Archive for June, 2007

Conference Etiquette

Share Having no manners is worse than having no money. And EvilGreenMonkey doesn’t need to point out that I lack both…anyway, we’ve done some posting on linking and blogging etiquette recently but I wanted to touch on another critical etiquette issue that might help you out in this industry. Before I forget, if you’re in need of any email etiquette (and I’m sure many of you are because I’ve seen your emails) check out my friend Gene’s excellent piece on the issue. This is very important stuff! Before I left my old job I seriously questioned the bar tab that we had to pay whenever my husband left town for an SEO show. However, after I attended my first conference [...]

Social Media Optimisation – just linkbaiting?

Share When I went to SMX Seattle I was sitting in the session on SMO shaking my head, and in the end I couldn’t take it anymore, I had to stand up and comment =) Mostly I agree with the whole concept of Social Media Optimisation and I think it’s a great opportunity to increase traffic and also search engine visibility. BUT what I do disagree with is the terminology SMO for some of the examples that were given at conference. The problem I find with Social Media Optimisation is that more often than not people use it to target an audience that is IRRELEVANT to the website they are optimising for. In the dictionary the word “optimising” is defined [...]

When You Walk Away I Will NoFollow

Share I know (or hope to god) that everyone knows what a nofollow is…if you don’t, you just slap a little rel=”nofollow” into your code and a search engine should not influence the link target’s ranking. You can do this if you’re unsure whether you want to give your stamp of approval to a site you link to, for example. I am not going to waste anyone’s time discussing this really but I do want to touch on a point that a fellow SEO brought up recently. It’s good practice to check to make sure that someone who has given you a link has not also given you a nofollow, unless you asked for it for some religious reason. Apparently [...]

SEO-Chicks has a new brother?

Share Well, yesterday I mentioned to Julie, that it was incredibly endearing that since SEO-Chicks was launched we’ve received great amount of support from the male contingent of the SEM camp. And really, the majority of SEO-Blokes are genuinely proud to have more women on board. May I suggest that, that’s for some obvious reasons, but also because they see the value of having the opinion and contribution from the ‘fairer sex’. So – we wanted to say a big thank you for all the support guys! And it’s just in time, because as you may have noticed a few lines ago I managed to ‘slip in’ a mention of the blokes new blog ) – haha! So SEO-Blokes.com is [...]

Blogging Etiquette

Share Well, after Julie’s post on Linking Etiquette, I really had the ‘bee in my bonnet’ and went out looking for more… And I found a somewhat old post, but with relevant content, on blogging etiquette rules. I think it pretty much covers all of the angles, and it adds to the list Julie had earlier ) So without further ado – I give you The Golden Rules of Blog Etiquette UPDATE Huuuugee apologies for forgetting to also give you the password: begood It’s typical – I got sidetracked from when I found the link and then I just forgot… But isn’t it good for building the suspence…

New SEO Chick – Rebecca Kelley

Share A big welcome to Rebecca Kelley, the very cool dudette from SEOmoz. I’m very pleased that Rebecca decided to join the SEO Chicks crew, I’ve been a big fan of SEOmoz and Rebecca for donkeys years. First time I met Rebecca was last year when she went to the UK to train with Fresh Egg. She has a great sense of humour (boarderline English humour) and knows her SEO. Sweet!

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