Search Engine Optimization For The Curious Newbie!
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David Wallace of SearchRank shares a bit of his experiences of social media parenthood. (And potentially tomorrows little social media expert, his oldest daughter) 
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“As you become increasingly active in social media, you will find a wide variety of competitiveness across the board. Some want to be regarded as A-list bloggers, to reach a top status on social bookmarking sites, and to have the most number of friends on Facebook. While some can maintain genuine relationships with people, others see them as part of their massive network. Competition is usually healthy, depending on the amount of competitiveness involved.”
Read more The 5 Levels of Competitiveness in Social Media | SOCIAL IMPRESSIONS
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1. Choose only one keyword to center your content around
2. Your title is as important as your content
3. Plan your content out
4. Create a hook
5. Revise your piece!
“If you’re tired of the avatar-scene and are looking for a long-term commitment, perhaps it’s time to settle down with a single avatar. Or if you feel your avatar is going nowhere - maybe it’s time to break up.”
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“Message boards haven’t changed in almost 25 years. There simply hasn’t been any real innovation - and that’s why there’s so much “real” social media out there that’s exploding right now. The stuff is so radically different from traditional mediums such as forums that everyone is missing the core of what social media is: community engagement and interaction”
So here are suggestions to improve things…
Read more Forums Are Social: But We Need Stuff | Eric Martindale
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His intent was to give us some tell tale signs of how to separate the experts from all the others.
One of the lines that stuck out like a sore thumb was when he said,
“There’s an old saying in personal-development and even in business…fake it until you make it. And, there are times where that’s appropriate.Problem is, there are other times where the substantial volume of direct, indirect and social proof strongly contradict your claims, undermine your credibility and, rather than bolstering your authority and appeal, make you look downright silly and untrustworthy. They reveal you as a fake.”
Hmmm..Fake it til you make it, doesn’ t have to mean you are a liar, a cheat, or otherwise deceitful. If this is true..well, you’re not faking it. You just ARE.
His further suggestions on how to note the success vs failure of the blogosphere is somewhat misguided. Especially considering the still yet evolving avenues that social media has begun.
True, what he suggests can be useful to some degree, but he overlooked quite a bit as times are changing.
For example, in addiction recovery environments, the ‘fake it til you make it‘ motto is meant to be an an admonishment that healthy habits can become second nature if they keep on keeping on. This motto is a tool that enables one to discard old habits and inhibitions until the ‘expert’ can step in and show it’s true colors.
Unfamiliar territory to them? Yes. Impossible, irrelevant, unsuccessful, or invalid? No.
Once this thought process is put into action, it is not only possible to overcome challenges that once evaded them, but also creates a platform for mastery and innovation in whatever they chose to build upon.
This new second skin allows one to grow in confidence, build upon their observations, and expand upon various concepts that once kept them tightly bound to ‘box’ thinking. Many are experts and innovators of skills and talents, yet were unable to express them until they developed through the ‘fake it til you make it’ motto.
A lot like an addict exchanging unhealthy habits for productive ones, so is the way of the ‘expert’ blogger. Once they remove old rituals and begin restructuring their routines, their confidence becomes apparent and they begin to run with it. In fact, they are also most likely not only to excel, but have a tendency to exceed expectations. They know they have to prove themselves and seem to thrive on making up for lost time.
Don’t believe me? Ask Aaron Wall. (SEO Book) He can tell you all about overcoming obstacles and running with it. He also didn’t begin the journey of proving himself at the top of the stats, in thousands of RSS feed readers, having immediate high traffic results, and all that jazz.
An expert doesn’t begin with the expert label. Simple analytics don’t always provide proof of who knows what or who’s who. How we observe and our abilities to expand on what we observe is proof of expertise.
A name is a name. A blog is a blog. 5 paragraphs of crap content from an ‘experts’ blog equals the same 5 paragraphs of crap content on a beginners blog. (as you stick around, you’ll see plenty of crap coming from both directions.) But it’s also only fair to say that each side can offer expertise. One of the first thing in SEO that even an expert will tell you is that organic SEO takes time to show results in the search engines. Does this mean that they are not doing an expert job? No. It means that it’s just the natural flow of things.
It is the same with blogging in any niche.
There are plenty of terrific foods I’ve only just begun to experiment with. Some of them are foreign dishes that I had never heard of. Nevertheless, they are still terrific.
There are no real ‘experts’ in this ever evolving generation of social media strategies. Social Media is still very new.
We observe as it occurs, we take notes, and we flow from there. Don’t let anyone fool you, we are all still upgrading.
If you are new to blogging and are fearful of how others may respond to you, hang on tight, follow those who are tasting the blogosphere as if it were their first meal and are willing to share, grow and expand. And by all means..
Fake it til you make it.
Side note: I found this when I was looking for an image to use. I thought you might like it as much as I do..
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“A mentality that, and we’ve all experienced this first hand, of something bigger and better, something worth much more than money, where money may actually be the by-product of the system.”
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“There’s a lot that you have to overcome in karaoke, just as you do in blogging. You have to be able to take the criticism with the applause. You need to realize and know what works and what doesn’t (honestly, I really just can’t do rap!), and there’s likely a few other thousand minute things that can compare blogging with karaoke.” says Li
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“The goal of this post is precisely to present how you could build a large and engaged audience by developing different distribution channels.
Those channels will be presented as the following:
1. The blog community channels
2. The authority based channels
3. The social media channels
4. The search based channels
5. The advertisement channels
6. The offline channels”
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