Comments on: Conversational SEO: Conversations that increase your rank

By: redsauce

redsauce — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:10:51 +0000

Agreed with the commenter below – conversational SEO relies on good communication between commenters, as well as a positive spin, otherwise surely this could damage your reputation.

By: Cheap Web Design Edinburgh

Cheap Web Design Edinburgh — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:55:50 +0000

that is correct but what if they start to leave nagative feedback and you do not want to have the blog comments moderated?

By: pay for performance seo

pay for performance seo — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:30:16 +0000

SEO can't work miracles irrespective of their experience and past track record. Especially if the site is new, it may take months to really see traffic building up because of SEO work. So its quite unfair on your part to expect your website appearing in top 10 search results within a month of SEO work done. This is the reason why a good SEO professional DO NOT guarantees any results for the SEO job.

By: Michael Brito

Michael Brito — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:33:25 +0000

@ MEl

Hey you…thanks for the message. I wrote an article for imediaconnection.com that covers this topic in depth. It’s being published on Monday. I’ll email you the url.

By: Melanie Phung

Melanie Phung — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:44:22 +0000

Hi Michael. My work is moving towards social media much more than in the past, and what you describe is absolutely part of my strategy. My new employer does a ton of social media/conversational marketing stuff, but so far they haven’t leveraged all that activity for SEO purposes.

Would love to read more of your thoughts on this topic.

Melanie

By: SureFire Guy

SureFire Guy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:05:38 +0000

I’ve been to countless sites where SEO keywords take precedence over the readability of the text (i.e. there’s no flow). Like the example you gave, saying “computers” and “printers” as often as possible can create a very unfavorable end-user experience…especially when they’re bolded, hyperlinked, etc. (:

Do you happen to have any research that shows that littering your text with keywords for SEO purposes either helps or hinders your sales?

Look at OpticsPlanet.net, for instance. These guys do some serious SEO. However, if I ever tried to buy something on their site, I’d probably punch my computer monitor out of sheer frustration…so much text! However, maybe they’re raking in the sales? Who knows?

Anyway, your comments and feedback would be much appreciated.

By: Michael Brito

Michael Brito — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:46:11 +0000

true. well, you just earned yourself a link — see below in my blogroll.

By: Isabella J Mori

Isabella J Mori — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:42:17 +0000

I don’t think they will be linked to anyway, simply because it’s too much work. I try to link back to people as much as possible but if you don’t have an actual system for it, you’re only going to be able to link back to the odd commenter.

Yes, of course on opens oneself up for spam. However, most do follow plugins have ways to cut down on that.

By: Michael Brito

Michael Brito — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:25:57 +0000

Isabella – aha. Well, it really depends; because you will then open the door for more spam. If a marketer is truly engaged with the conversation (whatever it may be); and provides value to that conversation, it’s most likely they will be linked to anyway.

By: Isabella J Mori

Isabella J Mori — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:35:57 +0000

Here’s a question: If we truly want interaction, shouldn’t we have dofollow for our comments? (Still trying to install that on my blogs, without much luck, btw)