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Well, I took some time and went through the course this morning, thinking I might pick up something I didn’t already know. However, it is Simpleology and it’s geared to new bloggers, and it’s an awesome step-by-step guide for starting and maintaining a blog, getting traffic, and more.
Yet, there is something in the course I disagree with.
Mark says to write an article and put it on your blog and to also put it into article directories. NO! That’s dupe content, and you won’t gather any search engine goodness from it. Rewrite that article first, and then, post it to directories. That way, you’re getting search engine advantage, and you’re getting article directory advantage, as well.
Then, there’s the idea that you should submit your blog to search engines. Waste of time. Search engine spiders find your stuff before the search engine ever gets to your submission. I mean, it doesn’t hurt to do this, but there are things that are much more time efficient.
Mark also says to get paid links for your blog. If you’ve been reading here for a while or know anything about SEO, you’ll know that Google cracked down on paid linking a couple of months ago. They don’t like paid linking because the company views it as artificial manipulation of the search engine results. Yes, I have a paid link, but feel a loyalty to an advertiser who has been with me for a long time. I won’t drop it just for Google, but…
If you’re interested in search engine ranking, don’t use paid links. I lost a whole page rank because I have a puny little link, and some of the major bloggers lost more than one page rank because of it. It’s up to you, but paid linking isn’t smart when it comes to SEO. To give this course the benefit of the doubt, it could have been in production while the whole mess with Google was happening.
Yet these flaws are minor. The course is solid and in the spirit of Simpleology, totally awesome for people who know nothing about blogging. I recommend it highly.
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December 21st, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Hi Pat,
I went through Mark’s course as well today. Yes it is very basic information and some of it not very accurate as you have pointed out.
I feel that your Blogging4Boomers is a much better investment of time and energy. (shameless plug)
You show in your videos step-by-step how to set up your blog to benefit the most and get the SEO done the right way.
Your blog and knowledge are a great guide to blogging and SEO and I recommend anyone that is looking to get blogging, get on your feed and your membership.
Have a Very Merry Christmas!
Charles
January 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
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February 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Pat,
Right on target. I’m very familiar with Simpleology and there is some good stuff in there. However, Pat is right about the duplicate content and the search engine suggestions. Actually recently I had a page from one of my blogs I wrote showing up on the first page of Google an hour after I wrote it. Basically by pinging it through ipings.com. So this proves you don’t need to submit it to google, etc.
As far as the articles and duplicate content you want some good software for spinning articles, however don’t use one that simply rewrites the multiple versions for you. Otherwise you will get unreadable crap. You need to also write additional paragraphs - content in your article to feed into the spinner to create additional versions. You can check them for uniqueness at dupecop.com.
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Hey Nick,
Right on! And I use DupeCop every day. I actually bought the paid version so that I could compare more than 4 articles at a time. Works great!
Thanks for the comment.
Pat