by Ross Barefoot | May 13, 2014 | Writing Content
Recently Blogpros.com put up an interesting infographic with the title “What Makes a Perfect Blog Post?” (see below). Now, I have no illusions that James Parsons, the creator of the blog post and a savvy blogger in his own right, really believes that there...
by Ross Barefoot | Apr 28, 2014 | Google, Internet Marketing, Musings, SEO, Writing Content
And Do You Really Want a Truly Natural Search World? Really? Before I begin ranting (I really don’t see how I can avoid at least a bit of ranting), let’s start with a fun exercise with search syntax. Ready? Here we go…. Paste the following snippet into your Google...
by Ross Barefoot | Oct 12, 2012 | Musings, Writing Content
Don’t Want to Read this Whole Article? Here’s the gist of it, “without the birdseed”… Or just show up at 11:30 on Thursday 10/18 at Salon J at Pubcon We’re overwhelmed with information Google is adding to our problem by demanding...
by Ross Barefoot | Aug 22, 2012 | Writing Content
SEO Content creation: it ain’t literature, that’s for sure. (By the way, when I use the acronym “SEO” with content, you should probably read it like this: “Search Engine Optimized Content.”) Writing for a blog is certainly not the...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 6, 2012 | Writing Content
For all you SEO professionals who have to constantly crank out quality content, don’t you love Google’s image search? When I need to dress up an article, I just do an image search, pay a little visit to the site that has the image I want to use, right...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 1, 2012 | Writing Content
Bear with me. I have an SEO point to make, but I’d like to wander a bit into my own little alternate universe of gripes and then bring it back around. Maybe the analogy will work, and maybe it won’t… Have you ever tried Google translate? Are you...