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Additions to the SeededBuzz team

By martin on August 13th, 2010 1 Comment

We recently asked our members if anyone had some time to help out with running SeededBuzz, and we were amazed at the number of responses we received – thank you to all of you who responded. From those applications, we are delighted to welcome Melissa, Greg and Ian to the SeededBuzz team and over the coming weeks and months you will see more of them around the site and promoting SeededBuzz to the wider community. We are going to let them introduce themselves in detail in their first SeededBuzz blog posts.

Matt & Martin

Falttr – New way to make money from content?

By martin on July 8th, 2010 No Comments

I have just picked this up from Techcrunch but thought is would be interesting to anyone serious about allowing others and themselves to make money from their original content.

Flattr is a social micropayment service which allows you to give (and receive) small amounts of money to producers of content you like and/or use – could be quite a utopian dream, but if it gets enough of a following from people who give and take it could work well. Follow the link to get a full explanation from either Techcrunch or Falttr directly, but at the moment they are still in beta invite only mode.

Clicky – How does it compare to Google Analytics

By martin on June 6th, 2010 1 Comment

Clicky is, after Google Analytics, probably the biggest Web Analytics tools catering for everyone from the hobbyist up to 100K+ views a day sites. I did use Clicky for a site several years ago, and was very interested to see how they had grown and whether they are a serious alternative to Google Analytics which I currently use for my sites. Google is free and Clicky charges $4.99/month for the basic version, $9.99 for the pro version and then increasing amounts depending on the daily traffic. The question is, is it worth it, and to put that to the test I have been using Clicky on SeededBuzz for the last few weeks.
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PluginSEO – A late followup review

By martin on May 26th, 2010 1 Comment

PluginSEOOoophs  – it nearly 4 months since I last posted to this blog – things have been very busy with SeededBuzz and a few other projects, but that is no excuse as all you bloggers know – so I promise to do better in future.

So when I left off, I was starting to look at PluginSEO as a tool to help drive organic traffic. Once you have installed the tracking code and setup the configuration (see my first PluginSEO post), you leave it for a few weeks and then start to get suggestions on how to improve your SEO.
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What’s your Woo rank?

By martin on January 30th, 2010 6 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

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.