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My 10 Most Popular Blog Posts

James Harrison — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:53:03 +0000

While dissecting my blog, analyzing the stats of individual posts and prioritizing my pages, I was able to come up with my most popular posts based on a variety of factors ranging from total inlinks, comments, retweets, search engine rankings, PR and more.

So for my new followers who don’t know my SEO blog, here is a list of my 10 most popular blog posts.

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YouTube “Laundry List” – 20+ Video Promotion Tips

James Harrison — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:16:29 +0000

Not too long ago, I published 15 Video Bookmarketing Sites Worth an SEO’s Time. I pretty much explained which video sites to upload your videos to, which in return could add SEO value to your website and traffic sources.

But, let’s get one thing clear now. That list was just a filtered SEO lover’s list from 100’s of video networking sites. Just uploading your videos is far from enough. For some of these sites, doing 1 or 2 specific things is required to get the most of SEO, while others may require full social networking. I could provide you with various tips for all video networking sites, but this post is a laundry list of things you can do with your videos uploaded to YouTube. Because face it, we want not only the SEO benefits of social video bookmarking, we more than anything want these videos to be seen by all our potential customers directing them to our call to actions.

YouTube Marketing, SEO & Promotional Tips

Basic Keyword Video SEO – Make sure you’ve researched your industry and know your target key phrases. If your video is relevant to these phrases, those keywords should be naturally titling & describing your video. Basically, make sure your target keywords are the subject of your titles and descriptions.

Tagging Your Video – Tags should match your target keywords, what your website is relevant to, and which ever are the most suggested or homepage popular tags.

URL in Description – 1st thing in the description should be your landing page URL, for this is the only way to get a link on all formats of your video page. It’s not followed (funny, Google-owned & not followed), so it’s just good for the actual function of a hyperlink.

Annotations – Make sure you add some comments during the video here and there to remind your viewers to click –>that link.

Make Friends – A oldie, but goodie. You have to make friends. Lots of them. But they should be relevant too. Search your keyword topic in YouTube and make friends with every user that posted a video on your topic (for all keywords). Ask other YouTube users with a lot of friends to introduce you or to “favorite” a video of yours on their channel.

Subscribe - Subscribe to relevant users’ channels and comment that your did. (along with some buttering up)

Comment on Channels – Comment something nice on a users channel and leave a link to your latest upload.

Comment on Videos – All videos that show up for your keyword searches in YouTube should have a comment with the link to your related video.

Video Responses – Respond to all related videos with a response. Maybe even comment something nice on user’s profile.

Share Options – Use any you have accounts in. (i.e. Digg, Bebo, Orkut)

Facebook Status – Add new statuses every once in a while to your Facebook saying “uploading video to YouTube now”, “glamorizing my YouTube channel”, “surfing YouTube. We friends?”, etc.

Facebook Buddies – PM all of your best friends and ask them to post your video on their Facebook page and share it with others.

Did you tweet about it? – You can either add your unique YouTube url to you Twitter profile, make Facebook status-like video comments, share each and every video in the “Share” options, and/or ask friends to tweet or Retweet it.

Embed Video on Your Website - Embed the video on the homepage or any other important page of your site. Or, blog about it (assuming your blog has been submitted to all RSS feeds & blog directories).

LinkedIN Connect – You could link Linkedin, YouTube & Facebook together.

Email Link to All Friends - If you have friends, colleagues or anyone that could possibly visit your video or could o send the video to others, USE THEM!

Email Lists & Newsletters – Buy targeted email lists or ask editors of periodic newsletters to feature your site next time around.

Email Relevant Authorities – Compose a list of webmasters’ emails in your industry and utilize the YouTube email video option with a little nice note praising them.

Groups & Forums - Every social network, forum, wiki and resourceful site should contain links to videos that are relevant. Spread the word. Show up where the content of your video is mentioned. Comment a link, post a listing, email the webmaster, and/or embed them in all appropriate places.

Pay for Advertising on YouTube - Done it a couple times. VERY worth it if your video is VERY GOOD.

Video Distributors – TubeMogul.com, TrafficGeyers.com, SEObytheHour.com, RampDigital.com, Blip.tv.

Network of Bloggers & Posters - Try to build a list of websites and bloggers that you can count on to embed any video you produce. This can go a long way, depending on who’s hosting the videos.

WOM -Word-of-Mouth – Still and will always be effective. Tell people, brag about it, whatever. womma.org

Yoube Resources – Why not utilize all the free resources offered by a company that has invested millions (if not billions) into creating them for you?

Tricks for other video networks coming soon. . .

New York Giants Twackle Feed (Twitter)

James Harrison — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:37:32 +0000

But don’t forget that I love the New York Giants too!

My Twitter | My Twackle

San Diego Chargers Twackle Feed (Twitter)

James Harrison — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:20:49 +0000

Thought I’d share with y’all the sports bar of Twitter. Being a San Diego native, I had to represent..

You can follow my original JameSEO Twitter account here or my Twackle account here.

Visit your team’s page and get at me on Twitter or Twackle.

Becoming a Social Marketing Link Building Expert & My Dog

James Harrison — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:45:18 +0000

Define:Expert

Expert:

adept: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; “adept in handicrafts”; “an adept juggler”; “an expert job”; “a good mechanic”; “a …
a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
technical: of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood; “technical terminology”; “a technical report”; “technical language”

Combining my SEO Link Building Expert skills with social media, RSS, wordpress & Twitter. Trying to take social SEO to the next level.

Testing something with delicious, friendfeed and posterous. So far, so good. I’m posting this all from my gmail (picture too). Soon, I’ll write about the results and how it can help you with your link building.

Attached is my Dog with a Bone

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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15 Video Bookmarking/Networking Sites Worth An SEO’s Time

James Harrison — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:09:51 +0000

Here is a list of all the video networks worth an SEO’s time. Not only because some may offer followed links, but because of their popularity, ability to be viral and their chances on the search engines. The followed backlinks are just bonuses from some of the networks.

To make it to this list, the social video site had to either;

provide a followed backlink somewhere in the profile or video description
tends to get pulled by scraper (or copycat) sites and get reproduced containing your link which sometimes can be followed
is in the top 100,000 most trafficked websites according to Alexa
provides a profile with username (keyword) in the URL and a link (followed or no-followed) on that same page.
has the ability to be linked with other major networks like Twitter, StumbleUpon, Youtube, MySpace, Etc.

The goal is to submit your video to as few places as possible and still produce the same reach. Of course we must remember other factors like video channel reputation, total videos submitted, group involvement, total friends, etc.

Anyway, here are my 15 most favorite Social Video bookmarking sites on the net.

Ones I purposely forgot: AOL Video, MSN Video, Flixa, Flickr Video, MySpace Video, Video Bomb.
So, there you have it; my favorite video networking sites.

A few more video networking and SEO tips..

Manually submitting to these in combination with traffic geyser can work wonders.
Bookmarking your videos in social networks can extend the life of your videos.
Make a ton of related friends.
Comment on a lot of relevant videos and upload as many videos as you can.
Try to get internal linking to work in your favor (PR & Relevance).
But don’t spend too much time in these networks (unless video is you best lead generator). I know it can be addicting. But there’s still thousands of other things we need to do, as far as SEO goes.

RE: My Flickr SEO Post – Indexed in Google

James Harrison — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:24:32 +0000

GET INDEXED IN GOOGLE WITHIN AN HOUR

I just wanted to point out real quick the power of Stumble Upon and Digg. I integrated Digg & Stumble Upon into my Wordpress blog. So every time I post a blog, I automatically submit my site to these highly popular sites.

This picture shows you how fast you can get a page indexed in Google. No more 2 months or 72 Hours before you can find your page.

This is important because websites and the pages within them have ages and the older the pages are the “better”Getting your pages indexed quit is mandatory. So go index those pages that Google can’t find.

Actually, I just went and did some research. I didn’t Digg this page, I just Stumbled it. I’ll Digg it later…

PS: You can check the times of all these post and see that Google indexed my site in a little less than an hour.
SEO Hours

Flickr SEO – Optimizing Your Flickr Account & Photos

James Harrison — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:45:06 +0000

Hey Guys,

(If you don’t know what Flickr is, please enjoy the video tour of Flickr located at the end of this blog.)

Here are a few tips to help your Flickr account rank well in search engines. Having a profile with a good portion of Flickr’s PR relevant to your website could definitely help your website gain higher rankings or generate more traffic through Flickr.

Suppose you have a website for your hotel in Barcelona. You have many pictures of your hotel. Now someone goes searching for “Barcelona photos”; Flickr’s Barcelona tagged page is on the first page of the search results. If you properly optimize your profile and photos, they could show up on the first set of results in Flickr & in the engines. This could be a great form of branding.

This will also be a good way to create topical link tunneling through a authority site.

Tips I Forgot to mention in the Flickr SEO Video:

Once again I am very new to this video producing, but I have to create videos to get some type of rankings in this highly competitive internet marketing world. So, bear with me once again.

Your profile name (screen name) will be the name in the title tag, so choose wisely “I Love New York City”

If you haven’t created an account yet, when you choose a username, pick one with your main target keyword in it, this will be in your profile’s URL address. http://www.flickr.com/people/newyorkjames/
When writing your profile, some HTML is permitted. YES, you can bold your anchor texted ’s and point them directly to a relevant site.
I should have played with the map a little more and showed you how you could create a little store front advertisement of your business for free on the public Flickr map. (Maybe that’s what my next video will be about.)
Also, you can give people testimonials with links that will show up on their main profile page.
Sets & Collections should match your main website’s theme and architecture with links pointing accordingly.
For the descriptions, write keyword rich descriptions surrounding links to your website.

Can you tell what this Flickr account is about???

Thanks UTechTips.com for the outstanding presentation!

Just remember; make sure you are positioned in the middle of your subject cloud.

James' SEO Blog» SMO

My 10 Most Popular Blog Posts

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YouTube “Laundry List” – 20+ Video Promotion Tips

YouTube Marketing, SEO & Promotional Tips

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New York Giants Twackle Feed (Twitter)

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San Diego Chargers Twackle Feed (Twitter)

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Becoming a Social Marketing Link Building Expert & My Dog

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15 Video Bookmarking/Networking Sites Worth An SEO’s Time

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RE: My Flickr SEO Post – Indexed in Google

GET INDEXED IN GOOGLE WITHIN AN HOUR

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Flickr SEO – Optimizing Your Flickr Account & Photos

Tips I Forgot to mention in the Flickr SEO Video:

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