http://www.10minutes.org 10 minutes of SEO, SEM & Internet Marketing Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:57:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On March 21st Aaron Wall of SEOBook posted a blog titled, "May I Write a Post for Your Blog?". I decided to take him up on this offer and promptly commented on the post with the topic I'd like to see him cover. A day or two later I received ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/aaron-wall-of-seobook-on-long-tail-keywords/ Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, Susan Moskwa informed us in the Q & A section of last weeks phone conference that even if a page is blocked by Robots.txt that it still can have PageRank passed to it from pages that are linking to it unless you use nofollow within the ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/pagerank-leak/ What are they? How do you obtain them? How do you find them once you obtain them? I've had many clients ask about them and I've seen other Internet marketers ask about them on forums, webmaster related chat rooms, blogs and even the most recent Google phone conference last week (March ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/managing-sitelinks/ Blogs have an uncanny advantage over most static websites on the web today. Here are just a few of those advantages: They automatically alert search engines of new posts whereas a static website gets to simply wait to be crawled for the update to be picked up. ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/blog-rankings/ I’ve recently started using a service called Twitter. I’m sure anyone reading this blog post probably knows about the service but I never know who might be watching. Actually to be honest I’ve had a Twitter account for almost a year now. I have simply not found ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/professional-twitter/ For many months now a group of friends and co-workers of mine have had this little ranking game going on with a particular keyword in Google. The objective was to out rank one another and stay at the top of Google's SERPs for as long as possible. Good old Matt Cutts ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/seo-competition/ Writing content for a blog, website or promotional print media isn't all that easy when you think about it. You cannot expect to attract readers simply because you wrote something and put it out there on the Internet. If you build it they will come does NOT hold true with ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/measuring-content-quality/ There are undoubtedly dozens if not a few hundred methods of obtaining links to your website or blog. Last night I came across Stephen Dean's Copywriting blog while doing a Google blog search for additional content writing advice that might help me with my own writing and to give additional advice ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/offer-something-free/ Throughout my day on the job I find myself constantly explaining to my client's things like writing content and even link building is one of a kind. They both are vital parts of on site optimization efforts. Giving advice on these two topics is probably one of the things I ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/linking-content/ One thing I've always liked to share with my clients is that when they write content for their website that they should always consider the parts of keywords and not just the keywords themselves. I personally think both the actual keyword and the parts ... http://www.10minutes.org/marketin/parts-of-keywords/