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RSS Feeds

Daniel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:25:22 +0000

Something that has been around for sometime, but has been getting a lot of attention the last few years and that’s Really Simple Syndication or RSS Feeds. It’s an xml feed that is able to be accessed from across the web and parsed on a secondary site. This is a good way to allow information from you site to be accessed remotely. With the advent of live bookmarks you’re web browser can let you know when items are updated on your favorite blog. So to view mine go to: http://www.danielcoburn.com/feed/ (and bookmark it in your live bookmarks!)

Also places like feed burner are a great way to find and track feeds. One thing that some lazy people try to do is use other people’s RSS feeds to supply content for their site vs. creating their own. Now it’s ok to use feeds, just make sure they are not the bulk of your sites content.

80 PR Submission sites

Daniel — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:47:16 +0000

A friend emailed me this list as a follow up to my Press Releases post

80 PR Submission Sites;

www.24-7pressrelease.com
www.baygo.com/press
www.betanews.com
www.bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm
www.dime-co.com
www.downloadjunction.com
www.free-press-release.com
www.i-newswire.com
www.learn-more.org
www.malebits.com
www.newsreelnetwork.com
www.openpr.com
www.pr.com
www.pressbox.co.uk
www.pressmethod.com
www.programmersheaven.com
www.promotionworld.com
www.morganarticlearchive.com/cgi-bin/submit.pl
www.webnewswire.com
www.XpressPress.com
www.articlealley.com
www.articleblast.com
www.articlecodex.com
www.articlecube.com
www.articledashboard.com
www.articlesphere.com
www.articopia.com
www.bestsyndication.com
www.betanews.com
www.businessportal24.com
www.cincinnati.com
www.clickpress.com
www.dailyrecord.com
www.delawareonline.com
www.directionsmag.com
www.earthtoys.com
www.epscene.com
www.ezinearticles.com
www.franchisenewscenter.com
www.freepressindex.com
www.free-press-release.info
www.free-press-release-center.info
www.mediasyndicate.com/
www.pressreleases.kcstar.com
www.prurgent.com/submit.htm
www.transworldnews.com
www.ukprwire.com
www.usprwire.com
www.prwindow.com
www.myfreepr.com
www.pressexposure.com
www.pressreleasecirculation.com
www.goarticles.com
www.articlesmagazine.com
www.viloria.info
www.freepressreleases.co.uk
www.freepressindex.com/imediate_press_release.asp
www.ecommwire.com
www.pressflow.co.uk./submitnews.html
www.prcompass.com/
www.techprspider.com/AddFeed.aspx
www.pressreleasepoint.com
www.prfocus.com/post.html
www.anyrelease.com/submit/
www.blog-ride.co.uk
www.sanepr.com
www.ducttapemarketing.com/Instant-Press-Release.htm
www.bignews.biz
www.efytimes.com/press/default1.asp
www.freshnews.com/sdtn/prrelease.shtml
www.nationalhomelandsecurityknowledgebase.com
www.theopenpress.com
www.feelgr8.co.uk
www.amirazemati.com
www.linux.com
www.webpronews.com/submit
www.thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/suggest.asp
www.selfseo.com/submitstory.php
www.articledepot.co.uk
www.media13.com/newarticle.php

~ Courtesy of NewsReelNetwork

Internal Linking – SEO

Daniel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:51:51 +0000

Anyone who has even taken a physics class knows that matter is neither created nor destroyed…. The same sort rings true for pagerank. All of the pagerank in the world is equal to 1. If you add 1 million pages, the universal sum is still 1. Since you cannot change the universe, you need to know how to massage it. If you have a website with 5 pages, you cannot control a lot of the virtual real estate, and will have to create more depth to control more of the pagerank available. If you want to grow pagerank on certain pages you need to funnel traffic through links to them. For example pages that should not have pagerank are contact us, privacy policy, etc. they don’t earn you money so don’t give them the benefit of pushing rank to them. So how do you push the rank internally? Simple provide links.

All page link to your home page, so the home page of a site typically gets more rank since more pages both internally and externally are pushing rank to it. While pages that should also be considered are category pages etc. Many of these will be part of your universal navigation so they will also get rank pushed to them. It’s important that you use appropriate keywords were possible to allow search engines to know the phrase that is important to the page you are pointing too.

You also want to have links to your contact us page etc since you do want to allow customers to get there, and you need them for better ranking in Google, but instead of use contact us use a no follow contact us this will prevent you from passing rank from a page to that un “wanted” page.

More on SEO – unique content

Daniel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:05:43 +0000

What does it mean to have unique content? Is it that you take an RSS Feed from 8 places and merge them together? Is it taking articles and editing a few words here an there? No it means original content. Sure you can easily aggrigate content from multiple sources and be someone’s one stop shop, but you’ll never be that one stop shop for the search engines. You need to have a few original thoughts in your life about your topic, if you do, write about them. Or if you read a really good article, you can post a summary of it and then link to the original if you want. The important thing is that your site should be different from everyone else’s site. This will give more reason to give your site higher rankings and gets spiders looking at you more often than not. If you are blogging for personal benefit, then that should be easy, but if you are blogging on a topic some people will fall into the not so unique content. It’s important to be aware of limitations and just keep writing, even a “bad article” is better than a copied one.