SEO Expert & Consultant - Tony Adam

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The linking etiquette is quite useful. Thanks for sharing.

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The linking etiquette is quite useful. Thanks for sharing.

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Tony, well said. I get frustrated when I hear all the talk about how linking to external sites weakens one’s seo and serp’s….blah blah blah. The fact of the matter is this: You link out to others, they take notice and link back to you. Of course this isn’t some formula or perfect ratio…but it’s life.

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Tony, well said. I get frustrated when I hear all the talk about how linking to external sites weakens one’s seo and serp’s….blah blah blah. The fact of the matter is this: You link out to others, they take notice and link back to you. Of course this isn’t some formula or perfect ratio…but it’s life.

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Hi Tony,

I may have missed something on the imedix.com example but it works because it is not doing any Ajax stuff with the tabs. The only Ajax stuff seems to be to reload the tab images and data. When you click on a tab it reloads the entire page, which is why the URL is correct in the address bar (btw I traced all this using wireshark).

The tab example seems complicated with Hijax. Taking the progressive enhancement approach

i. The baseline code would have different versions of the page for each tab.
ii. You could use CSS/DOM to have a single page with different content shown depending on the tab that is clicked. From an SEO perspective you would have one big page will all the content in something like individual list elements. However this would not be possibly to hijaxify.

You would have to return to i) and rather than load the entire page reload just the tab data but I’m not sure this is possible either with the hijax approach.

In short it seems like you would have to do this at the server side. Either server a CSS/DOM version of the page if the browser doesn’t support JS or an Ajax version of the page.

I’d be interested in comments though.

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Hi Tony,

I may have missed something on the imedix.com example but it works because it is not doing any Ajax stuff with the tabs. The only Ajax stuff seems to be to reload the tab images and data. When you click on a tab it reloads the entire page, which is why the URL is correct in the address bar (btw I traced all this using wireshark).

The tab example seems complicated with Hijax. Taking the progressive enhancement approach

i. The baseline code would have different versions of the page for each tab.
ii. You could use CSS/DOM to have a single page with different content shown depending on the tab that is clicked. From an SEO perspective you would have one big page will all the content in something like individual list elements. However this would not be possibly to hijaxify.

You would have to return to i) and rather than load the entire page reload just the tab data but I’m not sure this is possible either with the hijax approach.

In short it seems like you would have to do this at the server side. Either server a CSS/DOM version of the page if the browser doesn’t support JS or an Ajax version of the page.

I’d be interested in comments though.

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Great info Tony! Going to soak it in and utilize it towards my blog too - a lot of things I overlooked. I’ll let my friends know too - keep up the good work and see you on twitter,

-Albert
@cheapcheapcheap

I’ll have to make it up to LA for tweetups!

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Great info Tony! Going to soak it in and utilize it towards my blog too - a lot of things I overlooked. I’ll let my friends know too - keep up the good work and see you on twitter,

-Albert
@cheapcheapcheap

I’ll have to make it up to LA for tweetups!

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Great info Tony! Going to soak it in and utilize it towards my blog too - a lot of things I overlooked. I’ll let my friends know too - keep up the good work and see you on twitter,

-Albert
@cheapcheapcheap

I’ll have to make it up to LA for tweetups!

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Interesting post.Thanks!Look forward to reading more on you blog.

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Interesting post.Thanks!Look forward to reading more on you blog.

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Interesting post.Thanks!Look forward to reading more on you blog.

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Nice post. I think part of the problem is that people are still treating blogs as corporate copy rather than as social media. There are (at least) three related problems with this approach: 1) In corporate copy, you’re really talking *to* the reader, not *with* them, and your aim is to persuade, not to help. 2) Corporate copy tends to avoid linking out ‘cos it sends readers away. When you’re blogging, you can’t see it that way. You need to see linking out more as a learning aid - like a powerpoint presentation or a reference text. If your links out are great, your audience will come back for more. 3) Helping in social media extends beyond educating. It’s about supporting the members of your community. And linking out is one way to do that.

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Nice post. I think part of the problem is that people are still treating blogs as corporate copy rather than as social media. There are (at least) three related problems with this approach: 1) In corporate copy, you’re really talking *to* the reader, not *with* them, and your aim is to persuade, not to help. 2) Corporate copy tends to avoid linking out ‘cos it sends readers away. When you’re blogging, you can’t see it that way. You need to see linking out more as a learning aid - like a powerpoint presentation or a reference text. If your links out are great, your audience will come back for more. 3) Helping in social media extends beyond educating. It’s about supporting the members of your community. And linking out is one way to do that.

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Nice post. I think part of the problem is that people are still treating blogs as corporate copy rather than as social media. There are (at least) three related problems with this approach: 1) In corporate copy, you’re really talking *to* the reader, not *with* them, and your aim is to persuade, not to help. 2) Corporate copy tends to avoid linking out ‘cos it sends readers away. When you’re blogging, you can’t see it that way. You need to see linking out more as a learning aid - like a powerpoint presentation or a reference text. If your links out are great, your audience will come back for more. 3) Helping in social media extends beyond educating. It’s about supporting the members of your community. And linking out is one way to do that.

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Great post Tony-especially for newcomers to the blogosphere. I would love to see your follow up on the flip side of this argument–is there such thing as too many internal links? Also is there a hierarchy of internal link types? Or should we be concerned with just linking to pages that are ranked well? Any advice you can share on this would be great! Thanks!

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Great post Tony-especially for newcomers to the blogosphere. I would love to see your follow up on the flip side of this argument–is there such thing as too many internal links? Also is there a hierarchy of internal link types? Or should we be concerned with just linking to pages that are ranked well? Any advice you can share on this would be great! Thanks!

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Great post Tony-especially for newcomers to the blogosphere. I would love to see your follow up on the flip side of this argument–is there such thing as too many internal links? Also is there a hierarchy of internal link types? Or should we be concerned with just linking to pages that are ranked well? Any advice you can share on this would be great! Thanks!

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I really enjoyed Pubcon. I got to meet some incredible people. At the conference, many people noted how the community has evolve significantly.

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I really enjoyed Pubcon. I got to meet some incredible people. At the conference, many people noted how the community has evolve significantly.

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I really enjoyed Pubcon. I got to meet some incredible people. At the conference, many people noted how the community has evolve significantly.

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There was gossip?!? Aw what’d I miss Anyways good job Tony on the wrapup. As for my experience, who says you can’t mix work with pleasure? Pubcon, especially the networking, was super fun. I hope next year is just as good.

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There was gossip?!? Aw what’d I miss Anyways good job Tony on the wrapup. As for my experience, who says you can’t mix work with pleasure? Pubcon, especially the networking, was super fun. I hope next year is just as good.

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There was gossip?!? Aw what’d I miss Anyways good job Tony on the wrapup. As for my experience, who says you can’t mix work with pleasure? Pubcon, especially the networking, was super fun. I hope next year is just as good.

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Facebook disabled my account for no reason. No email or warning. I signed up to run an ad for a non-profit group and it was approved. Within an hour my account was disabled? The group is still up and going but it say, has no administrators. So, Facebook is charging me for an ad, when I can’t even log in with my own account? Sounds like a rip off to me. I contacted the State Attorney General’s office and filed a complaint. Because when any money exchanges, it’s a transaction. And they don’t have any way for you to contact them other through emails, which they don’t respond to. I’m going to small claims court if it doesn’t get taken care of. You can’t charge someone for a service and then not give them access to that service. It’s ridiculous. I read that some students in Canda are suing Facebook as well over Privacy issues. Too bad Americans don’t take that attitude, we’d probably get more satisfaction, instead of complaining about it. I say stop the whining and get some action done. File a complaint with the State Attorney General. When there are enough complaints, Facebook will change their operations and accessibility.

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