I've been writing a lot about so-called 'content farms' in recent months - companies like Demand Media and Answers.com which create thousands of pieces of content per day and are making a big impact on the Web. TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington also riffs on this theme , mentioning AOL's "Toyota Strategy of building thousand of niche content sites via the work of cast-offs from old media" and quoting a Wired piece on Demand Media from October. Both of those two companies are now firmly inside the top 20 Web properties in the U.S. , on a par with the

Search Engineers Q&A | Main | Daily Search Forum Recap: February 27, 2008 February 27, 2008 SEO & User Generated Content Search engines love good content, but good content can take a lot of time to prepare. User Generated Content -- UGC -- has the advantage of often being full of passion plus the "authors" who create it in turn may turn into marketers for your site. So why not turn to your users and visitors? Learn more in this session.

Join Upgrade Blog Tools Forum Training Videos Aff About Support « Which Multivariate Testing Software is Best? 3 Steps for Optimizing Content for Long Tail Keywords Feb 22 The following is a guest post from Tom Demers. For the sake of this example we’ll say we’re targeting the phrase “long tail” and variations: By creating the filter, we can see a variety of modifiers that the page and/or other content on our site are already driving. One of the most pivotal aspects of driving large volumes of search traffic in most verticals is effectively targeting long tail keywords.

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. Home About Resources Archives Subscribe Consulting Contact User Generated Content for SEO 11 Comments | Posted by Lee Odden on Sep 6th, 2007 in Online Marketing , SEO , Social Media , User Generated Content At SES San Jose, I spoke on a panel with Matt McGee and Andrew Goodman about user generated content with SEO benefits.

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Internet Marketing » Blog « Issues In Analytics | SEO Blog | Buzz Monitoring » August 23, 2007 User Generated Content & Search Posted by Lisa Barone Rebecca Lieb is moderating this morning’s User Generated Content & Search session with speakers Andrew Goodman (Page Zero Media), Matt McGee (Marchex) and Lee Odden (TopRank Online Marketing). First some stats: 51 percent of all consumers engage in User Generated Content (UGC), with 71 percent of the “millenials”

chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of Content Networks are the New Blogs May 10, 2006 · Comments A recent study has come out saying that the average regular internet user visits around seven sites regularly. Without it, I wouldn’t find a lot of the smaller content being put out there. They may surf over 100 or 1000 sites a week, but as far as faithful standby sites go, people stick to about seven. At the same time, demands on our attention are rising,

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Sammy Nams About Contact Resume A beginners guide to SEO, social media and reputation management for entrepreneurs, bloggers and marketers. Writing SEO Content For Long Tail Keywords Posted: February 1st, 2010 | 10 Comments » This post will present a  step-by-step beginner’s guide to creating website content, articles and blogs that are optimized for search engine traffic. A common mistake I see in online content (especially blogs) is the lack of central focus. The concepts and strategies presented here are derived from a mixture of professional experience and common industry practices at the date of posting.