Guest Post by Claire Thompson, Waves PR
SEO-driven releases may be more likely to land up in a content aggregation site than they are ever to land up in a journalist’s in box, but they will be read by people as well as search engines, and in an ideal world will make people want to know more than simply what ranking Google delivers. The bunch of words created deserves also to be compelling reading. And when it’s a press release, the reader expects news.
Technorati is a blog directory.
Technorati also use a proprietary blog ranking system, which is useful for helping you to find useful blogs in your marketing sector. Why is this useful? Other than the benefits of learning and reading, you can also use a list of blogs in your sector as a target list for link building and public relations.
Panelists: Marcus Tandler – Mediadonis, Ralph Tegtmeier – Fantomaster, Christoph Cemper – Cemper.com, Sebastian Wentzel – Text-Link-Ads.
We start off by debunking a few myths. Ralph goes through them; only high PageRank links are good, all paid links are bad etc. Don’t obsess too much about high PR links. PR can go up as well as down.
You may be aware that one of the many foundation, best-practise points recommended by search engine optimisation experts is to have your own customised error page. An error page is the page of content presented, when an error has occurred in trying to access or locate content on your website. In this case we are talking about when content does not exist or cannot be found, but has been requested and ‘heard’ by the server. Search engine professionals and web agencies may often refer to this as a ‘404′. (404 being one of the Http codes for errors of this nature, though there are others.)
SEO is in some ways a science and at the same time a craft. Given that the search engine algorithms are kept possibly more secret than ‘The Colonels Secret Recipe’, none of us know for certain the definite answer to any SEO question. Our theories of what works and what does not work, must be informed by experimenation; however working with multiple variables in an uncontrolled environment means that we can never be 100% sure that our action is the sole driver of the reaction.
SEO can be a confusing discipline for many, including those within the online industry. A lot of conflicting advice, secrecy, misdirection and outdated practise still exist. A good way to get a feel for how to cut the bullshit, (if you’re a small business or brand owner, seeking to hire an SEO) is to refer to expert blogs and independent research. A blog search engine such as Technorati can help you refine blogs by subject matter and will also rank blogs by authority. Additionally the consultancy SEOmoz publishes an extensive report every two years Search Engine Ranking Factors, which uses a polling methodology which survey top SEO professionals by invitation only. Such methodology is useful as this means you get the aggregate opinion of a large number of industry leading professionals (72 respondents in 2009 edition.)
Your social media brand could be defined as a consistent and recognisable presence across multiple and different social media. Selecting which social media on which to be present and at what level to engage/communicate is a whole other topic in itself. In this instance we’re assuming you know where and how you want to engage your audience, but you’re seeking to understand how to develop a thorough and consistent presence.
We’re often asked by our clients ‘What is metadata?’ and ‘Why is metadata important?’ Metadata quite literally means ‘data about data’. In terms of web pages, metadata allows you to describe your website, mostly for the sake of search engines but it can also benefit your users too.
The HTML format allows for the inclusion of a variety of types of metadata, most commonly keywords and description however it can be expanded to highly-granular information such as the Dublin Core and e-GMS standards.
London, June 26th 2009.
Park Lane Champagne, the UK’s leading importer of branded and personalised champagne, have selected new consultancy theMediaFlow to assist in the development and promotion of their new e-commerce online presence at www.parklanechampagne.co.uk.
theMediaFlow are assisting Park Lane Champagne with all SEO for their new web site and for ongoing SEO and audience growth strategy; including an upcoming social media campaign surrounding the TechCrunch Europa Awards, for which Park Lane Champagne is again the preferred champagne partner.
Google Base is a free service from Google that allows you to submit content, most notably product feeds. If Google finds the content that you have submitted relevant, it may appear on some of their other service offerings such as their Shopping search engine or Google Maps.
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