Video by Teri Lussier using the Flip camera.
A young convert:
Mary McKnight on SEO and social networking:
Much more at our YouTube channel.
There’s always something to howl about.
Video by Teri Lussier using the Flip camera.
A young convert:
Mary McKnight on SEO and social networking:
Much more at our YouTube channel.
Barry Cunningham says:
more..more..more…..
May 18, 2008 — 12:35 pm
Matt McGee says:
You don’t want comments on your blog because comments dilute the keyword density of your post? That’s quite possibly the worst piece of SEO advice I’ve ever heard.
Block level analysis, people. Search engines are smart enough to separate the post from the comments. C’mon, this is so basic.
(Not to mention that keyword density died about 4-5 years ago. A calculator is not an SEO tool.)
May 18, 2008 — 1:14 pm
Brad Coy says:
Oh… there will be more I’m sure. I see flip cameras and more all over. Thanks to the tech gurus for blessing us with Wi-Fi for live broadcasting 🙂
May 18, 2008 — 1:16 pm
Matt McGee says:
Ummm, and actually, Andy Beal DOES (and always has) allowed comments on Marketing Pilgrim. Goodness. Where’s the research?
May 18, 2008 — 1:19 pm
Greg Swann says:
> more..more..more…..
Plenty more on our YouTube channel. Feel free to propagate them.
May 18, 2008 — 1:20 pm
Mike Farmer says:
Good stuff. I can’t wait to see the reat.
May 18, 2008 — 2:10 pm
Barry Cunningham says:
Got it! Watching them all now! Thanks Greg!
Matt are you actually at the event?
May 18, 2008 — 2:30 pm
Matt McGee says:
Hi Barry – no, I’m not. Why do you ask?
May 18, 2008 — 4:04 pm
Barry Cunningham says:
hey matt..because of your comment…”That’s quite possibly the worst piece of SEO advice I’ve ever heard”
May 18, 2008 — 4:09 pm
Matt McGee says:
Hi Barry – I was referring to the video Greg embedded above in this post.
May 18, 2008 — 4:29 pm
Barry Cunningham says:
Hi Matt!
I know…please expound as to why it was bad advice. I am a learner and want to know why you feel that way if you do not mind. I am sure others would as well.
May 18, 2008 — 4:30 pm
Kam Hubbard says:
This “young convert” thanks you for educating him regarding the Flip camera technology. 🙂
Day One(Bonus day) of the Bloodhoundblog Unchained conference was very good(surprised to see Russell Shaw attend).
May 18, 2008 — 5:00 pm
Cheryl Johnson says:
Psst … Somebody check the date on one of the Flips…. 🙂
May 18, 2008 — 5:07 pm
Barry Cunningham says:
Greg…are these the videos that are going to be compiled to create the DVD?
May 18, 2008 — 5:47 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Greg…are these the videos that are going to be compiled to create the DVD?
No, Monday and Tuesday will be taped in their entirety, then those recordings will be released on DVD.
May 18, 2008 — 5:51 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Day One(Bonus day) of the Bloodhoundblog Unchained conference was very good(surprised to see Russell Shaw attend).
Bless you, Kam. Our plan is to build in strength as we go. Let us know if you feel we’ve let you down.
May 18, 2008 — 5:52 pm
Barry Cunningham says:
Thanks Greg..I forgot..Broker IPTV is filming for the dvd right?
May 18, 2008 — 5:59 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Broker IPTV is filming for the dvd right?
They’re doing spot interviews. The DVD video is being shot by another company.
We’re going to end up with a ton of video out of this.
May 18, 2008 — 6:16 pm
Matt McGee says:
Hi Barry, sure thing. I’m sure there’ll be a nice discussion here on BHB, but readers should also go to the YT video page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZuZoyDpFf8) where Andy Beal refutes the advice in this video: “Comments are allowed, welcomed, and actually add to our SEO efforts.” What does that tell you when the expert Mary quotes is refuting what she says?
You could also read Lee Odden’s post about SEO and blogs (http://www.toprankblog.com/2007/01/seo-benefits-from-blogs/), where he says “An active blog community creates the kinds of citations or signals from other sites (annotated and contextually relevant links) that search engines tend to reward in the rankings.”
Mary’s point is that comments on a blog hurts your keyword density, and that hurts your search engine rankings. So how is that a blog like SEOmoz, which gets dozens (sometimes more than a hundred) comments on every blog post, ranks so well for so many terms? Ditto on Lee Odden’s blog — all kinds of comments on every post, and Lee gets tons of natural search traffic. His blog ranks #2 for “online marketing,” an incredibly competitive term.
On my blog (Small Business SEM), I can tell you that the posts that get the most natural search traffic are also among the ones with the most comments. This isn’t coincidence:
Search engines are looking for signals of trust and authority. On a blog, active discussion in the comments is perhaps the No. 1 signal of authority. Look at this blog. Greg just mentioned that it recently reached PR6. That’s a sign of growing trust/authority. Did Greg have to turn off comments to make that happen? Did it happen because he went out and got a couple new directory links (as suggested in the video)?
Of course not. It happened, in large part, because of the amount and quality of comments. This is becoming a hub for real estate discussion and information. Smart people comment here actively. The comments help create great content. Search engines like great content. People link to BHB posts BECAUSE of the comments. (Consider the recent Truliamazing post, for example.) And any minimal effect on keyword density (which the SEO industry already considers an outdated concept) is quite easily overcome by the positive impact of active discussion, links, etc., all of which are much more important to a search engine algorithm.
My second comment above was about the lack of research. Mary stated that Andy Beal doesn’t allow comments on Marketing Pilgrim, and instead funnels people to Sphinn to comment. That’s flat out wrong. Andy has been encouraging comments on his blog for as long as I’ve been reading it, which has got to be several years now. She also stated that SEO is the reason Seth Godin doesn’t allow comments on his blog. That’s incorrect. As Seth explained, it’s because he doesn’t have the time or desire to manage/handle the extreme comment activity his blog would get: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06/why_i_dont_have.html To my knowledge, Seth has never said he turns comments off for some SEO benefit (because there is no such benefit).
Sorry for being so long-winded….
May 18, 2008 — 6:24 pm
Barry Cunningham says:
looks good!
May 18, 2008 — 6:30 pm
Matt McGee says:
Hi Barry — in regard to your recent RE Radio interview with Brian Brady, can you show me where in Andy Beal’s archives you found that he was not allowing comments? Thanks.
May 24, 2008 — 10:40 pm