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  • SEO Podcast For Beginners » SEO Factor

    « Email Marketing Resources – Google Updates The Webmaster Guidelines » 6 June 2007

    I posted, not too long ago, on a podcast that Lee Odden will be involved with. I went through the site offering the podcast, Beginning SEO Podcast, and immediately fell in like with it.

    As I state many times, I try to post on all things SEO, with a certain push to the beginner. It’s really funny that yesterday I was asked by someone, “where do I go to learn the basics?” Obviously I suggested SEOMoz for their incredible article on beginner’s SEO, and/or the purchase of Aaron Wall’s SEO Book, but I was provided the luxury of hands on education by a mentor when I was starting out; so I think this podcast site will be added to my repertoire of “starter education.”

    The podcast itself is run by David Brown of NeO1 SEO, and often involves Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable, Shoemoney of…well…Shoemoney, and a plethora of other web professionals.

    You can see a small banner to your right for Webmaster Radio. Listening to these series of podcasts if pretty much how I spend my nights (just a bit nerdy, I know), but they get very in depth very often; especially when Greg Boser gets his thing on. So much so that there are points that I have to rewind, and research while I listen. Sending someone who just heard of SEO to that cast would be a little counter-productive at first. So I say, get over to the Beginning SEO Podcast, and soak up some good ol’ beginner knowledge.

    P.P.
    I asked Mr. Brown for a banner comparable to the one for Webmaster Radio. It would be best that he produce it as the extent of my Photoshop abilities would produce something like:

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  • Who’s Looking At SEO Factor? » SEO Factor

    « To SEO or Not To SEO? There Is No Question – Email Marketing Resources » 31 May 2007

    There is nothing more exciting (or more scary) in blog writing than having your blog viewed by some big names in the industry. Checking your stats every morning and night, though very motivating, only gives you a bunch of numbers. You never really know who is actually looking at your site. Until now….sorta.

    If you look over to the right on the sidebar, you will see a little box from MyBlogLog, a service allowing bloggers to connect, and keep track of who visits your site. A closer look shows me who has been here recently. It will only show the visitors that also have a MyBlogLog account, but that’s a pretty large number.

    Wow, Lee Odden from Search Marketing Blog, Kid Disco (CK Chung) from SEO Disco, and Joe Balestrino from Mr. SEO. Now that’s really cool. These guys have achieved the success in the industry that we freelancers and firms (well…the firms should) strive for.

    But this brings a point to light. You never know who will be looking at your site or blog. The only reason I know these guys did is because they are members of MyBlogLog, and have happened to, likely in a drunken stuper, stumble onto my site. That being said, it’s probably a good idea to be sure you are providing something of value to the community; be it the unknowing crowd, or the professionals. It would really hurt my reputation if I were giving a bunch of misleading information, and any one of these gentlemen or hundreds of other prestigious SEO’s decided to bring it to light. Sure, I might still get the occassional job from someone who had never heard of SEO, but that would put me in the same basket as the snake oil “SEO” salesmen. And I don’t know anybody that wants that.

    Now, click on the links to their sites repeatedly so it looks like I’m sending them traffic. Pair that with the “These guys have achieved the success in the industry that we freelancers and firms (well…the firms should) strive for…” in the previous paragraph, and maybe one of them will say “Hi” from their blog.

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