Chris Bennett Latest search engine news blog articles from Chris Bennett. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/author/Chris+Bennett.html Chris Bennett News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12409 I wrote this a year ago and never got around to posting it, and now that is is almost a year later and a lot of my friends and perspective clients are caring less about Digg and social media links and getting back to the O.G. way of ranking sites I figured might as well post it. Via: flickr Old School: Internal Links It seems that Nov-Jan are always insane with people wanting to prepare their site to dominate for the next year. This year is crazier then ever, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:38:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8470 I have been working along with my brother Patrick (who is an insane web designer ) and a kick butt programmer named Charles Berube for the past seven months on an analytics tool . I am happy to say that it is finally ready for anyone and everyone to test out. We have had it in private beta for about two months and it is stable enough now that we want you to give it a try. It is called BLVD Status it is a killer tool with a lot of features that no other analytics tool offers, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:35:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8063 Quick update: Social Media for Firefox 3 is ready. You can download it here . Right now it is just the update with Del.icio.us working better. We will be releasing an update soon that will be adding Mixx and have some new options with StumbleUpon. Then after that we will be working on another Kick A version that will have all kinds of crazy stuff it is going to be rad. Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:33:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7849 We are getting close on have a Firefox 3 compatible version of Social Media for Firefox . We are sorry it wasn't ready with the FF 3 launch but it is coming and it is going to be sick. We have taken the opportunity to add some upgrades. Here are some quick features we are working on if you happen to have any additions you think would make it be an even better tool we are all about it and please add in the comments. We are looking into > Showing Thumb Up, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:19:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6979 I recoreded a webinar over at Omniture's head quarters a couple of weeks ago and it is now live. It is geared towards corporate and enterprise sites and how small tweaks leveraging Organic SEO can yield very high returns rather quickly. It is just under an hour I believe and I give away some sweet tips. If you have a chance click over and check it out, it is titled "Corporate SEO Small Changes, Big Results. Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:57:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5469 Last Summer Cameron Olthuis and I met for the first time in person at SMX Advanced Seattle and we quickly became friends as we found we had a lot of things outside of seo in Coming. We both love to surf, he lives in my hometown near San Diego and I live near his home town in Utah and we both had been thinking for years how we wanted to use our seo/promotion skills to launch something in the Action Sports Industry. Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:37:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5103 I have talked about about how you can do viral marketing for any industry . Mat has also posted every Frida y on Viral Marketing ideas and he always tries to share an example in a "boring" industry. This last week I came across a viral piece that blew me away and it was for one of the most boring industries on the planet, appliances. I found it on Digg and SU one of my buddies had submitted it. Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:03:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4257 Despite the huge audience and Brand that Digg has it is still widely misunderstood by new users. I get so many emails and talk to a lot of people all saying things like, "I submitted my homepage to Digg and no one voted on it?." So I hope this article can help you understand the the process of a successful Digg which should also help you in understanding why only good content makes it and how it makes it. This is not a how to spam article, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:14:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2954 An interview of a two part series was published over at Elance, 13 Ways to Make Your Blog Viral . I will be doing another interview this week that will go live in the coming month about basic SEO. If you are not familiar with Elance they are one of the largest market place websites for Freelancers and Outsourcing . Everything from Virtual Assistants to Copywriters and Programmers . It is pretty cool, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:27:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2076 I try to pay attention or note common questions that get sent to us regarding SEO and what have you. By far the number one repeated question we get is in the Reputation Management space, "I have created a page at all the social sites and we are still not able to push out the negative results?" I have had my share of posts talking about filing out social media/news sites in order to protect the top then, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:37:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1375 Over the past month I have read a lot of blogs talking about horror stories of their premium content that they took weeks even months to write getting submitted by social media users that have poor quality accounts. They go on to talk about how they get jacked because the person submitting has no friends or they don't know how to submit and their articles go no where but to the abyss of the dead pool. Easy Solution: Change the URL The solution is very easy, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:12:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1378 You can use Digg , StumbleUpon , Reddit and Mixx to increase your sites traffic, links, and branding which has a result on your bottom line, you can network in Facebook , Linkedin or Myspace to get more leads and referrals, but, what can you do to make a buck with Twitter ? Twitter users out there I'm sorry if I offend, but I am too busy to use anything just to tell my long lost cousin where I got my lunch, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:52:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1380 You may not think the following is a big deal, as I won't be talking about top 10 rankings, but the number one spot, but when you are a company as large as Toyota and you don't rank number one for specific car searches, there is a problem in my opinion. If I was over web/marketing at Toyota I would not be pleased. *Im sure this is a timley post and in a month or two this will no longer be the case, but none the less I think it is a big deal. Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:57:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1381 O.K. before you keep reading I have to apologize, I hate case studies and examples of sites that don't show the sites involved. One of the things that Mat and I try to do to set us apart from a lot of blogs is to give specific ideas on how to do things, but in the case study below I can't. We are growing and have a lot of clientèle that just won't let us share their info, or even mention them as a client. That is fine, Search Engines News SEO News Chris Bennett Chris Bennett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:58:41 GMT