This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, the official Twilight Saga Eclipse trailer, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
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Blogging / Writing
This a guest post from Duncan, an internet marketer who blogs about everything from on-site optimization to finding the best links on the net.
Duplicate content is a hot topic at the moment, with much speculation about if it can harm your site, or if you can actually benefit from scraping content from other sites and placing it on your own. Most webmasters, bloggers and SEO experts agree that accidental internal dupe content, caused by pagination, categorization etc, won’t harm your site power (apart from reducing internal linking power on the dupe pages), unless it is interpreted to be manipulative duplication, which can lead to penalties.
Aside from legal ramifications, there seems to be little negative effect from content theft – taking content from other people’s sites and publishing it on your own. Indeed, many people have RSS or other feeds from external sites populating their pages, and do not report any ranking problems for the pages of their site that do have unique copy.
One thing that many people are not clear on though is how Google determines which is the original source of the copy, and which are the duplicate versions. Here are some of things it looks at when determining original from duplicate content.
Comment spam. Everyone has encountered it. Even the typical blog reader who just stumbled upon an article for something they searched in Google has probably seen their fair share of comments from people by the name of Loan Modification that think that article is a “great post” and would also like to drop in the fact that they offer incredible deals. Here are some different viewpoints of valuable comments and comment spam from blog owners to link builders.
Blog Owner’s Perspective
As a blog owner, I engage in a daily battle with comment spam. Every day, there are several posts with moderated comments, waiting to be cleared, from people who have not even seemingly read the post, but comment anyway in hopes of dropping a link for link building or traffic generating purposes.
Do I ask for comment spam? Some people would think so, considering I made my blog dofollow with the added benefit of KeywordLuv. But I kind of consider those things rewards for good, valuable comments. If you can prove in your comment that you actually read the post and had some insight into it, then you deserve a link back to your site. If you can’t, then I will probably not approve your comment.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, an effective viral video, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging / Writing
Sometime in December of 2009 as everybody started to take a look back at the last year of blogging, I decided to do the same. I was still unemployed after finishing my MBA and realized that I hadn’t used one of the major skills I acquired during my MBA, putting together a marketing plan.
As I read numerous posts about how people monetize blogs and the ongoing theme that “blogs don’t make money businesses do,” I realized businesses have marketing plans, so it seemed to make sense that my blog should have a quarterly marketing plan. In putting together that plan, I came up with several reasons why a blog needs a marketing plan. Let’s look at how a marketing plan can help take your blog up to the next level.
If you’re like me, you find yourself writing many to do lists for home, work, blogging, etc. And more of the time than not, the planning is easier to do than the execution itself.
I believe that one of the reasons to do lists never get done are because they are not specific enough. Let’s look at three items on my to do list for social media and networking.
- Update Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn daily
- Participate on forums
- Connect with new people on social media networks
Looks pretty standard, right? Well, on a busy day, it’s easy to bypass the goals you have set for yourself, or put minimal effort into each of the goals, thinking you have succeeded in accomplishing them. Let’s look at some ways to define each to do item more effectively using the principle of taking small steps to accomplish goals.
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The Resources Mashup
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It all began while compiling a list of high PageRank dofollow blogs in and not yet a part of the dofollow blog directory. I know, there are a ton of lists out there of high PR dofollow blogs, but I find that most do not include pertinent information, like live links to the blogs, if they require registration, do they allow keywords, etc. Plus a lot of the lists out there are older, so many of the sites are no longer dofollow. Some sites on these lists are dofollow, but don’t actually link to commenters’ websites but some profile page. And some sites have not updated in a long time, plus they close comments for articles after a certain time period, so there is no where to comment. But back to the point…
Do you know what the most difficult information to find was on many of blogs? A quick blurb on what the blog was actually about.
This is a guest post by Leo Dimilo who has been an online marketer for over a decade and has quietly been earning a living online.
I am a marketer that also happens to blog. I guess you could call me a “cross-over” hybrid because I want you to know that there is a huge difference between being a blogger and being an internet marketer.
Bloggers blog, Internet Marketers make money online. We use the same tools, for the most part, but the big difference is that online marketers make money more easily with less traffic and less work.
In this article, I am going to show you some tips on how to implement common marketing strategies for those of you who aspire to blog for a living. But first, let’s look at the differences between online marketers and bloggers.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a video from TED on creativity, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging / Writing
