Comments on: Search Engine Optimization Training [VIDEO]

By: SEO Specialist

SEO Specialist — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:41:57 +0000

That was an interesting video. It would give me further knowledge about the field I am in right now. And I believe it would greatly help people especially newbies who want to learn SEO.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:53:58 +0000

I don’t get the whole Nofollow thing – I mean, people want others to comment on their blog, giving them content, but they’re not prepared to give the commenter something in return. Seems a bit selfish to me

By: uwak

uwak — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:27:10 +0000

thanks…I already spend 30 minutes for watching useful video….

By: thune

thune — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:42:10 +0000

I’m new comer but my net is too slow :( take me a long time for download video.

By: Stajo

Stajo — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:55:22 +0000

Good video, got some new tips for me.

By: alwaysLovely

alwaysLovely — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:10:54 +0000

@German: appreciate you in providing the ppt.
I can’t listen through stephan’s presentation LOL
Short attention span

By: Gregory Nemer

Gregory Nemer — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:40:43 +0000

Thanks for the video, I really like the articles on the netconcepts web page at http://www.netconcepts.com/tag/seo+articles also.

By: Takumi86

Takumi86 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:50:30 +0000

thanks but i have seen a lot of SEO technique like this before and i think i’m satisfied with what i have, cheers :)

By: Josh Klein

Josh Klein — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:22:27 +0000

Okay, I just can’t stay away – I need to ask another question :)

Stephan talks about optimized RSS feeds, particularly about steering clear from services like Feedburner so that you can host the feed on your own blog.

Unless there is some way to get all the benefits of those services… like measuring subscribers, tracking clicks, adding viral pass-along links, etc… that seems like taking SEO too far (to the point of severely hurting usability and the added-value of your feed). Certainly, I can’t think of a blog I subscribe to that still hosts their own feeds.

What’s your guys’ take on this?

By: Josh Klein

Josh Klein — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:10:24 +0000

Great video.

One of the things that confuses me is the use of both Categories and Tags (and even “conjunction tags”) recommended here by Stephan. Isn’t this generating a lot of duplicate content? I know I had watched an SEOMoz whiteboard friday video where they chastised people who put the same post in multiple categories, because it resulted in duplicate content and a less optimized site tree. I assumed they were also against tags.

I have always skipped tags for this very reason. What is the SEO value added from having a page with a tag as the title and a collection of articles that can all be found under category pages that have a more focused introduction?

Is it SEO best practices to use categories and tags? One over the other?

This has always confused me :) Thanks!

By: HealthyGaming

HealthyGaming — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:12:11 +0000

Thanks Darren, great video.

Also thanks German for the link to the slides!

By: Robert Stanley

Robert Stanley — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:01:17 +0000

I learned something from this and that is always a good thing. thanks for sharing.

By: Viaggi Africa

Viaggi Africa — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:54:03 +0000

Extremely useful and interesting.
Really a well done video for all bloggers.
Thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:03:32 +0000

Good stuff Darren…

By: Cathy Bendzunas

Cathy Bendzunas — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:14:02 +0000

Well, I feel really stupid. Stephan said this stuff is suppossed to be so easy? Didn’t sound easy to me. Alot of it was over my head! I think I need a beginner’s SEO class.

By: Germán

Germán — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:25:39 +0000

@TeachMomHow you can download the slides (ppt) here:

http://www.netconcepts.com/learn/seo-mistakes.ppt

Cheers.

By: TeachMomHow.com

TeachMomHow.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:56:13 +0000

This would be helpful if we could see his powerpoint slides. Is there a way to get a copy of his slides?

By: Angie (Losing It and Loving It)

Angie (Losing It and Loving It) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:41:27 +0000

I found this video very helpful. A lot of it is way over my head right now but I took bits and pieces that I can use. I have a lot to learn that is for sure. Thank you for sharing this video.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:38:59 +0000

Some useful tips in there. I’ve already changed my category pages to include a meaningful category description – it’s only one basic line of PHP in the code, a bit more if you want to be fancy.

The problem I have is that I started a number of my blogs when it was very common to use the /year/month/day/post-title format, which potentially is adding a lot of bulk to URLs. I need to figure out the rewrite rules (not complicated, I’m sure) to redirect all that down to a simpler format. Also will check out the Title plugins.

By: Plugin To Improve Blog SEO

Plugin To Improve Blog SEO — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:53:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing the great tips!

Wordpress is very off page friendly with the comment system and trackback…but the on page optimization is worst!

Fortunately there are many plugins that will improve Wordpress problems:

1. Title
2. Permalink
3. Category & Archieve
4. Tag

I heard there is a new plugin call PlatinumSEO can replace AllinOneSEO.