Comments on: 7 Secrets You MUST Know To Give Your Blog The Edge

By: SEO Junkies

SEO Junkies — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:31:34 +0000

‘Practice what you preach’, an old adage that clearly reflects in every sentence in your post. What I truly admire is that though I’ve read loads on effective blogging, none goes close to this in terms of simple and applicable blogging suggestions. Also from your post to the comments, I know throughout my experience here that I am dealing with a human and not with a computer, the personal touch is impeccable and if this post can draw so much attention from us bloggers then well there is no better way to prove the ingenuity of the suggested tips.

By: Logo Reviews

Logo Reviews — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:13:29 +0000

You are really humble Jacob. That very clearly shows in your approach, from sharing the link love to holding contests. Everything counts!

Thank you friend.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:13:00 +0000

You are big! Your tips are the key for the golden blog! And the greatest thing that i’ve read here is that, unique content, with our own ideas and opinions that belong to us , is the most important thing to do in blogging. I wish you big succes!

By: Nick Hudson

Nick Hudson — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:10:02 +0000

Thanks for this post, it was really helpful in giving me things to consider for the design of my blog (still in progress). I like how you added an extra tip in there, pretty clever.

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By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:00:59 +0000

The only ones I would bother to keep are ones I know are famous, if not for the SEO at least for the street cred. Which is why I’m bummed I deleted my SmashingMag tweet .

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:39:07 +0000

PS. Re the Twitter feedback, most of them go in my spam box so I just leave them there. If you figure out if they are good or bad for SEO, please do let me know!

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:37:53 +0000

Douglas, there is no real difference between retweet or tweet.

Tweet simply means to send a message. Retweet means the same but you are RE tweeting it, ie. someone has already tweeted it so you are passing it along. That’s my understanding anyway.

By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:08:12 +0000

Woops…I was going to ask you about retweet as opposed to tweet. The Share This only does tweets, which in my limited grasp of tweeting at the moment, appear to be different that retweets. Or is that not the case? For instance, I read today that retweets can cause old posts to take on new life occasionally. But perhaps there is no difference between tweet and retweet and I’m thinking too hard about it…

By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:04:47 +0000

Hey Jacob: You aren’t supposed to ask me what I mean by by trackbacks or pingbacks I’m not sure what the difference is. The way my WordPress is set up, I have to approve whatever you call them – pingbacks, trackbacks, tweet notifications – one at a time. Yes, a lot of them are lame scraper sites and lame spam comments. I see you have the trackbacks approved, but I don’t see any of the “this post was twitted by” I see a lot of in my comment inbox. I delete all except if a tweeter happens to be a tad famous. I deleted my Smashing Magazine one by mistake but I’m not sure if that really matters for SEO…it probably did though.

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:27:44 +0000

Douglas,
I was using retweets but I opted for a cleaner look with the Share button which has Twitter as an option. As for the trackbacks most of them are automatic, I try not to get spam / scrapper sites into the trackbacks but it is inevitable. What do you mean about approving tweets?

By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:07:06 +0000

Two questions for you…I though you were using retweets there for a while. Why did you take that down? Second question is about pingbacks and trackbacks. You approve of all the trackbacks but not the tweets. What about pingbacks? Should we or should we not? I hear all kinds of things, but your ranking seems to suggest approving at least trackbacks doesn’t cause damage…

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Lawrence Anderson — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:26:20 +0000

Awesome article Jacob. I bookmarked this one to help me with my new blog

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By: Andrew Conlan

Andrew Conlan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:38:16 +0000

Haha like the fact you gave 8 rather than seven nice touch, I’ll have to start doing that

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Ralph — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:44:07 +0000

Some aspects are great for me to think about my own blog-concept. Ralph

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venkat — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:13:10 +0000

All are very useful tips,all have to accept the fact that content is the king,keep writing Google will find you.

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