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I’ve not written anything about websites, blogging or anything lately. I’ve been really busy focusing on some other things, but I really wanted to share this article from Blue Hat SEO because it wins the “Duh, I should have thought of that!” award of the day. The gist of the article is how to easily dethrone Wikipedia for a search term you are targeting. I haven’t tried this tactic, but it seems sound enough to me IF you follow the advice at Step 3, noting that the word “SLOWLY” is capitalized.

Yesterday, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land, and I assume other SEO focused websites reported on a brilliant new idea from Microsoft to enhance the user experience when visitors to a website receive a 404 error.

Microsoft states at the dev.live Blog that between 2 and 10 percent of website traffic is looking for pages that no longer exist, or have been moved. What Microsoft is asserting is that an improved user experience can be created by replacing the standard 404 error not found page with search results relevant to the context of the website. As a website designer, and internet marketer, I think that is a STUPID IDEA! Savvy websited designers already use custom 404 pages, here’s why. Read the rest of this entry »

So, I’ve spent a couple days getting my feet wet with some of the social sites I mentioned in this post. I have to say, even though I’m only playing with 5 right now, it is still a bit overwhelming. I’m trying to actually use these services, but doing so is so far out of the realm of my established internet surfing habits, this I am admittedly finding it difficult. I’m trying to read up and learn what I can about all this social hooplah, and was very happy to see an article entitled Developing Tactical Knowledge on Social Media Websites pop up in my feed reader.

So, I head on over to DoshDosh, and start reading. Tactical knowledge… Yeah, that’s what I need, I think. Infiltrate and take over. I think I can be down with that. After reading the article (which turns out to be part 9 in a series, so I’ve got more reading to do), I think I have a much clearer idea of how to go about exploring this new (for me at least) avenue for networking, link building, and traffic development.

One of the key points that I took from that read is the need to really delve into the community for whatever site you are trying to work with, and also to do your homework. That being said, it may be a good idea for me to focus on just one social site for the time being instead of five of them. Can’t say I’m disappointed in that idea. As I mentioned, I’m really having to change some of my surfing habits, and I’m all about baby steps lately. Besides, my early impression of Simpy is that it is just about as exciting as the wallpaper in my dentist’s office.

Maybe I’ll focus on StumbleUpon for a bit and see how that goes.

I’ve decided to try a new direction with some of the internet marketing I’m doing, and using some of the social media sites is going to be a big part of some of the new SEO, link building, and traffic building strategies I’m going to be implementing. I have a problem, however. I’m not a very social kind of guy. Really, I thought the internet was one of the last safe refuges for an anti-social recluse. So, how does one start taking advantage of all of this social whatchamacallit? Baby steps, my friend. Baby steps. Here’s the plan: Read the rest of this entry »