can anyone advise if there is much difference between seo methods for Google and Yahoo ?

Congratulations on your ranking! Great stuff!
I was pleased to read your comments about improving traffic and sales is more about marketing than techie stuff. Not being a techie, and treading incredibly unknown waters for me when thinking about keyword optimisation… I was relieved to hear from you that content and publicising the content is so important.

Warmly
Jeanne May

I feel we have yet to see blog marketing and bookmarking strategies really come into their own: increased use of video presentation and testimonials will herald a new dawn, as will increased sharing and interaction between bloggers allowing for a more poignant community of comments linking to other posts and comments and increased sharing of blog posts and related articles.

As I research blogging, I like to comment usefully, bookmark the site, and then, if I feel the blog has real interest I will refer to it in my own blog posts in the hope that over time the blogging community as a whole will interact on a much more giving and profound level.

At present people tend to click into a blog, read a post and leave without comment. Emailing the blogger is good practice also, to share tips and tools, arrange an ad swap or a reciprocal link, or to write guest posts on each other’s blogs. Be bold, bloggers!

Kathleen Gage

Optimizing web sites for improved traffic/sales is more about marketing than technical trickery and yet it seems many SEOs are stuck on those old/outdated ideas.

On the other hand, creative content producers seem to think their creations possess a gravity of their own for attracting audiences.

It’s the combination of creative, technical and social that makes successful “SEO 2.0″ programs work. It’s the agencies (like ours) and clients that fully embrace the content creation > content promotion model see no risk, high impact and long term benefits.

I love it that you explain it well and that finally people are realizing that it’s more important to focus on providing valuable, relevant content in your niche rather than trying to game the spiders.

And it also really helps to be strategic about repeating your keywords and know which ones to target. I posted about your great post here, Lee, thanks so much, so that all our Build a Better Blog readers will come over here and learn at the feet of Master Lee! Blog on!

Because Brain Traffic focuses specifically on content strategy and web writing, we’re on the front lines of the fight to create useful, relevant content that people will actually READ. You can optimize for links all you want, but if your content sucks, your time and money has been wasted.

Yet another argument for full-on collaboration between IA, content strategy, SEO and writers early in the project cycle.

This post is getting distributed to all my clients!!

Hell, I lived on Floyd and … well, nevermind … for practically two decades …

Yeah … Content is King

Motivation to get the pudding … ?

Only if you want to eat …

“The success formula for content centered link building is simple:

Establish distribution channels such as blog/RSS, email list, social networks, social content
Plan content creation with the audience and keywords in mind
Promote the content socially, via email, RSS or other outbound methods
Watch the links roll in”

The hardest part of seo linkbuilding is being patient to see results. It is exciting see the “links roll in”