Oct 11
2007Hey you SEO biggies don’t be ashamed to link to hard working newbies
Filed Under (SEO Article) by Manish on 11-10-2007
Tagged Under : SEO biggies, SEO newbies
How many times have you linked to a new blog giving good information on a certain topic or simply which is helpful to the community? May be not too many times
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And people say, write good articles so that you would get linked calling it as a link bait, well that could work as a vote of thanks to the writer’s hard work. Isn’t it?
There are so many good writers who are going online everyday, they work so hard to find useful information around the big web of internet to share it with us and what do we do just pass from it, instead of sharing it with others. Is that fair from our part. No, I guess.
What the biggies should do is set up an example to others by praising the hard working newbies, hence giving equal place to everybody. What I mean is there shouldn’t be anybody’s monopoly. Everyone should get a fair chance to prove himself. This would help everyone to discover or invent something unique which would in turn, help the community.
We always see people like Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan, Jim Boykin, Aaron Wall, Peter Da Vanzo, Andy Hagans, Lee Odden, John Scott, David Naylor, Gray Wolf (Michael Gray), Mike Grehan and lot more discuss everything, with due respect I’m not offending any of the above listed people they are the best in the industry and I highly respect them. They do a lot of hard work to research things and help the community for which I am very thankful to them but there are also people like Mike Dammann, Zap, Michael Goldman, Prashant Vikram and there are so many others who work so hard to help people around the world but how many of you know anybody above. I guess not many knows about them. So does that mean they are not helping the community or are any less SEO than the biggies. No, not at all.
See I am not here to advocate anybody what I am trying to say is we should applaud hard work of people. So that he gets encouragement to work more and add up to help the community. Wouldn’t that be good? Just think!
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agreed. can you drop some link here for Mike Dammann, Zap, Michael Goldman, Prashant Vikram so I can check them out. sometimes I get so busy that I don’t read people I”m not familiar with already, but then again, that means I’m missing some great stuff. point taken.
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I appreciate you mentioning me, Manish. I also like the 3 other blogs you`re mentioning.
As a blogger and part owner of bloggertalk.com I always look for blogs which are unique. Everyone has something to offer but unfortunately far too many blogs out there are about the same thing and only created to drive traffic to businesses.
I read a few blogs, shoemoney, problogger etc. and they were my favorites before they became big.
Whether I read a blog or not has little to do with how popular they are now, but what they have to offer.
By the way, my last blog post is called ¨This is the last post on this blog¨.
I will start a new one on http://www.firetown.com which will also include a webmaster forum and much more.
Stay tuned …
Mike
Thanks for your comments guys!
@Jim: I appreciate your taking time to consider this post, the links are now live.
@Mike: I’ll be eagerly waiting for your new site.
Totally agree with this, there new and good writers that are pumping everyday but it seems that the “old” seo’s are just being greedy and put in their mind “If I add this new blog/writter/site, I will be newbie as well” and that’s totally wrong.
Absolutely valid points here. It’s tough to break into the blogosphere in SEO but, many times, it’s the new blogs that have the groundbreaking things to say. I’d say that I have a preference for the old school SEOs who aren’t necessarily huge names, as well as the new SEOs who have a fresh perspective. You should never JUST read popular blogs or JUST read new ones either though. You need to balance out what you take in.
I think something many up and coming SEO bloggers forget is that established SEO bloggers are people just like them.
They have limited time and an RSS feed full of things to read.
How can they find that gem on the site no one has heard of if they’ve never heard of it?
That’s why it’s important to get involved and get yourself in front of them. Sphinn has been good for this, but there’s also something to be said for dropping an email to someone. I’ve found dozens of great feeds from new bloggers because they’ve taken the time to email me and to initiate conversation. I don’t care if you’re “famous” or not. I only care if you’ve written a great post that explains a useful concept in a way most folks can understand.
I’d wager the majority of well known bloggers feel the same way.
Sphinning something is great, but if you’ve written an article you’re really proud of, send off some emails as well.
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@Jeniffer: I love your name!
Yes, this is a good point but don’t expect many followers even if feedback seems positive.
The moguls hold the link juice bottle closed tight!
Hey, Thanks Manish, for the mention. And, thanks for mixing my name in there with the bigger fish.
I think you’ve got a great idea here, linking to lesser knowns with other great ideas. Let’s hope it becomes infectious.
Good Luck Manish!
Manish, you do not consider yourself a newbie, do you?
Either way, I added you to my blogroll, because I remember being a newbie years ago and you have some well thought out posts here.
That is great advice Manish, small time bloggers who write good content do deserve the link as much as the big players.
I think a lot of times there is more going on though than simply ‘which article is best’. Linking to a blogger who has more authority can earn “brownie points” and/or possibly start a mutually beneficial relationship with them.
P.S. I’ve added you to my Yahoo IM
great post Manish and I completely agree with you. I think a few words of encouragement or a few suggestions from the veterans in the community can definitely help and motivate the relatively new bloggers to come up with even better stuff.
@Jennifer -
I agree to your point about the lack of time, however with more reputation and recognition in a community comes more responsibility and more work . that is the magic that makes people from good to great!
also, I think it is more important to encourage newbies than the already established ones because the established blogs are already read by millions but encouraging newbies can establish new blogs which would be additional resource for the community.
The problem is that many new bloggers get seduced into writing to the search engines rather than people, which makes their posts boring or uninformative.
All too often I have seen new blogs where the owner makes a great post, followed by hogwash with deeplinks in it.
Sure, the more successful you`re in SEO, the more you understand that there is no need for that.
Hope some of those who are afraid to use their own style, will overcome that fear and find it.
I know Zap.
She is really good and also a link exchange partner of me.