Comments on: What Makes a Quality Post in the SEO Space

By: Kath

Kath — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:48:56 +0000

Great advice. Hope readers listen as I’m tired of wasting my time with anemic posts failing to provide sustenance. You’ve offered a satisfyingly rich morsel. Cheers, k

By: Emirhan

Emirhan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:06:11 +0000

This is the quality way : keep it informative, rich, structured, easy to understand. Quality way, hard way. It takes time to craft articles like this, takes expertise and experience, and that drop of creativity to make it spark, instead of being arid.

But what about the rest out there? What about those who are hyper-active by nature? Or just restless? A bit there, another unrelated idea goes the other way, oh, wait, some more juice comes from something totally unrelated, so on and so forth ..

It narrows down to personal preferences, in the end, I guess.

By: Kerry Johnson

Kerry Johnson — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:29:19 +0000

I Think the name branding is important in the title. It stands out and more importantly, it svaes time when I am looking fo quality blogs that can help my online business. A good example is this blog’s tip about branding in my title.

By: Malte Landwehr

Malte Landwehr — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:53:41 +0000

I agree with what you say about the title being the perfect place for personal branding but “This month in SEO” isn’t too bad either.

By: Catfish SEO

Catfish SEO — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:09:44 +0000

A good post = Help people save time. I like that simple formula man. It’s straight to the point and very valid.

By: Oliver Taco

Oliver Taco — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:48:15 +0000

Ditto on Jaan for the focus on execution. I also like posts about how to use tools to improve the business value of SEO.

Because without money how will we ever move out from Mom’s basement?

-OT

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:40:05 +0000

Easy to read and/or execute and hopefully the overall post is fresh and not regurgitated crap from 5 other SEO blogs.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:38:55 +0000

Lyndon, thank you very much for your thoughts on the post. It’s greatly appreciated. I will definitely consider your ideas for titles, since they are better than the one I’m using.

Ironically the round up post didn’t start out to be baity at all. It was actually meant as a way for me to be lazy and not have to come up with an idea for a post one day each week. For whatever reason the laziness didn’t hold and the post became what it is.

Dave is right. The name came from an old weekly show about baseball (This Week in Baseball) that would show the week’s highlights in the days before ESPN. I’m a big baseball fan and took the name. I had thought of changing it when I switched to a monthly, but wondered if enough people already knew the post by that name that it made sense to keep it as is. I’ll have to rethink it.

One of the things I’ve found interesting in the feedback I’ve received is that for those people who do enjoy the post they enjoy it for different reasons. Some people like the collection of links and find it useful, while other people aren’t so interested in the links and enjoy instead the writing around the links. I hadn’t expected that last part.

Thanks again for the comments. You’ve given me a few things to think about and like I said it’s greatly appreciated.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:33 +0000

Well, Steve was originally doing a weekly post and as a baseball fan was doing his tribute to ‘this Week in Baseball’ – then time became and issue and it was moved to a monthly offering… just a FYI

..and I do enjoy them, though they are more weighty and it takes longer to get through now :0(