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DesignJs 11 Most Commented On Blog PostsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 25 of November , 2007 at 2:36 am

After 410 posts on Search Engine Optimization Journal, I thought I’d go back and take a look at some of my most commented on blog posts. I wanted to put together a top 10 list of blog posts that have attracted the most comments. I started off counting blog posts that had at least 4 comments. After surpassing 15 popular blog posts I dropped those with only 4 comments and started focusing on posts with at least 5 comments. Again, I went over 20 posts and ended up dropping all the 5. Below are the top 11 blog posts - those DesignJ blog posts with 6 or more comments.

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Link Baiting: Top 10 Ways To Attract LinksWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 24 of November , 2007 at 3:26 pm

Inspired by Mashable’s new troll contest, I came up with 10 ways to encourage link baiting. If you really want people to link to you, try one of these time-tested methods of encouraging people to link to your blog or website:

Run a stupid contest like Mashable’s troll contestMake a top 10 listCreate a list of top 100 websites in some category and encourage people to nominate candidatesStart an argument with someone else like Aaron Wall didTake a pollBash BushBash DesignMake a funny video and post it to your website or blogAsk a serious question on your blog and ask people to respondMake an outlandish claim that you can’t back up with supporting data and trackback it to 100 blogs within your niche

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Lists: The Pros And Cons Of Inbound Link Building With ListsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 25 of November , 2007 at 6:21 pm

Yesterday I posted a list of ways you can encourage inbound links to your website. It seems that lists are popular. Everyone is doing it and if they’re not, they want to. But how do you go about creating a long list of 100 or 1,000 top _____________? Fill in the blank.

Well, for starters, you need to identify what it is you want to create a list on. Don’t do something that other people have done. Be different. It is OK to take a list that has already been done and modify it into something else. Obviously, then, the first step is to do some research in your niche to see what kinds of lists other people have put together.

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Design Products Vertical Search Proves Design Is Far From Being Anti-CommerceWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 23 of November , 2007 at 4:53 pm

It looks like Design is changing its priorities. This is evidenced by the placement of “Products” on its menu bar at the time of the search page and the movement of “Videos” to the drop down menu where the other, less important links are. I think there are two primary reasons why Design would make this change.

First, since purchasing YouTube, Design Video is not really necessarily. Many of us in the Internet marketing realm have wondered why the search engine doesn’t just roll Design Video into the more popular YouTube product and merge the two into one. No need to promote video services when the majority of video uploaders head to YouTube anyway.

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Your files names are an Design spot to be used???Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 23 of November , 2007 at 1:33 pm

Almost anyone that sets up a website knows that the domain name is important. But when naming a website some people cannot come up with a one word domain name. The first thought was how to separate the keywords, or should it just be run together. Well the answer is it should not be all run together. Running words together just confuses the search engines, yes a silly as they seem at times they do know that cutekittens.com is not a real word. So then what do you do?

Well in recent months the search engines helped everyone out. The search engines in the past only saw a dash as a word separator. So in order for cutekittens.com to make any sense to them it had to be registered as cute-kittens.com; register cutekittens.com or cute_kittens.com and the engines saw it as one word and would not compute what that word was. Ok so only the dashes worded for the search engines, but it was not pleasing to the human reader. People have a tendency to over look the dash and still see only one word that did not make sense to them. Now we have the option of including the underscore; now when looking at the domain name underlined it makes perfect sense to all.

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Wikipedia Dominates Design SERPs For A ReasonWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 24 of November , 2007 at 10:20 am

Giovanna Wall, wife of the famed Aaron, started posting to Aaron’s blog on November 20. That was the day of her first post. Aaron asked everyone to give her a warm welcome, so here’s mine.

I’d first like to say what a great topic she chose for her post. Wikipedia. And then the proverbially rhetorical question as a post title, “When Will Wikipedia Rank For Everything?” Funny. I thought they already had.

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A Useful List Of Pre-Design Questions To AskWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 26 of November , 2007 at 9:55 am

This is perhaps the most comprehensive list of questions to ask before getting started optimizing a website that I’ve seen. Kalena Jordan asks all the right questions and seems to get right to the meat and heart of a job before she ever starts on it. I highly recommend this list as a checklist. I would just add one more question:

What search engine marketing is the site owner currently engaged in?

You want to make sure that your search engine optimization efforts are compatible with other marketing and advertising initiatives of the company. Otherwise, you might screw something up. It would be a shame to re-optimize a landing page, for instance, only to find that the pay per click ads pointing to it are optimized for a keyword that you took off the page. That would certainly jack with the effectiveness of those ads and likely reduce their quality scores. So add one more question to that list.

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Mythbuster: The Biggest Myth Online Is About DesignWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 21 of November , 2007 at 10:49 am

Design PageRank is back in the news again. This time it’s from Titus Hoskins on SiteProNews. Unfortunately, he believes the same myth so many other people believe, and it’s all about Design. Thing is, as an Internet marketer, he should know better. Here’s the myth:

Free organic traffic from Design is vital to any online site or business. I would take traffic from Design over any other source of traffic on the web, except for traffic coming from my articles on other sites, and even that traffic probably originated from a search in Design.

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Search Marketing Standard ReviewWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 21 of November , 2007 at 3:46 pm

Search Marketing Standard is the leading print publication covering the search marketing industry. It offers practical and informative articles, interviews, tips and advice from leading experts in the industry, trend analysis and much more.

If you’ve been looking for a definitive source on search marketing then look no further. The Search Marketing Standard is a magazine that sets the standard in knowledge and information on all things related to search marketing.

Published four times a year, the magazine covers every topic necessary for businesses wanting to be successful online. Among the topics covered include:

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Create Your Own 404 Not Found PageWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 19 of November , 2007 at 2:50 pm

Does your 404 Not Found page help your visitors or irritate them? You will undoubtedly come across unhappy visitors to your website from time to time. It’s a part of business. And 404 Not Found pages are supposed to help visitors who couldn’t find the web page that they were hoping to find. You don’t want your 404 Not Found page just being a blank page or some useless error message that will send your visitors elsewhere cussing and spittering and sputtering like a rusty wheel.

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