Dec

07

2007

$#!T4less.com

Here is a really interesting example of how powerful blogs can be in Search Engines.

Strumpette blogged yesterday (yes, yesterday!) about PRSA honoring the site $#!T4less.com. In the typical Strumpette in-your-face fashion, they highlight the honoring of Shit For Less…

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Here is the thing that I take away… when I Googled (waiting for that word to make it into the Webster’s) $#!T4less the Strumpette post comes up second in the list. Wow! Who wouldn’t want that kind of responsiveness in Search Engines!

So, here is a very little Search Engine Lesson… Search Engines work off of algorithms, very complicated and EVER changing mathematical equations based on a point system. Your site earns points for a number of things, content being one of, if not the, most important thing on your site. How often the content changes is one of the variables. Blogs, where the content changes sometimes daily, are doing very well in Search Engines, better than standard sites actually.

Want to be #2 in Google on the day you add content… Corporate Blogging may be able to help >>

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MamaConnie’s Blog >>

This grand-lady is on FIRE!

A really fun example of social media being a global conversation where everyone is connected and everyone gets to get in…

Go Check it out.

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As Global Neighbourhoods posted this morning

"If anyone still doubts that blogging and social media are going mainstream, here is smoking gun evidence. Each of these companies has active social media programs."

AccuQuote, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, Dell Computer, Gemstar-TV Guide, General Motors, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Wells Fargo are the companies – and "The Blog Council" is news.

"The Blog Council exists as a forum for executives to meet one another in a private, vendor-free environment and share tactics, offer advice based on past experience, and develop standards-based best practices as a model for other corporate blogs… >> "

They are not letting the little folks play – but playing they are… and blogging just keeps getting more mainstream… It will be interesting to watch Wikipedia’s Social Media page evolve.

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