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I have a blog. I jumped the gun, was going to incorporate at one point, but never did. In fact never got any work, or earnings so, just never bothered. I am not technically literate. I can use a free blog ya know. But somewhere over the last few years someone highjacked my user name and password, then posted all kinds of weird stuff on this site. I contact Blogger, never heard anything back. I simply want this entire blog removed, entirely. I joined when it was still just Blogspot.com....before Google bought it.� Any help would be appreciated. http://alternatethoughtbox.blogspot.com is the blog.� batheros@gmail.com to contact me. Question from  read more..

Hello.I have decided to work on one of my new domains and so I want one of my previous domains de indexed. I have to transfer the articles in that site to a new site. So I dont want duplicate content issue. I have cancelled my hosting for the domain I want de indexed. It is no longer in my webmaster tools page and I just have the domain in my domain manager. What steps should I take? Question from  read more..

A week ago I submitted a site with Google's submission tools.I also pasted the verification data into my header file. When I look at Google's tools it says that the site is verified and indexed. I even added a sitemap which was accepted. The problem is my site is not being indexed at all.Even when I enter the domain name into the search. Is this just because this site is fairly new or is it some other problem. The site is http://www.keepernovels,com. Could somebody help me. Question from  read more..

google shows that my website is infected with malware now i scan my website remove malware but still google show my website infected what can i do� now� and how to tell google that my website is free even i have check it online scan and also remove all infected even rchnage my host company and scan my computer but only google in search that my website is infected but in googlecrome browser its wroking perfectlywhat can i do nowplz guide meplz Question from  read more..

A few months ago I redesigned http://kefalonia.co.uk and since I did its vanished from google serps. At around the same time I had 60 do follow blog comment links built so I think they may have casued a penalty in which case I assume I need to note down the links and tell google via a reinclusion request and hope for the best?Howvere before I do that I hoped someone who knows seo/google well could have a look at my homepage and see if anything else could be stopping it from indexing properly. Or could it be that the holiday booking guide guide on the HP is basicly a divert through to a holiday company - would google possibly slap it for that?Any help or advice at all would be brilliant.ThanksRuss Question from  read more..

Are Microformats the Next Big Thing? John Andrews has a great post about structured data & SEO. My take on the idea (for most businesses anyhow)? read more..

In one of the more absurd public privacy invasions online, Google has announced they are going to  read more..

Want To Make a Living on Google Money? AdAge has a good post about how Google's promotion of fraudulent advertising is undermining their brand... read more..

There are a lot of parallels between Google AdWords and SEO, and a lot of the beginner mistakes are the same for both traffic acquisition strategies. I figured it would be worth outlining some of the most common ones to help save you money on your search engine marketing campaigns. read more..

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"...when you search for these folks names in association with Twitter, you'll see their latest Tweets come up in real time on Bing's search results." read more..

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The overwhelming winner in my 30 day poll was “Bike to work” so that’s what I’m doing during the month of July. In the third week of July I’ll be out in Boston to speak at SIGIR, but any time I’m heading into the Googleplex during July, I’m planning to bike there. Is there something good [...] read more..

I enjoy posting some of the funny emails that I get. This one made me laugh: You don’t need to %SI3_rnd10 rod’s %SI3_rnd11 and %SI3_rnd12 %SI3_rnd13’ jokes! This is a %SI3_rnd14 for %SI3_rnd15 your %SI3_rnd16! It will %SI3_rnd17 in seconds after she %SI3_rnd18 and %SI3_rnd19 as good as if it was a %SI3_rnd20 rod! No more jokes – [...] read more..

I got a spam email that I thought about blogging about, but decided not to. Then they spammed me *again*. Sheesh. So here goes. If you get an email with a subject like “Affordable Link Building Outsourcing,” think twice. Any email that starts out Make your links appear Natural Link Building is one of the most significant [...] read more..

30 days is enough time to build a habit. Last month, I started trying to walk 10,000 steps a day for 30 days. I didn’t walk 10K steps every day, but I did keep at it until I’d walked over 10K steps for at least 30 days. In the process, I discovered that walking [...] read more..

If you own a website you no doubt receive hundreds of link request emails ranging from honest people to three-way-exchanges, and even to the following deceptive scams: I received the following email: Hello, Recently I visited your website http://www.jlh-design.com ; while visiting your site I noticed that you link to http://andybeard.eu at this address: http://www.jlh-design.com/2007/08/warnings-google-needs-to-incorporate/. As we are [...]Post from: John Honeck  read more..

By now you’ve heard of Illinois continued stellar record in politics with the arrest of their latest Governor Rod Blagojevich. While watching and reading the news I was almost mesmerized by that awful hair of his, I just knew I’ve seen it before. .Post from: John Honeck Rudy Arrested Post from: John Honeck  read more..

Nothing innovative here really. Just some functional features which should have been added a long time to Google’s Blog Search. Then again, better late than never.  So, Google has just added RSS/ATOM subscription, list of  the most popular terms that users are using, and latest blog posts from, I guess “more prominent” blogs indexed by [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal. read more..

This week we feature the interview with Fraser Kelton, working at new and exciting social media project Glue, developed by AdaptiveBlue. 1. Please share your background. What brought you to the Web 2.0? Also please tell us a few words about your [other] projects you were doing before joining AdaptiveBlue. I’m originally from Hamilton, a beautiful [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal. read more..

Creating new landing pages for testing is getting cheaper. And scalable. So there are fewer and fewer reasons for SMBs not to be testing their landing pages and sites to optimize conversion rates. Testing landing pages has long been a preoccupation of mine, particularly because of the traditionally prohibitive costs. Even if you use a design contest at [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal. read more..

Dang, it’s after midnight and I’m still at the office again. There’s been 2 cases of Sundaes Best hot fudge sitting on top of my desk that I’m not sure if I should be selfish... read more..

As a brand new member of both We Build Pages and Internet Marketers of New York, I’m really proud to announce that last week’s Charity Party hosted by WBP raised more than $13,000 to... read more..

Lisa Barone has moved to Historic Troy New York and has joined We Build Pagesas our Senior Writer. Stay tuned for a new website and blog on WeBuildPages.com in the near future. View the Press... read more..

As some of you may or may not know, I'm new here with the SEP team, having just started last week. So by this time I'm definitely overdue for sending out my first post! There's a lot to digest when you move to a new position, and sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming to absorb [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog Checklist: 4 Things to Do When Moving to a New Internet Marketing Job  read more..

I reached a milestone this past weekend. June 21st marked 10 years that I've been blogging. When I began posting articles in June of 1999, the term was in its infancy, and I had no idea what a blogger was. I still wouldn't consider myself officially a blogger, I'm more an amalgamation of 1990s Web [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog Blogging 10 Years Straight  read more..

Think about it…when you dive in to your network of colleagues, customers, family, friends, business associates, etc…you will find that many of the people you interact with are members of Associations. Some are members of more than one and some often pay a yearly fee to be part of their Association. I believe that people [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog Want New Customers? Think Association Partnership  read more..

Search engines love blogs like high school girls love jocks. Luckily, there are some things that geeks can do to draw the attention of the girls away from the jocks, but that's a lesson for another day. If your old, static website doesn't have its own search-loving blog, don't worry. You can [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog How To Act Like A Buff Blog When You Are Scrawny and Static  read more..

Brian Carter is one of those people who grows on you until one evening you sit typing the intro to an interview and you realize you can't even pinpoint the moment you got to know him; he's just always been there. Brian's sense of humor is quirky, funny. If you pick the wrong set of tweets [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog Ruud Questions: Brian Carter  read more..

Brian Carter is Director of SEO, PPC, and Social Media at Fuel Interactive, a full-service interactive agency in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I'm so excited about my new diagram YOU: "Beautiful, Brian. Looks complicated. What is it?" ME: It shows the stages of internet marketing, including SEO, PPC, Email, and social media. YOU: So why'd you call [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog The 6 Spheres of Social Media Marketing  read more..

"Explore blog comments and discuss what can be done to turn them into real conversations... Via the Internet, you clearly have access to a huge inventory of information and knowledge. However that is not the most amazing aspect of the Internet. Mo read more..

Growing need for the real time search engines. Users wants real time searches. Real-time searches are more valuable because it lets you know what's happening right now on any given topic. Companies use it to handle customer services. News junkies us read more..

A good piece listing pros and cons of small business blogging. read more..

Everyone has an opinion on how Microsoft is 'connecting' to the world. What better way to look at it then going to the source? Mel Carson, Microsoft's Advertising Community Manager, writers about just this topic on Searchcowboys. read more..

We are a few days into July and the WebmasterWorld thread that covers Google changes from month to month has been getting a lot of traction over the past couple weeks. The overall theme is that there is a lot...  read more..

It seems like there are several threads around the SEO forum space that have discussion on a recent PageRank update. Yes, even more recent then the June PageRank update. There is a WebmasterWorld thread, a few DigitalPoint Forum threads and...  read more..

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if DMOZ is still relevant in 2009? DMOZ is a legendary web directory and has a ton of history. But is it still a critical or what it ever a critical part of your overall SEO...  read more..

Shaun, aka Hobo, has released a 157 page PDF guide on SEO. You can download the book over here. There are many SEO books out there, some free, some at a price. I would list some that I recommend, but...  read more..

Well, looks like Twitter has arrived for real. Companies are considering the service for their marketing and customer efforts. There still appears to be significant hype around every time someone at Twitter has gas. Twitter is looking to protect its trademark and is looking to trademark other sounds from nature like chirps and peeps. So [...] read more..

Last week, we saw that Facebook was taking status updates public for selected test users (a la Twitter). Those selected users were ones that had already set their profiles to a high level of sharing—everyone could see their profiles already. Now Facebook will make it so that all users will have a very granular control over [...] read more..

FeedBurner, an RSS management utility that was purchased by Google a few years ago, has long offered an RSS-to-email service. One of its major drawbacks, however, was that as an RSS publisher you could only set one subject line. So every email from your feed (generated and sent daily) had the same subject line. The lowly [...] read more..

In their own words“We believe... that we act as the conduit for children to lead fulfilling lives that no amount of community service is too small, and that laughter is essential.”Why it might be a killerThis is a solution that will help many people to find health related services based on other users’ experiences.What it doesTinkn.com was created in order to provide you with accurate information about many professionals related to a wide diversity of specialties. Are you looking for a doctor or a nursing home but you cannot find the right place? Do not worry about that any more because this is an on online resource where you can take a look at in order to find your desired professional. The site’s creators understand exactly the way you feel due to the fact that they have already gone through years of disappointment when trying to find quality health centers with qualified professionals. Tinkn is an online resource that can be considered as a trustworthy way to find the service you might be looking for. This is a fast and clear way to help others. How? Simply by allowing them to share their personal experiences with others when looking for health related information. This is a business rating site designed with a trouble-free interface that will give users an easy way to navigate through the web. Tinkn provides you with the confidence you need to make important health-related decisions. Tinkn.com has a rating system that benefits businesses and users with relevant results.Some questionsIs there any other service provided by this online resource? Is the quality of any service merely based on the users' opinions?Link: http://www.tinkn.comOur Review: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/tinkn-com-neighbors-rating-businesses �  read more..

In their own words“Owl Read is a new modern online client for Twitter. It has all features I wish to find in other clients, but couldn't. It can group your friends for comfort reading, full threads view, make you timeline readed partially (by groups or friends), support several accounts if you have and so on. It looks and works similar to Google Reader. Though, it can be named Google Reader for Twitter, but with more social features.”Why it might be a killer It will be very convenient for those users that want to take advantage of a solution that gives them all the services they can get with the Google Reader mixed the real time features they can find on Twitter.What it doesIn case you are looking for a twitter related application, Owl Read can be considered as an interesting option for you to check. This application was created with the intention to provide Tweeters with a new modern online tool that will help them in many ways. If you ware used to utilize different twitter applications you already know that there are a number of features that are a must when it comes to providing users with useful services. This application has them all. But, what is Owlread all about? Well, this application gives you the chance to get your friends together be able to read documents and all kinds of texts in a relaxed way. With this application you will be allowed to take a look at different matters, as well as you will allow groups or friends to partially read your timeline, etc. Owlread.com supports more than a few accounts and it looks and works similarly to Google Reader. In fact, the main difference between this application and Google Reader is the fact that OwlRead.com has more social features. Owlread was created to summarize many features in one client. If you like Google Reader and Twitter this could be the right mix for you. Some questionsIs this solution actually been used as a real-time collaborative reading tool?Link: http://www.owlread.comOur Review: http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/owlread-com-like-a-google-reader-for-twitter �  read more..

In their own words“Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free, and always will be! So don't forget to bookmark us, as you never know when we might come in hand! If you have any comments at all please do let me hear them either via my twitter account (DDClarke) or by email: daniel@mse360.com.”Why it might be a killer It will be attractive to people that want to design a website that is highly adaptable to many formats.Some questionsWhat other features are actually offered by the site? Is there any tool provided by the site to automatically adapt a website to different formats?What it doesThis site belongs to a company that specializes in anything that is related to resolution formats. In fact, this site is totally new and gives users the opportunity to take a look at it in order to check out the way their own website looks in a wide assortment of resolution formats (including the most popular ones). All the possibilities provided to by this site are powered by Ajax & PHP. That means that you will not have to download anything to get all the benefits offered to you by ViewLike.us. In case you want to learn more about it, you just need to give the site a visit and you will be given different options to play with so you can see how your site looks like in 800x600, 1024x768, as well as 1152x864, 1280x800, 1400x900, and 1600x1200 or 1920x1200. The only thing you need to do to learn about the way your site looks is to type your URL in a box and you will get started. This site is totally free, so you can bookmark it if you think it is worthed. Simple, clear, and minimal this is a solution you might want to learn about. Link: http://www.viewlike.usOur Review: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/viewlike-us-the-web-through-many-eyes �  read more..

In their own words“We have recently extended the reach of Vizzl technology to allow users to do more than just search their friends: http://www.vizzl.com/ currently allows users to search Amazon, Ebay and YouTube using the dynamic and intuitive Vizzl interface.”Why it might be a killerBecause it will be used by many people in order to find interesting material about a wide variety of matters with precise filters and high definition images.What it doesAre you looking for pictures, images, books, video and other items related to a wide assortment of topics? In that case you should consider this site as a real and convenient option to take a look at. No matter what you might be looking for, this is a new way to search for it. In fact, this is not just a regular browser but an alternative that will give you convenient results from Amazon, Ebay and YouTube. This site can be defined as a data visualization tool that uses animation and customizable filter to ensure a highly visual and intuitive search process. That is very cool since these sources are among the most popular sites where to search for products and information. In case you are looking for a book on Amazon or eBay, you just need to follow a very simple procedure and the system will trigger a number of results. One of the best things about this site is the fact that it is very easy to use. On this online resource you will be able to search for many matters by using customized filters in order to find more accurate results. I have personally used the site to search for soccer and other sports and I have to say that it is accurate and it provides fast results. In addition to this, all the images you can find on it are high definition. Learn more about this solution at Vizzl.comSome questionsIs there any additional feature coming up soon?Link: http://www.vizzl.comOur Review: http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/vizzl-com-the-visual-search-tool �  read more..

In their own words“Feel free to tweet from this site as well. Interested in being featured? Let us know. When sending a #followfriday tweet, we suggest recommending 2-3 people and including a short explanation of why people should follow them.”Why it might be a killerThis will be an interesting solution for people that want to know more about other people.Some questionsWhat other features are being added in the near future?What it doesTwitter is amazing. If you think about it, you can picture a whole multitude of people following others who they think are interesting. On the Twitsphere you will find a wide variety of topics (actually everything you can imagine) and you will be able to keep in touch with groups of people with the same interests or ideas about different matters. This site was created to boost the following potential provided by Twitter. FollowFriday gives you the chance to send a #followfriday tweet in order to recommend specific people to follow. Why and How? Ok, let’s do this step by step: You can use this solution to recommend people to follow somebody just because you think that they are going to enjoy from doing it. The way you can do this is certainly simple, because you just need to send a tweet with a short explanation saying who this person is. Among the many features you can enjoy on this site you will find options regarding a list with the top 5 most recommended Twitter users for the previous Friday, as well as a list with the top 5 most active endorsers. In case you are interested in getting more information about this site feel free to give it a visit at Followfridays.com.Link: http://www.followfridays.comOur Review: http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/followfridays-com-follow-the-friends-of-your-friends �  read more..

What it doesPresented by The Sunlight Foundation, Transparency Corps is a brand new site that has the objective of making the activities of the American government more transparent to the public at large. The idea is to provide site users (“The Corps”) different task such as reading earmark requests on the site and choosing the most interesting bits for all to read, or upload photos of you with signs going “Read The Bill” (obviously aimed at Congress). This way, it is hoped that openness and accountability are brought about, and that positive change can materialize for the betterment of society. As it is correctly pointed out online, we have come a long way on technological terms, but there are still some fields where human supervision is mandatory. That is the case of politics, and this website hopes to let the ones who are concerned about such issues help in the best way they can. The site is very clear and concise, and if the premise sounded good to you a visit to it will not go amiss.In their own words“Transparency Corps is the Sunlight Foundation's answer to the question, "How can I help?" There are many big problems that we can solve with technology, but we can't solve them all. For many of the projects that make government transparency a reality, human eyes and analysis are required. With Transparency Corps, we break those tasks down into short, small actions that make a BIG difference. Join the Corps, and let's get started!” Why it might be a killerThe citizens of the United States of America will find such a resource valuable as it makes for a more transparent administration in which everybody can make a contribution.Some questionsIn which ways can you contribute to the project?Link: http://www.transparencycorps.orgOur Review: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/transparencycorps-org-a-more-transparent-government �  read more..

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Want to know what's new on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:As part of Google's goal to make the web faster, we uploaded several video tips about optimizing the speed of your website. Check out the tutorials page to view the tutorials and associated videos.Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag: What are some best practices for moving to a new CMS?Is over-optimization bad for a website?Will having my software listed in  read more..

Webmaster Level: Intermediate.We hear lots of questions about site architecture issues and traffic drops, so it was a pleasure to talk about it in greater detail at SMX London and I'd like to highlight some key concepts from my presentation here. First off, let's gain a better understanding of drops in traffic, and then we'll take a look at site design and architecture issues. Understanding drops in traffic As you know, fluctuations in search results happen all the time; the web is constantly read more..

You're a good webmaster or web developer, and you've done everything you can to keep your site from being hacked and keep your forums and comment sections free of spam. You're now the proud owner of a buzzing web2.0 social community, filling the web with user-generated content, and probably getting lots of visitors from Google and other search engines.Many of your site's visitors will create user profiles, and some will spend hours posting in forums, joining groups, and getting the sparkles  read more..

(Cross-posted on the Google Product Ideas Blog)The Webmaster Central team does our best to support the webmaster community via Webmaster Tools, the Webmaster Central Blog, the Webmaster YouTube Channel, Help Center, our forum, and a fellow named Matt Cutts.If you've got ideas and suggestions for Webmaster Central - features you want, things we can do better - tell us. From now until Friday, July 24, 2009, Product Ideas for Webmaster Central will be open for feedback. Every suggestion you add wi read more..

Posted by randfishI'm not always a fan of Guy Kawasaki's work, but really enjoyed his post on the OPEN Forum - A Dozen Don'ts for Entrepreneurs. I thought I'd take a stab at replicating it with some of my biggest warnings for those in our field. For the list below, the word "clients" is interchangeable with "marketing manager" or "executive team" for in-house SEOs. Don't Create False Expectations read more..

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Posted by randfishMy good friend, Aaron Kahlow, posed an interesting question during the Online Marketing Summit yesterday afternoon in Portland, OR. Aaron asked: If�a client came to you with�$1 million to invest�in a single Internet marketing channel, which one would you choose? Obviously, the question is a bit ridiculous (given that there's no additional detail provided), but it's designed to elicit an "off-the-cuff" response to a challenging scenario. The answer, of course, is "it depends" - and therein lies the rub. On what does it depend? Well... That's what I hope to answer with this blog post. My goal is not to solve the issue for an individual campaign, but from a very strategic level - asking questions like "where is the company today and where does it want to get to?" then applying those answers to the selection of marketing opportunities. Let's start by�defining the macro-level channels themselves, then examine how we'd reach the right conclusions. Internet Marketing Channels Display Advertising The process of placing ads on third-party websites with the goal of creating branding awareness and/or�generating traffic Examples: Banner ads, video ads, interactive ads, overlays, interstitials, etc. Email Marketing The process of collecting email addresses from potential leads and marketing to them via email messages Examples: Email newsletters, brand building emails, conversion-focused emails, etc. Pay-Per-Click Advertising�(PPC)� The process of bidding for placement at search engines (major or niche) to earn visibility and traffic when relevant queries are performed Examples: Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Business.com Advertising, etc. Online Public Relations The process of generating media from primarily online outlets in order to earn branding and traffic Examples: PRNewswire, PRWeb, Internet media focused PR agency work, etc. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) The process of earning rankings in the "organic" results of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) Examples: Keyword research, on-page optimization, link building, etc. Affiliate Marketing The process of incentivizing other sites to push your product in exchange for a share of the revenue they drive Examples: Commission Junction, in-house affiliate programs, etc. Social Media Marketing (SMM)� The process of leveraging social media platforms (small and large) to earn visibility and traffic Examples: Facebook Group pages, Twitter marketing, pushing content on Digg, etc. Viral Content Campaigns The process of generating creative content that will help spread your branding/marketing message and earn traffic Examples: Linkbait production, viral videos, guerrilla marketing, etc. Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)� The process of improving the path from landing to conversion to get more leads/signups/customers Examples: Split & multivariate testing, click-through-rate improvements, purchase-process simplification, etc. Some of these may overlap - for example, viral content campaigns may simply be a means to an end of better search engine optimization - but as they can all be separate entities, engaged in for their own purposes, I've made them distinct. Primary Variables to Use in the Selection Process Although other factors should certainly play into the decision making, these�three elements are excellent for narrowing down the options: Company Goals - What are the top priorities for the business to achieve? Brand Awareness - the current marketplace doesn't have enough familiarity/comfort with your brand to visit, engage or purchase from you. Education - the market for your product/service needs to be created;�potential customers�don't yet realize the problem they need you to solve. Raw Traffic - your business is monetized with advertising and needs more traffic/page views. Sales - your business has clear market demand on the web that needs to be drawn to your site and converted into leads/sales Budget - How much do you have to spend on your marketing effort(s)? Very High: in excess of $1 million High: $100K - $1 million Moderate: $25K - $100K Low: $5K - $25K Tiny:  read more..

Posted by MikeK@DanconiaMediaThis post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.It's been said here before: Press releases are much less powerful than they used to be for SEO purposes. While churning out news releases and submitting them to free sites may not do much, the medium can actually be more powerful than ever if used right. Convincing a single reporter or high-profile blogger to pick up your news is infinitely more beneficial than posting worthless releases all over the place and Digg'ing and StumbleUpon'ing them with your multiple accounts. I have a somewhat unique perspective about news releases. Not too long ago, I worked full-time as a newspaper reporter, and my inbox was regularly inundated with press releases. Some of them caught my attention and were turned into lengthy stories. Others, however, failed to captivate me or my peers and, as a result, went nowhere. Here are some tips on how to craft your releases in a way that increases the odds of them getting noticed by the media: Get to the point. Make it clear from the get-go what your release is about. Don't try to be cute. I used to get releases all the time from PR people who buried the news or tried to get creative with their writing. Sometimes, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what some releases were even about. If you're looking for a creative outlet, press release writing is not the avenue. Try writing a short story. At least pretend you're objective. Obviously, you have a vested interest in what you're writing about, but it's still important to craft your releases like down-the-middle news stories. Avoid unnecessary adjectives; most adjectives are unneeded. You don't want your release to read like an advertisement. Pick out the newsiest element and concentrate on that. Speak English. I see releases all the time that are stuffed with industry jargon that most people do not understand. Don't assume that what you're writing about is a familiar subject for the people who'll read your release. Dumb it down. Assume your release will be read by the densest guy in the room. Send it out manually. Instead of just dumping your releases into submission sites and hoping someone important notices, email it yourself to media outlets and bloggers you think might be interested in it. If you're publicizing a new product, send your release to newspapers in the company's area. If you can, find out which reporters cover the relevant beat and send it to them directly; that usually only takes a phone call. Have good timing. If you're looking for coverage, sending your release out on Election Day or after hours on a Friday is goofy. Those are good times to release bad news you're obligated to report – any White House spokesman will tell you that – but it'll do you no good unless your story is wildly sensational. News outlets are typically more desperate for copy during the summer months and around holidays. Act like a human. Interactivevoices' post about getting a link from CNN.com – the only PR10 news site – illustrated this perfectly. There's no harm in picking up the phone and calling reporters directly to see if they're interested in your story. For all you know, the only thing preventing your news from being published is an over-finicky spam filter. Don't beg. When I was working as a reporter, I didn't realize why some sources were so hellbent on me including links in my stories. Now I know. If your link is relevant to the story, the reporter will probably include it. If not, you're still getting good publicity. Of course, all of this will only help if you actually have something worthwhile to say. If you think there's nothing interesting to say about your enterprise, you're probably wrong. You just need to think long and hard to figure out what it is. read more..

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The following post is a counterpoint to the Outspoken Media post titled “Would I Recognize Your Blog In A Dark Alley“, and exists to offer an alternative path to land of unicorns and rainbows. First off there’s nothing wrong with running a community driven website or blog, in fact in many cases it can be an [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review. Leadership Blogging, It’s All About Leading Related posts:Michael Gray on Video While mostShort Videos, Long Videos, and Don’t Take Everything So Literally Many moons Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. read more..

This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links. Since some piano player in New Jersey owns the domain MichaelGray.com I had a few options but the [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review. Can You Get a Website Indexed with No Links and XML Sitemaps? Related posts:How To Figure Out What Parts of Your Website Aren’t Being Crawled When GooglGoogle Guide to SEO – Are Social Media Links on Death Row? I was readNew Website ViralConversations.com So if you Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. read more..

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