Power of the People’s Media - My Movie Review Ranks Above the NY Times and IMDb.
November 2, 2006
I was very pleasantly surprised when I discovered that a movie review I wrote for “The Departed” was ranking in the top 10 on Google for “the departed movie review“, “the departed movie analysis”, “the departed movie mistakes” and host of other related keywords.
This review, which really was just a quick blog post I put up here on October 8 was submitted to the website associated content (a user publishing site with articles, videos, profiles, and other web 2.0 features) is now ranked above hundreds of powerful websites with professional editorial reviews like the New York Times, Imdb, and TV guide.
This isn’t just a little thing, people have been heralding the arrival of indie content and the ability for unknown individuals to get their words and creative works out there. Usually though, behind all the ideology, the indie content producers who actually get read or watched are people like popular bloggers who have devoted large portions of their lives to developing their online presence. An online presence that rivals their professional competition.
Syndicate Your Blog the Low Tech Way. Submit Your Blog Entries as Articles.
May 21, 2006
This might seem a little strange, but I’ve started submitting my blog entries to article submission sites to gain more readers, and build links for SEO. Before blogs hit the mainstream website owners would (and still do) post articles on the large array of what I like to call “article dump†sites. An article dump website is one that accepts large quantities of articles without any real editorial review, only a “yes or no†check for the purposes of keeping the directory free of spam.
Besides article dump sites, there are lots of higher quality publishing sources, but unless you’re a professional writer, you’ll probably be posting your stuff on mostly article dump sites and maybe a few niche topic sites. For example if you wrote about shoeing horses, you could probably find a few specific groups etc to announce your stuff. So if you have a blog and you update it very regularly how do you find time to write articles and post them everywhere?
Blog Search Engines Are a Better Way to Sort Through the Blogosphere - Article Published at Associated Content
May 21, 2006
New article published at associated content, check it out (READ MORE link opens in a new window):
Blog SEO: Tips to Make Your Blog More Search Engine Friendly
By Solomon Rothman, May 17, 2006
Using regular search engines is GREAT, except for finding blogs. If you only use the regular search, you may be missing out on one of the most powerful ways to get the latest news and information, as well as see what “real people” are blogging about.
READ MORE » ( Article on Associated Content)
[tags]blog SEO,blog search engines,blogosphere,blog search engine,blog search engine optimization[/tags]
Blog SEO: Tips to Make Your Blog More Search Engine Friendly - Article Published at Associated Content
May 21, 2006
New article published at associated content, check it out (READ MORE link opens in a new window):
Blog SEO: Tips to Make Your Blog More Search Engine Friendly
By Solomon Rothman, May 17, 2006
Tips on how to improve your blog’s search engine rankings and optimizate a default blog installation to be search engine friendly. List of the easiest and most important blog updates.
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Free Places to Distribute Your Video Online - Article Published at Associated Content
May 21, 2006
New article published at associated content, check it out (READ MORE link opens in a new window):
Free Places to Distribute Your Video Online
By Solomon Rothman, May 17, 2006
Each video distribution website has it’s own unique audience and currently traffic levels for user views are spread out, so if you want your video to be seen by as wide an audience as possible, you’ll need to list it everywhere.
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Why Most Video Blogs Suck - Problems with Video Blogs and Video Bloggers
May 21, 2006
By now everyone knows about blogs. The crazy online journals complete with spelling mistakes and gorilla news . I still remember the special on the Katrina blogger who broke the “in the water†stories and was interviewed live on CNN. Currently most blogs consist of text and pictures with the occasional audio clip, but with the popularity of broad band and increased storage capacities, video blogs are the new rage, and why not? Who wants to scan through pages and pages of small text if you don’t have to right? Unfortunately there are some serious problems with most video blogs making them almost unwatchable.
Wikiepedia? No Wikipedia, Typo your way to new visitors!
May 14, 2006
My previous posts on contributing to Wikipedia contained an interesting and apparently well searched for typo. It says in the paragraph 2 “wikiepedia” instead of Wikipedia.
What’s interesting about this typo, is the post (typo is now fixed) ranked number 1 for the misspelling wikiepedia on google and brought some new visitors into my site. I just checked my analytics and it appears the visitors who came to site using a search term of wikiepedia viewed an average of 2.25 pages, meaning they clicked around at least somewhat. So that brings me to an interesting question, should you purposely put typos in titles and/or descriptions to bring new customers to your site? Or maybe just list a few common misspellings at the end of your posts?
What do the search engines consider relevant about you? Analysis of a name search.
May 14, 2006
I admit it, I search for my name a lot. Firstname Lastname, click, send, wait, smile! It’s exciting to see what the search engines find most relevant about me. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should. Everybody likes to feel important or at the very least less obscure and more accessible online to friends, loved ones, fans, viewers, colleagues you name it.
What’s interesting is the distinctly different types of websites and information that the top 3 (Google, MSN, and Yahoo) return in response to a firstname lastname search. Now a lot of these differences are not specific to a name search and would fit in the categories of convtionial SEO, but the reasons why I think it’s important to talk about this specific search separately from regular SEO are:
1. This search is one of the most important to an individual emotionally. Your first and last name appears on everything you create. It can represent your reputation, your family heritage, your professional image, your expertise, and your experience, all at the same time. Give me another two search words that cover all of that.
2. People use their first and last name in documents and websites in similar ways that differ extensively from other words Most of us, for example, don’t have social networking accounts, blogs, press releases, work history, personal comments and video files all attached to a string of keywords like “buy movies nowâ€. Read more
Intrigued by Rocket Boom - Independent No Budget Broadcasting Vlog
May 12, 2006
While doing my daily dose of research I cam across this very interesting article in Wikipedia on a daily produced video blog called “rocket boomâ€. I downloaded the show and it’s not much to look at and I don’t see myself becoming a regular view, but what’s so fascinating about this show, is that number of subscribers they were able to build on an almost negliable budget.
Each video is downloaded 250,000 to 1 million times. Isn’t that crazy? And it’s produced with a regular home video camera. It’s hard to image that, 250,000 downloads EVERY DAY.The broadcasting revolution is well underway. Maybe I should produce a show. “Solomon’s take at 11:00.†Just kidding I’ll stick to filmmaking, writing, and web design, but who knows. I will say I would attribute a lot of their success to an amazing consistency. The show is released EVERYDAY at 9:00am and has been for years. That’s a lot of consistency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketboom
[tags]rocket boom,vlog,video blog,Independent No Budget Broadcasting,independent broadcasting,broadcasting revolution[/tags]
Boy Who Never Slept in Other Languages - Can You Translate?
May 9, 2006
To my happy surprise it appears the Boy Who Never Slept trailer has been picked up and run on websites in many different languages. This is super exciting and has since encouraged me to focus more of the internet marketing campaign on an overseas audiences. I even recieved an e-mail from a magazine in sigapore wanting to review the completed picture.
Some notable examples are:
Boy Who Never Slept on the Blog of DE:BUG (a very cool German magazine)
Boy Who Never Slept on Film video gverila
Does anyone know how to translate the latter site? I tired google translate and bablefish, but I don’t recognize the language.
[tags]boy who never slept,creative commons,open source,films,film,movie,movies,languages,over seas,filmmaker,free movie,solomon rothman[/tags]
