Comments on: What’s all this buzz about social buzz?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:06:30 +0000

I have been a member of SEO 20 20 since almost it started and have learned so much about SMM from you Charles. You continue to inspire my business ventures and one of the things that stands out is you walk you talk. I am looking forward to see the Synnd system and suspect it will be a great value to our company. Thx Charles

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:49:48 +0000

We just incorporated this into our web site at planetberries.com. The ability to automate the social connectivity to each page of our web site and blogs within has been tremendous. We are now closing in on 1000 unique visitors a day. This is up from 120 this time last year. I think the links provided to the major networks has been huge.

By: OrganicGuy

OrganicGuy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:26:13 +0000

Charles,

Insightful, as usual. I see an increased use of secondary parties to create this buzz, however…. reps, hired blog and forum posters are increasing in number. One can’t get around the sheer time factor required to create this buzz….perhaps a challenge for smaller online companies.

By: Adam Taha

Adam Taha — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:25:07 +0000

@hey Charles, thanks mate. Yeah, I keep writing but gotta sort out my blog out then it’s on my rules hahahaha. But can’t help coming back here cause you got some awesome knowledge dude.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:07:16 +0000

This just keeps getting better and better. We launched our site in May 2007 and have seen our pages (now over 500) build and build. We have seen PR’s as high as 4 and seem to have the majority in the PR 2 stage. Every six months we see a shake up or two but our Visits/Unique Visitors is climbing very well month over month.

By: Charles Heflin

Charles Heflin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:06:28 +0000

@Adam Taha - Great to see you here… thanks for the comments.

Great article you did @ BetterNetworker.com BTW

By: Charles Heflin

Charles Heflin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:03:19 +0000

Hey Ferny,

Thanks for reaffirming what we have found on our end… SEO 2.0 is on the scene big time and it is surprising that not too many people are talking about it… yet.

By: Charles Heflin

Charles Heflin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:01:43 +0000

@Davin - We really don’t know who Google is watching it is all based on circumstantial evidence but I am sure they are watching many more networks than the ones I listed or the ones they give us clues about.

By: Charles Heflin

Charles Heflin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:00:22 +0000

@Anna - bingo! … that’s what this post is all about… do unto others and have the same done for you… Then seek to strengthen the bond you have with the people that share your content and build a group of people whose mission is to syndicate each others’ good content.

By: Charles Heflin

Charles Heflin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:58:05 +0000

@Kevin Puls

Congrats on the rank increase… I would suggest using compete.com as a more accurate gauge once your domain is listed there.

Thanks for sharing your results so far.

By: Charles Heflin

Charles Heflin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:57:09 +0000

Hi Dana,

I am one of the owners of SEO20/20 so the program is mine. I employ a full time staff to aid with the project and there are many members that are there to help as well.

Let me know if you have any questions about it.

Thanks,

Charles

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:43:55 +0000

Has anyone used that program that Charles is reccomending or are you using it Charles? http://members.seo2020.com/
Do you have a phone number for them?

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:39:55 +0000

I would like to know a system to all this social networking.I am attracting really great leads to my site and they love it. I have signed up with a hand full of social sites. It is fun but can be way too time consuming. I seem to get lost in it. Anyone have a set strategy that you would be willing to share?

By: Adam Taha

Adam Taha — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:55:29 +0000

Great content. I have to be careful with linking because it has to be quality. Someone wanted to back link after hearing the site I am launching Charles, the thing is, it was just not relevant for what I am doing. Plus, not relavant for community I am building.

Digg is great place I had to admit, but sometimes, it’s like a maze of junk information and you can get lost. I do feel, Google, is going to really tighten as time goes by, that it may even reduce the list you showed on the video. Digg though is at moment quiet good but I believe, when someone has planned a strategy, through out, applied, it works.

Regarding Hwa Rang Do etc, then I had a feeling you guys behind it ferny, for the reason following:

1. it is been very smartly promoted using story line first in betternetworker.com. Raymond cleverly uses “Zig Ziglar’s” name as the title and introduces it as a story of mentorship etc. Then bangs a link at bottom of signature. Very good article by the way.

2. I’ve also seen it in other blog, And in Raymonds blog kind of page.

3. Youtube and the way the video showed diverse styles and you got to give it for the master, he is very good at what he does. I mean, he is the DON in Martials arts in his field. No one can argue this even in any Martial Arts field. You can’t really lose with Martial Arts. It’s big and especially in times we live. Espcially in..USA.

Anyway, great article Charles, some good tips there for people who go think deeper into this.

By: Ferny Ceballos

Ferny Ceballos — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:02:50 +0000

Hey Charles, It’s funny because I just had a training call with Ben Settle on this exact subject. Social buzz is definitely a factor in ranking social media content as well as the sites it links to, even if the network uses no follow.

We’ve been able to accidentally SEO a squeeze page in the martial arts industry (completemartialart.com), with 90% of the links (~400 links) coming into it being from YouTube and MetaCafe links from videos that have gone viral.

These are just what our results have produced and there may be other factors, but it seems as if Google takes the popularity of a certain piece of content and may choose to override the “no follow’ and pass page rank to the sites the content links to.

We’ve been able to rank on the top 10 for:
martial arts los angeles
martial arts in los angeles
comprehensive martial art (#1)
complete martial art (#1)
among others…

We’ve implemented no other link strategies, and the website in question was a simle capture page when it was awarded a PR4, in under a year. (We’ve since added other pages, but it’s by no means a content rich site. It most used to capture leads. It did drop to PR3 after we added the pages, but the Google rankings improved.)

Maybe you can see if there were other factors, but I’ve double checked the links on Yahoo Site Explorer, and we’ve done no other SEO other than linking from YouTube & Meta Cafe.

Note the videos have also been copied to other video sharing sites (virally) so that might also be a factor… not too often tho’.

Any ideas or thoughts? I definitely think the popularity of the videos played a factor (www.youtube.com/wchwarangdo)