Comments on: Leo Babauta from Zen Habits Shares a Popular Post Case Study

By: Phantom Of The Opera

Phantom Of The Opera — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:02:45 +0000

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By: hokya

hokya — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:14:04 +0000

creating post about hot news is good idea too

By: Crimson Conservative

Crimson Conservative — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:37:22 +0000

I don’t think it’s necessarily an either/or proposition between SEO and content. I think it’s both. My “day job” stresses SEO to the point of practically making it a religion, and sure enough, my company’s content gets ranked very highly, but a lot of it is simply re-posted press releases and relatively little original content.

When I started my blog about a week ago, I simply decided that I would write about issues that interest me, and that I thought might be interesting to others. Honestly, making a full-time living from it right now is secondary to building up the content base and recognition.

By: Duff

Duff — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:32:31 +0000

It also helps if you already have a PR6 blog. If you just get that handled, you never need to think about SEO again. Oh wait…

By: Michael Natkin

Michael Natkin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:58:16 +0000

(5) Have a PR6 site on which you are posting your non-SEOed contents :).

By: Reza Winandar

Reza Winandar — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:13:30 +0000

Simple but powerful , I like the number 1 tips. Yeah, I’m sure I must create blog with another niche that easy to beat, not just creating a “make money online” talking blog.

By: David Salo

David Salo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:53:23 +0000

I’m agrre with the main Idea of that: Content is the King.

By: brigid

brigid — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:40:22 +0000

Thanks you for this info
Being a new blogger this post has reinforced the concept of natural writing and just following my readers lead (as long as I am enjoying)
Brigid

By: Gin

Gin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:09:14 +0000

I 100th that e-motion! :) it’s very true. Solve a problem even if it seems out of the ordinary and people do find you. Thank you for sharing, Darren :)

By: Joanne Maly

Joanne Maly — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:44:59 +0000

Darren and Leo, you just made my evening … reading two of my regular bloggers in one blog post.

You’ve just made five minutes of my long work day ‘simplified’, ‘minimalized’, ‘zen-ized.’ (Ok, so I don’t know if those are all ‘real’ words… but you get my meaning I am sure.

And, thank you, Leo – for reaffirming my conviction that it isn’t quantity and SEO that we bloggers and business persons should be about — rather, it is sharing good content.

Joanne Maly
Lincoln Maly Marketing
http://www.lincolnmalymarketing.com
http://www.lincolnmalymarketing.com/blog/simply-said
Joanne Maly

By: Paul Hassing

Paul Hassing — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:37:44 +0000

I loved Leo’s quote about SEO. It made my morning. Many thanks, Darren. P. :)

By: Seth W

Seth W — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:21:38 +0000

Quality content is the most important element in blogging and it is nice to hear that from people that are successful throughout the blogging world.

By: abrablog

abrablog — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:12:58 +0000

Agree. Create content that really can help people. In other means, we solve others people problem. Then, traffic will come.

By: InsiderAffiliates

InsiderAffiliates — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:53:41 +0000

I like what is the most traffic a post of yours had gotten in the past 12 months. It goes along with the whole link to previous posts. I like doing this cause you never know which post will do the best and you want to spread traffic across your blogs better. See my posts about massive traffic tactics.

By: Satya Media

Satya Media — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:33:02 +0000

Love this story. My only contention is:

If 500K pageviews in 2009 came predominantly from Google, due mainly to your site’s status and Google pagerank, how can you say you don’t believe in SEO…?

Once you dive into the problems people have – especially your particular audience – then you can have a hand at how to solve them. One way to figure that out is to do some basic keyword research, and come to an understanding of what people are searching for, in relation to the problems they need solved. Once you understand what they’re searching for, and what words they’re using, then you’re in a much better position to provide the content people will really be looking for.

That’s what SEO’s all about, and much of the same rules would cross over to apply in optimizing for social media and blog comments, would they not?

By: Wesley Craig Green

Wesley Craig Green — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:56:33 +0000

Leo’s post points out some fundamentally-sound blogging tips which some bloggers tend to forget sometimes.

SEO is important BUT content is much more important especially with Google’s move towards placing more emphasis on reputation and branding.

And a post’s headline deserves as much attention as the post itself. You could have one of the greatest posts ever written but if your headline is bleh then it won’t matter.

Wesley Craig Green
The Geek Entrepreneur

By: BN Softs

BN Softs — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:00:47 +0000

Content is the main thing to get high SERP.
Other factors are also necessary but Content is the important and NO.1 factor.

By: Shreejana Hickman

Shreejana Hickman — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:50:55 +0000

Posts with a list of 10 best, 10 top, or something similar tend to do better than if it weren’t in a list format. It catches a readers attention, and makes it easier to read. I’ll see what kind of response I get on my post today: 10 Must have Free iPhon Apps for Moms!

By: BLOGERCISE

BLOGERCISE — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:21:51 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Google cares about presenting good content to it’s users and they will continue to refine and reform their process to do just that.

They know as well as we do that a “good post” isn’t just about the domain name, heading tags, etc. It’s about providing good content and as they get better at picking out good content “SEO” will become increasingly insignificant.

I’m looking forward to the day they stop weighting domain name exact matches so heavily. There are so many rubbish sites that get ranked highly on that basis alone – I can’t believe Google have let that go on for so long!

By: jeux wii

jeux wii — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:24:44 +0000

If the internet’s the new gold rush, allow me to draw a parallel. Those miners with shivering knees, knee deep in the river could only hope to gather so much gold, no matter the size of their claim. The real fortunes were found when people got together, using each of their talents to tap deeper in the mines. Land surveyors, demolition experts, and so on. Now is no different. Sure, a blogger can be successful on their own; they may even find the mother lode, but there is no way they could ever extract the gold all on their own.