Comments on: This Week In SEO – 3/23/07

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:48:42 +0000

Forrest I really liked those articles too. Rand does a good job setting out the process and doing what you can to help your content attract links. I was and still am hoping he’ll do a post on how to give your linkbait that initial viral push. He left some ideas in his last post in the series, but I think the topic deserving of a full post.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:38:09 +0000

Thanks for the pointers on the “linkerati” – I’ve been trying to attract more organic links lately, but have been having a hard time, especially for software I’ve written. This is interesting reading material, and gives me a few ideas.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:28:42 +0000

Thanks Bill. I agree too about the interview. I’d like to take credit for finding it on my own, but if my memory is holding I think Andy Beal linked to from one of his posts and I just followed that link. I guess I read about 2 dozen blogs regularly, including yours as you know, and quite a few more not so regularly. I also follow many of the links within posts to see what I find.

I’m in complete agreement about Caterina’s answer to the last question of the interview. I suspect this year we’re going to see more and more niche communities online. I think her analogy is great about going downstairs to pick up the instruments and play for family and friends when you want music and I think we’re going to have that (if we don’t already), but the living rooms will be online communities and your family may be living on several continents.

By the way I noticed you had posted another comment a couple of minutes before this one that didn’t go through. I have the comment though if you’d like me to replace the one above with the original. I’m not sure why the first didn’t show up. I’ve noticed that happen a few times now and still trying to figure out why.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:35:12 +0000

Great Caterina Fake interview. Her music analogy at the end is point on.

I do read a lot of blogs, forums, and search related news, but you’re finding some stuff that I missed. I do like your format with categorization and commentary. Nicely done.

Cheers.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:03:28 +0000

Thanks Matt. When I first started them I wasn’t sure how they would go over, but the response seems to be positive so I’m planning on continuing with them for awhile. If you missed it in the comment above I added ‘This Week In SEO’ as a category in the navigation to make it easier to find the posts.

It’s fun collecting the links and putting the post together too.

Anything you want to see me add to it or any suggestions to make it better?

By: Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:09:07 +0000

I have started to really look forward to your this week in SEO posts Steve. There are always tons of things you post that i haven’t heard about.

now if you will excuse me i have a lot of reading to do

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:36:28 +0000

Thanks Adam. That’s not a bad idea. “Other SEO News” would certainly work.

Glad you like the links. I’ve been able to refer back to them too when I need a few things. If you saw all the ones I ended up not including here…I can’t believe how many I end up collecting during the week. 50 or so of them here seems to work ok. And last night I created a new category for the sidebar to make these posts easier to find.

By: SEFL

SEFL — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:20:08 +0000

What about just calling it “Other SEO News”?

Actually, I want to thank you for providing some of those links. They’re going to prove of some use to me within the next 7 days.