SEO and Findability blog

LJ Banks — findability expert

>

blogging about twittering and twittering about blogging

Published in April 30th, 2008
Posted by LJ Banks in blogging, web 2.0
No Comments

Great list of pro and con articles and tools for twittering at SEO 2.0 blog: Twitter Dilemma: To Tweet or Not to Tweet? Pros, Cons, 50+ Links & Tools.
I was late to the twitter party and I admit it can be a huge time waste. The best use I have found for it is […]

continue reading.....

linkbuilding — white hat version

Published in March 18th, 2008
Posted by LJ Banks in blogging, seo, web 2.0
No Comments

Recently, on my advice, our site turned down a submission for an article on link building. My gut reaction when asked about any article on link building is that is too much a gray area of SEO and we shouldn’t even open ourselves up to that. I admit to an invested interest here […]

continue reading.....

New Yahoo — open search and Yahoo buzz

Published in February 28th, 2008
Posted by LJ Banks in seo, web 2.0
No Comments

I hate to be negative about Yahoo. I like Yahoo. I still use their e-mail and I always include it in my list of “other search engines” when giving SEO best practices. Such as, “this will optimize your page for Google and other search engines like Yahoo.” And I do not […]

continue reading.....

summarizing

Published in February 25th, 2008
Posted by LJ Banks in seo, web 2.0
No Comments

One of the reasons I like twitter is the forced brevity. Having only 140 characters helps me focus what I want to say into small portions. I think of Twitter as a snack, while blogging is a meal. Maybe not always the most filling meal, but much more substantial than a tweet. But […]

continue reading.....

getting on the OpenID bandwagon

Published in February 7th, 2008
Posted by LJ Banks in web 2.0
No Comments

Now that I have a better understanding of how it works, (thanks Turbotodd) I am all over this OpenID thing. Doesn’t hurt that all the big players are sigining on as well ( Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! join OpenID Foundation Board.)
Having one place to sign in and one account to maintain is […]

continue reading.....

blog buzz, SEO, and desired user action

Published in January 18th, 2008
Posted by LJ Banks in blogging, seo, web 2.0
No Comments

This post on SEO Moz: R0n Paul is the Snakes on a Plane of 2008 got me thinking about the goals of blog buzz and also the goals of SEO. I think there is an assumption out there that all links are good links and all blog buzz will help your product or strategy. […]

continue reading.....

netflix TV

Published in January 5th, 2008
Posted by LJ Banks in web 2.0
No Comments

Only slightly offtopic — interesting piece here on Netflix partnering with LG to create a set-top box to stream the “Watch Instantly” videos on Netflix onto a TV. It seems like a great idea except for two things:

It is possible right now to connect a laptop with a DVD-player to your TV to do […]

continue reading.....