You all probably heard by now of the huge ramblings going on over at Digg about the HD key post being pulled from the site because the company is a sponsor of one of the founders properties. From there the users retaliated by digging every post related to it so it hit the front page. It got so bad that Digg actually shut down the ability to post a new story.

A few of the bloggers out there took the opportunity to try and get some traffic by quickly creating a post about the HD key and posting it to Digg. Sure enough, some of the blogs received a steady stream of visitors for the little time their posts hit the frontpage.

The moral of this article, be creative and constantly look for mainstream issues to write about. In the end it’s what hits the frontpage of Digg. Based on your blog, keep a close eye on what’s happening and take advantage of any opportunities related to your blog that people would want to know about. Then Digg it up and see what happens.

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Search Engine Optimization is and always will be an important aspect of an online marketing strategy. I recently came across a new study released where they asked 37 of the leading SEO experts the most important factors of search engine ranking.

The study asks about the main strategies of SEO, they rank the importance of the factors on a scale to 1 to 5. The questions also include some of the controversial elements of SEO. Each element is given a rank and comments from each of the 37 experts is included.

Summary

A majority of the top factors are in the areas of link building both from external inbound links, as well as internal linking within the website itself. Aside from the keyword in the title tag factor, the important factors are all around linking strategies.

I won’t bother summarizing the rest, this is a must read for anyone serious about search engine optimization. Take the time and read the Search Engine Ranking V2 study.

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