Archive for January, 2010

What’s your Woo rank?

By martin on January 30th, 2010 12 Comments

WooRank is a new site just launch by a team in Belgium which does an SEO audit on your site and gives it a WooRank – not sure what it means but the higher the better.

So no messing about I went straight in for an SEO analysis of SeededBuzz – we came out with a rank of 46.9 which is a tad under the current average of 48.7 but not too bad given the age of our site and we are just building links and content. However, there were a few embarassing spots – who forgot to put the meta description on the home page

So in case of full disclosure our WooRank SEO analysis is here.

The challenge now is who out of the SeededBuzz community has the best rank – go on take the Woo test and leave your rank/link below

Keyword research & copywriting work better together

By matt on January 26th, 2010 2 Comments

I was wondering how many blog posts get written without any consideration for which keyword may drive traffic via natural search. My guess is close to 100%, amazing as it sounds.

For those who are well versed in search marketing, you’ll know that if you want to generate high levels of traffic via Google and other search engines, keyword research via Google’s keyword generator or specialist tools like Wordtracker is the basis for deciding on your sites content strategy and link building strategy.

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Pluginseo – A Simple SEO tool for beginners?

By martin on January 23rd, 2010 3 Comments

Pluginseo launched late last year and were a finalist in the London Seedcamp 2009 – they claim to offer “a simple way to get more and better quality search engine traffic to your site”, so I thought I would put them to the test and use it on one of my sites.

First their 60 second signup is really that – grab the javascript you need to put into your site onto the pages you want to track, add the keywords you think that are relevant, and put in the URL of your competitors. Being honest my application actually got corrupted, but my email to their support line got an instant reply and fix, so no complaints there. And then once I added the javascript, the tracking started reporting immediately, so so far fairly idiot proof.

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Free membership during January

By martin on January 23rd, 2010 1 Comment

We are offering free membersip (for ever and ever) to anyone who applies and is accepted before the end of January – the only rule is you have to keep on using SeededBuzz to market your blog.

We have had some great seeds already from some of the first members – why not have a look here.

We’ve made it!

By martin on January 21st, 2010 No Comments

It’s taken 12 months of planning but we’re delighted to announce that we’re ready to launch SeededBuzz.

If you take a few minutes to watch the video you’ll see why we’re so excited and why it’s the perfect platform to market your blog.

We’ve sent out over 300 beta invites to blogs that applied to join the program and we’re accepting new applications as well, so please do apply.

If you could let us know what you think, that would be amazing. You may even want to re-tweet our news using:

RT @seededbuzz REALLY new way of marketing blogs launched today http://bit.ly/7pOFVc

Or something similar.

Linking your blog to natural search stardom

By matt on January 18th, 2010 1 Comment

Having a great product has never been a way of guaranteeing success. Having a great blog with brilliantly written content is the same thing. The difference between being a winner and an also ran is more often than not, marketing.

There’s a lot to blog marketing and we’ll be covering all the key areas in future posts, so you may want to subscribe.

This post will however touch on one of the most difficult areas – Link Building.
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