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I saw this video the other day called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) – pretty cool, it’s educational and fun :)

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This is an excellent example of how to create a viral video. It was posted March 20, 2008 and it already has 84,071 views. He also has some more [...]

Checking in on my top commentators is kind of regular thing and I don’t want to stop it (not yet anyways…). So in the spirit of “better late than never” here are a few posts from August’s most expressive readers:
Etienne has an interesting list covering the recent Google PageRank shakeup. A few A-list bloggers saw [...]

You might remember that a few posts ago I picked the winner in the Technorati Top 100 contest. Well, one of the prizes was a review on this blog and I finally finished the review :)
The site I was asked to review is Royal Tours Africa dot Com. I’m going to go over some SEO, [...]

I like it when people comment on my blog. When people leave comments on blog posts I’m much more motivated to write more posts. It’s also great to get feedback from readers so you know if you’re doing something right. That’s why I think it’s important to give something back to those that keep this [...]

A few weeks ago this blog made it into the Technorati Top 100 and it has stayed there thanks to people continuing to add my blog as a favorite in Technorati. I’ve even climbed up a few places (but gone down again). Well, as always, I’ve been monitoring my web stats and I’ve noticed some [...]

After ignoring Text Link Ads for quite some time I finally decided to give them a try a few months ago. One of the reasons I hadn’t tried them before was because of the controversy about buying/selling links on websites. For example, Google doesn’t particularly like when people buy links on high PageRank webpages to [...]

I was just checking out Technorati’s Top 100 Most Favorited list (maybe Top 99 is more appropriate because now they’re only showing the top 99 blogs, anyways…) and I finally saw my blog there :) I’m #99 because 213 members have made this blog a favorite – I want to thank all those people for [...]

Blog memes are pretty cool – I think the viral aspect of them is quite interesting. It looks like Collis over at North X East has tagged me in a meme started by The Paper Bull called “If I Could Only Read 5 blogs”.
That’s a hard one… I subscribe to a few dozen blogs and [...]

Soon after launching this blog I applied to ReviewMe. But it looks like they mainly look at the PageRank when deciding what blogs get accepted – so blogs that don’t have any public PageRank yet don’t get in. With the recent PageRank update that shows this blog having PR4 I was sure I would get [...]

I’m very interested in viral marketing. It’s just fascinating to see what gets picked up and becomes viral and watching how it grows. You can learn a lot by watching successful viral campaigns, reverse engineering them and trying to figure out what made them viral. One viral campaign that I think went pretty well is [...]