All this talk of using social media or social media optimisation made me rethink the basics. You can't get more basic than the title tag, I blogged my thoughts on how we can use the title tag over at web-design-book.com sure it's basic stuff. Web-design-book.com is meant for beginners, but as a long time user of seo techniques we sometimes get dazzled by the new new thing … [Read more...] about What has the Title tag ever done for me?

As I said in an earlier post, Mybloglog spam is too easy and too worthwhile. SEO solo has an article about how he set up a spam experiment. Simply buy opening a new acount, seeting his Opera browser to refreash every minute, he opens 20 top blogs that display members avatars and lets it run. He notes that he received a lot of contacts and traffic for the website he listed on … [Read more...] about Techcrunch suffers Mybloglog spam

Ok maybe not the worst, that award would have to go to Myspace, unless of course you're a 15 year old girl. First let me say, I love Mybloglog.com, it's my kind of social network. But the problem I have is not that it's been bought by Yahoo, which will hardly effect me and yes I know everyone is getting excited and sweaty about it, but from my point of view I can't see the … [Read more...] about Why Mybloglog.com is the worst social network in the world

Brian Houston, founder of Videosift has agreed to a grilling about one of the hottest video aggregators on the web. Videosift is one of the new Digg clones which are popping up all over the place. The community is a bit more mature than the one at Digg with less smart ass comments and more conversation. I conducted the interview via Email. What inspired you to come up with … [Read more...] about Is Videosift the hangout for hot new video?

I have been reading Michael Gray at www.wolf-howl.com for it must be over a year, maybe more. I remember when the SEO Rockstars critiqued his Disney ebook, which I thought was kinda cool. He certainly knows his stuff and is the man to go to if you want to get on the front page of Digg. Greg Niland had him on his show Good Karma, which can be downloaded at … [Read more...] about Who the hell does Graywolf think he is?

Digg has spawned a number of clones. some offering interesting and unique information. Others duplicating existing sites. With a CMS such as Pligg you can quickly and easily set up you own Digg type site. It took me 30 mins to knock up my own Pligg test. It's quite exciting when you realise you have your own Digg. The official site for Pligg here. You then realise the … [Read more...] about Is this the thing that will destroy Digg?