Greg Marlin here blogging live at the WordPress WordCamp 2006 gathering in San Francisco that Really Big Networks was happy to sponsor.
Some useful tips from the SEO and WordPress session. Still no answers for the problem of getting your backlinks tracked quicker, sorry everyone. Here are the key tips:
1. Add Head Meta Description Plugin
2. Don’t worry about no-follow links for comments on other blogs. Google doesn’t count the link but Yahoo! and MSN do.
3. To get valuable in-bound links give first to sites that are relevant to you.
4. Submit to sites like Del.icio.us and Digg.
5. Check out Yahoo! Site Explorer for measuring your in-bound links.
6. Check out Reporters without Borders
7. Like always, create good content that is updated regularly.
8. Add tags / categories that are relevant to your content.
9. Use the Google Sitemaps plugin for WordPress to ensure “spiderability”.
Since April of this year, the social bookmarking
del.icio.us has provided the option to add users to your network and gain fans - people who like your bookmarks and have added you to their network. Last night they extended this functionality even further - you can now create a “network badge” to put on your site. The badge displays the message “Add Me to your del.icio.us network” as well as some optional stuff like your del.icio.us username, your network count and your fan count. Here’s Mashable’s button (although I don’t use del.icio.us much these days).
They’ve also added an “active users” list that displays the del.icio.us members who use that tag most regularly, and may have some kind of authority on the topic (see
/popular/news for an example).
In fact, now that we know who the most influential members are, it’ll be much easier for sites like Netscape to buy these users. Or perhaps we’ll see people paying the most popular del.icio.us users to bookmark their blog entries.
Diigo, the “social annotation” tool (ie. another social bookmarking site), has taken off the beta label and launched publicly today. The service, which first began its private beta back in December 2005, is an acronym for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff”.
The question is: does anybody care?
Diigo aims to create a better social bookmarking tool. You can choose between the Diigo toolbar, which works with IE, Firefox or
Flock, and a conventional bookmarklet called the “Diigolet” (no Flock version yet). You can use these tools to highlight specific content on a webpage, bookmark it, or send the selected text to your blog. Rival
Clipmarks offers some similar annotation features. The Diigo team seem very conscious of the fact that they’re offering a “better
del.icio.us” - as a result, they’ve added instant importing from del.icio.us and the ability to post to multiple social bookmarking sites from the toolbar itself.
Diigo isn’t a terrible product, but I think it’s safe to say it’s going nowhere. Aside from the few hundred users who find the additional features useful, it’s unlikely to see any real adoption. And I hardly need to mention that this is a crowded space -
Ma.gnolia,
eSnips,
Jots,
Fungow,
SpinSpy,
Simpy,
RawSugar are just a few of the players here. Even serving up
MySpace codes is unlikely to distance you from the competition. Once again, I think it’s a case of too little, too late.
See also
Folkd, which offers an alternative to
Digg.
The birth of Web 2.0 has brought about several social bookmarking 2.0 services and Web applications that are currently available to users interested in unique bookmarking services and features related to Web 2.0. The following list describes and links to many of the popular social bookmarking 2.0 services.
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