Today, I’m gonna stand-up and speak about that ol’ friend we call the blog post – remember, when the majority of us used to blog constantly – until micro-blogging platforms such as Twitter and Plurk came along. I know there are some amongst us that continue to blog, as their main portal for spreading information – and you know what? More power to you, is what I say! Recently, I have witnessed first hand, several clients websites capturing their main targetted keywords from the power of the blogpost. They haven’t bought the services of an SEO company or a link building specialist… sure, they might have done so in the past, but it is only when they turned to producing unique, well-worthy blog content within their site, have they, overtime, at last reaped the benefits they were after all along.

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In my constant quest to understand better the knowledge surrounding search marketing I run a few interviews with guys and gals who understand every nook n’ crannie of their niche. I am delighted to bring you my recent interview with Dev Basu, about Local SEO. Here’s the interview :

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The other night there, when I was being Dad’s taxi picking up my eldest, on the road home I thought I’d try some conversation to help cut into the journey, however no matter how I tried to converse, it fell foul to her undue attention to her mobile phone. ‘What you doing?’ I quipped. ‘Browsing the web’, she replied. ‘Can you bring up my site?’ I asked. ‘Nah!’ She responded (*sigh* I hate teenagers!) But it got me thinking, no, not how much I hate teenagers, but how more-and-more of us are interacting with the web via our mobiles, and why mobile seo should be wrapped with any website project.

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OK, I’m the other one in the business, the one that doesn’t speak, blog … in fact I don’t do much when it comes to the NSM Blog except listen to Paul complain, grumble and moan about me not doing anything with the NSM Blog. Anywhoo … moving along, in December 2008 my business partner Paul (@NorthSouthMedia) suggested that we attend #thinkvisability at Leeds, well not being into SEO and interwebby things I thought it’s not really for me. After a few months of persuasion (see bribing … there will be beer) I decided to
“tag” along.

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OK, I got caught up in this little craze going around, by Richard at MakakMedia and thought, sure I could go for some of this, why not. Anyways the rules of the game according to the meme are as follows :

• Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. (see above)
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post. (see below)
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs. (see below)
• Let them know they’ve been tagged. (you’ll just have to trust trackbacks and such)

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Leading Up To Think Visibility

Over the weekend I travelled down to Leeds to attend the Think Visibility one-day conference hosted by Dominic ‘The Hodge’ Hodgson and the Think Visibility team. It has to be stated, days prior to my departure, I was not in the best of health, in fact my wife and family were in heavy persuasion mode to get me to just stay at home and recuperate. Despite, their attention (2 yr olds can be so persuasive when telling Daddy to stay at home) I climbed into the car and decided that Leeds should at least share in the ‘Tropical Disease‘ that was coursing through my brittle bones. And off to Think Visibility I went!

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Each and every month, normally around the beginning of the month, I run a Cull on the people I’m following on Twitter. Why? We’ll, to cut to the chase, I like to rub out those that just don’t do it at any sort of level. I guess, what i am trying to say, is that perhaps after a certain period of time, no matter what another individual is posting (tweeting) to yourself and many others that they have also befriended, you just don’t want to hear their crap no longer.

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