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Digg deja a MySQL por CassandraTechTear

Great Contents — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:29:13 +0000

Con el objetivo de mejorar su performance y posibilidad de crecimiento, el sitio de votación y comunidad social Digg ha anunciado que planea reescribir totalmente su infraestructura de software, incluyendo su alejamiento de las bases de datos MySQL que han sido utilizadas desde sus comienzos.

En lugar del codigo MySQL, Digg planea utilizar una base de datos de código abierto NoSQL llamada Cassandra, que fue diseñada originalmente por Facebook.

Para simplificar la migración de MySQL a Cassandra, los desarrolladores de Digg construyeron una herramienta para pasar los datos de una base a la otra. Dependiendo de este éxito, la herramienta podría convertirse de código abierto para ayudar a otros programadores.

Durante este anuncio, John Quinn, ingeniero de Digg, dijo que construyeron una herramienta, conocida como “transcribe” que se aprovecha de Hadoop, para importar grandes bloques de datos de MySQL a Cassandra.

Vale aclarar que las bases de datos NoSQL son un nuevo tipo de bases que se diferencian de los sistemas de manejo de bases de datos basados en el SQL tradicional. En lugar de utilizar tablas y columnas, NoSQL usa diferentes tipos de almacenamientos y objetos.

Para evitar problemas, Quinn aclaró que Cassandra no es la única base de datos NoSQL que se consideró para Digg, explicando que existen otros sistemas NoSQL populares como CouchDB y MongoDB.

Esta decisión no fue tomada a la ligera, ya que Digg explicó que ha estado probando Cassandra en varios aspectos de sus operaciones desde setiembre del año pasado.

Los programadores indicaron que la funcionalidad de Digg ha sido re-implementada desde MySQL para utilizar Cassandra como su base primaria, aunque Quinn no pudo comentar en la mejora de performance que se espera con la migración.

Finalmente, Quinn explicó que MySQL seguirá siendo utilizada en algunos puntos específicos, ya que este sistema todavía ofrece una flexibilidad que Cassandra no ha alcanzado.

Este post ha sido publicado originalmente en TechTear.com- Blog Magazine de Tecnología, Internet y Negocios

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SXSW: Content Strategy – Fancy Name for a ‘Plan,’ or Key to Marketing Communication?HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog

Great Contents — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:08:00 +0000

What Do Coke, Pepsi, Pampers, Dominos, Google and Facebook Have in Common?HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog

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Get Satisfaction Turns To Facebook To Socialize Customer SupportTechCrunch

Great Contents — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:59:32 +0000

Two years ago customer support startup Get Satisfaction turned its ear to Twitter to help its clients monitor Twitter for mentions of brands. Get Satisfaction makes a network of customer support forums where customers can post their own questions, ideas, problems, or conversations about a product. Companies can also claim their board and put their own employees on to moderate the boards. Tapping into the conversations taking place Twitter and other social media sites is now integral to brands and customer support, as we’ve recently seen with Southwest Airlines. Get Satisfaction is extending its social media coverage today by rolling out the ability to add a support tab to Facebook Fan pages.

As companies turn to Facebook Fan Pages to connect with customers, consumers are increasingly voicing their issues with a particular product or brand on the brand’s Facebook page. But often these complaints or opinions can get lost in the stream. That’s where Get Satisfaction comes in. The startup now allows brands to create a tab on their fan pages, which can be a portal for consumers to express their opinions, complaints or issues with the brand or product.

With the Facebook Social Engagement Hub, Get Satisfaction creates a tab (that can be labeled with any brand-specific name) on the brand’s Fan Page. Here customers can begin wall discussions in the form of four topic types: Ask a Question, Share an Idea, Report a Problem, or Give Praise. When customers begin to post a question, Get Satisfaction searches for and suggests similar threads to give consumers instant answers to commonly asked questions. All questions, comments, and answers are discoverable via Google and other search engine. People can respond to any thread — i.e. voice a similar problem, suggest a remedy, emerge as an advocate in response to another’s complaint, or offer a new twist to a product suggestion. Community members can also make their experience heard by simply clicking ‘me too’.

In turn, any question, idea or problem posted on a brand’s hub on Facebook will be automatically imported into the brand’s Get Satisfaction web interface, allowing marketers and customer support reps to access the conversation from their Get Satisfaction site.

Get Satisfaction’s co-founder Lane Becker says that the new offering is a part of helping brands distribute the conversations where the conversations are actually happening. And with 400 million users worldwide, Facebook is definitely a place where the conversations are taking place. Becker says that the startup is particularly focused on the idea of the “social CRM” and helping clients connect the conversations taking place regarding customers support on social media sites with CRM applications like Salesforce and Zendesk. Get Satisfaction currently has free app on Salesforce’s app exchange.

The Facebook offering is a paid feature and Get Satisfaction will have a number of pricing options. Today’s rollout is more targeted towards bigger brands, but a more scaled down offering will be introduced soon and will cost SMBs $99 per month.

Get Satisfaction recently raised $2.3 million in funding, which Becker says is being used to scale out its team. With only 20 employees, Get Satisfaction currently has 20,000 customers (10,000 of which are paid customers). Zappos, Mint.com, Procter & Gamble, and Nike have all created customer support communities on the site. Currently there are over 25,000 communities that have been created on the platform.

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Radian6 Launches Powerful Social Media Engagement and Monitoring Console For Brands And AgenciesTechCrunch

Great Contents — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:07:50 +0000

Brands are engaging in the conversations that are taking place on social media sites now more than ever. But in order to tap into the social conversations that are taking place on the web, brands and agencies need to have a powerful tool to track, measure and engage sites such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others. One of the leaders in the social media tracking space, Radian6, is launching a new Engagement Console to streamline this process.

A desktop client built on Adobe AIR, the engagement console lets your both track and engage in the conversation taking place on blogs, videos, forums, boards, Twitter, Flickr, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Facebook fan pages, public discussion groups, and mainstream news sites. The site also allows for assigning of tasks from within the platform, enabling users to access workflow from within the client.

You can customize a tracking grid of social media sites by breaking out your conversation into stacks by broad or specific topics, tagged customer lists, or even user assignment. Stacks can also be separated out by media type.

Th workflow feature allows you to tag, assign, and route posts to team members, and track the status of the assignments. Any conversations a user engages in, whether it be on Twitter, Facebook or with a co-worker, will be recorded for both the user and the administrator. And of course, the console allows you to Tweet, reply, retweet, and send direct messages, shuffle through user profiles, and follow new contacts right from the platform. Similar to many of the consumer focused social media clients out there, Radian6 allows for unlimited accounts and includes a URL shortener.

With respect to Facebook, the client allows users to respond to status updates, wall posts, comments, and “likes”. Users can also view news feeds for Facebook friends, and see new photos or videos that have been uploaded from within the console. The dashboard also provides analytics from within the console, such as post volume, and engagement stats.

Radian6 has had considerable success in terms of serving big-name clients. The company is currently helping over 10,000 brands track social media sites, including Comcast, MTV, Dell, UPS, GE and Microsoft. And this engagement console has all the bells and whistles to make any brand marketer content. The console, we are told, will be in private beta until April. That being said, there are plenty of other offerings for companies and agencies to track social media and this is a competitive space. Radian6 faces competition from a number of startups including Scout Labs, Visible Measures, Viralheat, HootSuite and PeopleBrowsr.

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11 Free Tools for Social Media OptimizationOnline Marketing Blog

Great Contents — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:28:30 +0000

Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Heck, we’ve been blogging about SMO since 2006! Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search.

The changing nature of social media marketing and optimization create the need for tools whether for research, marketing and promotion or analytics. Here are 11 social media and SEO tools you might find useful:

howsociable.com – Social visibility score
knowem.com – Profile building tool
Social Media for Firefox – Build a powerful social profile on social news & bookmarking sites
semrush.com – Find competitor organic search rankings
Google Insights – Keyword demand trends
Page Inlink Analyzer – Analyze inbound links, their Delicious bookmarks & keyword tags
majesticseo.com – Historical back-link tracking
trackur.com – Social media monitoring
socialmention.com – Real-time social search & scoring, social keyword research
bit.ly – Search friendly URL shortening with analytics
analytics.postrank.com – Track social engagement with combined Google & social analytics

Below are screen shots of each tool with a more detailed description of how you might use them.

HowSociable is a useful tool to quickly gauge the social presence of a particular keyword or brand name. Agencies like TopRank Marketing will use this kind of tool (customized) to take snapshots of customer social presence metrics for social media optimization programs. For each social site polled, you can clickthrough to see specific mentions. This is a characteristic of more advanced social media monitoring tools, but for those that want a quick glimpse, HowSocialble is easy to use and the price is right, just like these free social media monitoring tools. However, if you want more comprehensive brand search and monitoring, then a paid social media measurement tool is worth the investment.

KnowEm is both a free and a paid service that will help you easily and quickly check whether your brand terms or other keywords have been registered as social profiles on a wide variety of social media web sites. Everything from blogging platforms to social news and bookmarking services are included. If you don’t want to complete all those profiles yourself, you can pay knowem to do it for you. Companies invest a lot in building their brand, so this tool is helpful both for creating off site promotion channels as well as guarding against brand name squatters.

Social Media for Firefox is the only browser addon in our list and can be a handy tool to identify upcoming news items that are gaining popularity on certain social news and bookmarking services. A big part of building a more influential user profile is to be a consistent source of submissions for articles that become popular. This addon helps identify articles that are becoming popular on services like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon giving you a heads up to submit to other services. The logic is that if a news item becomes popular on one service it has a good chance of becoming popular on others. Relevance, timing and focus are key as is patience for this kind of tactic.

SEMRush is an interesting tool for identifying the keyword visibility, both organic and PPC, on Google for pretty much any domain name you might be curious about. Your own or competitors for example. A common question for marketers is, “What are my competitors optimizing for?”. This tool helps uncover that insight and in combination with other standard and social keyword research, can be very helpful insight in a social media optimization program.

Google Insights for Search is a handy tool to research trends in popularity of various keywords on their own or in combination. Filters for search type, geographic location, industry or topical category and timeframe allow you to refine some pretty useful information about what’s in demand.

Eric Miraglia ’s Inlink Analyzer is a back link analysis tool based on Yahoo’s Site Explorer that not only counts and displays source links to a particular URL, but it also shows if the source links were bookmarked on Delicious and what keyword tags were used. This kind of insight can be quite useful for understanding the relationship between social keywords and link popularity. It would be nice if there was a CSV export option.

Majestic SEO is easily one of the most powerful and useful link analysis tools available. There is a free version that gives you link acquisition counts over time and if you are a site owner, you can get full reporting for your site once you validate it. If you use the paid service, you can get the juicy link details on your competition. This tools is useful for finding high impact links for standard SEO but it’s also useful for finding out which social media sites your site or competitors’ site are getting the most links from. Also, which of your own social destinations (blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc) are getting inbound links and from where.

Andy Beal’s Trackur service is a very easy to use social media monitoring tool that offers a free version that will satisfy many beginners in the social media optimization space. Social media monitoring services are keyword based, (queries and negative or exclusionary) and that means some very useful information about how popular certain keyword concepts are on the social web. Of course you can use it to monitor what people are saying about your brand, identify a certain measure of influence and where they’re saying it. But seeing social keyword popularity trends can be quite useful for taking advantage of real-time marketing opportunities.

SocialMention is a free real time and social search tool that offers an array of search options (just blogs, just forums, just bookmarks or all) and output in the search results. You can get an indication of basic sentiment and the top social keywords associated with your query. As a free service, you don’t setup an account and save your search results, but you can easily download them into a spreadsheet. This is probably one of the most useful, free social search tools online.

Bit.ly URL shortening is very handy since they’re included as a default service on Twitter and many other Twitter applications. Bit.ly is rock solid reliable with uptime, which is pretty critical when you’re relying on their URL redirect to send traffic to whatever it is you’re promoting. You can also get basic statistics for each URL that your shorten to show how productive the site is where it was shared. In today’s succinct social web with Twitter, status updates and micro-content, being able to conserve space with a reliable URL shortener is very helpful. Stats on top of that make this a “go to” URL shortening service.

PostRank offers a nice measure of engagement at the individual document level and if you pay attention, you can get that data on any web site in their database, not just your own. You can easily see what content on your competitors blogs are getting popular and where. If you sign up for the PostRank Analytics service, you can incorporate Google Analytics data with social engagement metrics. These are essential comparisons in a social media optimization program and can help you understand where to plan your time on the social web.

This is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to SEO and Social Media Marketing tools. What low cost or free tools have you found to be effective for social media optimization tasks?

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Gestiona tu Reputación Online: monitoriza (y III)eTc :: El blog de Marketing en Español

Great Contents — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:24:59 +0000

Después de un tiempo he conseguido ponerme con esta tercera y última parte sobre un aspecto importante a la hora de abordar la Gestión de la Reputación Online, que es la monitorización. En el primero de la serie vimos una aproximación al concepto de Reputación Online; mientras que en el segundo abordamos algunos consejos a la hora de medir, algunas ideas sobre qué se puede medir y cómo optimizar el entorno disponible.

Así que hoy nos centramos ya en el meollo de la cuestión, que queda recogido de manera muy visual en la presentación que acompaña al post (tal como hicimos en el anterior), porque creo que es la mejor manera de explicar lo mejor de cada herramienta. Como ejemplo he utilizado los resultados de Innosfera, un evento mensual sobre innovación, promovido por la UOC, y que organizo junto a Javier Velilla y María Jesús Alonso.

En primer lugar, debemos plantearnos si utilizar las herramientas de pago disponibles (en ocasiones si contamos con presupuesto suficiente es recomendable), ya que facilitan la tarea de organizar todo en un lugar, obtener gráficos, etc. Existen muchas, muy especializadas en el Mercado anglosajón, como Radian6, Trackur (recientemente ha sacado una versión gratuita que os aconsejo probar), BuzzStream, Syntesio, Visible Measures…, y nos aburriríamos mencionándolas todas.

Como comentaba, tienen una importante carencia a la hora de monitorizar la web en español. En nuestro país existen también interesantes opciones como Smmart (de Cierzo Development), MambaIQ, la recientemente lanzada “Webrunner 2.0”, una herramienta que he probado y que es muy interesante debido a la amplitud de sitios que monitoriza y a su foco en la web en español.

Por otra lado, tenemos multitud de herramientas gratuitas disponibles en la web, que como tales demuestran sus carencias y no son perfectas. Sin embargo, la combinación de las idóneas nos proporciona excelentes resultados. Para optimizarlas, veremos una selección de aquéllas que muestran resultados aceptables y que permiten la suscripción a las búsquedas de los resultados mediante RSS.

1.- Elige tus “keywords” o listado de palabras clave que te permitan acudir a cada herramienta para realizar la búsqueda y gestionar la suscripción. Algunas ideas pueden ser:

Directivos
Empresa, filiales…
Marcas, nombres de productos, servicios…
Slogan (“la chispa de la vida”…)
Competencia
Sector
Proveedores, clientes, socios, etc.

2.- Gestionar los resultados en lectores de RSS:

Como hemos visto lo importante es seleccionar herramientas que permitan suscribirse a los resultados de la búsqueda mediante RSS. Herramientas de lectura hay muchísimas, sin embargo, las más recomendables son:

Google Reader: si creamos una cuenta específica para lo que queremos monitorizar puede ser una interesante herramienta. Aunque visualmente mucho más pobre que otras.
Netvibes: una excelente herramienta para agrupar en un solo lugar y mediante widgets los resultados de cada herramienta que utilicemos.
Feedly: una herramienta también muy visual y que tiene una ventaja, nos va discriminando los resultados de las fuentes que vayamos considerando menos relevantes.
Yahoo! Pipes: uno de los problemas a los que nos vamos a hacer frente es la repetición de resultados, ya que muchas herramientas muestra resultados similares. Una adecuada gestión de Pipes nos permite optimizar los resultados y evitar repeticiones.

3.- Herramientas:

Para llevar un orden a la hora de gestionarlas y controlarlas, una interesante división sería:

Alertas de Noticias
Blogs
Comentarios y conversaciones
Social Media
Marcadores
Twitter

3.1.- Alertas de noticias: en este campo Google News Alerts es sin duda la gran referencia. Nos permite recibir alertas al mail o al lector de feeds (RSS), así como introducir otros parámetros de interés como frecuencia, tipo, longitud del mensaje, etc.

3.2.- Blogs:

Google Blog Search: nos permite ordenar por relevancia o por fecha, así como establecer parámetros de búsqueda de publicación de resultados (última hora, últimas 12 horas…)
BlogPulse: una excelente herramienta gratuita de Nielsen. En portada ofrece resultados centrados en EEUU, por lo que la parte que nos interesa es el buscador. Ofrece interesante opciones como gráficos, búsqueda en conversaciones, búsquedas por url concreta o por fechas…
IceRocket: otra de las recomendables a la hora de realizar búsquedas en blogs (aunque también permite buscar en la web, noticias, en Twitter…) Podemos realizar búsquedas por fecha y por idioma, además en la opción “Results Trend”, nos muestra un gráfico sobre la evolución del termino elegido.
Twingly: muy útil para buscar en blogs y en Twitter. Permite además agregarte la búsqueda a la barra del navegador, crear una alerta por mail o incluir un widget en tu blog con los resultados. Para realizar búsquedas en Twitter es muy interesante ya que amplia los resultados en el tiempo a mucho más de un mes como suele ser habitual en otros buscadores de Twitter.
SocialMention: quizá una de las mejores para realizar búsquedas en la web social, no sólo en blogs. Sin embargo, la incluyo en este epígrafe porque es una de las que muestra un mayor número de resultados en blogs, así como otras opciones relacionadas con la búsqueda como “top keywords”, “top users”, “sentiment”…

3.3.- Comentarios y conversaciones: aquí analizamos las herramientas que nos permiten buscar en los comentarios de los blogs o en foros, en éstos últimos debemos emplear varias herramientas ya que ninguna muestra unos resultados óptimos.

BlogPulse.
Google Blogs.
Backtype: específica para búsquedas de comentarios. No aporta muchos resultados, pero como complemento es interesante. Se ha renovado y también muestra resultados de Twitter.
BoardReader: herramienta que nos permite realizar búsquedas en foros.
Omgili: al igual que la anterior centrada en búsquedas en foros.
BoardTracker.

3.4.- Social Media: aunque herramientas hay muchas y muy útiles, hemos elegido sólo aquellas que permiten la suscripción a los resultados mediante RSS o alertas.

SocialMention.
El buscador de FriendFeed: muy interesante, ya que nos muestra resultados de todos los servicios de la web social que añaden los usuarios a sus perfiles.
Samepoint: muy útil para realizar búsquedas muy completas, ya que incluye resultados de LinkedIn, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. Un consejo, tiende a mostrar resultados de EEUU, por lo que si introducís una única palabra hacerlo entre comillas para focalice en España (Ej.: “innosfera”)
Ubervu: realiza búsquedas muy amplias, muestra gráficos… Permite la suscripción a los resultados mediante alertas de correo electrónico.

3.4. Marcadores: me parece destacable incluir este apartado aparte, ya que Delicious es una interesante herramienta para analizar la repercusión de tus menciones, cómo te etiqueta la gente, quién lo hace…

3.5.- Twitter: sin duda Twitter merece una mención aparte, por su implicación en la conversación, en la web en tiempo real… Entorno a Twitter tenemos miles y miles de herramientas y probablemente mejores de las que he seleccionado; en este caso hemos ampliado a otras que no posibilitan suscripción RSS, pero que sí nos permiten extraer datos interesantes de la conversación.

Search.twitter.com: permite la suscripción de resultados por RSS y la búsqueda por idioma.
Twazzup: a pesar de que no permite suscripción, es muy interesante porque nos muestra imágenes, noticias, usuarios… que tienen más relación con el término introducido.
TweetVolume: Nos muestra gráficamente el volumen de resultados en Twitter de una palabra concreta, permite comparativas con varias palabras.
Backtweets: una herramienta muy útil, ya que nos permite introducir una URL y ver qué tweets lindan hacia ella, aunque en el texto no aparezca una palabra clave que busquemos. Permite suscribirnos a los resultados mediante RSS.
Trendistic: para analizar evolución de menciones a una palabra en concreto en el tiempo. Nos muestra resultados de la última semana, aunque en su home sí que analizan mucho más en el tiempo.
TweetBeep: nos permite recibir en el mail una alerta cada vez que se menciona una palabra que seleccionamos en Twitter.

Ahora toca ponerse en marcha. Gestionar todos los resultados hacia nuestro lector de RSS y tener en un solo lugar toda la información disponible, de manera que no tengamos que acudir a cada herramienta cada vez que queramos buscar información sobre algo en concreto. Os dejo a continuación la presentación:

Gestiona tu Reputación Online: Monitoriza (Principales herramientas de monitorización)

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Roberto Carreras trabaja como consultor de comunicación 2.0, además es profesor colaborador en la Universidad Antonio de Nebrija. Puedes seguirle en su blog, en twitter y en sus aportaciones en Yorokobu.

Rapportive.com – Adding CRM Capabilities To GmailKillerStartups.com – all

Great Contents — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:13:00 +0000

3 Ways Location Will Change SEOHubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog

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ACER estaría por lanzar su netbook sin marcosTechTear

Great Contents — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:09:46 +0000

Si hablamos de netbooks y ultraportátiles, el pensar en que en el futuro estos pueden venir sin ningún tipo de marcos nos hace ilusionar con computadoras de líneas limpias y mucho más livianas de las que conocemos en la actualidad.

Si bien por ahora se trata simplemente de un rumor, las nuevas netbooks que ACER estaría planeando para fines de este año, o principios del 2011, serían justamente sin marcos en su pantalla, haciendo que se aproveche al 100% el ancho de su monitor, ampliando considerablemente las pulgadas y bajando el peso total del equipo.

La idea se puede llevar a la realidad gracias a que las imágenes se imprimirían directamente en la parte trasera de la pantalla, presuntamente reforzada con un cristal de Corning (material que ya se encuentra disponible en el mercado)

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Frozen Grand Centralsebasanjuan's YouTube Activity

Great Contents — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:34:59 +0000

I favorited a YouTube video: From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York. Buy the new Improv Everywhere book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006170363X?ie=UTF8&tag=improevery-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=006170363X More info on this mission + tons of photos: http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/31/frozen-grand-central/ This is one of nearly 100 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past eight years in New York City. Others include the Best Game Ever, the Food Court Musical, and the famous No Pants Subway Ride, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made. http://www.improveverywhere.com Be the first to find out about the next video we create by subscribing to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ImprovEverywhere RSS feed: http://www.improveverywhere.com/feed You can also join our Facebook group: http://facebook.com/improv.everywhere Or follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/improvevery We have a DVD for sale! http://www.improveverywhere.com/dvd/

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WordPress SEO: How to 100% optimize your blog SEOHow To Make My Blog

Great Contents — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:02:09 +0000

Doing Wordpress SEO is not difficult, even Google says that WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms for search engines optimization. There is so much competition though so it is important to optimize your blog SEO to attract organic traffic from search engines.

WordPress SEO

I got an email about the new Scribe blog SEO software because I am user of the Thesis Theme. Scribe SEO was created by the same team as Thesis and I just had to check it out.

Scribe is basically a WordPress SEO plugin that helps work with the blog on-page search engine optimisation. Scribe sits in your blog post writing screen and allows you to analyse the blog SEO of the post by clicking the “Analyze” button.

Clicking Analyze brings up a pop-up screen which looks something like the screenshot above (analysis above is for the “What diet is your blog on” post):

I got a low grade of 51% for that post. Scribe looked at following things to decide the grade. The first tab is SEO Score:

Title

how many characters
how many words
does it contain primary keyword
does it contain primary key word at the beginning

Description

how many characters
does it contain primary keyword
does it contain primary key word towards the beginning

Body

how many words does the body contains
what is the keyword density of the primary keyword
how many hyperlinks are there in the post
how many hyperlinks at the beginning
what is the flesch reading score and level

Out of all these, it tells me which ones I am doing fine and which ones I have to fix. In this post the title doesn’t contain the keyword at the beginning, neither does the description, the keyword “blog” exceeds the maximum of keyword density, and there are no links at the beginning of the post. That is why I only got score 51%.

SEO Keyword Analysis

Second tab is Keyword Analysis which basically analyses primary and secondary keywords and phrases in your copy. It also lets you know what is the keyword density of each of the keywords.

Third tab is Change Keywords which tells you to use more of the keyword throughout the text if you want to make that keyword a primary one or use less of it if you want to make it a secondary keyword.

The Tag tab tells me the list of semantically relevant key phrases that I should use in the article.

SERP tab shows me how my listing will look in Google or in another search engine result page.

Blog SEO Best Practices

Last Tab is called SEO Best Practices. This is a text that gives me FAQ and a definition of terms used in the other tabs. It tells what the optimal length of the title, optimal length of the description and the body is, best practices around how many links per how many words, why the Flesch reading ease is important and so on. It tells how the score is calculated.

I analysed some of my best ranking articles and how to install WordPress post has a score of 65% and my best WordPress plugins post has a score of 87%! There is no “analyse all” button so I do not know which of my posts has the best score.

Scribe WordPress SEO plugin has been updated several times since I’ve been using it so it is good to know that it will be kept as current as the Thesis theme is.

All in all an interesting product that can help you take care of the generic on-page WordPress SEO and in the long run hopefully increase your search engine traffic.

It is important to note that on-page factors are only a small factor of the whole blog SEO so getting a lot of social media mentions, getting great links and having a keyword rich domain name are still the factors that will give you the most search engine success.

This post has been optimized to 100% for WordPress SEO and blog SEO according to Scribe so will be interesting to see how Google takes it.

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Great Contents — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:03:08 +0000

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45 Web Builders to Create an Insanely Awesome Free WebsiteGraphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials

Great Contents — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:20 +0000

Looking for a place to create a free website? There are plenty of resources that allow you to create you own website, blog, wiki, or social community without having to know any programming language. These free website creation sites allow you to easily create a site, customize the design, add content, and use a custom URL.

Take a look at 45 best web builders to create a free website.

Google Sites

Hey its Google and they are letting you create a free site….so do it. As usual, Google makes it extremely easy to build a free website with cool integration features like Google Docs, Google Calendar, and RSS.

Windows Live Spaces

Webs

Google Knol

Google Knol came out about 2 years ago and even though it has not gotten the same praise as Wikipedia, it is still a valuable resource that you should take advantage of. Free easy to create your own free knol and help position yourself as an industry leader.

Jimdo

Jimdo is a new free website builder that is very clean and easy to use. As you can see in the screen-shot you can create your own url and add text, photos, and custom design.

AngelFire

Edicy

Squidoo

One of my favorite places to create a free webpage is Squidoo. Not only do these pages tend to rank well in the search engines, but you can monetize them by adding amazon affiliate products and links, share easily through Facebook and Tweetmeme buttons and much more.

Yola

Tripod

Wetpaint

Wetpaint is the place to go to create your own free wiki in a matter of minutes. Similar to the other website builders out there, however like a wiki anyone can add, edit, and remove content from the page.

WikiSpaces

Blogsome

Weebly

Wix

I personally don’t have a lot of experience with Wix, but it seems like a very neat way to create free flash websites. They have separated themselves from the rest, since most of the free site builders only let you create html pages. Would love to hear from anyone that has used Wix.

Hubpages

Hubpages is very similar to Squidoo, in the fact that you can build free pages and they tend to rank very well in search engines. You can also make money by adding affiliate products, links and adsense in your hub. It has all of the cool features that you would need including adding images, videos, ratings and reviews, and the ability to comment.

Piczo

Webnode

Moonfruit

Let’s Eat

For anyone in the restaurant industry, Let’s Eat is for you. Let’s Eat lets you create your own restaurant website where you can add information about your restaurant, menu, hours, location, and more.

Sauropol

GoGoFrog

Launch Splash

Nexo

Roxer

Viviti

Ever

DevHub

SnapPages

SnapPages is the easy drag and drop website creation service. No need to know css to position your site!

350 WebStarts

BlinkWeb

Thoughts

ClutterMe

DoTemplate

ComfyPages

Moogo

GetShopped

Groupie Guide

Hyper Web Enable

Notanent

Blogetery

Blogster

Flooha

FreeWeb

We have tired our best to include all the great services which allows you to build free websites. Don’t forget to give your thoughts about the article via comments section or tweet us at @1stwebdesigner . We always love our readers feedback.

Moving towards v1.8Elgg News: All blog posts

Great Contents — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:27:58 +0000

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Great Contents — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:30:00 +0000

Google and PayPal to Support New Government Login SystemMashable!

Great Contents — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:00:11 +0000

Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is a newly founded non-profit organization, launched today at the RSA Conference 2010 by Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA and Booz Allen Hamilton. The aim of this new organization is exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors; in other words, it can certify online identity providers to U.S. federal standards.

OIX is not to be confused with OpenID, which is a standard that lets sites such as Google, Twitter or Facebook share the same login credentials. U.S. Government sites require a trust framework, a certification system that enables a party who accepts a digital identity credential to trust the identity, security and privacy policies of the party who issues the credential. OIX is the first Open Identity Trust Framework provider, enabling certified sites to share their login credentials with U.S. Government sites.

“OIX grew out of a public/private industry partnership initiated by the U.S. government at this conference last year. OpenID and Information Card technologies can solve the technical problem of using identity credentials across different websites, but can’t solve the problem of how those credentials can be trusted at different levels of assurance. OIX is a solution to this problem not just for the U.S. government, but for many different governments, industry alliances, non-profit associations, telcos, academic networks, and others all over the world who need to establish trust across a wide online population,” said Don Thibeau, OIDF Executive Director and OIX Board Chair.

Today, OIX has certified Google, PayPal and Equifax (with Verizon awaiting certification) to issue digital identity credentials that will be accepted for registration and login at U.S. government websites. Of course, this will be implemented gradually; the first site to accept OIX credentials for login is the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Read more about OIX at the official site.

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Tags: Equifax, Google, OIX, paypal, U.S. government

Standardized Venture Funding DocsA VC : Venture Capital and Technology

Great Contents — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:57:02 +0000

There was a lot of noise in VC/startup land earlier this week about the Series Seed documents that can be used to close a seed round. Marc Andreessen told PE Hub:

It’s like open source software. If it’s developed by IBM, there’s no reason for another company not to use it. The documents aren’t owned or controlled by Fenwick. Fenwick isn’t getting paid for them. I don’t think there’s a reason for another attorney not to use them, except if they’re concerned over reduced billings. Lawyers have a financial incentive to make things more complicated because they are paid more.

I'd like to differ with Marc on this one. First, as Brad Feld points out, there are now four sets of "open source" seed documents:

TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley)
Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR)
Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR)
Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West)

I will add a fifth of sorts; Gunderson has set up a "Simple Series A" set of forms that our firm has used a few times. I am not aware that they have been published on the Internet yet though.

There are no shortage of "standard forms" out there. TechStars uses one set. Y Combinator uses another. Founders Institute uses a third. Andreessen Horowitz uses a fourth. And USV and other firms uses a fifth.

The problem, as Brad Feld points out, is that nobody has done the work to get all the various players in the room and standardize on one form. Ted Wang showed me the Series Seed documents last year and while I am hugely supportive of his intent here, I can't and won't get behind the Series Seed forms because they leave out some critical stuff that we simply won't do a deal without.

I guess it's like open source software in that there are many flavors of it out there. One project might choose MongoDB for their project. Another might choose Cassandra. A third might choose Hadoop. All will get the job done and all are open source. But each one has its strengths and weaknesses and there is no standard. That's ok with me as long as everyone understands it.

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Great Contents — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:15:00 +0000