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Don't Put All Your Promotion Eggs In The Seo Basket By Gary McHugh, Sat Dec 10th
One of the most frequent questions I get asked by my clients is"What is the best way to promote my site?" If a brand newwebmaster asks me that question then I will take as much time asI can possibly muster to answer their request, before they learnabout and put on the SEO and ranking blinkers so many webmasterswear with pride. Allow me now to state the obvious, the success of any website isin direct proportion to the amount of visitors it receives. Ifsuccess is about visitors then why on earth would anyintelligent business person devote 95% of their promotion timeand budget to a single method of advertising their site? Imagine for a moment you are the advertising executive for alarge automobile company. Your company has just released themost economical car ever and your job is to make sure everyoneknows about it.
Which of the following would you do? 1. Place a full page ad in one or two car magazines, then spendthe next year rehashing and tweaking the wording of that ad,because it wasn't creating the sales you wanted. OR 2. Advertise in every magazine and newspaper you can find, startnational TV advertising campaigns, make sure you have slots onevery commercial radio station in the country, advertise onbillboards, in cinemas, sponsor sporting events and what everelse you could think of. It doesn't take a genius to work out the second idea is a muchbetter plan. Now this may come as a shock to you, but the majorsearch engines are not the only source of visitors to yourwebsite. Many SEO gurus are quick to point out to you thatsearch engines are the only way to achieve substantial traffic.That is simply not true. One disturbing idea promoted heavily bythe SEO world recently is that "Links are dead" My answer tothat idea is, if links were dead then there would be no web. Links are how people travel the web, whether they are textlinks, banners or email links to visit any site you need toclick a link. Google itself is one enormous searchable linkdatabase. Let's states something even more obvious. Google is not the onlysite on the web that links to other sites. There aredirectories, there are banner exchanges, and the big one thereare hundreds of millions of other websites. How many of thosecarry a link to your site? For any keyword or phrase on the major search engines there aremillions of sites vying for just 10 first page places. Are youreally devoting all your promotion time to SEO
Pile It On Word of the Day : exaggerate This verb, from the Latin verb exaggerare, illustrates how readily figurative meanings develop from literal ones. The word originally meant to pile up or accumulate. Later this developed into "intensify praise or blame." From there it was only a short hop to the current meaning: "enlarge beyond the bounds of truth." It's tempting to suppose a connection with aggregate, congregate, and segregate -- but there is none. The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: July Edition It's the dog days of summer, but the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle should perk you up. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt! In Defense of Harding the Bloviator During my appearance on WNYC's "The Leonard Lopate Show" yesterday to talk about Sarah Palin's much-ridiculed use of the word refudiate, I found myself in the odd position of defending Warren Gamaliel Harding, one of the least admired presidents in American history. In the commentary on Palin, Harding was revived as a point of comparison, particularly for his use of two memorable words: normalcy and bloviate. As I said on the show, I'd argue that Harding has gotten a bad rap on both counts. Grammar Bite: Snuggling Up to "Only" Here's a little grammar quiz from Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing.
Pop quiz time! If I want you to play a song just for me and I don't want you to play it for anyone else, where in my sentence do I put only?
1. Only play me a song.
2. Play only me a song.
3. Play me a song only. "Refudiate" and Other Accidental Coinages The dust has settled a bit since last week's Refudiate-Gate, when the blogosphere went into a tizzy after Sarah Palin used the word refudiate in a Twitter update ? and then defended her coinage by likening herself to Shakespeare. Now that we've gotten the predictably overheated reactions from the left and the right out of the way, let's take a look at this particular Palinism with a calmer perspective. They Blinded Me With Science Hello, dear "Teachers at Work" readers! I hope all is well, and that you, unlike me, have not yet begun to calculate how many days are left in the summer before school begins again. What can I say? I like to know my limits. But everyone else should chillax, as my students would say, were they not asleep on the beach. John Cotter, Author of "Under the Small Lights" I used to play at being a writer.
Afternoons in Boston, in my early 20s, I'd pour three fingers of Black Bush whiskey, feed a page into my typewriter, and surround my desk with books by whoever I was reading then ? Bill Knott, Marguerite Duras ? and add to that bibles and newspapers. I'd open to random pages and write down whatever caught my eye, whatever seemed anachronistic or poignant, then I'd make a hash out of it. "Mad Men": Capturing the Sound of the '60s Just in time for Sunday's season premiere of "Mad Men," my latest "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine considers how authentically the show represents the speech of the 1960s. The creators of the AMC series, led by head honcho Matthew Weiner, are obsessive about getting the details of language right, just like all the other details of the show. But fans can be equally obsessive, on the lookout for the smallest linguistic anachronisms. Of Celebrations, Observances, and Circular Definitions Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, writes:
Recently on the Copyediting blog, I made a comment about Flag Day, saying we celebrated it rather than observed it. This was actually a follow-up to an earlier comment about Memorial Day, when I noted that it was to be observed rather than celebrated. "Refudiate": The View from Oxford The blogosphere has been abuzz over Sarah Palin's use of the word refudiate in a Twitter update, apparently mashing up refute and repudiate. Now OUPblog, the official blog of Oxford University Press, weighs in. "Refudiate this, word snobs!" chortles OUP lexicographer Christine Lindberg. Read all about it here (http://blog.oup.com/2010/07/refudiate/). The Future of Electronic Reading The Los Angeles Times takes a fascinating look at how electronic reading has the potential to revolutionize the concept of the book. "Books are increasingly able to talk to readers, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers." Read the article here (http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fiw-0718-reading-20100718,0,1216316,full.story). Are the Kids "Alright" or "All Right"? The new film The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, owes an obvious debt of gratitude to The Who, even though the band's music doesn't appear on the soundtrack. The title is lifted from a classic song from The Who's 1965 debut album, which also served as the title of a 1979 documentary about the band. Discerning readers will notice a small but important difference: the song and the documentary were spelled "The Kids Are Alright." Did Cholodenko "correct" The Who's spelling? Evie Wyld, Author of "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice" One of the most important moments in writing my novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, came when I realized I could reach outside of reality. Remembering "The Voice of God" A great voice was silenced earlier this week with the death of Bob Sheppard, longtime public-address announcer for New York Yankees baseball games and New York Giants football games. Sheppard, who also worked as a speech teacher at the high school and college level in New York, had such a memorable way of announcing players' names that he was fondly known as "the voice of God." Revising Freedom: Jefferson's Rough Draft New techniques of "digital archaeology" reveal long-lost secrets about how Thomas Jefferson tinkered with word choice while drafting the Declaration of Independence. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron has the full story. Unlike People, Words Like Labels Should college students be taught the parts of speech? Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker explains why she takes the time to work through this seemingly basic aspect of grammar with her students. Meet the Dinosaur with "Mojo" What happens when paleontologists get together for drinks and brainstorm for names of dinosaur species? They come up with Mojoceratops, inspired by the mystical, magical mojo. And with the publication of a paper in the Journal of Paleontology this week, the name is official. Are You a Drip Who Leaves Writing to the Last Minute? It was a Friday night and I was sitting at my computer studying Google maps. I had to give a speech to more than 200 people the next morning and ? given my notoriously bad sense of direction ? wanted to be sure I was heading for the right place.
Suddenly, my husband yelled from the basement four words no homeowner wants to hear: "We have a leak." Rocking the English Language The latest quarterly update of the Oxford English Dictionary's online revision project covers the alphabetical range Rh to rococoesque, and it includes a fascinatingly complex entry for a seemingly simple word: rock, used as a verb. From the rocking of cradles in Old English sources to the rocking of microphones in rap lyrics, this entry has it all. Does Spelling Still Matter? Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. Here Erin wonders about the fate of spelling in the era of text messaging. Be Not Afraid to Tackle Social Media Teachers, are you wary of using social media and other online tools to foster student communication? Follow these tips from Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri (when she's not writing best-selling romance novels). All-American Polypragmatists Get Sprizzlefracked USA! USA! USA!
Sorry for the chanting and the giant foam finger. I just wanted to establish that this is a thoroughly all-American column and provide a smooth transition to a term that brings together two of my top two interests: euphemisms and dogs. Realism: The Truth of Fiction Michael Lydon, a well-known writer on popular music since the 1960s, has for many years also been writing about writing. Lydon's essays, written with a colloquial clarity, shed fresh light on familiar and not so familiar aspects of the writing art. Here Lydon shines a light on literary realism, the style by which writers "make the imaginary real and the real imaginary." Don't Read This: What Kindle's Highlights Tell Us About Popular Taste Users of Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, can not only highlight their favorite passages, they can see what everyone else is highlighting. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron ponders the consequences. The Submodified World This month in the Language Lounge, we take a look at an underappreciated grammatical category: submodifiers. We hope that by shining the spotlight briefly on the term, we might win over a few converts, as well as alert readers to the nuances of the delightful class of words so designated. Worst Opening Lines, 2010 In the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, competitors are asked to write incredibly bad opening sentences to incredibly bad novels. The 2010 winner for worst opening line features a comparison to "the world's thirstiest gerbil." Read the whole thing, and the rest of the results, here (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/).
with those kindsof odds? There is also much talk of the value of links, and nearly all ofit is based on the value of links in a search engines eyes, andhow that will or will not improve your rankings. STOP!!! Youneed to get this!!! The value of a link is how many times itgets used, clicks and visits NOT rankings. While many will object to this statement SEO is nothing morethan educated guesswork, why do I say that? Simple becauseGoogle, Yahoo and MSN do NOT tell SEO experts how they ordertheir results. Just the opposite they regularly change how theirresults are ordered to stay one step ahead of the SEO experts.Why do they do that? Because they do not want their resultsmanipulating period! They want one thing, to deliver accuratesearch results. Don't take my word for this, go and get the words from thehorses mouth here. http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html Notice the all the advice is geared towards building your sitefor visitors not for search engines. If you really want to build steady long term traffic to yoursite, then advertise your site in every legal way you can. Yesit requires time and a consistent effort. As a wise man oncesaid " The only place success comes before work is in thedictionary". In closing, how many of the following have you usedto advertise your site? If you haven't done them all maybe youneed to. Have you?: Listed your site in a couple of hundred directories?Exchanged quality visible links with at least 200 sites?Exchanged banners with sites in your genre? Started a small payper click advertising campaign? Written articles to do with thegenre of your site and offered them to other sites for freeinclusion in their newsletter or on their site? Had your sitereviewed by a review site? Donated a product or free membershipto a competition on another site? These are only a few promotion methods that will bring visitorsto your site. There are many many more if you use yourimagination. This is also advertising that will not be undone inone minute by a Google algorithm change. Am I saying don't optimize your site? NO I am saying don't relytotally on SEO for your traffic. Are you putting all your promotional eggs in one basket? If so,isn't it time you stopped and gave your site the best chance ofsuccess About the author:Gary McHugh is co author of HonestLinks.Net , a sitededicated to teaching webmasters to exchange links that bringtraffic. He also runs his own web design and hosting company 2001web.com
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Pile It On Word of the Day : exaggerate This verb, from the Latin verb exaggerare, illustrates how readily figurative meanings develop from literal ones. The word originally meant to pile up or accumulate. Later this developed into "intensify praise or blame." From there it was only a short hop to the current meaning: "enlarge beyond the bounds of truth." It's tempting to suppose a connection with aggregate, congregate, and segregate -- but there is none. The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: July Edition It's the dog days of summer, but the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle should perk you up. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt! In Defense of Harding the Bloviator During my appearance on WNYC's "The Leonard Lopate Show" yesterday to talk about Sarah Palin's much-ridiculed use of the word refudiate, I found myself in the odd position of defending Warren Gamaliel Harding, one of the least admired presidents in American history. In the commentary on Palin, Harding was revived as a point of comparison, particularly for his use of two memorable words: normalcy and bloviate. As I said on the show, I'd argue that Harding has gotten a bad rap on both counts. Grammar Bite: Snuggling Up to "Only" Here's a little grammar quiz from Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing.
Pop quiz time! If I want you to play a song just for me and I don't want you to play it for anyone else, where in my sentence do I put only?
1. Only play me a song.
2. Play only me a song.
3. Play me a song only. "Refudiate" and Other Accidental Coinages The dust has settled a bit since last week's Refudiate-Gate, when the blogosphere went into a tizzy after Sarah Palin used the word refudiate in a Twitter update ? and then defended her coinage by likening herself to Shakespeare. Now that we've gotten the predictably overheated reactions from the left and the right out of the way, let's take a look at this particular Palinism with a calmer perspective. They Blinded Me With Science Hello, dear "Teachers at Work" readers! I hope all is well, and that you, unlike me, have not yet begun to calculate how many days are left in the summer before school begins again. What can I say? I like to know my limits. But everyone else should chillax, as my students would say, were they not asleep on the beach. John Cotter, Author of "Under the Small Lights" I used to play at being a writer.
Afternoons in Boston, in my early 20s, I'd pour three fingers of Black Bush whiskey, feed a page into my typewriter, and surround my desk with books by whoever I was reading then ? Bill Knott, Marguerite Duras ? and add to that bibles and newspapers. I'd open to random pages and write down whatever caught my eye, whatever seemed anachronistic or poignant, then I'd make a hash out of it. "Mad Men": Capturing the Sound of the '60s Just in time for Sunday's season premiere of "Mad Men," my latest "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine considers how authentically the show represents the speech of the 1960s. The creators of the AMC series, led by head honcho Matthew Weiner, are obsessive about getting the details of language right, just like all the other details of the show. But fans can be equally obsessive, on the lookout for the smallest linguistic anachronisms. Of Celebrations, Observances, and Circular Definitions Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, writes:
Recently on the Copyediting blog, I made a comment about Flag Day, saying we celebrated it rather than observed it. This was actually a follow-up to an earlier comment about Memorial Day, when I noted that it was to be observed rather than celebrated. "Refudiate": The View from Oxford The blogosphere has been abuzz over Sarah Palin's use of the word refudiate in a Twitter update, apparently mashing up refute and repudiate. Now OUPblog, the official blog of Oxford University Press, weighs in. "Refudiate this, word snobs!" chortles OUP lexicographer Christine Lindberg. Read all about it here (http://blog.oup.com/2010/07/refudiate/). The Future of Electronic Reading The Los Angeles Times takes a fascinating look at how electronic reading has the potential to revolutionize the concept of the book. "Books are increasingly able to talk to readers, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers." Read the article here (http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fiw-0718-reading-20100718,0,1216316,full.story). Are the Kids "Alright" or "All Right"? The new film The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, owes an obvious debt of gratitude to The Who, even though the band's music doesn't appear on the soundtrack. The title is lifted from a classic song from The Who's 1965 debut album, which also served as the title of a 1979 documentary about the band. Discerning readers will notice a small but important difference: the song and the documentary were spelled "The Kids Are Alright." Did Cholodenko "correct" The Who's spelling? Evie Wyld, Author of "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice" One of the most important moments in writing my novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, came when I realized I could reach outside of reality. Remembering "The Voice of God" A great voice was silenced earlier this week with the death of Bob Sheppard, longtime public-address announcer for New York Yankees baseball games and New York Giants football games. Sheppard, who also worked as a speech teacher at the high school and college level in New York, had such a memorable way of announcing players' names that he was fondly known as "the voice of God." Revising Freedom: Jefferson's Rough Draft New techniques of "digital archaeology" reveal long-lost secrets about how Thomas Jefferson tinkered with word choice while drafting the Declaration of Independence. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron has the full story. Unlike People, Words Like Labels Should college students be taught the parts of speech? Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker explains why she takes the time to work through this seemingly basic aspect of grammar with her students. Meet the Dinosaur with "Mojo" What happens when paleontologists get together for drinks and brainstorm for names of dinosaur species? They come up with Mojoceratops, inspired by the mystical, magical mojo. And with the publication of a paper in the Journal of Paleontology this week, the name is official. Are You a Drip Who Leaves Writing to the Last Minute? It was a Friday night and I was sitting at my computer studying Google maps. I had to give a speech to more than 200 people the next morning and ? given my notoriously bad sense of direction ? wanted to be sure I was heading for the right place.
Suddenly, my husband yelled from the basement four words no homeowner wants to hear: "We have a leak." Rocking the English Language The latest quarterly update of the Oxford English Dictionary's online revision project covers the alphabetical range Rh to rococoesque, and it includes a fascinatingly complex entry for a seemingly simple word: rock, used as a verb. From the rocking of cradles in Old English sources to the rocking of microphones in rap lyrics, this entry has it all. Does Spelling Still Matter? Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. Here Erin wonders about the fate of spelling in the era of text messaging. Be Not Afraid to Tackle Social Media Teachers, are you wary of using social media and other online tools to foster student communication? Follow these tips from Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri (when she's not writing best-selling romance novels). All-American Polypragmatists Get Sprizzlefracked USA! USA! USA!
Sorry for the chanting and the giant foam finger. I just wanted to establish that this is a thoroughly all-American column and provide a smooth transition to a term that brings together two of my top two interests: euphemisms and dogs. Realism: The Truth of Fiction Michael Lydon, a well-known writer on popular music since the 1960s, has for many years also been writing about writing. Lydon's essays, written with a colloquial clarity, shed fresh light on familiar and not so familiar aspects of the writing art. Here Lydon shines a light on literary realism, the style by which writers "make the imaginary real and the real imaginary." Don't Read This: What Kindle's Highlights Tell Us About Popular Taste Users of Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, can not only highlight their favorite passages, they can see what everyone else is highlighting. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron ponders the consequences. The Submodified World This month in the Language Lounge, we take a look at an underappreciated grammatical category: submodifiers. We hope that by shining the spotlight briefly on the term, we might win over a few converts, as well as alert readers to the nuances of the delightful class of words so designated. Worst Opening Lines, 2010 In the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, competitors are asked to write incredibly bad opening sentences to incredibly bad novels. The 2010 winner for worst opening line features a comparison to "the world's thirstiest gerbil." Read the whole thing, and the rest of the results, here (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/).
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