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Do I really Need to Hire a Social Media Consultant?
Yes you do. A successful social-media campaign integrates social media into the many elements of marketing, including advertising, digital and PR. Opinion and theory are no match for experience and the best social media marketers now have more than 1...
How to Linkbait the Forex Market
I’m speaking at an affiliate conference, a4uexpo London in October, so I took a closer look at the main sectors that affiliates like to play in. I have it down to seven hot sectors. Hot affiliate sectors Gaming Forex Travel Mobile comms Dating...
Who cares that you like Digg – Stumbleupon – Reddit – Delicious, best
It confuses me when people in my industry start talking about their personal preference when it comes to content tagging sites. Why get so excited about how much you like the colours on digg than reddit and other such nonsense. In my industry we deal...
James Caan from Dragons Den Casts a Magic Spell on SEO
ames Caan is best known for being one of the investors on the best thing on the telly at the moment, Dragons Den. Each week, knee trembling business people parade their money making ideas in front of a panel of people who make the Spanish Inquisition...
Where is Evan Carmichael?
So I got my monthly email from evancarmichael.com telling me I had posted no articles which had no ranking and was a big fat loser. evancarmichael.com is a online business site where invited people can write guest posts, I don’t know much about...
Seasonal SEO
If you want to rank for keyword groups around Garden centres or Christmas gifts, you need to take account of seasonal influences. But when should you plan to do your seo? Lets look at Google trends data for the keyword “garden center”. If...
Rob Kerry Speaks on Internet Liberalisation
I asked Rob for a quote regarding Internet Liberalisation as discussed over at Gandi, the ethical domain name provider. Most of the quotes went here, but I thought Robs’ was worthy of a post of his own. If you don’t know who Rob Kerry is ...
Link Building Humour
How many linkbaiters does it take to change a light bulb? 2, one to climb the step ladder to put the bulb in, the other to kick the ladder away, take a photograph and submit to digg reddit and stumbleupon....
How PR Should Not Build Relationships With Bloggers
McGrath worked at a PR agency and sent out the usual PR request to bloggers to generate a bit of buzz. One blogger, Borsch, got pissed and sent a not too happy email back. McGrath acted like a decent human being and apologised and asked how he should...
What is Social Media :Part 3
This is an unplanned and off the cuff series I am doing regarding Social Media and its definition, which is still in a state of flux. Part 1 and 2 It’s all about the conversation. Not the product, not the service, and certainly not how wonderfu...
How to Get More Followers on Twitter
Easy, get a mention in the Sunday Times. Just like Nikki Pilkington did. People get to know you exist. People think you know what you are talking about People talk about you People link to you People pass around your Twitter profile Just like ...
What is social media?
Simply; It is a form of communication. It’s important to think of it in such fundemental, simple terms. Because, when we do this, new ideas and thoughts emerge. So when a client tells me, “why should I use social media?”. My answer ...
SEO Job
So how do you get a job in the SEO space? Do you speak to one of the “digital services” recruitment agencies? Digital services? I hate the term digital services, it’s SEO or SEM or even online marketing. The limited experience of r...
Coffee Shop Marketing Thinking
Creating conversation can be more linkable than pure content. Starting an exchange of ideas within your niche can be more illuminating than simply publishing what you think, although to start the conversation you may have to publish what you think. T...
Finding the Most Popular Blog Posts
Been messing around with aiderss.com It looks at a number of variables and tries to sort out the best posts from a blog. I have applied it to the digg monster cracked.com. It’s very useful for picking out headline ideas. new AideWidget('...
Fresh Linkbaiters Delivered to your Door Daily
I try really hard to say no to any client linkbait requests these days, I do the odd one here and there. But I am so busy with other projects it’s difficult to give a client the time needed. I now have a solution. If you need some great linkbai...
Ed Dale Mankini
This is an seo test, nothing to get that excited about, unless you find seo tests exciting. Ed Dale Mankini , is a search term that is being tested by Ed Dale and his gang over at 30 Day Challenge. What’s interesting is they are targeting a lot...
What is Linkbait
Red Evo made a comment on a guest post I wrote for Searchenginepeople.com. I ask what would you call linkbait if you couldn’t call it linkbait, his reply was “good content”. No. Linkbait is not good content. Linkbait is exceptional ...
Conversion Rate Experts Launch New Blog
Turning clicks into customers I usually don’t mention when a site gets a redesign, but this is a little different. I first blogged about Conversion Rate Experts, aka Ben and Karl way back in 2006. I could see then that these guys were special. ...
How to get a Snapshot of what is happening in Social Bookmarking Sites
The following is a cut down version of what you can see on linkbait coaching, where I help people develop content intended to get a nice dolop of links, sometimes using social media. Yes, I know you can’t really see what is on the screen and ...
Do you Plurk
I am now Plurking at Plurk, it’s a purdy, Twitter type, Web 2.0, chat to people, type thing which you will get bored with after a few months. If you ask, what’s the point. Then the answer would be very little. However, if you get why incr...
Asked to Speak at SEO Class
Jim Boykin has asked me to speak at SEO class in Edinburgh on June 23rd and 24th. In attendance will be Ammon Johns, Barry Lloyd, Brian Turner, Shaun Anderson and of course, the man himself Jim Boykin. I am absolutely chuffed and humbled to be asked...
SEO Wordpress Titles
I hate Wordpress. Being a lazy man I would rather be laying on the beach reading back issues of 2000AD, than re-inserting code into a freshly updated Wordpress blog. So I installed the seo title plugin It enables you to remove the defined blog title ...
Poker Tournament For Linkbaiters and SEO Now Open
I have now opened tonights poker game for registration. Anytime between now and 8pm UK time, go to pokerroom.com find the tournaments, navigate to private, click “lyndoman’s No Limit Texas hold em then register. Cost you $22, which is onl...
Dude, Where’s the Mental post gone?
After discussing it with a number of trusted colleagues I have taken the step of putting the “Mental Linkbait” behind closed doors. I had thought discussing tactics in an open way was a good thing but it seems I am giving too much away an...
UK Linkbaiters Poker Tournament
I’m putting together an online poker night for linkbaiters, seo’s and other reprobates. I’m planning it for next tuesday evening, 20th May, not set on a time yet as I will welcome feedback, but I’m thinking around 8pm. Going t...
