yes, here’s one that just offers such service - UserSubmitter.

Users or the ones who wants to get paid for Digg-ing get paid $0.50 for every stories they Digg. Submitters have to pay $20 for every story plus $1 Digg desired.

Let’s wait and see whether this service will get Dugg or buried.

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If you would like people to see blogs or sites that send your blog some link loving, Technorati Link Count Widget can be your ally. With this Technorati product, the number of links to your posts can be seen updated in real-time. Technorati labeled each link as reactions to make readers follow the conversation.

There’s just one flaw though:

In a small number of cases, you may notice some fluctuation between the count on your page and what you see when you click through to see all the reactions.

For bloggers to easily integrate this widget, link count codes for the most popular blog services, Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad, and Wordpress, can be just easily copy and pasted.

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John Stephen Anderson, Jr. from ClipClip started sending me emails suggesting that I try URL, a 3 in 1 search engine that shows the SERP’s of the three major search engines, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.

According to John, URL.com is a collaborative search engine that has a chance of becoming a REALLY influential search engine, where you can “search with many�? and “never search alone�?.

Queried a bit on how are things going with URL.com’s Beta campaign and voila:

What company is URL.com under?

JSA: Right now we’re calling the “parent company�? CoolChaser – though we’re not yet fully formed yet.

What services does URL.com offer? What is its uniqueness or benefits that other search engines do not offer?

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Why would you want to delve into more search engine information? If you are serious in marketing your business or would like an online presence for whatever reason, studying SEM, the mother of SEO, will definitely be a great idea.

Here’s one new product for SEM enthusiasts that might awaken better your SEO/SEM interest:

Ad Age Search Marketing Fact Pack 2006 - a 52-page PDF data guide on engines, keywords, sites and studies.

One teaser: Top SEO techniques for 2007 were mentioned.

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