Comments on: What’s all this SEO stuff about anyway? http://msco.com/blog/whats-all-this-seo-stuff-about-anyway My Unconventional Thinking on strategic management, marketing, consulting, business, advertising, and general philosophizing on the issues of the day. It's the perfect blend of Harvard Business School and Us Magazine. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:53:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Chris Kieff http://msco.com/blog/whats-all-this-seo-stuff-about-anyway#comment-15 Chris Kieff Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:22:05 +0000 http://msco.com/blog/whats-all-this-seo-stuff-about-anyway#comment-15 SEO for MSCO November UPDATE: I'm pleased with the growth of the site, but we haven't broken into that coveted 100,000 Alexa traffic rank- Yet. I've had a secret target of breaking into the 100,000 by year's end. (Please don't tell Mark, it's a secret!) I'm going to try a few more ideas to make that happen, but the BtoB arena tends to slow at year's end so I'm hoping I can make it happen. This week's average of 126,819 is very encouraging. I just need a few hundred links to the blog and then... Chris Kieff, Director of Internet Marketing Traffic Rank for msco.com: 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change 126,819 185,704 <strong>up 53,174</strong> Reach per million users: 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change 5 4.3 <strong>up 9%</strong> Page Views per user: 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change 14.8 12.4 <strong>up 59%</strong> SEO for MSCO November UPDATE:

I’m pleased with the growth of the site, but we haven’t broken into that coveted 100,000 Alexa traffic rank- Yet. I’ve had a secret target of breaking into the 100,000 by year’s end. (Please don’t tell Mark, it’s a secret!) I’m going to try a few more ideas to make that happen, but the BtoB arena tends to slow at year’s end so I’m hoping I can make it happen. This week’s average of 126,819 is very encouraging. I just need a few hundred links to the blog and then…

Chris Kieff, Director of Internet Marketing

Traffic Rank for msco.com:
1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change
126,819 185,704 up 53,174

Reach per million users:
1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change
5 4.3 up 9%

Page Views per user:
1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change
14.8 12.4 up 59%

]]> By: Administrator http://msco.com/blog/whats-all-this-seo-stuff-about-anyway#comment-14 Administrator Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:04:29 +0000 http://msco.com/blog/whats-all-this-seo-stuff-about-anyway#comment-14 Amari, Thanks for the question. It sounds like you're off to an excellent start. We use Wordpress here and use a plugin called "Wordpress Multi URI Ping" http://mani.wordpress.com. It covers the pings for us automatically. We also ping the list at the end of this post. I'll assume that you are regularly updating the posts on the blog, every 2 or 3 days. The other main recommendation I have is for you to post comments on other blogs. That will increase your traffic organically which is exactly what Technorati, Google, etc. are looking for. Please feel free to contact me directly: chris at msco dot com if you would like to discuss your SEO needs further. Good Luck, Chris The MSCO Blog Ping List: http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.my.yahoo.com/rpc2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://pinger.blogflux.com/ http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.weblogs.com/rpc2 http://topicexchange.com/rpc2 http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b http://www.blogdigger.com/rpc2 http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php http://www.blogsnow.com/ping http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi http://www.pingmyblog.com/ http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/ Amari,

Thanks for the question. It sounds like you’re off to an excellent start. We use Wordpress here and use a plugin called “Wordpress Multi URI Ping” http://mani.wordpress.com. It covers the pings for us automatically. We also ping the list at the end of this post.

I’ll assume that you are regularly updating the posts on the blog, every 2 or 3 days. The other main recommendation I have is for you to post comments on other blogs. That will increase your traffic organically which is exactly what Technorati, Google, etc. are looking for.

Please feel free to contact me directly: chris at msco dot com if you would like to discuss your SEO needs further.

Good Luck,
Chris

The MSCO Blog Ping List:

http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rpc2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/rpc2
http://topicexchange.com/rpc2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.blogdigger.com/rpc2
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.pingmyblog.com/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

]]> By: Amari http://msco.com/blog/whats-all-this-seo-stuff-about-anyway#comment-13 Amari Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:31:26 +0000 http://msco.com/blog/whats-all-this-seo-stuff-about-anyway#comment-13 Is there any special techniques that can be used to optimize a wordpress blog on my server for SEO. One issue I see is no way to change the title tags on each page, where it seems to take the blog name for the home page. I have several hundred 600+ inbound links. I have pinged Technorati manually and used pingoat as well as pingomatic every time I add a new blog. There is plenty of content, about 30 articles. What else can I do? What else should I do to optimize my blog? Is there any special techniques that can be used to optimize a wordpress blog on my server for SEO. One issue I see is no way to change the title tags on each page, where it seems to take the blog name for the home page.
I have several hundred 600+ inbound links.
I have pinged Technorati manually and used pingoat as well as pingomatic every time I add a new blog.
There is plenty of content, about 30 articles.
What else can I do? What else should I do to optimize my blog?

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